1416.204—Application process.
(a)
Applicants must submit to CCC a completed application in accordance with § 1416.5, a copy of their grower contract if the applicant is a contract grower, and other supporting documents necessary for determining the eligibility of the applicant. Supporting documents must show: Evidence of loss; current physical location of livestock in inventory; and physical location of claimed livestock at the time of death.
(b)
Applicants must provide adequate proof that the death of the eligible livestock occurred in an eligible county as a direct result of an eligible hurricane during the disaster period. The quantity and kind of livestock that died as a direct result of the eligible hurricane may be documented by: Purchase records; veterinarian records; bank or other loan papers; rendering truck receipts; Federal Emergency Management Agency records; National Guard records; written contracts; production records, Internal Revenue Service records; property tax records; private insurance documents; and other similar verifiable documents, as determined by CCC.
(c)
Certifications of livestock deaths by third parties may be accepted only if both the following conditions are met:
(ii)
The number of livestock, by category determined by the Deputy Administrator, were in inventory at the time the applicable hurricane occurred;