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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4312
To provide emergency agricultural assistance to producers of the 2002 crop
of certain agricultural commodities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 16, 2002
Mr. HAYES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Agriculture
A BILL
To provide emergency agricultural assistance to producers
of the 2002 crop of certain agricultural commodities.
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 Assistance Act of 2002’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE
Sec. 101. Market loss assistance.
Sec. 102. Oilseeds.
Sec. 103. Peanuts.
Sec. 104. Honey.
Sec. 105. Wool and mohair.
Sec. 106. Cottonseed.
Sec. 107. Specialty crops.
Sec. 108. Loan deficiency payments.
Sec. 109. Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed acreage.
Sec. 110. Milk.
Sec. 111. Pulse crops.
Sec. 112. Tobacco.
Sec. 113. Livestock feed assistance program.
Sec. 114. Increase in payment limitations regarding loan deficiency payments
and marketing loan gains.
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 201. Obligation period.
Sec. 202. Commodity Credit Corporation.
Sec. 203. Regulations.
TITLE I—MARKET LOSS
ASSISTANCE
SEC. 101. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture (re-
ferred to in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, use $5,603,000,000 of funds of
the Commodity Credit Corporation to make a market loss
assistance payment to owners and producers on a farm
that are eligible for a final payment for fiscal year 2002
under a production flexibility contract for the farm under
the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201
et seq.).
(b) AMOUNT.—The amount of assistance made avail-
able to owners and producers on a farm under this section
shall be proportionate to the amount of the total contract
payments received by the owners and producers for fiscal
year 2002 under a production flexibility contract for the
farm under the Agricultural Market Transition Act.
SEC. 102. OILSEEDS.
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
Secretary 
shall 
use
$466,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion to make payments to producers that planted a 2002
crop of oilseeds (as defined in section 102 of the Agricul-
tural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7202)).
(b) COMPUTATION.—A payment to producers on a
farm under this section for an oilseed shall be equal to
the product obtained by multiplying—
(1) a payment rate determined by the Sec-
retary;
(2) the acreage determined under subsection
(c); and
(3) the yield determined under subsection (d).
(c) ACREAGE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the acreage of the producers on the farm
for an oilseed under subsection (b)(2) shall be equal
to the number of acres planted to the oilseed by the
producers on the farm during the 1999, 2000, or
2001 crop year, whichever is greatest, as determined
by the Secretary.
(2) NEW
PRODUCERS.—In the case of pro-
ducers on a farm that planted acreage to a type of
oilseed during the 2002 crop year but not the 1999,
2000, or 2001 crop year, the acreage of the pro-
ducers for the type of oilseed under subsection
(b)(2) shall be equal to the number of acres planted
to the type of oilseed by the producers on the farm
during the 2002 crop year, as determined by the
Secretary.
(d) YIELD.—
(1) SOYBEANS.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), in the case of soybeans, the yield of the
producers on a farm under subsection (b)(3) shall be
equal to the greater of—
(A) the average county yield per harvested
acre for each of the 1997 through 2001 crop
years, excluding the crop year with the greatest
yield per harvested acre and the crop year with
the lowest yield per harvested acre; or
(B) the actual yield of the producers on
the farm for the 1999, 2000, or 2001 crop
year, as determined by the Secretary.
(2) OTHER OILSEEDS.—Except as provided in
paragraph (3), in the case of oilseeds other than soy-
beans, the yield of the producers on a farm under
subsection (b)(3) shall be equal to the greater of—
(A) the average national yield per har-
vested acre for each of the 1997 through 2001
crop years, excluding the crop year with the
greatest yield per harvested acre and the crop
year with the lowest yield per harvested acre; or
(B) the actual yield of the producers on
the farm for the 1999, 2000, or 2001 crop
year, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) NEW
PRODUCERS.—In the case of pro-
ducers on a farm that planted acreage to a type of
an oilseed during the 2002 crop year but not the
1999, 2000, or 2001 crop year, the yield of the pro-
ducers on a farm under subsection (b)(3) shall be
equal to the greater of—
(A) the average county yield per harvested
acre for each of the 1997 through 2001 crop
years, excluding the crop year with the greatest
yield per harvested acre and the crop year with
the lowest yield per harvested acre; or
(B) the actual yield of the producers on
the farm for the 2002 crop.
(4) DATA SOURCE.—To the maximum extent
available, the Secretary shall use data provided by