§ 1439.401 - Applicability.

This subpart sets forth the terms and conditions of the Livestock Indemnity Program for Contract Growers. Under Title I of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Pub. L. 106-113; 113 Stat. 1501), the Secretary is specifically authorized to use $10 million to provide assistance to persons who raise livestock owned by other persons for income losses sustained with respect to livestock during 1999 if the Secretary finds that such losses are the result of natural disasters. Section 802 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub. L. 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549) amended the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000, to cover losses that occurred during the period January 1, 2000 through February 7, 2000. Accordingly, this subpart provides for benefits to be paid to eligible producers who sustained a loss of income directly attributed to a reduction in the production of livestock and livestock products from livestock that were entirely owned by others, due to or as a result of natural disasters that occurred from January 1 through February 7, 2000 in areas for which a Presidential or Secretarial Declaration was approved. Producers in contiguous counties that were not designated as a disaster area in their own right are not eligible for benefits under this part. Benefits will be provided with respect to eligible livestock where the death occurred in the disaster area during January 1 through February 7, 2000 where the death was reasonably related to the disaster that prompted the disaster declaration as determined by the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, or designee. The livestock had to be in possession of the applicant during the time in which the disaster occurred.