Sec. 10109. Specialty Crop Block Grants

SEC. 10109. SPECIALTY CROP BLOCK GRANTS.
(a) DEFINITION OF SPECIALTY CROP.—Section 3(1) of the Specialty
Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–465; 7
U.S.C. 1621 note) is amended by inserting ‘‘horticulture and’’ before
‘‘nursery’’.
(b) DEFINITION OF STATE.—Section 3(2) of the Specialty Crops
Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–465; 7 U.S.C. 1621
note) is amended by striking ‘‘and the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico’’ and inserting ‘‘the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam,
American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands’’.
(c) SPECIALTY CROP BLOCK GRANTS.—Section 101 of the Specialty
Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–465; 7
U.S.C. 1621 note) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Subject to the appropriation of funds
to carry out this section’’ and inserting ‘‘Using the funds
made available under subsection (j)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘2009’’ and inserting ‘‘2012’’;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘appropriated pursuant to
the authorization of appropriations in subsection (i)’’ and inserting
‘‘made available under subsection (j)’’;
(3) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:
‘‘(c) MINIMUM GRANT AMOUNT.—Notwithstanding subsection
(b), each State shall receive a grant under this section for each fiscal
year in an amount that is at least equal to the higher of—
‘‘(1) $100,000; or
‘‘(2) 1⁄3 of 1 percent of the total amount of funding made
available to carry out this section for the fiscal year.’’; and
(4) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following:
‘‘(i) REALLOCATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reallocate to other
States in accordance with paragraph (2) any amounts made
available for a fiscal year under this section that are not obligated
or expended by a date during that fiscal year determined
by the Secretary.
‘‘(2) PRO RATA ALLOCATION.—The Secretary shall allocate
funds described in paragraph (1) pro rata to the remaining
States that applied during the specified grant application period.
‘‘(3) USE OF REALLOCATED FUNDS.—Funds allocated to a
State under this subsection shall be used by the State only to
carry out projects that were previously approved in the State
plan of the State.
‘‘(j) FUNDING.—Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation,
the Secretary of Agriculture shall make grants under this section,
using—

‘‘(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2008;
‘‘(2) $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; and
‘‘(3) $55,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through
2012.’’.