Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5099
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Alabama
Animals
Appropriations
California
Checks
Civil engineering
Cotton
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
Drainage
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic benefits transfers
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fires
Floods
Florida
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Hawaii
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Indemnity
Infrastructure
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
Texas
Trees
Vaccines
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
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: (1) 2005 crop losses due to weather or related conditions (including crop disease, insects, and delayed harvest); and (2) 2006 crop losses due to flooding in California and Hawaii that occurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act and for which a petition for a disaster designation has been filed with the Secretary. 
 
 Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program for livestock disaster losses during calendar years 2005 and 2006 for losses that occurred prior to of enactment of this Act (including wildfire disaster losses in Texas and other states); (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred 2005 and 2006 livestock disaster losses prior to enactment of this Act (including wildfire disaster losses in Texas and other states), including losses due to hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and anthrax; (3) indemnity payments to poultry producers in hurricane-affected counties, and for 2006 ewe lamb replacement and retention; (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 sugarcane growers in Texas (for additional Baton Rouge demurrage costs and raw sugar transportation and storage costs) and Hawaii (for an agricultural transportation cooperative); (7) assistance to specialty and nursery crop producers in hurricane-affected counties; (8) assistance to dairy producers in hurricane-affected counties; (9) assistance to producers and first handlers of cottonseed; (10) grants for agricultural promotion; (11) supplemental economic loss payments under a specified rate to producers who received crop year 2005 commodity assistance; (12) assistance to tree producers (including Christmas, potted, ornamental, and nursery trees, shrubs, and vines) in hurricane-affected counties; and (13) emergency watershed protection and emergency conservation program activities.
 
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.
 
Appropriates emergency drought assistance funds for: (1) the Army Corps of Engineers; and (2) the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior). 
 
Defines &quot;hurricane-affected county&quot; as a county, or contiguous county, covered by a natural disaster designation related to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, the Budget, and Resources, 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.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House