WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/USA/58 
9 October 2007 
 (07-4311) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
 
The following submission, dated 4 October 2007, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States .  The notification concerns new or modified domestic support 
measures exempt from reduction ( Table DS:2 ). 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: United States  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
 
(1) Full title of measure:  Pasture Recovery Program (PRP) 
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference:   The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act 2000 (Public Law 106-78, 
22 October 1999). 
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: Provisions are 
consistent with criteria in Annex 2, paragraph 8.   
 
The purpose of the PRP is to provide assistance to owners and operators of pastureland on 
which livestock is normally grazed that was damaged or destroyed by natural disaster.  
Owners and operators must reestablish the permanent vegetative forage crop on such 
pastureland to qualify for assistance under the PRP.   
 
Land must be established pasture on which livestock are normally grazed.  Pasture from 
which hay or silage is normally harvested is in eligible for PRP.  Federal or State operated 
lands and land operated by a political subdivision of  a State are not eligible.  No assistance is 
authorized for hayland or rangeland. 
Producers must own or have control over the liv estock that graze the affected land and have 
control of the land for the contract period of 3 years to be eligible for PRP.  Producers must certify that the pastureland to be enrolled in  PRP was so damaged or destroyed by natural 
disaster that seeding is required to reestablish the forage crop.  The maximum amount that a 
producer can earn under the PRP is $2,500, and this maximum amount may be further 
reduced if the total amount of PRP assist ance requested exceeds available funding. 
In addition, the producer must comply with the noxious weed laws of the applicable State or 
local jurisdiction and control any weeds, insect s, pests, and other undesirable species to 
ensure the establishment and maintena nce of the approved forage crop. 
(4) Cost of measure:  Maximum annual funding $40 million.
 
 
(5) Date of entry into effect: Public Law 106-78 was signed into law on 22 October 1999. 
 
(6) Period of application:  1 October 1998 to 30 September 1999;  assists owners and operators of 
pastureland that was damaged or destroyed by drought during 1999. 
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)): Livestock.  G/AG/N/USA/58 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: United States  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
 
(1) Full title of measure:  American Indian Livestock Feed Program (AILFP) 
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference: Agricultural Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-524, 30 November 
1970), U.S. Code 1427A.  
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: Provisions are 
consistent with criteria in Annex 2, paragraph 8.   
The purpose of the AILFP is to provide emergency financial feed assistance to livestock 
owners on tribal-governed land affected by a natural disaster.  Under AILFP, the Commodity Credit Corporation contracts with the affected  tribal governments, which administer the 
program.  After the U.S. Government has declar ed a state of emergency in a region, tribal 
governments may submit requests for this  program to be implemented.  
A livestock feed emergency is a situation in which a natural disaster causes more than a 35-
percent reduction in the feed produced in a region.  Natural disaster conditions include: 
damaging weather (drought, hail, excessive moisture, freeze, tornado, hurricane, excessive 
wind, or combination thereof); adverse natu ral occurrence (earthquake, flood, or volcanic 
eruption); related conditions (incl uding, but not limited to, heat or insect infestation that occur 
as a result of damaging weather or adverse natural occurrence). 
The Agricultural Act of 1970 provides the Secretar y of Agriculture with the authority to sell 
or dispose of commodities in the Disaster Rese rve when the President or Congress declare a 
state of emergency.  On 17 December 1997, the Secretary of Agriculture announced a new 
livestock feed program under the authority of the Agricultural Act of 1970 that would be 
implemented to target American Indian Tribes for emergency livestock feed assistance.  The 
first year that money was paid under the AILFP was 1999. 
(4) Cost of measure:  Maximum funding $12.5 million.
 
 
(5) Date of entry into effect: 17 December 1997. 
 
(6) Period of application: 1 October 1998 to 30 September 1999;   assists owners and operators 
of pastureland that was damaged or destroyed by drought during the 1999 crop year. 
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)): Livestock 
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  Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: United States  
Notification under Article 18:3 of the Agreement:  
New or modified domestic support measures exempt from reduction  
 
(1) Full title of measure:  Flood Compensation Program 
 
(2) Domestic legislation reference: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appr opriations Act, 1999.  (Public Law 105-277, 
21 October 1998). 
 
(3) Detailed description of measure with reference to criteria, i.e. those in: Provisions are 
consistent with criteria in  Annex 2, paragraph 8. 
 
The Flood Compensation Program will compensate farmers in certain eligible counties for 
loss of the use of cropland or pastureland due to flood.  
 
The county must have been declared a disaster area under a Presidential Declaration or 
Secretarial Designation during 1 January 1997, through 1 August 1998, and land on at least 
one farm in the county must be cropland or p astureland that has been subject to continuous 
flooding since 1 October 1992.  Applicants for assi stance must own or have a cash lease with 
respect to the property and must have owned it or leased it since 1 October 1997.  
 
Producers cannot receive Flood Compensation Program payment for land that also receives a 
fiscal year 1998 benefit under any other U.S. De partment of Agriculture or federal program. 
 
(4) Cost of measure:  Maximum funding $42 million.  
 
(5) Date of entry into effect: 21 October 1998. 
 
(6) Period of application: 1 October 1997 through 30 September 1998. 
 
(7) Products to principally benefit (if any individual product(s)): General crops; $12  million 
of total payments reserved for livestock producers. 
 
 
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