[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1907 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1907

 To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of 
funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs 
                   of the Department of Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

   Mr. Lucas of Oklahoma (for himself and Mr. Holden) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of 
funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs 
                   of the Department of Agriculture.

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

SECTION 1. SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF 
              AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.

    (a) Subsection (b) of section 1241 of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(16 U.S.C. 3841), as amended by section 2106 of the Emergency Wartime 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11; 117 Stat. 
590), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Effective beginning on 
        the date of enactment of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 
        2003, subject to paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``Effective as 
        of February 20, 2003, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Farmland protection program, grassland reserve 
        program, and environmental quality incentives program.--
        Effective as of February 20, 2003, with respect to the 
        conservation programs specified in paragraphs (4) through (6) 
        of subsection (a), the funds reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) 
        for the provision of technical assistance shall be available 
        only for the conservation program from which the funds were 
        reserved and shall not be available for other conservation 
        programs specified in subsection (a).''.
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