[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1439.101]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1439--EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart B--1998-99 Livestock Assistance Program
 
Sec. 1439.101  Applicability.


    (a) This subpart sets forth the terms and conditions applicable to 
the 1998 Livestock Assistance Program authorized by Public Law 105-277 
and the 1999 Livestock Assistance Program authorized by the Public Law 
106-78. Benefits will be provided to eligible livestock producers in the 
United States but only in counties where a natural disaster occurred, 
and that were subsequently approved for relief under this part by the 
Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs. For purposes of reference, the 
program authorized by Public Law 105-277 shall be referred to in

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this subpart as the 1998 LAP program and that administered under Public 
Law 106-78 shall be referred to in this subpart as the 1999 LAP program.
    (b) The two LAP programs provided for in this part will be treated 
as separate programs for purposes of payment limitations and for other 
purposes relating to eligibility.
    (c) A county must have suffered a 40-percent or greater grazing loss 
for 3 consecutive months during the 1998 calendar year for 1998 LAP or 
for 3 consecutive months during the 1999 calendar year for the 1999 LAP, 
as a result of damage due to a natural disaster as determined by the 
Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, or a designee. Grazing losses 
must have occurred on native and improved pasture with permanent 
vegetative cover and other crops planted specifically for the sole 
purpose of providing grazing for livestock, but such losses do not 
include losses on, or with respect to, seeded small grain forage crops.
    (d) To be eligible for assistance under this subpart, a livestock 
producer's pastures in an eligible county must have suffered at least a 
40-percent loss of normal carrying capacity for a minimum of 3 
consecutive months during the relevant calendar year. The percent of 
loss eligible for compensation shall not exceed the maximum percentage 
of grazing loss for the county as determined by the county committee. In 
addition, the producer will not be compensated for that part of any loss 
that would represent payment of a loss greater than 80 percent.
    (e) Unless otherwise specified or determined by the Deputy 
Administrator, a livestock producer is not eligible to receive payments 
for the same loss under both this subpart and another Federal program.