Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 122.djvu/1417

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12 2 STA T . 1 394PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 234 —M A Y 22 , 200 8‘ ‘ (1 1 )NONI N SURABLEC O M MO D I TY.—Thet e rm ‘ no n i n su r abl e c ommo d it y’ means a cro pf or w hich the eli g ible producers on a farm are eligible to obtain assistance under the noninsured crop assistance program. ‘‘(1 2 ) NONINSURED CRO P ASSISTANCE PRO G RAM.—The term ‘noninsured crop assistance program’ means the program car - ried out under section 1 96 of the F ederal A griculture I mpro v e- ment and R eform Act of 1996 ( 7U . S . C .7 3 33). ‘‘(13) Q UALI F YING NATURAL DISASTER DECLARATION.—The term ‘ q ualifying natural disaster declaration’ means a natural disaster declared by the Secretary for production losses under section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural D evelopment Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)). ‘‘(1 4 ) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Sec- retary of Agriculture. ‘‘(1 5 ) SOCIALLY DISAD V ANTAGED FARMER OR RANC H ER.—The term ‘socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher’ has the meaning given the term in section 25 0 1(e) of the Food , Agri- culture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e)). ‘‘(16) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means— ‘‘(A) a State

‘‘( B ) the District of Columbia; ‘‘(C) the Commonwealth of P uerto Rico; and ‘‘(D) any other territory or possession of the United States. ‘‘(17) TRUST FUND.—The term ‘Trust Fund’ means the Agri- cultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund established under section 902 of the Trade Act of 1974. ‘‘(1 8 ) UNITED STATES.—The term ‘United States’ when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States. ‘‘(b) SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary from the Trust Fund to ma k e crop disaster assist- ance payments to eligible producers on farms in disaster coun- ties that have incurred crop production losses or crop quality losses, or both, during the crop year. ‘‘(2) AMOUNT.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Sub j ect to subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall provide crop disaster assistance payments under this section to an eligible producer on a farm in an amount equal to 60 percent of the difference between— ‘‘(i) the disaster assistance program guarantee, as described in paragraph (3); and ‘‘(ii) the total farm revenue for a farm, as described in paragraph (4). ‘‘(B) L IMITATION.—The disaster assistance program guarantee for a crop used to calculate the payments for a farm under subparagraph (A)(i) may not be greater than 90 percent of the sum of the e x pected revenue, as described in paragraph (5) for each of the crops on a farm, as deter- mined by the Secretary. ‘‘(3) SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GUAR- ANTEE.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.— E xcept as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the supplemental assistance program guar- antee shall be the sum obtained by adding—