# Milk Loss Program and Emergency Relief Program
> **Farm Service Agency** · Final rule. · Published 2023-09-11 · Effective 2023-09-11 · 88 FR 62285
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-19479
- **Category:** forest-service
- **Sub-agency:** Farm Service Agency
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 62285
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 760
- **Publication date:** 2023-09-11
- **Effective date:** 2023-09-11
- **USDA docket:** Docket ID: FSA-2022-0016
## Abstract

This rule establishes provisions for providing agricultural disaster assistance as authorized by the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act of 2021 and the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023. The assistance will be for 2020, 2021, and 2022 milk losses. The Milk Loss Program will provide payments to eligible dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed without compensation from the commercial milk market due to disaster events including droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), and smoke exposure that occurred in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 calendar years. Additionally, the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, also authorizes assistance for eligible milk losses due to tornadoes that occurred in 2022. This rule specifies the administrative provisions, eligibility requirements, application procedures, and payment calculations for the Milk Loss Program. This rule also makes corrections to Phase 2 of the Emergency Relief Program (ERP).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/11/2023-19479/milk-loss-program-and-emergency-relief-program)
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