Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 103 Part 1.djvu/603

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PUBLIC LAW 101-82—AUG. 14, 1989 103 STAT. 575 (1) shall make immediate repayment to the Secretary of any disaster payment or forgiven advance deficiency payment that the producer otherwise is required to repay; and (2) shall become immediately liable for full repayment of all principal and interest outstanding on any emergency loan de- scribed in subsection (a) made subject to this section. SEC. 108. CROPS HARVESTED FOR FORAGE USES. Not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall announce the terms and condi- tions by which producers on a farm may establish a 1989 yield with respect to crops that will be harvested for silage and other forage uses. SEC. 109. PAYMENT LIMITATIONS. (a) LIMITATION.—Subject to subsections (h) and (c), the total amount of payments that a person shall be entitled to receive under one or more of the programs established under this subtitle may not exceed $100,000. (b) No DOUBLE BENEFITS.—No person may receive disaster pay- Animals, ments under this subtitle to the extent that such person receives a livestock emergency benefit for lost feed production in 1989 under section 606 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471d). (c) COMBINED LIMITATION. — (1) IN GENERAL. — No person may receive any payment under this subtitle or benefit under title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.) for livestock emergency losses suf- fered in 1989 if such payment or benefit will cause the combined total amount of such payments and benefits received by such person to exceed $100,000. (2) ELECTION. —I f a producer is subject to paragraph (1), the person may elect (subject to the benefits limitations under section 609 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471g)) whether to receive the $100,000 in such payments, or such livestock emergency benefits (not to exceed $50,000), or a com- bination of payments and benefits specified by the person. (d) REGULATIONS. —The Secretary of Agriculture shall issue regulations— (1) defining the term "person" for the purposes of this section •y and section 151, which shall conform, to the extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term "person" issued under ^ section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308); and (2) prescribing such rules as the Secretary determines nec- essary to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limita- tions established under this section. SEC. 110. NO DOUBLE PAYMENTS ON REPLANTED ACREAGE. ^a) REDUCTION OF DISASTER PAYMENTS. —Effective only for produc- ers on a farm who receive disaster payments under this subtitle for a crop of a commodity, the Secretary of Agriculture shall reduce such payments by an amount that reflects the value of any crop such producers plant for harvest in 1989 to replace the crop for which disaster payments are received. (b) REPLACEMENT CROPS.— For purposes of subsection (a), a crop shall be considered to be planted to replace the crop for which disaster payments are received if (because of loss or damage to the first crop due to damaging weather or related condition in 1988 or