105 STAT. 1712 PUBLIC LAW 102-229—DEC. 12, 1991 Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-235), $250,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived by transfer from amounts provided to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the heading "Salaries and expenses" in Public Law 102-139. CHAPTER III DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION 7 USC 1421 note. In view of the occurrence of recent natural disasters—similar to the volcano eruption of 1980, the earthquake of 1989, and the hurricane of 1989—droughts, floods, freezes, tornadoes, and other catastrophes which resulted in billions of dollars in damages, and in an effort to restore the economy and to alleviate the effects of the disasters, an additional $1,750,000,000, to remain available until expended, is hereby made available for losses associated with 1990 crops as authorized by Public Law 101-624, and for losses associated with 1991 and 1992 crops under the same terms and conditions: Provided, That $995,000,000 of this amount is available for payments to producers for losses on either 1990 or 1991 crops, at the producer's option: Provided further, That the remaining $755,000,000 shall be available only to the extent an official budget request, for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, is transmitted to the Congress: Provided further. That this $755,000,000 shall be available for crop losses for one of the years 1990, 1991 or 1992, at the producer's option, but shall not be for a year for which disaster payments were previously provided to the producer: Provided further. That $100,000,000 of the $755,000,000 is set aside for program crops planted in 1991 for harvest in 1992: Provided further. That, consistent with the amounts made available above, emergency loans made with respect to damage to an annual crop planted for harvest in 1991 under subtitle C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act shall be made available without regard to the purchase of crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act by the producer who requests such a loan. ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds available to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 1992 shall be made available as a grant in the amount of $530,000 to the State of Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources for potato disease detection, control, prevention, eradication and related activities including the payment of compensation to persons for economic losses associated with such efforts conducted or to be conducted in the State of Maine and any unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated or earmarked for potato disease efforts by the Secretary of Agriculture shall remain available until expended by the Secretary.
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