[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3451 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3451

    To amend the conservation reserve program to treat a nonprofit 
 organization that rents land from a State (or a political subdivision 
 or agency thereof) as a separate person for purposes of applying the 
      limitation on payments under conservation reserve contracts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 1998

 Mr. Boswell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the conservation reserve program to treat a nonprofit 
 organization that rents land from a State (or a political subdivision 
 or agency thereof) as a separate person for purposes of applying the 
      limitation on payments under conservation reserve contracts.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATIONS ON ANNUAL PAYMENTS UNDER CONSERVATION RESERVE 
              CONTRACTS.

    Section 1234(f) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3834(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(5)(A) A nonprofit organization that rents land from a State, 
political subdivision, or agency thereof and enters into a contract 
under this subchapter with respect to all or some portion of that land 
shall be treated as a separate person for purposes of paragraph (1). 
Payments made under such a contract shall not be counted toward the 
payment limitation otherwise applicable to the State, political 
subdivision, or agency thereof that is the lessor of the land.
    ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `nonprofit organization' means an 
organization described in subsection (c) of section 501 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 that is exempt from taxation under subsection (a) 
of such section.''.
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