7 USC § 1471a - Emergency livestock assistance

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1471a"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 1471a - Emergency livestock assistance"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "1471a"
section_name: "Emergency livestock assistance"
chapter_number: 35
chapter_name: "PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK FEED ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1988"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 927.)"
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# § 1471a. Emergency livestock assistance

**(a)** The Secretary shall provide emergency feed assistance under this subchapter for the preservation and maintenance of livestock in any State or area of a State where, because of disease, insect infestation, flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, hot weather, or other natural disaster, the Secretary determines that a livestock emergency exists.

**(b)**

**(1)** The Secretary shall provide emergency feed assistance under this subchapter for the preservation and maintenance of livestock, to livestock producers that—

**(A)** conduct farming, ranching, or aquaculture operations in any county contiguous to a county where the Secretary has determined, under subsection (a), that a livestock emergency exists, and

**(B)** are otherwise eligible for assistance under this subchapter.

**(2)** The Secretary shall accept applications for assistance under this subsection from producers that are affected by the livestock emergency at any time during the eight-month period beginning on the date on which the Secretary determines that such emergency exists in the other county.

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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 927.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 15 days after , see , set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under .

### Inapplicability of Section

Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , and ending , see .