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RIN: 0560-AH90

Publication ID: Fall 2008

Title: ●Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE)
Abstract: New regulations in 7 CFR 1480 will implement provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill regarding SURE. SURE utilizes funds from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund (Trust Fund) for crop production or quality losses incurred on or before September 30, 2011. The new provisions are for SURE payments to eligible producers on farms in disaster counties and on farms in which weather-related losses exceeded 50 percent of the normal production for that year. The provisions include payments to eligible producers on: - Farms in disaster counties, including contiguous counties that have incurred crop production losses and/or crop quality losses during the crop year,or that incurred a total loss of production, or - Any farm in which, during the calendar year, the total loss of production of the farm relating to weather is greater than 50 percent of the normal production of the farm. SURE payments will be issued to eligible producers in an amount equal to 60 percent of the difference between the disaster assistance program guarantee and the total farm revenue for a farm. Producers are required to purchase coverage under the Noninsured Disaster Program (NAP) for their eligible crops as a prerequisite to receiving assistance under SURE. For the 2008 crop year only this requirement will be waived for producers who were eligible to purchase crop insurance or NAP coverage for their eligible crops but did not do so. Those producers will be allowed to buy-in to the SURE program by paying fees equal to what they would have paid for crop insurance or NAP coverage. Payment of the buy-in fees will provide assistance only under SURE, not coverage under crop insurance or NAP, as applicable. Producers meeting the definition of socially disadvantaged, limited resource, and beginning farmer or rancher will be exempted from the requirement to purchase crop insurance or NAP coverage, and will be waived from payment of buy-in fees, if applicable.
Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA)	Priority: Economically Significant
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: Yes	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 1480
Legal Authority: PL 110-246

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Final	Statutory		06/18/2009

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
Interim Final Rule	12/00/2008
Interim Final Rule Comment Period End	04/00/2009

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Deirdre Holder Branch Chief, Regulatory Analysis and PRA Requirements Branch Department of Agriculture Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-0572 Phone:202 205-5851 Email: deirdre.holder@usda.gov