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7 U.S.C. § 8204 — Limitations on assistance
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**(a) Amount** The total amount of payments that a person shall be entitled to receive under this chapter may not exceed $75,000, or an equivalent value in tree seedlings.
**(b) Acres** The total quantity of acres planted to trees or tree seedlings for which a person shall be entitled to receive payments under this chapter may not exceed 500 acres.
**(c) Regulations** The Secretary shall promulgate regulations—
(1) defining the term “person” for the purposes of this chapter, which shall conform, to the maximum extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term “person” promulgated under [section 1308 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1308&num=0&edition=prelim) (before the amendment made by section 1603(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008); and
(2) promulgating such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limitation established under this section.
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**(a) Amount** The total amount of payments that a person shall be entitled to receive under this chapter may not exceed $75,000, or an equivalent value in tree seedlings.
**(b) Acres** The total quantity of acres planted to trees or tree seedlings for which a person shall be entitled to receive payments under this chapter may not exceed 500 acres.
**(c) Regulations** The Secretary shall promulgate regulations—
(1) defining the term “person” for the purposes of this chapter, which shall conform, to the maximum extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term “person” promulgated under [section 1308 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1308&num=0&edition=prelim) (before the amendment made by section 1603(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008); and
(2) promulgating such regulations as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limitation established under this section.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, upon the request of any agency of any State charged with the administration of the public lands of the State, may permit the transfer of acreage allotments or feed grain bases together with relevant production histories which have been determined pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended [[7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or [section 590p of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590p&num=0&edition=prelim), from any farm composed of public lands to any other farm or farms in the same county composed of public lands: Provided, That as a condition for the transfer of any allotment or base an acreage equal to or greater than the allotment or base transferred prior to adjustment, if any, shall be devoted to and maintained in permanent vegetative cover on the farm from which the transfer is made. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations which he deems necessary for the administration of this section, which may provide for adjusting downward the size of the allotment or base transferred if the farm to which the allotment or base is transferred normally has a higher yield per acre for the commodity for which the allotment or base is determined, for reasonable limitations on the size of the resulting allotments and bases on farms to which transfers are made, taking into account the size of the allotments and bases on farms of similar size in the community, and for retransferring allotments or bases and relevant histories if the conditions of the transfers are not fulfilled.
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**(a) Total amount of benefits** The total amount of benefits that a person shall be entitled to receive annually under one or more of the programs established under this subchapter may not exceed $50,000.
**(b) Issuance of regulations** The Secretary shall issue regulations—
(1) defining the term “person”, which shall conform, to the extent practicable, to the regulations defining the term “person” issued under [section 1308 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1308&num=0&edition=prelim) (before the amendment made by section 1603(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008), or successor statute;
(2) prescribing such rules as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable application of the limitation established under this section; and
(3) providing that the term “person” shall include, in the case of any cooperative association of producers, each member of the association with respect to benefits due to such member of the association.
**(c) Receipt of other disaster payments** No person may receive benefits under this subchapter attributable to lost production of a feed commodity due to a natural disaster in 1988 to the extent that such person receives a disaster payment under the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 on such lost production.
**(d) Total combined payment and benefits limitation** Each person otherwise eligible for a livestock emergency benefit under this subchapter in 1988 shall be subject to the combined payment and benefits limitation established under section 211(c) of the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural commodity** — The term “agricultural commodity” has the meaning given the term in [section 5602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section5602&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ([7 U.S.C. 2204](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 107–171).
**(b) Authorization** Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary may provide geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers direct reimbursement payments for activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Transportation**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary may provide direct reimbursement payments to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher to transport an agricultural commodity, or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity, during a fiscal year.
(2) **Proof of eligibility** — To be eligible to receive assistance under paragraph (1), a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher shall demonstrate to the Secretary that transportation of the agricultural commodity or inputs occurred over a distance of more than 30 miles, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) **Amount**
(A) *In general* — Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of direct reimbursement payments made to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the product obtained by multiplying—
(i) the amount of costs incurred by the geographically di
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Subject to [section 8204 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section8204&num=0&edition=prelim), the assistance provided by the Secretary to eligible orchardists for losses described in [section 8202 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section8202&num=0&edition=prelim) shall consist of—
(1) reimbursement of 75 percent of the cost of replanting trees lost due to a natural disaster, as determined by the Secretary, in excess of 15 percent mortality (adjusted for normal mortality); or
(2) at the option of the Secretary, sufficient seedlings to reestablish a stand.
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 8115
awards made after Dec. 20, 2018, with matching funds
requirement in effect on Dec. 20, 2018, to continue to
apply to such grant, cooperative agreement, or other
award, see section 7614(c) of Pub. L. 115–334, set out as
a note under section 3151 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L.
110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the
date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of
Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of
this title.
DEFINITION OF ‘‘SECRETARY’’
‘‘Secretary’’ as meaning the Secretary of Agri-
culture, see section 8701 of this title.
§ 8115. Carbon utilization and biogas education
program
(a) Definitions
In this section:
(1) Carbon dioxide
The term ‘‘carbon dioxide’’ means carbon di-
oxide that is produced as a byproduct of the
production of a biobased product.
(2) Eligible entity
The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means an entity
that—
(A) is—
(i) an organization described in section
501(c)(3) of title 26 and exempt from tax-
ation under section 501(a) of that title; or
(ii) an institution of higher education (as
defined in section 1001(a) of title 20);
(B) has demonstrated knowledge about—
(i) sequestration and utilization of car-
bon dioxide; or
(ii) aggregation of organic waste from
multiple sources into a single biogas sys-
tem; and
(C) has a demonstrated ability to conduct
educational and technical support programs.
(b) Establishment
The Secretary, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Energy, shall make competitive grants
to eligible entities—
(1) to provide education to the public about
the economic and emissions benefits of perma-
nent sequestration or utilization of carbon di-
oxide with a primary objective of providing
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