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S. 3991 109th Congress Senate

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

Official title: A bill to provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 28, 2006 See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food Administrative procedureAgricultural conservationAgricultural cooperativesAgricultural credit
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Agricultural industriesAgricultural subsidiesAnimal diseasesAnimalsAnthraxCattleCommerceDairy industryDepartment of AgricultureDisaster reliefDroughtsEconomics and Public FinanceEmergency ManagementEnvironmental ProtectionFarm landsFarm produceFinance and Financial SectorFlood damageForest firesGovernment Operations and PoliticsGrants-in-aidGrazingHabitat conservationHawaiiHealthHurricane aftermath legislationHurricanesIndemnityLand useLawLivestockMontanaPublic Lands and Natural ResourcesSheepSmall businessSoil conservationSoil erosionSugarTexasTuberculosisWater Resources DevelopmentWatersheds
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Sep 29, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565, S10568, S10568-10569, S10569)
Sep 28, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sep 28, 2006
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action September 29, 2006

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565, S10568, S10568-10569, S10569)

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification.

Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses.

Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to carry out emergency measures under: (1) the emergency watershed protection program; (2) the emergency conservation program, including wildfire recovery efforts; and (3) the environmental quality incentives program, including wildfire recovery efforts.

Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3991: Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-3991/
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