[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 418 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 418

  To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend, improve, increase 
  flexibility, and increase conservation benefits of the conservation 
                reserve program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 14 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

 Mr. Conrad (for himself, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Wellstone, and Mr. Baucus) 
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 Food Security Act of 1985 to extend, improve, increase 
  flexibility, and increase conservation benefits of the conservation 
                reserve program, 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 ``Conservation Reserve Program 
Extension Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.

    Chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3830 et seq.) is amended by striking ``1995'' each 
place it appears in section 1230(a), subsections (a), (b)(3), and (d) 
of section 1231, and section 1232(c) and inserting ``2005''.

SEC. 3. CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING THE ACCEPTABILITY OF CONTRACT OFFERS.

    Paragraph (3) of section 1234(c) of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(16 U.S.C. 3834(c)(3)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(3) In determining the acceptability of contract offers, the 
Secretary shall, to the extent practicable--
            ``(A) consider the extent that enrollment of the land that 
        is the subject of the contract offer would provide 
        environmental benefits, using criteria that, as determined by 
        the Secretary, give equal weight to improvement of soil 
        quality, improvement of water quality, and improvement of 
        wildlife habitat; and
            ``(B) establish different criteria in various States and 
        regions of the United States if, as determined by the 
        Secretary, the establishment of different criteria would 
        improve water quality or wildlife habitat or abate erosion.''.
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