As you know. Mr. Speaker. the 1990 freeze and the continuing drought in California have caused significant hardship for California growers and the migrant and seasonal farmworkers they depend on to harvest their crops. We have already been able to provide some disaster assistance to farmers and ranchers. but the needs of farmworkers continue to go unmet. Some estimates suggest that over 65.000 farmworkers in California lost their jobs because of disasters In 1990 and 1991. Most counties in my district lost up to 10 percent of farm jobs because of disasters. Nearly 1.000 migrant and seasonal farmworkers were displaced. The conference report on H.R. 5620 makes it clear that the disaster assistance money provided under the dire emergency supplemental appropriations billPublic Law 102299--can be used to provide emergency services to lowincome migrant and seasonal farmworkers. I fully expect and anticipate. and indeed it is now the clear congressional intent under this provision. that since the administration has released the second installment of disaster assistance money. a portion of that money will be used to provide emergency services to lowincome migrant and seasonal farmworkers. It should also be noted that my colleague from California. Mr.