Oriental Fruit Fly Program

 

The detection of multiple oriental flies triggered the State of Florida and Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) to implement a quarantine in Miami-Dade- County on August 28, 2015. The Oriental Fruit Fly (OFF) is considered one of the most serious of the worlds fruit fly pests and attacks fruits, vegetables, and nuts. On February 13, 2016, APHIS rescinded the quarantine after three lifecycles elapsed without any new oriental fruit fly detections. The OFF program provides direct financial assistance to agriculture producers who suffered a loss of revenue for calendar year(s) 2015 and/or 2016 due to the APHIS imposed OFF Quarantine in Miami-Dade County, FL that occurred August 28, 2015 through February 13, 2016. OFF program payments were made to eligible producers during the week of May 12, 2022.

Active 10.134 Farm Service Agency, Department of Agriculture D - Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use Not applicable. Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019, Part Title VII, Section 778
Public Law 116-6 Applicants must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership of citizens of the United States; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law, Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. A producer must be in compliance with Highly Erodible Land conservation and Wetland Conservation provisions, commonly referred to as the conservation compliance provisions. A producer's average Adjusted Gross Income may not exceed $900,000, unless at least 75% of income is derived from farming, ranching or forestry operations. Not applicable. Applicants must submit an application and additional required forms, including an average adjusted gross income statement and highly erodible land conservation and wetland certification. Producers selected for compliance spot checks by FSA must, in accordance with instructions issued by the Deputy Administrator, provide adequate reports of revenue as applicable. The documentary evidence of crop revenue will be reported to FSA together with any supporting documentation to verify information entered on the FSA-438 application. Verifiable documentation is preferred. If verifiable documentation is not available, FSA will accept reliable documentation to the satisfaction of the county committee. Examples of supporting documentation include, but are not limited to picking, pack out, RMA records, sales documents, copies of receipts, ledgers of income, including copies of receipts, ledgers of income, income statements of deposit slips, register tapes, contemporaneous measurements, truck scale tickets, and contemporaneous diaries that are determined acceptable by the FSA county committee or any other documents available to confirm the crop revenue. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. Applicants must submit a complete OFF application to their FSA county office. The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible producers. Payments will be made after the end of the sign-up period. If total payments exceed the appropriated $9 million less a 3% reserve amount, an additional payment factor will apply. The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible producers. Payments were made to eligible producers May 12, 2022 Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines 1-30 Days From 15 to 30 days. Applicants may request reconsideration of a decision by the decision authority or appeal such decisions to a higher authority including the county and State FSA committees and the National Appeals Division. Appeal regulations in 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 apply. OFF eligibility and other matters of general applicability that are not in response to, or result from, an individual set of facts in an individual participant's application for payment are not matters that can be appealed. Not applicable. Not applicable. Unrestricted use. Not applicable. Not applicable. If requested, applicants must submit documentation to verify the information certified on their application. Applicants must retain documentation in support of the application for 3 years after the date of approval. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Contact the headquarters for application deadlines. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Lump. None/Not specified. Kimberly Kempel
1400 Independence Ave.,
Washington, DC 20250 USA
kimberly.kempel@usda.gov
Phone: 202-720-0974 https://www.farmers.gov/ 12-4336-0-1-351 (Direct Payments with Unrestricted Use) FY 22$3,481,098.00; FY 23 est $0.00; FY 24 est $0.00; FY 21$9,000,000.00; FY 20 Estimate Not Available - Payments are subject to a $125,000 payment limitation. Press release, forms, and directives are available. Regulations at 7 CFR Part 756 were published in the Federal Register under a final rule on 12/13/2021.