Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2438
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Alabama
Animals
Checks
Cotton
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Drainage
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic benefits transfers
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Florida
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Indemnity
Land use
Law
Livestock
Louisiana
Milk
Mississippi
North Dakota
Off-budget expenditures
Oilseeds
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sports and Recreation
Storms
Sugar
Trees
Vaccines
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers (other than sugar cane and sugar beet producers) who have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest). 
 
 Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program to livestock producers who have incurred 2005 losses in emergency-designated counties; (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 livestock disaster losses, including losses due to hurricanes, floods, and anthrax; (3) indemnity payments to poultry producers in hurricane-affected counties; (4) compensation for certain owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota; (5) sugarcane and sugar beet disaster assistance for qualifying producers and first processors in Louisiana counties designated as disaster areas due to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or to qualifying producers and first processors in Florida for 2005 losses due to hurricanes, floods, rain, or storms; (6) assistance to specialty and nursery crop producers in hurricane-affected counties; (7) assistance to dairy producers in hurricane-affected counties; (8) assistance to producers and first handlers of cottonseed; (9) grants for agricultural promotion; (10) supplemental economic loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance; and (11) assistance to tree producers (including Christmas, potted, ornamental, and nursery trees, shrubs, and vines) in hurricane-affected counties.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide: (1) financial and technical assistance to remove debris and animal carcasses that could adversely affect health and safety on non-federal land in hurricane-affected counties; and (2) immunizations to Department of Agriculture employees involved in direct recovery work in hurricane-affected counties. 
 
Directs the Secretary to hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to assist in agricultural disaster and economic assistance programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate