[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 330 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 330

   To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require producers of an 
 agricultural commodity for which an acreage limitation program is in 
   effect to pay certain costs as a condition of agricultural loans, 
            purchases, and payments, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 1 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

 Mr. Feingold introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require producers of an 
 agricultural commodity for which an acreage limitation program is in 
   effect to pay certain costs as a condition of agricultural loans, 
            purchases, and payments, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Agricultural Irrigation and Deficit 
Reduction Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF CERTAIN COSTS UNDER ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAMS.

    Title I of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 116. PAYMENT OF CERTAIN COSTS UNDER ACREAGE LIMITATION PROGRAMS.

    ``(a) In General.--If an acreage limitation program is announced 
for a crop of a commodity under this title, as a condition of 
eligibility for loans, purchases, and payments for the crop under this 
title, the producers on a farm shall pay to the Secretary of the 
Interior an amount that is equal to the full cost incurred by the 
Federal Government of the delivery to the farm of water that is used in 
the production of the crop, as determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior.
    ``(b) Application.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to the 
        delivery of water pursuant to a contract that is entered into 
        before January 1, 1996, under any provision of Federal 
        reclamation law.
            ``(2) Renewal or amendment.--If a contract described in 
        paragraph (1) is renewed or amended on or after January 1, 
        1996, subsection (a) shall apply to the delivery of water 
        beginning on the date of renewal or amendment.''.
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