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1, 2006, as a result of damage directly caused by such 
hurricanes and for payments to enable such institutions 
to provide grants to students who attend such institutions 
for academic years beginning on or after July 1, 2006: 
Provided further, That such payments shall be made in 
accordance with criteria established by the Secretary and 
made publicly available without regard to section 437 of 
the General Education Provisions Act, section 553 of title 
5, United States Code, or part B of title VII of the HEA: 
Provided further, That the amount provided under this 
heading is designated as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th Congress), 
as made applicable to the House of Representatives by sec-
tion 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 2601. Section 105(b) of title IV of division B 
of Public Law 109–148 is amended by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘With respect to the program 
authorized by section 102 of this Act, the waiver authority 
in subsection (a) of this section shall be available until 
the end of fiscal year 2008.’’.
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CHAPTER 7
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For an additional amount for the purposes specified 
under, and subject to the provisions of, this heading in 
chapter 9 of title I of division B of Public Law 109–148 
(119 Stat. 2779), $80,000,000, to remain available until 
December 31, 2007: Provided, That the third proviso 
under such heading in Public Law 109–148 shall be ap-
plied to amounts made available under this heading and 
under such heading in Public Law 109–148 by sub-
stituting ‘‘until December 31, 2007’’ for ‘‘for up to 18 
months’’: Provided further, That $80,000,000 shall be re-
scinded from unobligated balances remaining from the 
amounts made available under such heading in Public Law 
109–148: Provided further, That the amount provided 
under this heading is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th 
Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representa-
tives by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ for necessary expenses related to the con-
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sequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of 
the 2005 season, $10,240,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007: Provided, That the amount provided 
under this heading is designated as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 501 of H. Con. Res. 376 (109th 
Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representa-
tives by section 511(a)(4) of H. Res. 6 (110th Congress).
TITLE III—AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 3101. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—There are hereby ap-
propriated to the Secretary of Agriculture such sums as 
are necessary, to remain available until expended, to make 
emergency financial assistance available to producers on 
a farm that incurred qualifying quantity or quality losses 
for the 2005 or 2006 crop, or for the 2007 crop before 
the date of the enactment of this Act, due to damaging 
weather or any related condition (including losses due to 
crop diseases, insects, and delayed harvest), as determined 
by the Secretary. However, to be eligible for assistance, 
the crop subject to the loss must have been harvested be-
fore the date of the enactment of this Act or, in the case 
of prevented planting or other total loss, would have been 
harvested before the date of the enactment of this Act in 
the absence of the damaging weather or any related condi-
tion.
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(b) ELECTION OF CROP YEAR.—If a producer in-
curred qualifying crop losses in more than one of the 
2005, 2006, or 2007 crop years, the producer shall elect 
to receive assistance under this section for losses incurred 
in only one of such crop years. The producer may not re-
ceive assistance under this section for more than one crop 
year. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall make 
assistance available under this section in the same 
manner as provided under section 815 of the Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Admin-
istration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–55), 
including using the same loss thresholds for quantity 
and economic losses as were used in administering 
that section, except that the payment rate shall be 
50 percent of the established price, instead of 65 
percent. 
(2) 
LOSS
THRESHOLDS
FOR
QUALITY 
LOSSES.—In the case of a payment for quality loss 
for a crop under subsection (a), the loss thresholds 
for quality loss for the crop shall be determined 
under subsection (d).
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(d) QUALITY LOSSES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (3), 
the amount of a payment made to producers on a 
farm for a quality loss for a crop under subsection 
(a) shall be equal to the amount obtained by multi-
plying—
(A) 65 percent of the payment quantity de-
termined under paragraph (2); by 
(B) 50 percent of the payment rate deter-
mined under paragraph (3). 
(2) PAYMENT QUANTITY.—For the purpose of 
paragraph (1)(A), the payment quantity for quality 
losses for a crop of a commodity on a farm shall 
equal the lesser of—
(A) the actual production of the crop af-
fected by a quality loss of the commodity on the 
farm; or 
(B) the quantity of expected production of 
the crop affected by a quality loss of the com-
modity on the farm, using the formula used by 
the Secretary of Agriculture to determine quan-
tity losses for the crop of the commodity under 
subsection (a). 
(3) PAYMENT RATE.—For the purpose of para-
graph (1)(B) and in accordance with paragraphs (5)