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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 396

     To amend the emergency crop loss assistance provisions of the 
   Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
  Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to respond to the severe 
economic losses being incurred by crop producers, livestock and poultry 
 producers, and greenhouse operators as a result of the sharp increase 
                           in energy prices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2001

Mr. Pickering introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the emergency crop loss assistance provisions of the 
   Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
  Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to respond to the severe 
economic losses being incurred by crop producers, livestock and poultry 
 producers, and greenhouse operators as a result of the sharp increase 
                           in energy prices.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY RELIEF FROM HIGH ENERGY COSTS FOR CROP PRODUCERS, 
              LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY PRODUCERS, AND GREENHOUSE 
              OPERATORS.

    Section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as 
enacted by Public Law 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549A-55), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraph (2) and subsection (c)(2)'';
            (2) in subsections (b)(2) and (d), by striking ``subsection 
        (c)(2)'' each place it appears and inserting ``subsection 
        (c)(1)(B)''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) 
                as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, and 
                moving the margins of such subparagraphs 2 ems to the 
                right;
                    (B) by striking ``Assistance'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) Losses due to damaging weather and related 
        conditions.--''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(2) Economic losses due to higher energy costs.--The 
        Secretary shall also provide assistance under this section to 
        crop producers, livestock and poultry producers, and greenhouse 
        operators that have incurred higher operating costs during 2000 
        or 2001, and consequently severe economic losses, as a result 
        of increases in energy prices.''.
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