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Indemnity Program

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

10.030

Program objective

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service administers regulations at 9 CFR parts 50 to 56 that authorizes payment for indemnities. This authority covers a wide variety of indemnity situations ranging from large livestock depopulations to small fowl depopulations, and there are various indemnity calculations and processes for determining the indemnity value for each specific species. The Secretary of Agriculture offers an opinion that constitutes an emergency and threatens the U.S. animal population. Payment for the destroyed animals is based on fair market value. Also, under Section 415 (e) of the Plant Protection Act (Title IV of Public Law 106-224), under a declaration of extraordinary emergency because of the presence of a plant pest or noxious weed that is new to or not known to be widely prevalent in the United States, the Secretary may pay compensation for economic losses incurred by as a result of actions taken under the authorities in this section (415).

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Program details

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public

Additional resources