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culture or comparable State agencies in qualified 
States. 
(2) AMOUNT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph 
(B), the Secretary shall allocate grants among 
qualified States described in paragraph (1) based 
on the average value of agricultural sector pro-
duction in the qualified State, determined as a 
percentage of the gross domestic product of the 
qualified State. 
(B) MINIMUM
AMOUNT.—The minimum 
amount of a grant under this subsection shall be 
$500,000. 
(3) REQUIREMENT.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this subsection, a qualified State shall 
agree to carry out an expedited disaster assistance 
program to provide direct payments to qualified 
small businesses in accordance with subsection (c). 
(c) DIRECT PAYMENTS TO QUALIFIED SMALL BUSI-
NESSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out an expedited 
disaster assistance program described in subsection 
(b)(3), a qualified State shall provide direct payments 
to eligible small businesses in the qualified State that 
suffered material economic losses during the applica-
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ble period as a direct result of weather-related agri-
cultural losses to the crop or livestock production sec-
tors of the qualified State, as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(2) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive 
a direct payment under paragraph (1), a small 
business shall— 
(i) have less than $15,000,000 in aver-
age annual gross income from all business 
activities, at least 75 percent of which shall 
be directly related to production agriculture 
or agriculture support industries, as deter-
mined by the Secretary; 
(ii) verify the amount of economic loss 
attributable to weather-related agricultural 
losses using such documentation as the Sec-
retary and the head of the qualified State 
agency may require; 
(iii) have suffered losses attributable to 
weather-related agricultural disasters that 
equal at least 50 percent of the total eco-
nomic loss of the small business for each 
year a grant is requested; and 
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(iv) demonstrate that the grant will 
materially improve the likelihood the busi-
ness will— 
(I) recover from the disaster; and 
(II) continue to service and sup-
port production agriculture. 
(B) EMERGENCY GRANTS TO ASSIST LOW- 
INCOME
MIGRANT
AND
SEASONAL
FARM-
WORKERS.— 
(i) Funds made available by this sub-
title may be used to carry out assistance 
programs in States that are consistent with 
the purpose and intent of the program au-
thorized at section 2281 of the Food, Agri-
culture, Conservation and Trade Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 5177a). 
(ii) In carrying out this subparagraph, 
a qualified State may waive the gross in-
come requirement at subparagraph (A)(i) of 
this paragraph. 
(3) REQUIREMENTS.—A direct payment to small 
business under this subsection shall— 
(A) be limited to not more than 2 years of 
documented losses; and 
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(B) be in an amount of not more than 75 
percent of the documented average economic loss 
attributable to weather-related agriculture disas-
ters for each eligible year in the qualified State. 
(4) INSUFFICIENT FUNDING.—If the grant funds 
received by a qualified State agency under subsection 
(b) are insufficient to fund the direct payments of the 
qualified State agency under this subsection, the 
qualified State agency may apply a proportional re-
duction to all of the direct payments. 
Subtitle C—Forestry 
SEC. 431. TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 
(a) DEFINITION OF TREE.—In this section, the term 
‘‘tree’’ includes— 
(1) a tree (including a Christmas tree, orna-
mental tree, nursery tree, and potted tree); 
(2) a bush (including a shrub, nursery shrub, 
nursery bush, ornamental bush, ornamental shrub, 
potted bush, and potted shrub); and 
(3) a vine (including a nursery vine and orna-
mental vine). 
(b) PROGRAM.—Except as otherwise provided in this 
section, the Secretary shall use such sums as are necessary 
of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to pro-
vide assistance under the terms and conditions of the tree 
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