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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2128

         To provide market loss assistance to apple producers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2001

 Mr. Hinchey (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Washington, Mr. Walsh, Mr. 
  Reynolds, and Mr. Sweeney) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
         To provide market loss assistance to apple producers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE FOR APPLE PRODUCERS.

    (a) Assistance Available.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall use 
$250,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make 
payments as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this 
Act to apple producers to provide relief for the loss of markets for 
their 2000 crop.
    (b) Payment Basis.--The amount of the payment to a producer under 
subsection (a) shall be made on a per pound basis equal to each 
qualifying producer's 2000 production of apples, except that the 
Secretary shall not make payments for that amount of a particular 
farm's apple production that is in excess of 20,000,000 pounds.
    (c) Duplicative Payments.--A producer shall be ineligible for 
payments under this section with respect to a market loss for apples to 
the extent of that amount that the producer received as compensation or 
assistance for the same loss under any other Federal program, other 
than under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
    (d) Other Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary shall not establish 
any terms or conditions for producer eligibility, such as limits based 
upon gross income, other than those specified in this section.
    (e) Applicability.--This section applies only with respect to the 
2000 crop of apples and producers of that crop.
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