Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 5.djvu/640

This page needs to be proofread.

104 STAT. 3962 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 the producers at a rate equal to 50 percent of the loan level for the crop for the deficiency in production greater than 60 percent for the crop, "(ii) The Secretary shall ensure that no producer receives duplicative payments under this subparagraph. "(iii) Any benefits or assistance provided for under this section shall be provided only to the extent provided for in advance Appropriation in appropriations Acts. There are authorized to be appropriated authorization. such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subparagraph.". 7 USC 1421 note. CHAPTER 3—EMERGENCY CROP LOSS ASSISTANCE Subchapter A—Annual Crops SEC. 2241. PAYMENTS TO PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS FOR TARGET PRICE COMMODITIES. (a) DISASTER PAYMENTS. — (1) IN GENERAL.— Effective only for producers on a farm who elected to participate in the production adjustment program established under the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) for the 1990 crop of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, or rice, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that, because of damaging weather or related condition in 1989 or 1990, the total quantity of the 1990 crop of the commodity that such producers are able to harvest on the farm is less than the result of multiplying 60 percent (or, in the case of producers who obtained crop insurance for the 1990 crop of the commodity under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), 65 percent) of the farm program payment jdeld established by the Secretary for such crop by the sum of the acreage planted for harvest and the acreage prevented from being planted O^ecause of a natural disaster, as determined by the Secretary) for such crop, the Secretary shall make a disaster payment available to such producers at a rate equal to 65 percent of the established price for the crop for any deficiency in production greater than 40 percent (or, in the case of producers who obtained crop insurance for the 1990 crop of the commodity under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, 35 percent) for the crop. (2) LIMITATIONS. — (A) ACREAGE IN EXCESS OF PERMITTED ACREAGE. —Pay- ments provided under paragraph (1) for a crop of a commodity may not be made available to producers on a farm with respect to any acreage in excess of the permitted acreage for the farm for the commodity. (B) CROP INSURANCE.—Payments provided under paragraph (1) for a crop of a commodity may not be made available to producers on a farm unless such producers enter into an agreement to obtain multiperil crop insurance, to the extent required under section 2247. (3) REDUCTION IN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS. —The total quantity of a crop of a commodity on which deficiency payments otherwise would be payable to producers on a farm under the Agricultural Act of 1949 shall be reduced by the quantity on which a