Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 1.djvu/969

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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-387—AUG. 11, 1988

102 STAT. 931

"(c) No person may receive benefits under this title attributable to lost production of a feed commodity due to a natural disaster in 1988 to the extent that such person receives a disaster payment under the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 on such lost production. "(d) Each person otherwise eligible for a livestock emergency benefit under this title in 1988 shall be subject to the combined payment and benefits limitation established under section 211(c) of the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988. INELIGIBILTTY

"SEC. 610. (a) Any person that has qualifying gross revenues in 7 USC I47ih. excess of $2,500,000 annually, as determined by the Secretary, shall not be eligible to receive any livestock emergency benefits under this title. "(b) For purposes of this section, the term 'qualifying gross revenue' means— "(1) if a majority of the person's annual income is received from farming and ranching operations, the gross revenue from the person's farming and ranching operations; and "(2) if less than a majority of the person's annual income is received from farming and ranching operations, the person's gross revenue from all sources. "ADMINISTRATION

"SEC. 611. (a) The Commodity Credit Corporation shall issue Regulations. r^ulations to carry out this title. ^ use I47ii. "0)) Such regulations shall establish procedures to ensure that the request for assistance by a Governor or county committee under section 604, and individual applications of livestock producers under section 605 for assistance, are processed and decisions thereon are made as quickly as practicable. "(c) For purposes of this title, indigenous plants available to a livestock producer but not normally consumed by livestock as feed, such as cactus, may not be considered as feed on hand for such producers. "PENALTIES

"SEC. 612. A person that disposes of any feed made available to a 7 USC I47ij. livestock producer under this title other than as authorized by the Secretary shall be (1) subject to a civil penalty equal to the market value of the feed involved, to be recovered by the Secretary in a civil suit brought for that purpose, and (2) guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, subject to a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.". (b) CONFORMING CHANGES.—(1) Section 1105 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2267) is repealed. (2) Section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1427) is amended by striking out "and may make feed owned or controlled "^ by it" in the fifth sentence and all that follows through the end of the sixth sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "and may donate or sell commodities in accordance with title VI.". (3) Section 421 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1433) is repealed. (4) Public Law 86-299 (73 Stat. 574), as amended, is repealed. 7 USC 1427 note.