7 USC § 1471i - Administration

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1471i"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 1471i - Administration"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "1471i"
section_name: "Administration"
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, § 611, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 931.)"
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# § 1471i. Administration

**(a)** **Regulations** The Commodity Credit Corporation shall issue regulations to carry out this subchapter.

**(b)** **Processing and decisions to be made as quickly as practicable** section 1471b of this titlesection 1471c of this title

Such regulations shall establish procedures to ensure that the request for assistance by a Governor or county committee under , and individual applications of livestock producers under  for assistance, are processed and decisions thereon are made as quickly as practicable.

**(c)** **Indigenous plants not considered feed on hand** For purposes of this subchapter, indigenous plants available to a livestock producer but not normally consumed by livestock as feed, such as cactus, may not be considered as feed on hand for such producers.

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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 611, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 931.)

## 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 .