USDA Designates 37 Counties in South Carolina as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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USDA Designates 37 Counties in South Carolina as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

08/19/2011 09:52 AM EDT

Farm Service Agency
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Release No. 0098.11

USDA Designates 37 Counties in South Carolina as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 18, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 37 counties in South Carolina as primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought and excessive heat that began April 1, 2011, and continues.

The counties are:

Abbeville	Calhoun	Dorchester
Aiken	Charleston	Edgefield
Allendale	Chester	Fairfield
Anderson	Chesterfield	Florence
Bamberg	Clarendon	Georgetown
Barnwell	Colleton	Greenwood
Beaufort	Darlington	Hampton
Berkeley	Dillon	Horry
Jasper	Kershaw	Lancaster
Lee	Lexington	Marion
Marlboro	McCormick	Oconee
Orangeburg	Richland	Sumter
Williamsburg

"President Obama and I are committed to reducing the impact of this disaster on South Carolina producers," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "This designation will provide help to hundreds of South Carolina farmers and ranchers who suffered significant crop losses."

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in South Carolina also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:

Greenville	Laurens	Newberry	Pickens
Saluda	Union	York

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Georgia and North Carolina also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous:

Georgia

Burke	Chatham	Columbia
Effingham	Elbert	Franklin
Habersham	Hart	Lincoln
Rabun	Richmond	Screvens
Stephens

North Carolina

Anson	Columbus	Macon
Brunswick	Jackson	Mecklenburg
Richmond	Robeson	Scotland
Transylvania	Union

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas Aug. 16, 2011, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.

USDA also has made other programs available to assist farmers and ranchers, including the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE), which was approved as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008; the Emergency Conservation Program; Federal Crop Insurance; and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Interested farmers may contact their local USDA Service Centers for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs. Additional information is also available online at http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov.

FSA news releases are available on FSA's website at http://www.fsa.usda.gov via the "News and Events" link.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).

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