# § 1471c. Eligible producers
**(a)** **Qualifying livestock producers**
**(1)** If the Secretary determines that a livestock emergency exists in a State, county, or area, qualifying livestock producers located in such State, county, or area, or in a contiguous county as provided for in section 1471a(b) of this title, shall be eligible (under application procedures established by the Secretary) for emergency feed assistance under this subchapter in accordance with this subsection.
**(2)** For the purposes of this subsection, a “qualifying livestock producer” is a livestock producer who has suffered a substantial loss in feed normally produced on the farm for such producer’s livestock as a result of the livestock emergency and, as a result, does not have sufficient feed that has adequate nutritive value and is suitable for each of such producer’s particular types of livestock (as of the date of the request, or initiation of consideration, for a determination of a livestock emergency under section 1471b of this title) for the estimated duration of the emergency.
**(3)** Each qualifying livestock producer shall be eligible for emergency feed assistance under the programs specified in section 1471d(a) of this title that is made available where the producer is located in quantities sufficient to meet such feed deficiency with respect to the producer’s livestock normally fed with feed produced by the producer.
**(b)** **Availability of additional assistance** section 1471a(b) of this titlesection 1471e of this title
Each livestock producer in such State, county, or area, or in a contiguous county as provided for in , regardless of whether the producer qualifies for assistance under subsection (a), shall be eligible for emergency assistance under the programs specified in that are made available where the producer is located.
**(c)** **Program participation option** Any livestock producer, located in a county or area in which benefits under the emergency feed program or the emergency feed assistance program were made available due to the drought or related condition in 1988 prior to the effective date of this subchapter, who qualifies for assistance under such pre-existing programs shall be eligible for assistance for such drought or related conditions as prescribed in subsection (a) or, at the producer’s option, for assistance under such pre-existing programs.
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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 605, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 928.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
The effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), is 15 days after , the effective date of . See , set out as a note under .
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date
Section effective 15 days after , with subsec. (c) of this section applicable only with respect to any livestock emergency in 1988, 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 .