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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1420 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow for additional agricultural |
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| 6 | 6 | | lands to be enrolled under the conservation reserve enhancement pro- |
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| 7 | 7 | | gram, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY18, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. L |
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| 11 | 11 | | AMALFA(for himself, Mr. THOMPSONof California, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | P |
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| 13 | 13 | | ANETTA, Mr. COSTA, and Ms. MATSUI) introduced the following bill; |
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| 14 | 14 | | which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to allow for addi- |
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| 17 | 17 | | tional agricultural lands to be enrolled under the con- |
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| 18 | 18 | | servation reserve enhancement program, and for other |
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| 19 | 19 | | purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pacific Flyway Habitat 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Enhancement Act’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. CONSERVATION RESERVE ENHANCEMENT PRO-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | GRAM. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Section 1231A of the Food Security Act of 1985 is 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | amended— 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | section (g); and 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | lowing: 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(f) S |
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| 37 | 37 | | EASONALLYFLOODEDWORKINGLANDSHABI-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | TATCONSERVATIONAGREEMENTS.— 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 40 | 40 | | N GENERAL.—In the case of an agree-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ment entered into under subsection (b)(1) that ad-12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | dresses diminished quantity and quality of wetland 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | wildlife habitats, the Secretary, in consultation with 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the applicable State technical committee established 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | under section 1261(a), may— 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(A) enroll other agricultural land that is 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | not eligible land on which the resource concerns 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | identified in the agreement can be addressed if 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | the enrollment of such other agricultural land is 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | critical to the accomplishment of the purposes 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | of the agreement; 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(B) if the agreement involves the mainte-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | nance of habitat for one or more wetland-de-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | pendent species on working cropland, permit 25 |
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| 55 | 55 | | seasonally flooded agricultural uses on such 26 |
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| 59 | 59 | | working cropland with the adoption of at least 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | one best management practice; and 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(C) calculate annual rental payments in a 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | manner that— 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(i) is comparable with annual costs 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | to maintain other seasonally-flooded wet-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | land wildlife habitats in the region; and 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(ii) ensures regional consistency in 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | those rental payment rates. 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(2) M |
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| 69 | 69 | | ATCHING REQUIREMENT WAIVER .—In 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | the case of an agreement described in paragraph (1), 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the Secretary may waive the matching requirement 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | described in subsection (c)(1).’’. 13 |
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