[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3886 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3886

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to expand the pilot program for 
   the enrollment of certain wetlands and its buffer acreage in the 
   conservation reserve program to include the enrollment of certain 
         playas and its buffer acreage, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2004

Mr. Neugebauer 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 expand the pilot program for 
   the enrollment of certain wetlands and its buffer acreage in the 
   conservation reserve program to include the enrollment of certain 
         playas and its buffer acreage, 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. FARMABLE WETLANDS PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) Expansion of Program to Include Playas.--Paragraph (2)(A) of 
subsection (h) of section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3831) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (i);
            (2) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii);
            (3) by inserting after clause (i) the following new clause:
                            ``(ii) a playa (regardless of whether the 
                        playa is listed on a map described in 
                        subparagraph (B)) that was cropped during at 
                        least 3 of the immediately preceding 10 crop 
                        years; and''; and
            (4) in clause (iii), as so redesignated--
                    (A) in subclause (I), by inserting ``or playa 
                described in clause (ii)'' before the semicolon at the 
                end; and
                    (B) in subclauses (II) and (III), by inserting ``or 
                playa'' after ``wetland'' each place it appears.
    (b) Maximum Size.--Paragraph (2)(D)(i)(I) of such subsection is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``described in subparagraph (A)(i)'' and 
        inserting ``or playa described in clause (i) or (ii) of 
        subparagraph (A)'';
            (2) by striking ``10 contiguous acres'' and inserting ``40 
        contiguous acres''; and
            (3) by striking ``5 acres'' and inserting ``20 acres''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--Such subsection is further amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``, Playa, 
        And'' after ``Wetland'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the heading of subparagraph (D)(i), by 
                inserting ``or playa'' after ``Wetland''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (D)(ii)--
                            (i) in subclause (I), by striking 
                        ``described in subparagraph (A)(i)'' and 
                        inserting ``or playa described in clause (i) or 
                        (ii) of subparagraph (A)''; and
                            (ii) in subclause (II), by inserting ``or 
                        playa'' after ``wetland''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``or playa'' after 
        ``wetland''.
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