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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1985 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To enhance the participation of precision agriculture in the United States, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH10, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. D |
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| 10 | 10 | | AVISof North Carolina (for himself and Mr. MANN) introduced the |
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| 11 | 11 | | following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To enhance the participation of precision agriculture in the |
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| 14 | 14 | | United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Precision 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Agriculture Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | In this Act: 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) A |
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| 23 | 23 | | DVANCED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘‘advanced wireless com-9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | munications technology’’ means advanced technology 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | that contributes to mobile (5G or beyond) networks, 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | next-generation Wi-Fi networks, or other future net-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | works using other technologies, regardless of wheth-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | er the network is operating on an exclusive licensed, 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | shared licensed, or unlicensed frequency band. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) A |
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| 35 | 35 | | RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | tificial intelligence’’ has the meaning given the term 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | in section 238(g) of the John S. McCain National 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. note prec. 4061). 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (3) F |
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| 41 | 41 | | OREIGN ADVERSARY .—The term ‘‘foreign 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | adversary’’ means any foreign government or foreign 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | nongovernment person engaged in a long-term pat-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tern or serious instances of conduct significantly ad-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | verse to the national security of the United States, 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | or security and safety of United States persons. 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (4) P |
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| 48 | 48 | | RECISION AGRICULTURE .—The term ‘‘pre-17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | cision agriculture’’ means managing, tracking, or re-18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ducing crop or livestock production inputs, including 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, time, and 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | such other inputs as the Secretary determines to be 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | appropriate, at a heightened level of spatial and tem-22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | poral granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | waste, and maintain environmental quality. 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (5) PRECISION AGRICULTURE EQUIPMENT .— 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | The term ‘‘precision agriculture equipment’’ means 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | any equipment or technology that directly contrib-3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | utes to a reduction in, or improved efficiency of, in-4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | puts used in crop or livestock production, includ-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ing— 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (A) global positioning system-based or 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | geospatial mapping; 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (B) satellite or aerial imagery; 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (C) yield monitors; 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (D) soil mapping; 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (E) sensors for gathering data on crop, 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | soil, and livestock conditions; 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (F) Internet of Things and technology that 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | relies on edge and cloud computing; 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (G) data management software and ad-16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | vanced analytics; 17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (H) network connectivity products and so-18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | lutions, including public and private wireless 19 |
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| 78 | 78 | | networks; 20 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (I) global positioning system guidance, 21 |
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| 80 | 80 | | auto-steer systems, autonomous fleeting, and 22 |
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| 81 | 81 | | other machine-to-machine operations; 23 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (J) variable rate technology for applying 24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | inputs, such as section control; and 25 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (K) any other technology, as determined by 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | the Secretary, that directly contributes to a re-2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | duction in, or improved efficiency of, the use of 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | crop or livestock production inputs, which may 4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | include— 5 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (i) seed; 6 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (ii) feed; 7 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (iii) fertilizer; 8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (iv) soil amendments; 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (v) chemicals; 10 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (vi) water; 11 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (vii) time; 12 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (viii) fuel; and 13 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (ix) such other inputs as the Sec-14 |
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| 101 | 101 | | retary determines to be appropriate. 15 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (6) S |
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| 103 | 103 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 16 |
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| 104 | 104 | | the Secretary of Agriculture. 17 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (7) T |
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| 106 | 106 | | RUSTED.—The term ‘‘trusted’’ means, 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | with respect to a provider of advanced communica-19 |
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| 108 | 108 | | tions service or a supplier of communications equip-20 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ment or service, that the Secretary has determined 21 |
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| 110 | 110 | | that the provider or supplier is not owned by, con-22 |
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| 111 | 111 | | trolled by, or subject to the influence of, a foreign 23 |
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| 112 | 112 | | adversary. 24 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (8) VOLUNTARY CONSENSUS STANDARDS DE -1 |
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| 117 | 117 | | VELOPMENT ORGANIZATION .—The term ‘‘voluntary 2 |
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| 118 | 118 | | consensus standards development organization’’ 3 |
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| 119 | 119 | | means an organization that develops standards in a 4 |
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| 120 | 120 | | process that meets the principles for the develop-5 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ment of voluntary consensus standards (as defined 6 |
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| 122 | 122 | | in the document of the Office of Management and 7 |
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| 123 | 123 | | Budget entitled ‘‘Federal Participation in the Devel-8 |
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| 124 | 124 | | opment and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards 9 |
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| 125 | 125 | | and in Conformity Assessment Activities’’ (OMB 10 |
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| 126 | 126 | | Circular A–119)). 11 |
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| 127 | 127 | | SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 12 |
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| 128 | 128 | | The purposes of this Act are— 13 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (1) to enhance the participation of precision ag-14 |
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| 130 | 130 | | riculture in the United States; and 15 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (2) to promote United States leadership in vol-16 |
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| 132 | 132 | | untary consensus standards development organiza-17 |
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| 133 | 133 | | tions that set standards for precision agriculture. 18 |
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| 134 | 134 | | SEC. 4. INTERCONNECTIVITY STANDARDS FOR PRECISION 19 |
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| 135 | 135 | | AGRICULTURE. 20 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (a) I |
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| 137 | 137 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the 21 |
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| 138 | 138 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consulta-22 |
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| 139 | 139 | | tion with the Director of the National Institute of Stand-23 |
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| 140 | 140 | | ards and Technology and the Federal Communications 24 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Commission, shall— 25 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (1) develop voluntary, consensus-based, private 1 |
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| 146 | 146 | | sector-led interconnectivity standards, guidelines, 2 |
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| 147 | 147 | | and best practices for precision agriculture that will 3 |
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| 148 | 148 | | promote economies of scale and ease the burden of 4 |
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| 149 | 149 | | the adoption of precision agriculture; and 5 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (2) in carrying out paragraph (1)— 6 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (A) coordinate with relevant public and 7 |
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| 152 | 152 | | trusted private sector stakeholders and other 8 |
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| 153 | 153 | | relevant industry organizations, including vol-9 |
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| 154 | 154 | | untary consensus standards development orga-10 |
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| 155 | 155 | | nizations; and 11 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (B) consult with sector-specific agencies, 12 |
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| 157 | 157 | | other appropriate agencies, and State and local 13 |
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| 158 | 158 | | governments. 14 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (b) C |
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| 160 | 160 | | ONSIDERATIONS.—The Secretary, in carrying 15 |
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| 161 | 161 | | out subsection (a), shall, in consultation with the Federal 16 |
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| 162 | 162 | | Communications Commission and the Director of the Na-17 |
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| 163 | 163 | | tional Institute of Standards and Technology, consider— 18 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (1) the evolving demands of precision agri-19 |
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| 165 | 165 | | culture; 20 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (2) the connectivity needs of precision agri-21 |
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| 167 | 167 | | culture equipment; 22 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (3) the cybersecurity challenges facing precision 23 |
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| 169 | 169 | | agriculture, including cybersecurity threats for agri-24 |
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| 170 | 170 | | culture producers and agriculture supply chains; 25 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (4) the impact of advanced wireless communica-1 |
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| 175 | 175 | | tions technology on precision agriculture; and 2 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (5) the impact of artificial intelligence on preci-3 |
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| 177 | 177 | | sion agriculture. 4 |
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| 178 | 178 | | SEC. 5. GAO ASSESSMENT OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE 5 |
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| 179 | 179 | | STANDARDS. 6 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (a) S |
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| 181 | 181 | | TUDY.—Not later than 1 year after the Sec-7 |
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| 182 | 182 | | retary develops standards under section 4, and every 2 8 |
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| 183 | 183 | | years thereafter for the following 8 years, the Comptroller 9 |
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| 184 | 184 | | General of the United States shall conduct a study that 10 |
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| 185 | 185 | | assesses those standards, including the extent to which 11 |
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| 186 | 186 | | those standards, as applicable— 12 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (1) are voluntary; 13 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (2) were developed in coordination with relevant 14 |
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| 189 | 189 | | industry organizations, including voluntary con-15 |
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| 190 | 190 | | sensus standards development organizations; and 16 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (3) have successfully encouraged the adoption 17 |
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| 192 | 192 | | of precision agriculture. 18 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (b) R |
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| 194 | 194 | | EPORT.—The Comptroller General of the 19 |
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| 195 | 195 | | United States shall submit to the Committee on Com-20 |
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| 196 | 196 | | merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the 21 |
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| 197 | 197 | | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the 22 |
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| 198 | 198 | | House of Representatives, the Committee on Agriculture 23 |
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| 199 | 199 | | of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 24 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a re-25 |
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| 204 | 204 | | port that summarizes the findings of each study conducted 1 |
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| 205 | 205 | | under subsection (a). 2 |
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