[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5451 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5451

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt certain recipients of 
    Department of Agriculture conservation assistance from certain 
            reporting requirements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2016

  Ms. Kuster (for herself and Mr. Crawford) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt certain recipients of 
    Department of Agriculture conservation assistance from certain 
            reporting requirements, 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 ``Improving Access to Farm 
Conservation Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
              CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE FROM CERTAIN REPORTING 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 1244 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(m) Exemption From Certain Reporting Requirements.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding the Federal Funding 
        Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-
        282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), the requirements of parts 25 and 170 
        of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations, and any successor 
        regulations, shall not apply with respect to assistance 
        received by an exempted producer from the Secretary acting 
        through the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
            ``(2) Exempted producer defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term `exempted producer' means--
                    ``(A) a person or entity that receives in a fiscal 
                year $450,000 or less under this title; or
                    ``(B) an Indian tribe.''.
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