I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3754 
To provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for 2005 crop and 
livestock losses, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 13, 2005 
Mr. POMEROY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Resources 
and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide disaster assistance to agricultural producers for 
2005 crop and livestock losses, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 
2005’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions.
TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION LOSSES 
Sec. 101. Crop disaster assistance. 
Sec. 102. Livestock assistance program. 
Sec. 103. Conservation programs. 
Sec. 104. Disaster relief for small business concerns damaged by drought. 
Sec. 105. Assistance to fisheries for red tide outbreak in New England. 
Sec. 106. Flooded crop and grazing land. 
Sec. 107. Regulations. 
TITLE II—NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE AND 
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC STIMULUS 
Sec. 201. Replenishment of Section 32. 
Sec. 202. Extension of marketing loans. 
Sec. 203. Supplemental economic loss payments. 
Sec. 204. National dairy market loss payments. 
TITLE III—EMERGENCY DESIGNATION 
Sec. 301. Emergency designation. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADDITIONAL COVERAGE.—The term ‘‘addi-
tional coverage’’ has the meaning given the term in 
section 502(b)(1) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1502(b)(1)). 
(2) INSURABLE COMMODITY.—The term ‘‘insur-
able commodity’’ means an agricultural commodity 
(excluding livestock) for which the producers on a 
farm are eligible to obtain a policy or plan of insur-
ance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
(3) LIVESTOCK.—The term ‘‘livestock’’ in-
cludes— 
(A) cattle; 
(B) bison;
(C) sheep; 
(D) swine; and 
(E) other livestock, as determined by the 
Secretary. 
(4) NONINSURABLE
COMMODITY.—The term 
‘‘noninsurable commodity’’ means a crop for which 
the producers on a farm are eligible to obtain assist-
ance under section 196 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
7333). 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Agriculture. 
TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL 
PRODUCTION LOSSES 
SEC. 101. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall use such 
sums as are necessary of funds of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to make emergency financial assistance au-
thorized under this section available to producers on a 
farm that have incurred qualifying losses described in sub-
section (c). 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Secretary shall make assistance avail-
able under this section in the same manner as pro-
vided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public 
Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A–55), including 
using the same loss thresholds for quantity and eco-
nomic losses as were used in administering that sec-
tion, except that the loss threshold shall be 25 per-
cent instead of 35 percent and 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 (c)(2), the loss thresh-
olds for quality loss for the crop shall be determined 
under subsection (d). 
(c) QUALIFYING LOSSES.—Assistance under this sec-
tion may be made available for losses due to damaging 
weather or any related condition (including losses due to 
crop diseases and insects and delayed harvest) associated 
with crops that are (as determined by the Secretary) any 
combination of (as determined by the producers on a 
farm)— 
(1) quantity losses for the 2005 crop; 
(2) quality losses for the 2005 crop; or 
(3) severe economic losses for the 2005 crop.