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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) 
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and (6), the payment rate for quality losses for a 
crop of a commodity on a farm shall be equal to the 
difference between— 
(A) the per unit market value that the 
units of the crop affected by the quality loss 
would have had if the crop had not suffered a 
quality loss; and 
(B) the per unit market value of the units 
of the crop affected by the quality loss. 
(4) ELIGIBILITY.—For producers on a farm to 
be eligible to obtain a payment for a quality loss for 
a crop under subsection (a), the amount obtained by 
multiplying the per unit loss determined under para-
graph (1) by the number of units affected by the 
quality loss shall be at least 25 percent of the value 
that all affected production of the crop would have 
had if the crop had not suffered a quality loss. 
(5) MARKETING CONTRACTS.—In the case of 
any production of a commodity that is sold pursuant 
to 1 or more marketing contracts (regardless of 
whether the contract is entered into by the pro-
ducers on the farm before or after harvest) and for 
which appropriate documentation exists, the quan-
tity designated in the contracts shall be eligible for 
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quality loss assistance based on the 1 or more prices 
specified in the contracts. 
(6) OTHER PRODUCTION.—For any additional 
production of a commodity for which a marketing 
contract does not exist or for which production con-
tinues to be owned by the producer, quality losses 
shall be based on the average local market discounts 
for reduced quality, as determined by the appro-
priate State committee of the Farm Service Agency. 
(7) QUALITY ADJUSTMENTS AND DISCOUNTS.— 
The appropriate State committee of the Farm Serv-
ice Agency shall identify the appropriate quality ad-
justment and discount factors to be considered in 
carrying out this subsection, including— 
(A) the average local discounts actually ap-
plied to a crop; and 
(B) the discount schedules applied to loans 
made by the Farm Service Agency or crop in-
surance coverage under the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
(8) ELIGIBLE PRODUCTION.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall carry out this subsection in a fair 
and equitable manner for all eligible production, in-
cluding the production of fruits and vegetables, 
other specialty crops, and field crops. 
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(e) PAYMENT LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) LIMIT ON AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE.—As-
sistance provided under this section to a producer 
for losses to a crop, together with the amounts speci-
fied in paragraph (2) applicable to the same crop, 
may not exceed 95 percent of what the value of the 
crop would have been in the absence of the losses, 
as estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(2) OTHER PAYMENTS.—In applying the limita-
tion in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall include the 
following: 
(A) Any crop insurance payment made 
under
the
Federal
Crop
Insurance
Act
(7 
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) or payment under section 
196 of the Federal Agricultural Improvement 
and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) that 
the producer receives for losses to the same 
crop. 
(B) The value of the crop that was not lost 
(if any), as estimated by the Secretary. 
(3) DUPLICATIVE
PAYMENTS.—The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall ensure, to the maximum extent 
practicable, that no producer on a farm receives du-
plicative payments under this section and any other 
Federal program for the same loss. 
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(f)
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS
AND
LIMITA-
TIONS.—The producers on a farm shall not be eligible for 
assistance under this section with respect to losses to an 
insurable commodity or noninsurable commodity if the 
producers on the farm— 
(1) in the case of an insurable commodity, did 
not obtain a policy or plan of insurance for the in-
surable commodity under the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) for the crop incur-
ring the losses; 
(2) in the case of a noninsurable commodity, 
did not file the required paperwork, and pay the ad-
ministrative fee by the applicable State filing dead-
line, for the noninsurable commodity under section 
196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333) for the crop 
incurring the losses; or 
(3) were not in compliance with highly erodible 
land conservation and wetland conservation provi-
sions. 
(g) TIMING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments to 
producers on a farm for a crop under this section 
not later than 60 days after the date the producers 
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on the farm submit to the Secretary a completed ap-
plication for the payments. 
(2) INTEREST.—If the Secretary does not make 
payments to the producers on a farm by the date de-
scribed in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall pay to 
the producers on a farm interest on the payments at 
a rate equal to the current (as of the sign-up dead-
line established by the Secretary) market yield on 
outstanding, marketable obligations of the United 
States with maturities of 30 years. 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 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.). 
(2)
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). 
SEC. 3102. LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE. 
(a) LIVESTOCK COMPENSATION PROGRAM.— 
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(1) AVAILABILITY OF ASSISTANCE.—There are 
hereby appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture 
such sums as are necessary, to remain available 
until expended, to carry out the livestock compensa-
tion program established under subpart B of part 
1416 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, as an-
nounced by the Secretary on February 12, 2007 (72 
Fed. Reg. 6443), to provide compensation for live-
stock losses during calendar years 2005 and 2006, 
and during calendar year 2007 before the date of 
the enactment of this Act, due to a disaster, as de-
termined by the Secretary, including wildfire in the 
State of Texas and other States and blizzards in the 
States of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, 
and Oklahoma. However, the payment rate for com-
pensation under this subsection shall be 75 percent 
of the payment rate otherwise applicable under such 
program. 
(2) ELIGIBLE
APPLICANTS.—In carrying out 
the program described in paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary shall provide assistance to any applicant 
that— 
(A) conducts a livestock operation that is 
located in a disaster county with eligible live-
stock specified in paragraph (1) of section 
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1416.102(a) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions (72 Fed. Reg. 6444), an animal described 
in section 10806(a)(1) of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (21 U.S.C. 
321d(a)(1)), or other animals designated by the 
Secretary as livestock for purposes of this sub-
section; and 
(B) meets the requirements of paragraphs 
(3) and (4) of section 1416.102(a) of title 7, 
Code of Federal Regulations, and all other eligi-
bility requirements established by the Secretary 
for the program. 
(3) ELECTION OF LOSSES.—If a producer in-
curred eligible livestock losses in more than one of 
the 2005, 2006, or 2007 calendar years, the pro-
ducer shall elect to receive payments under this sub-
section for losses incurred in only one of such cal-
endar years, and such losses must have been in-
curred in a county declared or designated as a dis-
aster county in that same calendar year. 
(4) MITIGATION.—In determining the eligibility 
for or amount of payments for which a producer is 
eligible under the livestock compensation program, 
the Secretary shall not penalize a producer that 
takes actions (recognizing disaster conditions) that 
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