[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1437.501]

[Page 632]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1437_NONINSURED CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart F_Determining Coverage in the Tropical Region
 
Sec. 1437.501  Applicability; definition of ``tropical region'' and additional 

    Source: 71 FR 52739, Sept. 7, 2006, unless otherwise noted.


definitions.

    (a) This subpart shall only apply to covered tropical crops in the 
tropical region for the 2006 and subsequent crops years, as those terms 
are defined in this subpart. Benefits under this part may be extended to 
those crops only to the extent that they are otherwise eligible for 
assistance under this part. Covered crops shall not apply to ``value 
loss'' crops, as defined elsewhere in this part. For those crops that 
are covered by this subpart, loss and payment determinations for the 
program covered in this part shall be determined by the rules that 
otherwise apply to the program subject to the modifications provided by 
this subpart. The rules that otherwise apply include, but are not 
limited to, limitations on payments that appear elsewhere in this part.
    (b) For purposes of this subpart:
    (1) Tropical region includes, as may be further limited by the 
Deputy Administrator: Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin 
Islands, Puerto Rico, and the former Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands (the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic 
of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the 
Republic of Palau).
    (2) 2006 and subsequent crops means those crops in the ground on or 
after January 1, 2006.
    (3) Covered tropical crops means those crops and commodities in the 
tropical region governed by this subpart, those being all crops and 
commodities in the tropical region that are otherwise eligible for 
generating a benefit claim under this part, except for value-loss crops 
as defined elsewhere in this part.
    (c) The Deputy Administrator may adjust requirements for assistance 
so as to provide a fair transition from previous rules for crop covered 
by this subpart to those provisions which are provided for in this 
subpart.