TIMING AND MANNER OF ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 152. TIMING AND MANNER OF ASSISTANCE. (a) Timing of Assistance.— (1) In general.— (A) Assistance made available as soon as practicable.—Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary of Agriculture shall make full disaster assistance available under this title as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act. (B) Completed application.—Subject to subparagraph (C), no payment or benefit provided under this title shall be payable or due until such time as a completed application for a crop of a commodity therefor has been approved. (C) Applications prior to September 30, 1989.—If an application for a disaster payment under this title is received by the Secretary prior to September 30, 1989, by producers who have harvested their 1989 crop, the Secretary shall make full or advance disaster payments to such producers within 15 days after the application is received or by September 15, 1989, whichever is later. (D) Advance payments.—If advance payments are made to producers under subparagraph (C), such payments shall not be less than 80 percent of the payments that will be made available to such producers under this title. (2) Deadline for application.—To be eligible to receive payments under subtitle A, a person shall make application for such payments not later than March 31, 1990, or such later date that the Secretary, by regulation, may prescribe. (b) Manner.—The Secretary may make payments available under subtitle A in the form of cash, commodities, or commodity certificates, as determined by the Secretary.