[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5466 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5466

  To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to expand the definition of 
eligible land for the purposes of the conservation reserve program, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2023

  Ms. Balint 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 definition of 
eligible land for the purposes of the conservation reserve program, 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 ``Building Up Farmland Frontiers for 
Ecological Resilience Act'' or the ``BUFFER Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBLE LAND UNDER THE CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.

    Section 1231(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3831(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (6)(B)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (7)(C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) land that is otherwise eligible for enrollment and 
        for which a Tribal, State, or other local law, ordinance, or 
        other regulation requires any resource-conserving or 
        environmental protection measure or practice; however, if the 
        requirement to implement such a measure or practice has been 
        imposed by an administrative order or a court order, then such 
        land shall not be eligible.''.
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