Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 120-C. Dairy Assistance

(a) COVID Dairy Assistance.--Money appropriated for COVID Relief--Dairy Assistance Program shall be used to make payments to each dairy farm that experienced a loss from the production of milk that was discarded during the proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the Governor on March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March 21, 2020), and any renewal of the state of disaster emergency, and applies for assistance.  The payment under this section shall be determined as follows:

(b) Application.--The Department of Agriculture shall develop an application for dairy farmers to apply for assistance under this section within 15 days of the effective date of this section.  The application shall be made available and posted on the Department of Agriculture's publicly accessible Internet website and be in a form that can be completed and returned by the dairy farmer electronically or through United States mail.  The deadline for submitting applications to the department shall be September 30, 2020.

(c) Methodology.--The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Milk Marketing Board,  1 shall determine the method to calculate the volume of discarded milk.

(d) Payments.--Payments under this section shall be made no later than November 30, 2020.

(e) Report.--By December 31, 2020, the Department of Agriculture shall issue a report to the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives and post the report on the Department of Agriculture's publicly accessible Internet website.  The report shall include the following information:

(f) Definitions.--For the purpose of this section, “discarded milk” shall be defined as the volume of milk produced compared to the volume of milk that was hauled to a processor.