---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 8202"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "8202"
heading: "Eligibility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/8202"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Tree Assistance Program"
---

# §8202. Eligibility

- (a) **Loss—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/7/8201.md?p=3) shall provide assistance under [section 8203 of this title](/usc/7/8203.md) to [eligible orchardists](/usc/7/8201.md?p=1) that planted [trees](/usc/7/8201.md?p=4) for commercial purposes but lost the [trees](/usc/7/8201.md?p=4) as a result of a [natural disaster](/usc/7/8201.md?p=2), as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/8201.md?p=3).
- (b) **Limitation—** An [eligible orchardist](/usc/7/8201.md?p=1) shall qualify for assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) only if the [tree](/usc/7/8201.md?p=4) mortality of the [eligible orchardist](/usc/7/8201.md?p=1), as a result of damaging weather or related condition, exceeds 15 percent (adjusted for normal mortality).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10202, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 490.)