[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1439.302]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1439_EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Pasture Recovery Program
 
Sec.  1439.302  Definitions.

    The following definitions shall be applicable to this subpart:
    Applicant means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the owner 
or operator.
    Contract period means the period of time the PRP contract is in 
effect.
    Equine animals means horses, mules, and donkeys.
    Federally-owned land means land owned by the Federal Government or 
any department, bureau, or agency thereof, or any corporation whose 
stock is wholly owned by the Federal Government.
    Forage crop means a perennial stand of grasses or legumes that are 
intended for use by livestock for grazing and are customarily used for 
that purpose by local producers.
    FSA means the Farm Service Agency.
    Hayland means land that was or has been routinely used to produce 
hay.
    Livestock means beef and dairy cattle, buffalo and beefalo (when 
maintained on the same basis as beef cattle), sheep, goats, swine, and 
equine animals used commercially for human food or kept for the 
production of food or fiber.
    Local FSA office means the FSA office in the local USDA service 
center in which the FSA records are maintained for the farm or ranch 
that includes the pasture land that the applicant is seeking to enroll 
in the PRP.
    Operator means a person who is in general control of the farming 
operation on the farm, as determined by FSA for CCC.
    Owner means a person or entity who is determined by FSA to have 
sufficient legal ownership of the land, including a person who is buying 
the acreage under a purchase agreement; each spouse in a community 
property State; each spouse when spouses own property jointly; and a 
person who has life-estate in the property.

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    Participant means an owner or operator or tenant who has entered 
into a PRP contract.
    Pasture land means generally enclosed land devoted to a perennial 
forage crop used and suitable for grazing of livestock.
    Payment means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the payment 
specified in the PRP contract that, subject to the availability of 
funds, is made to a participant to compensate such participant for 
reestablishing an approved forage crop on eligible pasture land in the 
PRP.
    Practice means with respect to practices to be approved for relief 
under this subpart, an approved measure to cost-effectively reseed 
pasture, and, in conjunction with seeding, as necessary, fertilize to 
reestablish a forage crop on eligible pasture land damaged or destroyed 
by natural disaster, as determined by CCC.
    Rangeland means land having indigenous, unimproved vegetation that 
may be used or suitable for open roaming and grazing of livestock.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture or a designee of the 
Secretary.
    State committee, State office, county committee, or county office, 
means the respective FSA committee or office.
    State Technical Committee means that committee established pursuant 
to 16 U.S.C. 3861.
    State-owned land means land owned by a State Government or any 
department, bureau, or agency thereof, including political subdivisions 
of a State, as determined by CCC.
    Technical assistance means the assistance provided in connection 
with the PRP to owners or operators by FSA or other authorized designee 
of the Secretary in determining the eligibility of land and implementing 
and certifying eligible practices.
    United States means all fifty states of United States, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the District 
of Columbia.