12 2 STA T . 21 0 0 PUBLIC LA W 110 – 2 46—J U NE 1 8, 2008 (c)EF F ECTIV E DA TE .—Anyorde r is s u ed under th is section sh al l b eco m ee f fecti v e not later than 15 months after the date on w hich the S ecretary initiates p rocedures under the A g ricultural Ad j ust - ment Act ( 7U .S. C . 60 1etse q .) , reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural M ar k eting Agreement Act of 1 93 7. SEC.10 10 9 .S P EC IALTY C RO P B LOC KG RA N TS. (a) DEFI N ITI O NOFS P ECIA L T Y C R OP.—Section 3(1) of the Spe- cialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2 00 4 ( P ublic L aw 10 8– 465
7 U.S.C. 1621 note) is amended by inserting ‘ ‘horticulture and ’ ’ before ‘‘nursery’’. (b) DEFINITION OF STATE.—Section 3(2) of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note) is amended by striking ‘‘and the Commonwealth of Puerto R ico’’ and inserting ‘‘the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, G uam, American Samoa, the United States V irgin I slands, and the Commonwealth of the N orthern Mariana Islands’’. (c) SPECIALTY CROP B LOC K GRANT S .—Section 101 of the Spe- cialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking ‘‘Subject to the appropriation of funds to carry out this section’’ and inserting ‘‘Using the funds made available under subsection (j)’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘2009’’ and inserting ‘‘2012’’; (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘appropriated pursuant to the authori z ation of appropriations in subsection (i)’’ and inserting ‘‘made available under subsection (j)’’; (3) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following
‘‘(c) MINI MU M GRANT AMOUNT.—Notwithstanding subsection (b), each State shall receive a grant under this section for each fiscal year in an amount that is at least equal to the higher of— ‘‘(1) $ 100,000; or ‘‘(2) 1⁄3 of 1 percent of the total amount of funding made available to carry out this section for the fiscal year.’’; and (4) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following: ‘‘(i) REALLOCATION.— ‘‘(1) IN G ENERAL.— T he Secretary shall reallocate to other States in accordance with paragraph (2) any amounts made available for a fiscal year under this section that are not obli- gated or e x pended by a date during that fiscal year determined by the Secretary. ‘‘(2) PRO RATA ALLOCATION.—The Secretary shall allocate funds described in paragraph (1) pro rata to the remaining States that applied during the specified grant application period. ‘‘(3) USE OF REALLOCATE D FUNDS.— F unds allocated to a State under this subsection shall be used by the State only to carry out projects that were previously approved in the State plan of the State. ‘‘(j) FUNDING.— O f the funds of the Commodity Credit Corpora- tion, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make grants under this section, using— ‘‘(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; ‘‘(2) $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; and
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