PUBLIC LAW 109–148—DEC. 30, 2005 FOOD
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119 STAT. 2747
NUTRITION SERVICE
COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Commodity Assistance Program’’ for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $6,000,000 shall be for The Emergency Food Assistance Program and $4,000,000 shall be for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provisions of the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (the ‘‘Act’’), the Secretary may allocate additional foods and funds for administrative expenses from resources specifically appropriated, transferred, or reprogrammed to restore to states resources used to assist families and individuals displaced by the hurricanes of calendar year 2005 among the states without regard to sections 204 and 214 of the Act: Provided further, That such programs may operate in any area where emergency feeding organizations develop a program to provide temporary emergency nonprofit food service to families and individuals displaced by the hurricanes of calendar year 2005: Provided further, That the amounts provided under this heading are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER SEC. 101. EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM. (a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby appropriated $199,800,000, to remain available until expended, to provide assistance under the emergency conservation program established under title IV of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.) for expenses resulting from hurricanes that occurred during the 2005 calendar year. (b) ASSISTANCE TO NURSERY, OYSTER, AND POULTRY PRODUCERS.—In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall make payments to nursery, oyster, and poultry producers to pay for up to 90 percent of the cost of emergency measures to rehabilitate public and private oyster reefs or farmland damaged by hurricanes that occurred during the 2005 calendar year, including the cost of— (1) cleaning up structures, such as barns and poultry houses; (2) providing water to livestock; (3) in the case of nursery producers, removing debris, such as nursery structures, shade-houses, and above-ground irrigation facilities; (4) in the case of oyster producers, refurbishing oyster beds; and (5) in the case of poultry producers, removing poultry house debris, including carcasses. (c) POULTRY RECOVERY ASSISTANCE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall not use more than $20,000,000 of the funds made available under this section to provide assistance to poultry growers who suffered uninsured losses to poultry houses in counties affected by hurricanes that occurred during the 2005 calendar year.
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