EFFECTIVE DATE.

SEC. 137. EFFECTIVE DATE. This title shall be effective on the date of enactment, except that sections 118 through 122 shall be effective for all loan applications resulting from disaster declarations made on or after August 1, 1988, or from disaster declarations whose filing periods were open on October 1, 1988. Any new credit authority provided for in this Act is to be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts.