This rule implements agricultural disaster and market assistance provisions of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 and the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000. It will implement statutory provisions related to cottonseed market loss, a competitiveness program for extra long staple (ELS) cotton, warehouse- stored tobacco loss assistance, pasture recovery, oilseeds marketing loss, livestock disaster assistance for contract growers and emergency assistance for Harney County, Oregon. It will also define the base quality for upland cotton, finalize existing regulations for the Livestock Indemnity and American Indian Livestock Feed Programs and reorganize all of the Emergency Livestock Assistance regulations to remove obsolete regulations. Certain provisions of this rule will be implemented as interim rules and others as final rules. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details.