DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Soil Conservation Service watershed and flood prevention operations For an additional amount for “Watershed and flood prevention operations” to repair damage to the waterways and watersheds resulting from the Midwest floods and California fires of 1993 and other natural disasters, and for other purposes, $340,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such assistance may be made available when the primary beneficiary is agriculture or agribusiness regardless of drainage size and no more than $50,000,000 may be spent as a result of this proviso for purposes not currently covered by the Soil Conservation Service: Provided further, That such amounts are designated by Congress as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That if the Secretary determines that the cost of land and levee restoration exceeds the fair market value of an affected cropland, the Secretary may use sufficient amounts from funds provided under this heading to accept bids from willing sellers to enroll such cropland inundated by the Midwest floods of 1993 in any of the affected States in the Wetlands Reserve Program, authorized by subchapter C of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837). 108 STAT. 4 Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service emergency conservation program For an additional amount for “Emergency conservation program” for expenses resulting from the Midwest floods and California fires of 1993 and other natural disasters, $25,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1995: Provided, That such amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. Commodity Credit Corporation Funds made available in Public Law 103–75 for the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be available to fund the costs of replanting, reseeding, or repairing damage to commercial trees and seedlings, including orchard and nursery inventory as a result of the Midwest floods of 1993 or other natural disasters: Provided, That the use of these funds for these purposes is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and that such use shall be available only to the extent the President designates such use an emergency requirement pursuant to such Act. The first proviso of the matter under the heading “Commodity Credit Corporation” of chapter I of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Relief from the Major, Widespread Flooding in the Midwest Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–75; 107 Stat. 741) is amended by inserting after the colon at the end, the following: “Provided further, That such funds shall also be available for payments to producers for the 1993, 1994, and 1995 crops of papaya if (1) the papaya would have been harvested if the papaya plants had not been destroyed by Hurricanes Andrew or Iniki or Typhoon Omar, and (2) the papaya plants would not have produced fruit for a lifetime total of more than 3 crop years based on normal cultivation practices:”. Payments to papaya producers shall be made only to the extent that claims for the payments are filed not later than the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That the use of funds for this purpose is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and that such use shall be available only to the extent the President designates such use an emergency requirement pursuant to such Act. Funds made available in Public Law 103–75 for the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be made available to fund crop loss disaster assistance as under the provisions of Public Law 101–624 for 1993 losses of trees, shrubs, or nursery stock and inventory being grown for commercial sale, if such stock or inventory would normally have been sold in 1993, 1994, or 1995: Provided, That the use of these funds for these purposes is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and that such use shall be available only to the extent the President designates such use an emergency requirement pursuant to such Act.