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ceding crop years, the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration shall establish a yield for the farm by
using a county average yield for the commodity,
or by using other data available to it.
‘‘(D) COUNTY
AVERAGE
YIELDS.—In es-
tablishing county average yields for nonprogram
crops, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall
use the best available information concerning
yields. Such information may include extension
service records, credible nongovernmental stud-
ies, and yields in similar counties.
‘‘(3) RESPONSIBILITY OF PRODUCERS.—It shall
be the responsibility of the producers of nonprogram
crops to provide satisfactory evidence of crop losses
for a crop year resulting from damaging weather or
related condition in order for such producers to ob-
tain disaster payments under this section.
‘‘SEC. 2245. CROP QUALITY REDUCTION DISASTER PAY-
MENTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—To ensure that all producers of
crops covered under sections 2241 through 2244 are treat-
ed equitably, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make addi-
tional disaster payments to producers of such crops for
a crop year who suffer losses resulting from the reduced
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quality of such crops caused by damaging weather or re-
lated condition, as determined by the Secretary.
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PRODUCERS.—If the Secretary deter-
mines to make crop quality disaster payments available
to producers under subsection (a), producers on a farm
of a crop described in subsection (a) shall be eligible to
receive reduced quality disaster payments only if such pro-
ducers incur a deficiency in production of not less than
35 percent and not more than 75 percent for such crop
(as determined under section 2241, 2242, 2243, or 2244,
as appropriate).
‘‘(c) MAXIMUM PAYMENT RATE.—The Secretary
shall establish the reduced quality disaster payment rate,
except that such rate shall not exceed 10 percent, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, of—
‘‘(1) the established price for the crop, for com-
modities covered under section 2241;
‘‘(2) the basic county loan rate for the crop (or
a comparable price if there is no current basic coun-
ty loan rate), for commodities covered under section
2242;
‘‘(3) 
the 
payment 
level 
under 
section
2243(a)(3), for commodities covered by section
2243; and
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‘‘(4) 
the 
payment 
level 
under 
section
2244(a)(2), for commodities covered under section
2244.
‘‘(d) DETERMINATION OF PAYMENT.—The amount
of payment to a producer under this section shall be deter-
mined by multiplying the payment rate established under
subsection (c) by the portion of the actual harvested crop
on the producer’s farm that is reduced in quality by such
natural disaster, as determined by the Secretary.
‘‘SEC. 2246. EFFECT OF FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE PAY-
MENTS.
‘‘In the case of producers on a farm who obtained
crop insurance for a crop of a commodity under the Fed-
eral Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall reduce the amount of payments
made available under this subchapter for such crop to the
extent that the amount determined by adding the net
amount of crop insurance indemnity payment (gross in-
demnity less premium paid) received by such producers
for the deficiency in the production of the crop and the
disaster payment determined in accordance with this chap-
ter for such crop exceeds the amount determined by mul-
tiplying—
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‘‘(1) 100 percent of the yield used for the cal-
culation of disaster payments made under this chap-
ter for such crop; by
‘‘(2) the sum of the acreage of such crop plant-
ed to harvest and the acreage for which prevented
planting credit is approved by the Secretary (or, in
the case of disaster payments under section 2241,
the eligible acreage established under paragraphs (1)
and (3)(A) of section 2241(a)); by
‘‘(3)(A) in the case of producers who partici-
pated in a production adjustment program for the
crop of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long
staple cotton, or rice for such crop year, the estab-
lished price for such crop of the commodity;
‘‘(B) in the case of producers who did not par-
ticipate in a production adjustment program for the
crop of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long
staple cotton, or rice for such crop year (and, with
respect to flexible acres as provided under section
2241(a)(2), in the case of those producers who did
participate in such program for such year), the basic
county loan rate (or a comparable price, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, if there is no current basic
county loan rate) for such crop of the commodity;