Senator Baldwin Helped Deliver $9.3 Million in Pandemic Support for Wisconsin’s Timber Harvesters and Haulers
USDA begins disbursing final pandemic assistance payments next week
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that $9.3 million in total will be disbursed in relief for Wisconsin’s timber harvesting and hauling businesses that have experienced losses due to COVID-19, through the USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers program (PATHH). Senator Baldwin helped secure the critical assistance for the logging industry in last year’s bipartisan government funding legislation.
Program Details
The PATHH program is administered by Farm Service Agency (FSA) in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. Timber harvesting and hauling businesses that experienced a gross revenue loss of at least 10% during the period of Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, 2020, compared to the period of Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, 2019, were eligible to apply during the application period, which ran from July 22 – October 15, 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 authorized up to $200 million for PATHH. FSA issued initial payments up to $2,000 as applications were approved. Now that signup has ended and FSA has evaluated the remaining funds, FSA has started to issue final payments to those applicants whose calculated payment amount was over $2,000. Payments are based on the applicant’s gross revenue received from Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 1, 2019, minus gross revenue received from Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 1, 2020, multiplied by 80%.
To be eligible for payments, individuals or legal entities must be a timber harvesting or timber hauling business where 50% or more of its gross revenue is derived from one or more of the following
- Cutting timber.
- Transporting timber.
- Processing of wood on-site on the forest land (chipping, grinding, converting to biochar, cutting to smaller lengths, etc.).
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