10.085: Tobacco Transition Payment Program
Alternate Name: TTPP
Overview
Program Number
10.085
Status
Inactive
Last Modified
Sept. 6, 2016
Date Posted
July 31, 2015
Objective
The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 repeals the federal tobacco price support/production control program, provides compensation payments to tobacco quota owners for the elimination of their government-created asset (quota), and provides transition payments to active tobacco producers.
Type of Assistance
D - Direct Payments with Unrestricted Use
Applicant Eligibility
Eligible quota holder means only a person who, as of October 22, 2004, has either a fee simple interest or life estate interest in the farm for which FSA established a farm basic marketing quota for the 2004 marketing year. The wetlands and highly erodible land provisions of part 12 of Title 7, the controlled substance provisions of part 718 of Title 7, and the payment limitation provisions of part 1400 of Title 7 shall not be applicable to payments made under 7 CFR Part 1463 to an eligible quota holder. Eligible tobacco producer means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper who shared in the risk of producing tobacco on a farm where tobacco was produced, or considered planted, pursuant to a tobacco poundage quota or acreage allotment assigned to the farm for the 2002, 2003, or 2004 marketing years. The wetlands and highly erodible land provisions of part 12 of Title 7 and the controlled substance provisions of part 718 of Title 7 shall be applicable to payments made under 7 CFR Part 1463 to an eligible tobacco producer. However, the payment limitation provisions of part 1400 of Title 7 shall not be applicable to payments made under this part to an eligible tobacco producer.
Beneficiary Eligibility
Tobacco quota holders, tobacco producers, and eligible assignees.
Grant Awards
Tobacco Transition Payment Program direct grants
Grant Opportunities