# Pandemic Assistance Programs and Agricultural Disaster Assistance Programs
> **Farm Service Agency** · Final rule. · Published 2023-01-11 · Effective 2023-01-11 · 88 FR 1862
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-00005
- **Category:** food-assistance
- **Sub-agency:** Farm Service Agency
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 1862
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 9
- **Publication date:** 2023-01-11
- **Effective date:** 2023-01-11
- **USDA docket:** Docket ID: USDA-2021-0012
## Abstract

This rule announces Phase 2 of the Emergency Relief Program (ERP), which provides assistance to producers who suffered crop losses due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, and qualifying droughts occurring in calendar years 2020 and 2021. It also announces Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program (PARP), a new program that provides support for agricultural producers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this rule makes changes to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP); the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP); the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP); the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP); the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP); the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP); the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP); and general payment eligibility provisions. This rule also makes a technical correction to the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/11/2023-00005/pandemic-assistance-programs-and-agricultural-disaster-assistance-programs)
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