[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2763 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2763

 To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit owners and operators 
   to use certain practices to meet the requirement for establishing 
   approved vegetative cover on highly erodible cropland subject to 
                    conservation reserve contracts.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2000

  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 permit owners and operators 
   to use certain practices to meet the requirement for establishing 
   approved vegetative cover on highly erodible cropland subject to 
                    conservation reserve contracts.

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

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF VEGETATIVE COVER.

    Section 1201(a)(17)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3801(a)(17)(A)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the 
following: ``, including (in an area with low precipitation or limited 
availability of native seed) a mixed stand of least 3 introduced 
grasses and at least 1 shrub, forb, or legume species that is well 
suited for wildlife in the area''.
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