7 USC 1471e - Additional assistance

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 23, 2024

§ 1471e.

Additional assistance

(a)

Determination by Secretary

(b)

Programs authorized

Special assistance under this section includes—

(1)

the donation of feed owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation for use in feeding livestock stranded and unidentified as to its owner, including the cost of transporting feed to the affected area, during such period as the Secretary, by regulation, may prescribe;

(2)

reimbursement of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of—

(A)

installing pipelines (if that is the least expensive method) or other facilities, including tanks or troughs, for livestock water;

(B)

construction or deepening of wells or ponds for livestock water; or

(C)

developing springs or seeps for livestock water,

as appropriate in drought areas to facilitate more efficient and better-distributed grazing on land normally used for grazing. Such cost-share assistance may not be made available to provide water for wildlife or recreational livestock, dry lot feeding, or barns or corrals, or to acquire pumping equipment;

(3)

reimbursement of not to exceed 50 percent of the cost of burning prickly pear cactus to make it suitable for animal feed; and

(4)

making commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation available to livestock producers through the use of a catalog that specifies lots of a size that are economically feasible for a small producer to obtain by means of certificate exchanges.

(c)

Water development projects for 1988 and 1989 emergencies

(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 930; amended Pub. L. 101–82, title I, § 142, title II, § 203, Aug. 14, 1989, 103 Stat. 579, 581.)

cite as: 7 USC 1471e