3.0.0 3904 2023-01-11T13:21:22Z 2023-01-11T13:21:22Z Senate S S 2010-09-29 111 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-09-29T22:18:14Z 2010-09-29 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2010-09-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000953 Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS] SAM BROWNBACK R KS N Water Resources Development Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Colorado Kansas Nebraska New Mexico Oklahoma South Dakota Texas Water use and supply Wyoming Water Resources Development 00 2010-09-29 Introduced in Senate 2010-12-15T18:19:20Z High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, for each of FY2011-FY2020, to enter into contracts with producers in the High Plains Aquifer states (Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming) through a High Plains Aquifer Groundwater Conservation Incentives Program, aimed at achieving significant per-acre savings of groundwater resources of the High Plains Aquifer.

Directs the Secretary to ensure that producers on land drawing water from that Aquifer throughout the High Plains region have an opportunity to participate in the Program. Requires producers in areas experiencing significant aquifer level declines to be given priority.

Provides for incentive payments for a producer on land drawing water from the Aquifer who agrees not to irrigate all or part of the land and to transfer the producer's water rights for the nonirrigated land to the applicable High Plains Aquifer state.

]]> High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act Display Title High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to further continued economic viability in the communities on the High Plains by promoting sustainable groundwater management of the Ogallala Aquifer. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act Introduced in Senate 2010-09-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s3904is/xml/BILLS-111s3904is.xml 2010-09-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.