[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 99 (Thursday, July 11, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H4394-H4475]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       FEDERAL AGRICULTURE REFORM AND RISK MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2013

  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 295, I call up 
the bill (H.R. 2642) to provide for the reform and continuation of 
agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture 
through fiscal year 2018,

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and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 295, the bill 
is considered read.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 2642

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013''.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act 
     is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definition of Secretary of Agriculture.

                          TITLE I--COMMODITIES

                    Subtitle A--Repeals and Reforms

Sec. 1101. Repeal of direct payments.
Sec. 1102. Repeal of counter-cyclical payments.
Sec. 1103. Repeal of average crop revenue election program.
Sec. 1104. Definitions.
Sec. 1105. Base acres.
Sec. 1106. Payment yields.
Sec. 1107. Farm risk management election.
Sec. 1108. Producer agreements.

                      Subtitle B--Marketing Loans

Sec. 1201. Availability of nonrecourse marketing assistance loans for 
              loan commodities.
Sec. 1202. Loan rates for nonrecourse marketing assistance loans.
Sec. 1203. Term of loans.
Sec. 1204. Repayment of loans.
Sec. 1205. Loan deficiency payments.
Sec. 1206. Payments in lieu of loan deficiency payments for grazed 
              acreage.
Sec. 1207. Special marketing loan provisions for upland cotton.
Sec. 1208. Special competitive provisions for extra long staple cotton.
Sec. 1209. Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains 
              and seed cotton.
Sec. 1210. Adjustments of loans.

                           Subtitle C--Sugar

Sec. 1301. Sugar program.

                           Subtitle D--Dairy

            Part I--Dairy Producer Margin Insurance Program

Sec. 1401. Dairy producer margin insurance program.
Sec. 1402. Rulemaking.

  Part II--Repeal or Reauthorization of Other Dairy-related Provisions

Sec. 1411. Repeal of dairy product price support and milk income loss 
              contract programs.
Sec. 1412. Repeal of dairy export incentive program.
Sec. 1413. Extension of dairy forward pricing program.
Sec. 1414. Extension of dairy indemnity program.
Sec. 1415. Extension of dairy promotion and research program.
Sec. 1416. Repeal of Federal Milk Marketing Order Review Commission.

                        Part III--Effective Date

Sec. 1421. Effective date.

   Subtitle E--Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance Programs

Sec. 1501. Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance.
Sec. 1502. National Drought Council and National Drought Policy Action 
              Plan.

                       Subtitle F--Administration

Sec. 1601. Administration generally.
Sec. 1602. Repeal of permanent price support authority.
Sec. 1603. Payment limitations.
Sec. 1603A. Payments limited to active farmers.
Sec. 1604. Adjusted gross income limitation.
Sec. 1605. Geographically disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
Sec. 1606. Personal liability of producers for deficiencies.
Sec. 1607. Prevention of deceased individuals receiving payments under 
              farm commodity programs.
Sec. 1608. Technical corrections.
Sec. 1609. Assignment of payments.
Sec. 1610. Tracking of benefits.
Sec. 1611. Signature authority.
Sec. 1612. Implementation.
Sec. 1613. Protection of producer information.

                         TITLE II--CONSERVATION

                Subtitle A--Conservation Reserve Program

Sec. 2001. Extension and enrollment requirements of conservation 
              reserve program.
Sec. 2002. Farmable wetland program.
Sec. 2003. Duties of owners and operators.
Sec. 2004. Duties of the Secretary.
Sec. 2005. Payments.
Sec. 2006. Contract requirements.
Sec. 2007. Conversion of land subject to contract to other conserving 
              uses.
Sec. 2008. Effective date.

              Subtitle B--Conservation Stewardship Program

Sec. 2101. Conservation stewardship program.

          Subtitle C--Environmental Quality Incentives Program

Sec. 2201. Purposes.
Sec. 2202. Establishment and administration.
Sec. 2203. Evaluation of applications.
Sec. 2204. Duties of producers.
Sec. 2205. Limitation on payments.
Sec. 2206. Conservation innovation grants and payments.
Sec. 2207. Effective date.

         Subtitle D--Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

Sec. 2301. Agricultural conservation easement program.

         Subtitle E--Regional Conservation Partnership Program

Sec. 2401. Regional conservation partnership program.

                Subtitle F--Other Conservation Programs

Sec. 2501. Conservation of private grazing land.
Sec. 2502. Grassroots source water protection program.
Sec. 2503. Voluntary public access and habitat incentive program.
Sec. 2504. Agriculture conservation experienced services program.
Sec. 2505. Small watershed rehabilitation program.
Sec. 2506. Agricultural management assistance program.
Sec. 2507. Emergency watershed protection program.

                 Subtitle G--Funding and Administration

Sec. 2601. Funding.
Sec. 2602. Technical assistance.
Sec. 2603. Reservation of funds to provide assistance to certain 
              farmers or ranchers for conservation access.
Sec. 2604. Annual report on program enrollments and assistance.
Sec. 2605. Review of conservation practice standards.
Sec. 2606. Administrative requirements applicable to all conservation 
              programs.
Sec. 2607. Standards for State technical committees.
Sec. 2608. Rulemaking authority.
Sec. 2609. Wetlands mitigation.
Sec. 2610. Lesser prairie-chicken conservation report.

 Subtitle H--Repeal of Superseded Program Authorities and Transitional 
                    Provisions; Technical Amendments

Sec. 2701. Comprehensive conservation enhancement program.
Sec. 2702. Emergency forestry conservation reserve program.
Sec. 2703. Wetlands reserve program.
Sec. 2704. Farmland protection program and farm viability program.
Sec. 2705. Grassland reserve program.
Sec. 2706. Agricultural water enhancement program.
Sec. 2707. Wildlife habitat incentive program.
Sec. 2708. Great Lakes basin program.
Sec. 2709. Chesapeake Bay watershed program.
Sec. 2710. Cooperative conservation partnership initiative.
Sec. 2711. Environmental easement program.
Sec. 2712. Technical amendments.

                            TITLE III--TRADE

                     Subtitle A--Food for Peace Act

Sec. 3001. General authority.
Sec. 3002. Support for organizations through which assistance is 
              provided.
Sec. 3003. Food aid quality.
Sec. 3004. Minimum levels of assistance.
Sec. 3005. Food Aid Consultative Group.
Sec. 3006. Oversight, monitoring, and evaluation.
Sec. 3007. Assistance for stockpiling and rapid transportation, 
              delivery, and distribution of shelf-stable prepackaged 
              foods.
Sec. 3008. General provisions.
Sec. 3009. Prepositioning of agricultural commodities.
Sec. 3010. Annual report regarding food aid programs and activities.
Sec. 3011. Deadline for agreements to finance sales or to provide other 
              assistance.
Sec. 3012. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 3013. Micronutrient fortification programs.
Sec. 3014. John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program.

               Subtitle B--Agricultural Trade Act of 1978

Sec. 3101. Funding for export credit guarantee program.
Sec. 3102. Funding for market access program.
Sec. 3103. Foreign market development cooperator program.

               Subtitle C--Other Agricultural Trade Laws

Sec. 3201. Food for Progress Act of 1985.
Sec. 3202. Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.
Sec. 3203. Promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets.
Sec. 3204. McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child 
              Nutrition Program.
Sec. 3205. Technical assistance for specialty crops.
Sec. 3206. Global Crop Diversity Trust.
Sec. 3207. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Foreign Agricultural 
              Services.
Sec. 3208. Department of Agriculture certificates of origin.

                            TITLE IV--CREDIT

                    Subtitle A--Farm Ownership Loans

Sec. 4001. Eligibility for farm ownership loans.

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Sec. 4002. Conservation loan and loan guarantee program.
Sec. 4003. Down payment loan program.
Sec. 4004. Elimination of mineral rights appraisal requirement.

                      Subtitle B--Operating Loans

Sec. 4101. Eligibility for farm operating loans.
Sec. 4102. Elimination of rural residency requirement for operating 
              loans to youth.
Sec. 4103. Authority to waive personal liability for youth loans due to 
              circumstances beyond borrower control.
Sec. 4104. Microloans.

                      Subtitle C--Emergency Loans

Sec. 4201. Eligibility for emergency loans.

                 Subtitle D--Administrative Provisions

Sec. 4301. Beginning farmer and rancher individual development accounts 
              pilot program.
Sec. 4302. Eligible beginning farmers and ranchers.
Sec. 4303. Loan authorization levels.
Sec. 4304. Priority for participation loans.
Sec. 4305. Loan fund set-asides.
Sec. 4306. Conforming amendment to borrower training provision, 
              relating to eligibility changes.

           Subtitle E--State Agricultural Mediation Programs

Sec. 4401. State agricultural mediation programs.

      Subtitle F--Loans to Purchasers of Highly Fractionated Land

Sec. 4501. Loans to purchasers of highly fractionated land.

                       TITLE V--RURAL DEVELOPMENT

        Subtitle A--Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act

Sec. 5001. Water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility grants.
Sec. 5002. Rural business opportunity grants.
Sec. 5003. Elimination of reservation of community facilities grant 
              program funds.
Sec. 5004. Utilization of loan guarantees for community facilities.
Sec. 5005. Rural water and wastewater circuit rider program.
Sec. 5006. Tribal college and university essential community 
              facilities.
Sec. 5007. Essential community facilities technical assistance and 
              training.
Sec. 5008. Emergency and imminent community water assistance grant 
              program.
Sec. 5009. Household water well systems.
Sec. 5010. Rural business and industry loan program.
Sec. 5011. Rural cooperative development grants.
Sec. 5012. Locally or regionally produced agricultural food products.
Sec. 5013. Intermediary relending program.
Sec. 5014. Rural college coordinated strategy.
Sec. 5015. Rural water and waste disposal infrastructure.
Sec. 5016. Simplified applications.
Sec. 5017. Grants for NOAA weather radio transmitters.
Sec. 5018. Rural microentrepreneur assistance program.
Sec. 5019. Delta Regional Authority.
Sec. 5020. Northern Great Plains Regional Authority.
Sec. 5021. Rural business investment program.

             Subtitle B--Rural Electrification Act of 1936

Sec. 5101. Relending for certain purposes.
Sec. 5102. Fees for certain loan guarantees.
Sec. 5103. Rural utilities service contracting authority.
Sec. 5104. Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or 
              telephone purposes.
Sec. 5105. Expansion of 911 access.
Sec. 5106. Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural 
              areas.

                       Subtitle C--Miscellaneous

Sec. 5201. Distance learning and telemedicine.
Sec. 5202. Value-added agricultural market development program grants.
Sec. 5203. Agriculture innovation center demonstration program.
Sec. 5204. Program metrics.
Sec. 5205. Study of rural transportation issues.
Sec. 5206. Certain Federal actions not to be considered major.
Sec. 5207. Telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas.
Sec. 5208. Regional economic and infrastructure development.

           TITLE VI--RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND RELATED MATTERS

  Subtitle A--National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
                           Policy Act of 1977

Sec. 6101. Option to be included as non-land-grant college of 
              agriculture.
Sec. 6102. National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and 
              Economics Advisory Board.
Sec. 6103. Specialty crop committee.
Sec. 6104. Veterinary services grant program.
Sec. 6105. Grants and fellowships for food and agriculture sciences 
              education.
Sec. 6106. Policy research centers.
Sec. 6107. Repeal of human nutrition intervention and health promotion 
              research program.
Sec. 6108. Repeal of pilot research program to combine medical and 
              agricultural research.
Sec. 6109. Nutrition education program.
Sec. 6110. Continuing animal health and disease research programs.
Sec. 6111. Repeal of appropriations for research on national or 
              regional problems.
Sec. 6112. Grants to upgrade agricultural and food sciences facilities 
              at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee 
              University.
Sec. 6113. Grants to upgrade agriculture and food science facilities 
              and equipment at insular area land-grant institutions.
Sec. 6114. Repeal of national research and training virtual centers.
Sec. 6115. Hispanic-serving institutions.
Sec. 6116. Competitive Grants Program for Hispanic Agricultural Workers 
              and Youth.
Sec. 6117. Competitive grants for international agricultural science 
              and education programs.
Sec. 6118. Repeal of research equipment grants.
Sec. 6119. University research.
Sec. 6120. Extension service.
Sec. 6121. Auditing, reporting, bookkeeping, and administrative 
              requirements.
Sec. 6122. Supplemental and alternative crops.
Sec. 6123. Capacity building grants for NLGCA institutions.
Sec. 6124. Aquaculture assistance programs.
Sec. 6125. Rangeland research programs.
Sec. 6126. Special authorization for biosecurity planning and response.
Sec. 6127. Distance education and resident instruction grants program 
              for insular area institutions of higher education.
Sec. 6128. Matching funds requirement.
Sec. 6129. Sense of Congress regarding expansion of the land grant 
              program to include enhanced funding and additional 
              institutions.

   Subtitle B--Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990

Sec. 6201. Best utilization of biological applications.
Sec. 6202. Integrated management systems.
Sec. 6203. Sustainable agriculture technology development and transfer 
              program.
Sec. 6204. National training program.
Sec. 6205. National Genetics Resources Program.
Sec. 6206. Repeal of National Agricultural Weather Information System.
Sec. 6207. Repeal of rural electronic commerce extension program.
Sec. 6208. Repeal of agricultural genome initiative.
Sec. 6209. High-priority research and extension initiatives.
Sec. 6210. Repeal of nutrient management research and extension 
              initiative.
Sec. 6211. Organic agriculture research and extension initiative.
Sec. 6212. Repeal of agricultural bioenergy feedstock and energy 
              efficiency research and extension initiative.
Sec. 6213. Farm business management.
Sec. 6214. Centers of excellence.
Sec. 6215. Repeal of red meat safety research center.
Sec. 6216. Assistive technology program for farmers with disabilities.
Sec. 6217. National rural information center clearinghouse.

Subtitle C--Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act 
                                of 1998

Sec. 6301. Relevance and merit of agricultural research, extension, and 
              education funded by the Department.
Sec. 6302. Integrated research, education, and extension competitive 
              grants program.
Sec. 6303. Repeal of coordinated program of research, extension, and 
              education to improve viability of small and medium size 
              dairy, livestock, and poultry operations.
Sec. 6304. Fusarium Graminearum grants.
Sec. 6305. Repeal of Bovine Johne's disease control program.
Sec. 6306. Grants for youth organizations.
Sec. 6307. Specialty crop research initiative.
Sec. 6308. Food animal residue avoidance database program.
Sec. 6309. Repeal of national swine research center.
Sec. 6310. Office of pest management policy.
Sec. 6311. Repeal of studies of agricultural research, extension, and 
              education.

                         Subtitle D--Other Laws

Sec. 6401. Critical Agricultural Materials Act.
Sec. 6402. Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994.
Sec. 6403. Research Facilities Act.
Sec. 6404. Repeal of carbon cycle research.
Sec. 6405. Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act.
Sec. 6406. Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978.
Sec. 6407. National Aquaculture Act of 1980.
Sec. 6408. Repeal of use of remote sensing data.
Sec. 6409. Repeal of reports under Farm Security and Rural Investment 
              Act of 2002.

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Sec. 6410. Beginning farmer and rancher development program.
Sec. 6411. Inclusion of American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, 
              and Northern Mariana Islands as a State under McIntire-
              Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act.

         Subtitle E--Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008

                     Part 1--Agricultural Security

Sec. 6501. Agricultural biosecurity communication center.
Sec. 6502. Assistance to build local capacity in agricultural 
              biosecurity planning, preparation, and response.
Sec. 6503. Research and development of agricultural countermeasures.
Sec. 6504. Agricultural biosecurity grant program.

                         Part 2--Miscellaneous

Sec. 6511. Enhanced use lease authority pilot program.
Sec. 6512. Grazinglands research laboratory.
Sec. 6513. Budget submission and funding.
Sec. 6514. Research and education grants for the study of antibiotic-
              resistant bacteria.
Sec. 6515. Repeal of farm and ranch stress assistance network.
Sec. 6516. Repeal of seed distribution.
Sec. 6517. Natural products research program.
Sec. 6518. Sun grant program.
Sec. 6519. Repeal of study and report on food deserts.
Sec. 6520. Repeal of agricultural and rural transportation research and 
              education.

                  Subtitle F--Miscellaneous Provisions

Sec. 6601. Agreements with nonprofit organizations for National 
              Arboretum.
Sec. 6602. Cotton Disease Research Report.
Sec. 6603. Acceptance of facility for Agricultural Research Service.
Sec. 6604. Miscellaneous technical corrections.
Sec. 6605. Legitimacy of industrial hemp research.

                          TITLE VII--FORESTRY

            Subtitle A--Repeal of Certain Forestry Programs

Sec. 7001. Forest land enhancement program.
Sec. 7002. Watershed forestry assistance program.
Sec. 7003. Expired cooperative national forest products marketing 
              program.
Sec. 7004. Hispanic-serving institution agricultural land national 
              resources leadership program.
Sec. 7005. Tribal watershed forestry assistance program.
Sec. 7006. Separate Forest Service decisionmaking and appeals process.

 Subtitle B--Reauthorization of Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 
                             1978 Programs

Sec. 7101. State-wide assessment and strategies for forest resources.
Sec. 7102. Forest Legacy Program.
Sec. 7103. Community forest and open space conservation program.

       Subtitle C--Reauthorization of Other Forestry-Related Laws

Sec. 7201. Rural revitalization technologies.
Sec. 7202. Office of International Forestry.
Sec. 7203. Change in funding source for healthy forests reserve 
              program.
Sec. 7204. Stewardship end result contracting project authority.

           Subtitle D--National Forest Critical Area Response

Sec. 7301. Definitions.
Sec. 7302. Designation of critical areas.
Sec. 7303. Application of expedited procedures and activities of the 
              Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to critical 
              areas.
Sec. 7304. Good neighbor authority.

                  Subtitle E--Miscellaneous Provisions

Sec. 7401. Revision of strategic plan for forest inventory and 
              analysis.
Sec. 7402. Forest Service participation in ACES Program.
Sec. 7403. Green science and technology transfer research under Forest 
              and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978.
Sec. 7404. Extension of stewardship contracts authority regarding use 
              of designation by prescription to all thinning sales 
              under National Forest Management Act of 1976.
Sec. 7405. Reimbursement of fire funds expended by a State for 
              management and suppression of certain wildfires.
Sec. 7406. Ability of National Forest System lands to meet needs of 
              local wood producing facilities for raw materials.
Sec. 7407. Report on the National Forest System roads.
Sec. 7408. Forest Service large airtanker and aerial asset firefighting 
              recapitalization pilot program.
Sec. 7409. Land conveyance, Jefferson National Forest in Wise County, 
              Virginia.
Sec. 7410. Categorical exclusion for forest projects in response to 
              emergencies.

                           TITLE VIII--ENERGY

Sec. 8001. Definition of renewable energy system.
Sec. 8002. Biobased markets program.
Sec. 8003. Biorefinery assistance.
Sec. 8004. Repowering assistance program.
Sec. 8005. Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels.
Sec. 8006. Biodiesel Fuel Education Program.
Sec. 8007. Rural Energy for America Program.
Sec. 8008. Biomass Research and Development.
Sec. 8009. Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers.
Sec. 8010. Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
Sec. 8011. Community wood energy program.
Sec. 8012. Repeal of biofuels infrastructure study.
Sec. 8013. Repeal of renewable fertilizer study.
Sec. 8014. Energy efficiency report for USDA facilities.

                         TITLE IX--HORTICULTURE

Sec. 9001. Specialty crops market news allocation.
Sec. 9002. Repeal of grant program to improve movement of specialty 
              crops.
Sec. 9003. Farmers market and local food promotion program.
Sec. 9004. Organic agriculture.
Sec. 9005. Investigations and enforcement of the Organic Foods 
              Production Act of 1990.
Sec. 9006. Food safety education initiatives.
Sec. 9007. Specialty crop block grants.
Sec. 9008. Department of Agriculture consultation regarding enforcement 
              of certain labor law provisions.
Sec. 9009. Report on honey.
Sec. 9010. Bulk shipments of apples to Canada.
Sec. 9011. Consolidation of plant pest and disease management and 
              disaster prevention programs.
Sec. 9012. Modification, cancellation, or suspension on basis of a 
              biological opinion.
Sec. 9013. Use and discharges of authorized pesticides.
Sec. 9014. Seed not pesticide or device for purposes of importation.
Sec. 9015. Stay of regulations related to Christmas Tree Promotion, 
              Research, and Information Order.
Sec. 9016. Study on proposed order pertaining to sulfuryl fluoride.
Sec. 9017. Study on local and regional food production and program 
              evaluation.
Sec. 9018. Annual report on invasive species.

                        TITLE X--CROP INSURANCE

Sec. 10001. Information sharing.
Sec. 10002. Publication of information on violations of prohibition on 
              premium adjustments.
Sec. 10003. Supplemental coverage option.
Sec. 10004. Premium amounts for catastrophic risk protection.
Sec. 10005. Repeal of performance-based discount.
Sec. 10006. Permanent enterprise unit subsidy.
Sec. 10007. Enterprise units for irrigated and nonirrigated crops.
Sec. 10008. Data collection.
Sec. 10009. Adjustment in actual production history to establish 
              insurable yields.
Sec. 10010. Submission and review of policies.
Sec. 10011. Equitable relief for specialty crop policies.
Sec. 10012. Budget limitations on renegotiation of the standard 
              reinsurance agreement.
Sec. 10013. Crop production on native sod.
Sec. 10014. Coverage levels by practice.
Sec. 10015. Beginning farmer and rancher provisions.
Sec. 10016. Stacked income protection plan for producers of upland 
              cotton.
Sec. 10017. Peanut revenue crop insurance.
Sec. 10018. Authority to correct errors.
Sec. 10019. Implementation.
Sec. 10020. Research and development priorities.
Sec. 10021. Additional research and development contracting 
              requirements.
Sec. 10022. Program compliance partnerships.
Sec. 10023. Pilot programs.
Sec. 10024. Technical amendments.
Sec. 10025. Advance public notice of crop insurance policy and plan 
              changes.

                        TITLE XI--MISCELLANEOUS

                         Subtitle A--Livestock

Sec. 11101. Repeal of the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center.
Sec. 11102. Repeal of certain regulations under the Packers and 
              Stockyards Act, 1921.
Sec. 11103. Trichinae certification program.
Sec. 11104. National Aquatic Animal Health Plan.
Sec. 11105. Country of origin labeling.
Sec. 11106. National animal health laboratory network.
Sec. 11107. Repeal of duplicative catfish inspection program.
Sec. 11108. National Poultry Improvement Program.
Sec. 11109. Report on bovine tuberculosis in Texas.
Sec. 11110. Economic fraud in wild and farm-raised seafood.

   Subtitle B--Socially Disadvantaged Producers and Limited Resource 
                               Producers

Sec. 11201. Outreach and assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers 
              and ranchers and veteran farmers and ranchers.

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Sec. 11202. Office of Advocacy and Outreach.
Sec. 11203. Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research 
              Center.
Sec. 11204. Receipt for service or denial of service from certain 
              department of agriculture agencies.

               Subtitle C--Other Miscellaneous Provisions

Sec. 11301. Grants to improve supply, stability, safety, and training 
              of agricultural labor force.
Sec. 11302. Program benefit eligibility status for participants in high 
              plains water study.
Sec. 11303. Office of Tribal Relations.
Sec. 11304. Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison.
Sec. 11305. Prohibition on keeping GSA leased cars overnight.
Sec. 11306. Noninsured crop assistance program.
Sec. 11307. Ensuring high standards for agency use of scientific 
              information.
Sec. 11308. Evaluation required for purposes of prohibition on closure 
              or relocation of county offices for the Farm Service 
              Agency.
Sec. 11309. Acer access and development program.
Sec. 11310. Regulatory review by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Sec. 11311. Prohibition on attending an animal fighting venture or 
              causing a minor to attend an animal fighting venture.
Sec. 11312. Prohibition against interference by State and local 
              governments with production or manufacture of items in 
              other States.
Sec. 11313. Increased protection for agricultural interests in the 
              Missouri River Basin.
Sec. 11314. Increased protection for agricultural interests in the 
              Black Dirt region.
Sec. 11315. Protection of honey bees and other pollinators.
Sec. 11316. Produce represented as grown in the United States when it 
              is not in fact grown in the United States.
Sec. 11317. Urban agriculture coordination.
Sec. 11318. Sense of Congress on increased business opportunities for 
              black farmers, women, minorities, and small businesses.
Sec. 11319. Sense of Congress regarding agriculture security programs.
Sec. 11320. Report on water sharing.
Sec. 11321. Scientific and economic analysis of the FDA Food Safety 
              Modernization Act.
Sec. 11322. Improved Department of Agriculture consideration of 
              economic impact of regulations on small business.
Sec. 11323. Silvicultural activities.
Sec. 11324. Applicability of Spill Prevention, Control, and 
              Countermeasure rule.
Sec. 11325. Agricultural producer information disclosure.
Sec. 11326. Report on National Ocean Policy.
Sec. 11327. Sunsetting of programs.

         Subtitle D--Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery

Sec. 11401. Short title.
Sec. 11402. Chesapeake Bay Crosscut Budget.
Sec. 11403. Restoration through adaptive management.
Sec. 11404. Independent Evaluator for the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Sec. 11405. Definitions.

     SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

       In this Act, the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
     Agriculture.

                          TITLE I--COMMODITIES

                    Subtitle A--Repeals and Reforms

     SEC. 1101. REPEAL OF DIRECT PAYMENTS.

       (a) Repeal.--Sections 1103 and 1303 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8713, 8753) 
     are repealed.
       (b) Continued Application for 2013 Crop Year.--Sections 
     1103 and 1303 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8713, 8753), as in effect on the day before 
     the date of enactment of this Act, shall continue to apply 
     through the 2013 crop year with respect to all covered 
     commodities (as defined in section 1001 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 
     8702)) and peanuts on a farm.
       (c) Continued Application for 2014 and 2015 Crop Years.--
     Subject to this subtitle, the amendments made by sections 
     1603 and 1604 of this Act, and sections 1607 and 1611 of this 
     Act, section 1103 of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8713), as in effect on the day before the date 
     of enactment of this Act, shall continue to apply through the 
     2014 and 2015 crop years with respect to upland cotton only 
     (as defined in section 1001 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 8702)), 
     except that, in applying such section 1103, the term 
     ``payment acres'' means the following:
       (1) For crop year 2014, 70 percent of the base acres of 
     upland cotton on a farm on which direct payments are made.
       (2) For crop year 2015, 60 percent of the base acres of 
     upland cotton on a farm on which direct payments are made.

     SEC. 1102. REPEAL OF COUNTER-CYCLICAL PAYMENTS.

       (a) Repeal.--Sections 1104 and 1304 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8714, 8754) 
     are repealed.
       (b) Continued Application for 2013 Crop Year.--Sections 
     1104 and 1304 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8714, 8754), as in effect on the day before 
     the date of enactment of this Act, shall continue to apply 
     through the 2013 crop year with respect to all covered 
     commodities (as defined in section 1001 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 
     8702)) and peanuts on a farm.

     SEC. 1103. REPEAL OF AVERAGE CROP REVENUE ELECTION PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1105 of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8715) is repealed.
       (b) Continued Application for 2013 Crop Year.--Section 1105 
     of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
     8715), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment 
     of this Act, shall continue to apply through the 2013 crop 
     year with respect to all covered commodities (as defined in 
     section 1001 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 8702)) and peanuts on a 
     farm for which the irrevocable election under section 1105 of 
     that Act was made before the date of enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 1104. DEFINITIONS.

       In this subtitle and subtitle B:
       (1) Actual county revenue.--The term ``actual county 
     revenue'', with respect to a covered commodity for a crop 
     year, means the amount determined by the Secretary under 
     section 1107(c)(4) to determine whether revenue loss coverage 
     payments are required to be provided for that crop year.
       (2) Base acres.--The term ``base acres'', with respect to a 
     covered commodity and cotton on a farm, means the number of 
     acres established under sections 1101 and 1302 of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7911, 
     7952) or sections 1101 and 1302 of the Food, Conservation, 
     and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8711, 8752), as in effect on 
     September 30, 2013, subject to any adjustment under section 
     1105 of this Act. For purposes of making payments under 
     subsections (b) and (c) of section 1107, base acres are 
     reduced by the payment acres calculated in section 1101(c).
       (3) County revenue loss coverage trigger.--The term 
     ``county revenue loss coverage trigger'', with respect to a 
     covered commodity for a crop year, means the amount 
     determined by the Secretary under section 1107(c)(5) to 
     determine whether revenue loss coverage payments are required 
     to be provided for that crop year.
       (4) Covered commodity.--The term ``covered commodity'' 
     means wheat, oats, and barley (including wheat, oats, and 
     barley used for haying and grazing), corn, grain sorghum, 
     long grain rice, medium grain rice, pulse crops, soybeans, 
     other oilseeds, and peanuts.
       (5) Effective price.--The term ``effective price'', with 
     respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the 
     price calculated by the Secretary under section 1107(b)(2) to 
     determine whether price loss coverage payments are required 
     to be provided for that crop year.
       (6) Extra long staple cotton.--The term ``extra long staple 
     cotton'' means cotton that--
       (A) is produced from pure strain varieties of the 
     Barbadense species or any hybrid of the species, or other 
     similar types of extra long staple cotton, designated by the 
     Secretary, having characteristics needed for various end uses 
     for which United States upland cotton is not suitable and 
     grown in irrigated cotton-growing regions of the United 
     States designated by the Secretary or other areas designated 
     by the Secretary as suitable for the production of the 
     varieties or types; and
       (B) is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the 
     Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental 
     purposes.
       (7) Farm base acres.--The term ``farm base acres'' means 
     the sum of the base acreage for all covered commodities and 
     cotton on a farm in effect as of September 30, 2013, and 
     subject to any adjustment under section 1105.
       (8) Medium grain rice.--The term ``medium grain rice'' 
     includes short grain rice.
       (9) Midseason price.--The term ``midseason price'' means 
     the applicable national average market price received by 
     producers for the first 5 months of the applicable marketing 
     year, as determined by the Secretary.
       (10) Other oilseed.--The term ``other oilseed'' means a 
     crop of sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, 
     flaxseed, mustard seed, crambe, sesame seed, or any oilseed 
     designated by the Secretary.
       (11) Payment acres.--
       (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) 
     through (D), the term ``payment acres'', with respect to the 
     provision of price loss coverage payments and revenue loss 
     coverage payments, means--
       (i) 85 percent of total acres planted for the year to each 
     covered commodity on a farm; and
       (ii) 30 percent of total acres approved as prevented from 
     being planted for the year to each covered commodity on a 
     farm.
       (B) Maximum.--The total quantity of payment acres 
     determined under subparagraph (A) shall not exceed the farm 
     base acres.
       (C) Reduction.--If the sum of all payment acres for a farm 
     exceeds the limits established under subparagraph (B), the 
     Secretary shall reduce the payment acres applicable to each 
     crop proportionately.
       (D) Exclusion.--The term ``payment acres'' does not include 
     any crop subsequently planted during the same crop year on 
     the same land for which the first crop is eligible for 
     payments under this subtitle, unless the crop was approved 
     for double cropping in the county, as determined by the 
     Secretary.

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       (12) Payment yield.--The term ``payment yield'' means the 
     yield established for counter-cyclical payments under section 
     1102 or 1302 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
     2002 (7 U.S.C. 7912, 7952), section 1102 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8712), as in 
     effect on September 30, 2013, or under section 1106 of this 
     Act, for a farm for a covered commodity.
       (13) Price loss coverage.--The term ``price loss coverage'' 
     means coverage provided under section 1107(b).
       (14) Producer.--
       (A) In general.--The term ``producer'' means an owner, 
     operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in 
     the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the 
     crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have 
     shared had the crop been produced.
       (B) Hybrid seed.--In determining whether a grower of hybrid 
     seed is a producer, the Secretary shall--
       (i) not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid 
     seed contract; and
       (ii) ensure that program requirements do not adversely 
     affect the ability of the grower to receive a payment under 
     this title.
       (15) Pulse crop.--The term ``pulse crop'' means dry peas, 
     lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
       (16) Reference price.--The term ``reference price'', with 
     respect to a covered commodity for a crop year, means the 
     following:
       (A) Wheat, $5.50 per bushel.
       (B) Corn, $3.70 per bushel.
       (C) Grain sorghum, $3.95 per bushel.
       (D) Barley, $4.95 per bushel.
       (E) Oats, $2.40 per bushel.
       (F) Long grain rice, $14.00 per hundredweight.
       (G) Medium grain rice, $14.00 per hundredweight.
       (H) Soybeans, $8.40 per bushel.
       (I) Other oilseeds, $20.15 per hundredweight.
       (J) Peanuts $535.00 per ton.
       (K) Dry peas, $11.00 per hundredweight.
       (L) Lentils, $19.97 per hundredweight.
       (M) Small chickpeas, $19.04 per hundredweight.
       (N) Large chickpeas, $21.54 per hundredweight.
       (17) Revenue loss coverage.--The term ``revenue loss 
     coverage'' means coverage provided under section 1107(c).
       (18) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       (19) State.--The term ``State'' means--
       (A) a State;
       (B) the District of Columbia;
       (C) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
       (D) any other territory or possession of the United States.
       (20) Temperate japonica rice.--The term ``temperate 
     japonica rice'' means rice that is grown in high altitudes or 
     temperate regions of high latitudes with cooler climate 
     conditions, in the Western United States, as determined by 
     the Secretary.
       (21) Transitional yield.--The term ``transitional yield'' 
     has the meaning given the term in section 502(b) of the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502(b)).
       (22) United states.--The term ``United States'', when used 
     in a geographical sense, means all of the States.
       (23) United states premium factor.--The term ``United 
     States Premium Factor'' means the percentage by which the 
     difference in the United States loan schedule premiums for 
     Strict Middling (SM) 1\1/8\-inch upland cotton and for 
     Middling (M) 1\3/32\-inch upland cotton exceeds the 
     difference in the applicable premiums for comparable 
     international qualities.

     SEC. 1105. BASE ACRES.

       (a) Adjustment of Base Acres.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary shall provide for an 
     adjustment, as appropriate, in the base acres for covered 
     commodities and cotton for a farm whenever any of the 
     following circumstances occurs:
       (A) A conservation reserve contract entered into under 
     section 1231 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3831) with respect to the farm expires or is voluntarily 
     terminated.
       (B) Cropland is released from coverage under a conservation 
     reserve contract by the Secretary.
       (C) The producer has eligible oilseed acreage as the result 
     of the Secretary designating additional oilseeds, which shall 
     be determined in the same manner as eligible oilseed acreage 
     under section 1101(a)(1)(D) of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8711(a)(1)(D)).
       (2) Special conservation reserve acreage payment rules.--
     For the crop year in which a base acres adjustment under 
     subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) is first made, the 
     owner of the farm shall elect to receive price loss coverage 
     or revenue loss coverage with respect to the acreage added to 
     the farm under this subsection or a prorated payment under 
     the conservation reserve contract, but not both.
       (b) Prevention of Excess Base Acres.--
       (1) Required reduction.--If the sum of the base acres for a 
     farm, together with the acreage described in paragraph (2) 
     exceeds the actual cropland acreage of the farm, the 
     Secretary shall reduce the base acres for 1 or more covered 
     commodities or cotton for the farm so that the sum of the 
     base acres and acreage described in paragraph (2) does not 
     exceed the actual cropland acreage of the farm.
       (2) Other acreage.--For purposes of paragraph (1), the 
     Secretary shall include the following:
       (A) Any acreage on the farm enrolled in the conservation 
     reserve program or wetlands reserve program (or successor 
     programs) under chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3830 et seq.).
       (B) Any other acreage on the farm enrolled in a Federal 
     conservation program for which payments are made in exchange 
     for not producing an agricultural commodity on the acreage.
       (C) If the Secretary designates additional oilseeds, any 
     eligible oilseed acreage, which shall be determined in the 
     same manner as eligible oilseed acreage under subsection 
     (a)(1)(C).
       (3) Selection of acres.--The Secretary shall give the owner 
     of the farm the opportunity to select the base acres for a 
     covered commodity or cotton for the farm against which the 
     reduction required by paragraph (1) will be made.
       (4) Exception for double-cropped acreage.--In applying 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary shall make an exception in the 
     case of double cropping, as determined by the Secretary.
       (c) Reduction in Base Acres.--
       (1) Reduction at option of owner.--
       (A) In general.--The owner of a farm may reduce, at any 
     time, the base acres for any covered commodity or cotton for 
     the farm.
       (B) Effect of reduction.--A reduction under subparagraph 
     (A) shall be permanent and made in a manner prescribed by the 
     Secretary.
       (2) Required action by secretary.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary shall proportionately reduce 
     base acres on a farm for covered commodities and cotton for 
     land that has been subdivided and developed for multiple 
     residential units or other nonfarming uses if the size of the 
     tracts and the density of the subdivision is such that the 
     land is unlikely to return to the previous agricultural use, 
     unless the producers on the farm demonstrate that the land--
       (i) remains devoted to commercial agricultural production; 
     or
       (ii) is likely to be returned to the previous agricultural 
     use.
       (B) Requirement.--The Secretary shall establish procedures 
     to identify land described in subparagraph (A).

     SEC. 1106. PAYMENT YIELDS.

       (a) Establishment and Purpose.--For the purpose of making 
     payments under this subtitle, the Secretary shall provide for 
     the establishment of a yield for each farm for any designated 
     oilseed for which a payment yield was not established under 
     section 1102 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8712) in accordance with this section.
       (b) Payment Yields for Designated Oilseeds.--
       (1) Determination of average yield.--In the case of 
     designated oilseeds, the Secretary shall determine the 
     average yield per planted acre for the designated oilseed on 
     a farm for the 1998 through 2001 crop years, excluding any 
     crop year in which the acreage planted to the designated 
     oilseed was zero.
       (2) Adjustment for payment yield.--
       (A) In general.--The payment yield for a farm for a 
     designated oilseed shall be equal to the product of the 
     following:
       (i) The average yield for the designated oilseed determined 
     under paragraph (1).
       (ii) The ratio resulting from dividing the national average 
     yield for the designated oilseed for the 1981 through 1985 
     crops by the national average yield for the designated 
     oilseed for the 1998 through 2001 crops.
       (B) No national average yield information available.--To 
     the extent that national average yield information for a 
     designated oilseed is not available, the Secretary shall use 
     such information as the Secretary determines to be fair and 
     equitable to establish a national average yield under this 
     section.
       (3) Use of county average yield.--If the yield per planted 
     acre for a crop of a designated oilseed for a farm for any of 
     the 1998 through 2001 crop years was less than 75 percent of 
     the county yield for that designated oilseed, the Secretary 
     shall assign a yield for that crop year equal to 75 percent 
     of the county yield for the purpose of determining the 
     average under paragraph (1).
       (4) No historic yield data available.--In the case of 
     establishing yields for designated oilseeds, if historic 
     yield data is not available, the Secretary shall use the 
     ratio for dry peas calculated under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) in 
     determining the yields for designated oilseeds, as determined 
     to be fair and equitable by the Secretary.
       (c) Effect of Lack of Payment Yield.--
       (1) Establishment by secretary.--If no payment yield is 
     otherwise established for a farm for which a covered 
     commodity is planted and eligible to receive price loss 
     coverage payments, the Secretary shall establish an 
     appropriate payment yield for the covered commodity on the 
     farm under paragraph (2).
       (2) Use of similarly situated farms.--To establish an 
     appropriate payment yield for a covered commodity on a farm 
     as required by paragraph (1), the Secretary shall take into 
     consideration the farm program payment yields applicable to 
     that covered commodity for similarly situated farms. The use 
     of such data in an appeal, by the Secretary or by the 
     producer, shall not be subject to any other provision of law.

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       (d) Single Opportunity To Update Yields Used To Determine 
     Price Loss Coverage Payments.--
       (1) Election to update.--At the sole discretion of the 
     owner of a farm, the owner of a farm shall have a 1-time 
     opportunity to update the payment yields on a covered 
     commodity-by-covered-commodity basis that would otherwise be 
     used in calculating any price loss coverage payment for 
     covered commodities on the farm.
       (2) Time for election.--The election under paragraph (1) 
     shall be made at a time and manner to be in effect for the 
     2014 crop year as determined by the Secretary.
       (3) Method of updating yields.--If the owner of a farm 
     elects to update yields under this subsection, the payment 
     yield for a covered commodity on the farm, for the purpose of 
     calculating price loss coverage payments only, shall be equal 
     to 90 percent of the average of the yield per planted acre 
     for the crop of the covered commodity on the farm for the 
     2008 through 2012 crop years, as determined by the Secretary, 
     excluding any crop year in which the acreage planted to the 
     crop of the covered commodity was zero.
       (4) Use of county average yield.--If the yield per planted 
     acre for a crop of the covered commodity for a farm for any 
     of the 2008 through 2012 crop years was less than 75 percent 
     of the average of the 2008 through 2012 county yield for that 
     commodity, the Secretary shall assign a yield for that crop 
     year equal to 75 percent of the average of the 2008 through 
     2012 county yield for the purposes of determining the average 
     yield under paragraph (3).
       (5) Effect of lack of payment yield.--
       (A) Establishment by secretary.--For purposes of this 
     subsection, if no payment yield is otherwise established for 
     a covered commodity on a farm, the Secretary shall establish 
     an appropriate updated payment yield for the covered 
     commodity on the farm under subparagraph (B).
       (B) Use of similarly situated farms.--To establish an 
     appropriate payment yield for a covered commodity on a farm 
     as required by subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall take 
     into consideration the farm program payment yields applicable 
     to that covered commodity for similarly situated farms. The 
     use of such data in an appeal, by the Secretary or by the 
     producer, shall not be subject to any other provision of law.

     SEC. 1107. FARM RISK MANAGEMENT ELECTION.

       (a) In General.--
       (1) Payments required.--Except as provided in paragraph 
     (2), if the Secretary determines that payments are required 
     under subsection (b)(1) or (c)(2) for a covered commodity, 
     the Secretary shall make payments for that covered commodity 
     available under such subsection to producers on a farm 
     pursuant to the terms and conditions of this section.
       (2) Prohibition on payments; exceptions.--Notwithstanding 
     any other provision of this title, a producer on a farm may 
     not receive price loss coverage payments or revenue loss 
     coverage payments if the sum of the planted acres of covered 
     commodities on the farm is 10 acres or less, as determined by 
     the Secretary, unless the producer is--
       (A) a socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher (as defined 
     in section 355(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2003(e))); or
       (B) a limited resource farmer or rancher, as defined by the 
     Secretary.
       (b) Price Loss Coverage.--
       (1) Payments.--For the 2014 crop year and each succeeding 
     crop year, the Secretary shall make price loss coverage 
     payments to producers on a farm for a covered commodity if 
     the Secretary determines that--
       (A) the effective price for the covered commodity for the 
     crop year; is less than
       (B) the reference price for the covered commodity for the 
     crop year.
       (2) Effective price.--The effective price for a covered 
     commodity for a crop year shall be the higher of--
       (A) the midseason price; or
       (B) the national average loan rate for a marketing 
     assistance loan for the covered commodity in effect for such 
     crop year under subtitle B.
       (3) Payment rate.--The payment rate shall be equal to the 
     difference between--
       (A) the reference price for the covered commodity; and
       (B) the effective price determined under paragraph (2) for 
     the covered commodity.
       (4) Payment amount.--If price loss coverage payments are 
     required to be provided under this subsection for the 2014 
     crop year or any succeding crop year for a covered commodity, 
     the amount of the price loss coverage payment to be paid to 
     the producers on a farm for the crop year shall be equal to 
     the product obtained by multiplying--
       (A) the payment rate for the covered commodity under 
     paragraph (3);
       (B) the payment yield for the covered commodity; and
       (C) the payment acres for the covered commodity.
       (5) Time for payments.--If the Secretary determines under 
     this subsection that price loss coverage payments are 
     required to be provided for the covered commodity, the 
     payments shall be made beginning October 1, or as soon as 
     practicable thereafter, after the end of the applicable 
     marketing year for the covered commodity.
       (6) Special rule for barley.--In determining the effective 
     price for barley in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall use 
     the all-barley price.
       (7) Special rule for temperate japonica rice.--The 
     Secretary shall provide a reference price with respect to 
     temperate japonica rice in an amount equal to 115 percent of 
     the amount established in subparagraphs (F) and (G) of 
     section 1104(16) in order to reflect price premiums.
       (c) Revenue Loss Coverage.--
       (1) Available as an alternative.--As an alternative to 
     receiving price loss coverage payments under subsection (b) 
     for a covered commodity, all of the owners of the farm may 
     make a one-time, irrevocable election on a covered commodity-
     by-covered-commodity basis to receive revenue loss coverage 
     payments for each covered commodity in accordance with this 
     subsection. If any of the owners of the farm make different 
     elections on the same covered commodity on the farm, all of 
     the owners of the farm shall be deemed to have not made the 
     election available under this paragraph.
       (2) Payments.--In the case of owners of a farm that make 
     the election described in paragraph (1) for a covered 
     commodity, the Secretary shall make revenue loss coverage 
     payments available under this subsection for the 2014 crop 
     year and each succeeding crop year if the Secretary 
     determines that--
       (A) the actual county revenue for the crop year for the 
     covered commodity; is less than
       (B) the county revenue loss coverage trigger for the crop 
     year for the covered commodity.
       (3) Time for payments.--If the Secretary determines under 
     this subsection that revenue loss coverage payments are 
     required to be provided for the covered commodity, payments 
     shall be made beginning October 1, or as soon as practicable 
     thereafter, after the end of the applicable marketing year 
     for the covered commodity.
       (4) Actual county revenue.--The amount of the actual county 
     revenue for a crop year of a covered commodity shall be equal 
     to the product obtained by multiplying--
       (A) the actual county yield, as determined by the 
     Secretary, for each planted acre for the crop year for the 
     covered commodity; and
       (B) the higher of--
       (i) the midseason price; or
       (ii) the national average loan rate for a marketing 
     assistance loan for the covered commodity in effect for such 
     crop year under subtitle B.
       (5) County revenue loss coverage trigger.--
       (A) In general.--The county revenue loss coverage trigger 
     for a crop year for a covered commodity on a farm shall equal 
     85 percent of the benchmark county revenue.
       (B) Benchmark county revenue.--
       (i) In general.--The benchmark county revenue shall be the 
     product obtained by multiplying--

       (I) subject to clause (ii), the average historical county 
     yield as determined by the Secretary for the most recent 5 
     crop years, excluding each of the crop years with the highest 
     and lowest yields; and
       (II) subject to clause (iii), the average national 
     marketing year average price for the most recent 5 crop 
     years, excluding each of the crop years with the highest and 
     lowest prices.

       (ii) Yield conditions.--If the historical county yield in 
     clause (i)(I) for any of the 5 most recent crop years, as 
     determined by the Secretary, is less than 70 percent of the 
     transitional yield, as determined by the Secretary, the 
     amounts used for any of those years in clause (i)(I) shall be 
     70 percent of the transitional yield.
       (iii) Reference price.--If the national marketing year 
     average price in clause (i)(II) for any of the 5 most recent 
     crop years is lower than the reference price for the covered 
     commodity, the Secretary shall use the reference price for 
     any of those years for the amounts in clause (i)(II).
       (6) Payment rate.--The payment rate shall be equal to the 
     lesser of--
       (A) the difference between--
       (i) the county revenue loss coverage trigger for the 
     covered commodity; and
       (ii) the actual county revenue for the crop year for the 
     covered commodity; or
       (B) 10 percent of the benchmark county revenue for the crop 
     year for the covered commodity.
       (7) Payment amount.--If revenue loss coverage payments 
     under this subsection are required to be provided for the 
     2014 crop year or any succeeding crop year of a covered 
     commodity, the amount of the revenue loss coverage payment to 
     be provided to the producers on a farm for the crop year 
     shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying--
       (A) the payment rate under paragraph (6); and
       (B) the payment acres of the covered commodity on the farm.
       (8) Duties of the secretary.--In providing revenue loss 
     coverage payments under this subsection, the Secretary--
       (A) shall ensure that producers on a farm do not 
     reconstitute the farm of the producers to void or change the 
     election made under paragraph (1);
       (B) to the maximum extent practicable, shall use all 
     available information and analysis, including data mining, to 
     check for anomalies in the provision of revenue loss coverage 
     payments;
       (C) to the maximum extent practicable, shall calculate a 
     separate county revenue loss coverage trigger for irrigated 
     and nonirrigated covered commodities and a separate actual 
     county revenue for irrigated and nonirrigated covered 
     commodities;

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       (D) shall assign a benchmark county yield for each planted 
     acre for the crop year for the covered commodity on the basis 
     of the yield history of representative farms in the State, 
     region, or crop reporting district, as determined by the 
     Secretary, if--
       (i) the Secretary cannot establish the benchmark county 
     yield for each planted acre for a crop year for a covered 
     commodity in the county in accordance with paragraph (5); or
       (ii) the yield determined under paragraph (5) is an 
     unrepresentative average yield for the county (as determined 
     by the Secretary); and
       (E) to the maximum extent practicable, shall ensure that in 
     order to be eligible for a payment under this subsection, the 
     producers on the farm suffered an actual loss on the covered 
     commodity for the crop year for which payment is sought.
       (d) Annual Report.--The Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a report annually containing an evaluation of the 
     impact of price loss coverage and revenue loss coverage--
       (1) on the planting, production, price, and export of 
     covered commodities; and
       (2) on the cost of each commodity program.
       (e) Cap on Total Obligations and Expenditures.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the 
     total amount of price loss coverage payments and revenue loss 
     coverage payments made under this section during the period 
     of fiscal years 2014 through 2020 shall not exceed 
     $16,956,500,000. Producer agreements required by section 1108 
     shall specifically state that payments made under this 
     section shall be reduced as necessary to comply with this 
     subsection.

     SEC. 1108. PRODUCER AGREEMENTS.

       (a) Compliance With Certain Requirements.--
       (1) Requirements.--Before the producers on a farm may 
     receive payments under this subtitle with respect to the 
     farm, the producers shall agree, during the crop year for 
     which the payments are made and in exchange for the 
     payments--
       (A) to comply with applicable conservation requirements 
     under subtitle B of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (16 U.S.C. 3811 et seq.);
       (B) to comply with applicable wetland protection 
     requirements under subtitle C of title XII of that Act (16 
     U.S.C. 3821 et seq.); and
       (C) to effectively control noxious weeds and otherwise 
     maintain the land in accordance with sound agricultural 
     practices, as determined by the Secretary.
       (2) Compliance.--The Secretary may issue such rules as the 
     Secretary considers necessary to ensure producer compliance 
     with the requirements of paragraph (1).
       (3) Modification.--At the request of the transferee or 
     owner, the Secretary may modify the requirements of this 
     subsection if the modifications are consistent with the 
     objectives of this subsection, as determined by the 
     Secretary.
       (b) Transfer or Change of Interest in Farm.--
       (1) Termination.--
       (A) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
     transfer of (or change in) the interest of the producers on a 
     farm for which payments under this subtitle are provided 
     shall result in the termination of the payments, unless the 
     transferee or owner of the acreage agrees to assume all 
     obligations under subsection (a).
       (B) Effective date.--The termination shall take effect on 
     the date determined by the Secretary.
       (2) Exception.--If a producer entitled to a payment under 
     this subtitle dies, becomes incompetent, or is otherwise 
     unable to receive the payment, the Secretary shall make the 
     payment in accordance with rules issued by the Secretary.
       (c) Acreage Reports.--As a condition on the receipt of any 
     benefits under this subtitle or subtitle B, the Secretary 
     shall require producers on a farm to submit to the Secretary 
     annual acreage reports with respect to all cropland on the 
     farm.
       (d) Tenants and Sharecroppers.--In carrying out this 
     subtitle, the Secretary shall provide adequate safeguards to 
     protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers.
       (e) Sharing of Payments.--The Secretary shall provide for 
     the sharing of payments made under this subtitle among the 
     producers on a farm on a fair and equitable basis.

                      Subtitle B--Marketing Loans

     SEC. 1201. AVAILABILITY OF NONRECOURSE MARKETING ASSISTANCE 
                   LOANS FOR LOAN COMMODITIES.

       (a) Definition of Loan Commodity.--In this subtitle, the 
     term ``loan commodity'' means wheat, corn, grain sorghum, 
     barley, oats, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, long 
     grain rice, medium grain rice, peanuts, soybeans, other 
     oilseeds, graded wool, nongraded wool, mohair, honey, dry 
     peas, lentils, small chickpeas, and large chickpeas.
       (b) Nonrecourse Loans Available.--
       (1) In general.--For the 2014 crops and each succeeding 
     annual crops of each loan commodity, the Secretary shall make 
     available to producers on a farm nonrecourse marketing 
     assistance loans for loan commodities produced on the farm.
       (2) Terms and conditions.--The marketing assistance loans 
     shall be made under terms and conditions that are prescribed 
     by the Secretary and at the loan rate established under 
     section 1202 for the loan commodity.
       (c) Eligible Production.--The producers on a farm shall be 
     eligible for a marketing assistance loan under subsection (b) 
     for any quantity of a loan commodity produced on the farm.
       (d) Compliance With Conservation and Wetlands 
     Requirements.--As a condition of the receipt of a marketing 
     assistance loan under subsection (b), the producer shall 
     comply with applicable conservation requirements under 
     subtitle B of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3811 et seq.) and applicable wetland protection 
     requirements under subtitle C of title XII of that Act (16 
     U.S.C. 3821 et seq.) during the term of the loan.
       (e) Special Rules for Peanuts.--
       (1) In general.--This subsection shall apply only to 
     producers of peanuts.
       (2) Options for obtaining loan.--A marketing assistance 
     loan under this section, and loan deficiency payments under 
     section 1205, may be obtained at the option of the producers 
     on a farm through--
       (A) a designated marketing association or marketing 
     cooperative of producers that is approved by the Secretary; 
     or
       (B) the Farm Service Agency.
       (3) Storage of loan peanuts.--As a condition on the 
     approval by the Secretary of an individual or entity to 
     provide storage for peanuts for which a marketing assistance 
     loan is made under this section, the individual or entity 
     shall agree--
       (A) to provide the storage on a nondiscriminatory basis; 
     and
       (B) to comply with such additional requirements as the 
     Secretary considers appropriate to accomplish the purposes of 
     this section and promote fairness in the administration of 
     the benefits of this section.
       (4) Storage, handling, and associated costs.--
       (A) In general.--To ensure proper storage of peanuts for 
     which a loan is made under this section, the Secretary shall 
     pay handling and other associated costs (other than storage 
     costs) incurred at the time at which the peanuts are placed 
     under loan, as determined by the Secretary.
       (B) Redemption and forfeiture.--The Secretary shall--
       (i) require the repayment of handling and other associated 
     costs paid under subparagraph (A) for all peanuts pledged as 
     collateral for a loan that is redeemed under this section; 
     and
       (ii) pay storage, handling, and other associated costs for 
     all peanuts pledged as collateral that are forfeited under 
     this section.
       (5) Marketing.--A marketing association or cooperative may 
     market peanuts for which a loan is made under this section in 
     any manner that conforms to consumer needs, including the 
     separation of peanuts by type and quality.
       (6) Reimbursable agreements and payment of administrative 
     expenses.--The Secretary may implement any reimbursable 
     agreements or provide for the payment of administrative 
     expenses under this subsection only in a manner that is 
     consistent with those activities in regard to other loan 
     commodities.

     SEC. 1202. LOAN RATES FOR NONRECOURSE MARKETING ASSISTANCE 
                   LOANS.

       (a) In General.--For purposes of the 2014 crop year and 
     each succeeding crop year, the loan rate for a marketing 
     assistance loan under section 1201 for a loan commodity shall 
     be equal to the following:
       (1) In the case of wheat, $2.94 per bushel.
       (2) In the case of corn, $1.95 per bushel.
       (3) In the case of grain sorghum, $1.95 per bushel.
       (4) In the case of barley, $1.95 per bushel.
       (5) In the case of oats, $1.39 per bushel.
       (6) In the case of base quality of upland cotton, for the 
     2014 crop year and each succeeding crop year, the simple 
     average of the adjusted prevailing world price for the 2 
     immediately preceding marketing years, as determined by the 
     Secretary and announced October 1 preceding the next domestic 
     plantings, but in no case less than $0.47 per pound or more 
     than $0.52 per pound.
       (7) In the case of extra long staple cotton, $0.7977 per 
     pound.
       (8) In the case of long grain rice, $6.50 per 
     hundredweight.
       (9) In the case of medium grain rice, $6.50 per 
     hundredweight.
       (10) In the case of soybeans, $5.00 per bushel.
       (11) In the case of other oilseeds, $10.09 per 
     hundredweight for each of the following kinds of oilseeds:
       (A) Sunflower seed.
       (B) Rapeseed.
       (C) Canola.
       (D) Safflower.
       (E) Flaxseed.
       (F) Mustard seed.
       (G) Crambe.
       (H) Sesame seed.
       (I) Other oilseeds designated by the Secretary.
       (12) In the case of dry peas, $5.40 per hundredweight.
       (13) In the case of lentils, $11.28 per hundredweight.
       (14) In the case of small chickpeas, $7.43 per 
     hundredweight.
       (15) In the case of large chickpeas, $11.28 per 
     hundredweight.
       (16) In the case of graded wool, $1.15 per pound.
       (17) In the case of nongraded wool, $0.40 per pound.
       (18) In the case of mohair, $4.20 per pound.
       (19) In the case of honey, $0.69 per pound.

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       (20) In the case of peanuts, $355 per ton.
       (b) Single County Loan Rate for Other Oilseeds.--The 
     Secretary shall establish a single loan rate in each county 
     for each kind of other oilseeds described in subsection 
     (a)(11).

     SEC. 1203. TERM OF LOANS.

       (a) Term of Loan.--In the case of each loan commodity, a 
     marketing assistance loan under section 1201 shall have a 
     term of 9 months beginning on the first day of the first 
     month after the month in which the loan is made.
       (b) Extensions Prohibited.--The Secretary may not extend 
     the term of a marketing assistance loan for any loan 
     commodity.

     SEC. 1204. REPAYMENT OF LOANS.

       (a) General Rule.--The Secretary shall permit the producers 
     on a farm to repay a marketing assistance loan under section 
     1201 for a loan commodity (other than upland cotton, long 
     grain rice, medium grain rice, extra long staple cotton, 
     peanuts and confectionery and each other kind of sunflower 
     seed (other than oil sunflower seed)) at a rate that is the 
     lesser of--
       (1) the loan rate established for the commodity under 
     section 1202, plus interest (determined in accordance with 
     section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
     Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283));
       (2) a rate (as determined by the Secretary) that--
       (A) is calculated based on average market prices for the 
     loan commodity during the preceding 30-day period; and
       (B) will minimize discrepancies in marketing loan benefits 
     across State boundaries and across county boundaries; or
       (3) a rate that the Secretary may develop using alternative 
     methods for calculating a repayment rate for a loan commodity 
     that the Secretary determines will--
       (A) minimize potential loan forfeitures;
       (B) minimize the accumulation of stocks of the commodity by 
     the Federal Government;
       (C) minimize the cost incurred by the Federal Government in 
     storing the commodity;
       (D) allow the commodity produced in the United States to be 
     marketed freely and competitively, both domestically and 
     internationally; and
       (E) minimize discrepancies in marketing loan benefits 
     across State boundaries and across county boundaries.
       (b) Repayment Rates for Upland Cotton, Long Grain Rice, and 
     Medium Grain Rice.--The Secretary shall permit producers to 
     repay a marketing assistance loan under section 1201 for 
     upland cotton, long grain rice, and medium grain rice at a 
     rate that is the lesser of--
       (1) the loan rate established for the commodity under 
     section 1202, plus interest (determined in accordance with 
     section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
     Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)); or
       (2) the prevailing world market price for the commodity, as 
     determined and adjusted by the Secretary in accordance with 
     this section.
       (c) Repayment Rates for Extra Long Staple Cotton.--
     Repayment of a marketing assistance loan for extra long 
     staple cotton shall be at the loan rate established for the 
     commodity under section 1202, plus interest (determined in 
     accordance with section 163 of the Federal Agriculture 
     Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)).
       (d) Prevailing World Market Price.--For purposes of this 
     section and section 1207, the Secretary shall prescribe by 
     regulation--
       (1) a formula to determine the prevailing world market 
     price for each of upland cotton, long grain rice, and medium 
     grain rice; and
       (2) a mechanism by which the Secretary shall announce 
     periodically those prevailing world market prices.
       (e) Adjustment of Prevailing World Market Price for Upland 
     Cotton, Long Grain Rice, and Medium Grain Rice.--
       (1) Rice.--The prevailing world market price for long grain 
     rice and medium grain rice determined under subsection (d) 
     shall be adjusted to United States quality and location.
       (2) Cotton.--The prevailing world market price for upland 
     cotton determined under subsection (d)--
       (A) shall be adjusted to United States quality and 
     location, with the adjustment to include--
       (i) a reduction equal to any United States Premium Factor 
     for upland cotton of a quality higher than Middling (M) 1\3/
     32\-inch; and
       (ii) the average costs to market the commodity, including 
     average transportation costs, as determined by the Secretary; 
     and
       (B) may be further adjusted, during the period beginning on 
     the date of enactment of this Act and ending on July 31, 
     2019, if the Secretary determines the adjustment is 
     necessary--
       (i) to minimize potential loan forfeitures;
       (ii) to minimize the accumulation of stocks of upland 
     cotton by the Federal Government;
       (iii) to ensure that upland cotton produced in the United 
     States can be marketed freely and competitively, both 
     domestically and internationally; and
       (iv) to ensure an appropriate transition between current-
     crop and forward-crop price quotations, except that the 
     Secretary may use forward-crop price quotations prior to July 
     31 of a marketing year only if--

       (I) there are insufficient current-crop price quotations; 
     and
       (II) the forward-crop price quotation is the lowest such 
     quotation available.

       (3) Guidelines for additional adjustments.--In making 
     adjustments under this subsection, the Secretary shall 
     establish a mechanism for determining and announcing the 
     adjustments in order to avoid undue disruption in the United 
     States market.
       (f) Repayment Rates for Confectionery and Other Kinds of 
     Sunflower Seeds.--The Secretary shall permit the producers on 
     a farm to repay a marketing assistance loan under section 
     1201 for confectionery and each other kind of sunflower seed 
     (other than oil sunflower seed) at a rate that is the lesser 
     of--
       (1) the loan rate established for the commodity under 
     section 1202, plus interest (determined in accordance with 
     section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
     Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)); or
       (2) the repayment rate established for oil sunflower seed.
       (g) Payment of Cotton Storage Costs.--Effective for the 
     2014 crop year and each succeeding crop year, the Secretary 
     shall make cotton storage payments available in the same 
     manner, and at the same rates as the Secretary provided 
     storage payments for the 2006 crop of cotton, except that the 
     rates shall be reduced by 10 percent.
       (h) Repayment Rate for Peanuts.--The Secretary shall permit 
     producers on a farm to repay a marketing assistance loan for 
     peanuts under section 1201 at a rate that is the lesser of--
       (1) the loan rate established for peanuts under section 
     1202(a)(20), plus interest (determined in accordance with 
     section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
     Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)); or
       (2) a rate that the Secretary determines will--
       (A) minimize potential loan forfeitures;
       (B) minimize the accumulation of stocks of peanuts by the 
     Federal Government;
       (C) minimize the cost incurred by the Federal Government in 
     storing peanuts; and
       (D) allow peanuts produced in the United States to be 
     marketed freely and competitively, both domestically and 
     internationally.
       (i) Authority To Temporarily Adjust Repayment Rates.--
       (1) Adjustment authority.--In the event of a severe 
     disruption to marketing, transportation, or related 
     infrastructure, the Secretary may modify the repayment rate 
     otherwise applicable under this section for marketing 
     assistance loans under section 1201 for a loan commodity.
       (2) Duration.--Any adjustment made under paragraph (1) in 
     the repayment rate for marketing assistance loans for a loan 
     commodity shall be in effect on a short-term and temporary 
     basis, as determined by the Secretary.

     SEC. 1205. LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS.

       (a) Availability of Loan Deficiency Payments.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection (d), the 
     Secretary may make loan deficiency payments available to 
     producers on a farm that, although eligible to obtain a 
     marketing assistance loan under section 1201 with respect to 
     a loan commodity, agree to forgo obtaining the loan for the 
     commodity in return for loan deficiency payments under this 
     section.
       (2) Unshorn pelts, hay, and silage.--
       (A) Marketing assistance loans.--Subject to subparagraph 
     (B), nongraded wool in the form of unshorn pelts and hay and 
     silage derived from a loan commodity are not eligible for a 
     marketing assistance loan under section 1201.
       (B) Loan deficiency payment.--Effective for the 2014 crop 
     year and each succeeding crop year, the Secretary may make 
     loan deficiency payments available under this section to 
     producers on a farm that produce unshorn pelts or hay and 
     silage derived from a loan commodity.
       (b) Computation.--A loan deficiency payment for a loan 
     commodity or commodity referred to in subsection (a)(2) shall 
     be equal to the product obtained by multiplying--
       (1) the payment rate determined under subsection (c) for 
     the commodity; by
       (2) the quantity of the commodity produced by the eligible 
     producers, excluding any quantity for which the producers 
     obtain a marketing assistance loan under section 1201.
       (c) Payment Rate.--
       (1) In general.--In the case of a loan commodity, the 
     payment rate shall be the amount by which--
       (A) the loan rate established under section 1202 for the 
     loan commodity; exceeds
       (B) the rate at which a marketing assistance loan for the 
     loan commodity may be repaid under section 1204.
       (2) Unshorn pelts.--In the case of unshorn pelts, the 
     payment rate shall be the amount by which--
       (A) the loan rate established under section 1202 for 
     ungraded wool; exceeds
       (B) the rate at which a marketing assistance loan for 
     ungraded wool may be repaid under section 1204.
       (3) Hay and silage.--In the case of hay or silage derived 
     from a loan commodity, the payment rate shall be the amount 
     by which--
       (A) the loan rate established under section 1202 for the 
     loan commodity from which the hay or silage is derived; 
     exceeds
       (B) the rate at which a marketing assistance loan for the 
     loan commodity may be repaid under section 1204.

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       (d) Exception for Extra Long Staple Cotton.--This section 
     shall not apply with respect to extra long staple cotton.
       (e) Effective Date for Payment Rate Determination.--The 
     Secretary shall determine the amount of the loan deficiency 
     payment to be made under this section to the producers on a 
     farm with respect to a quantity of a loan commodity or 
     commodity referred to in subsection (a)(2) using the payment 
     rate in effect under subsection (c) as of the date the 
     producers request the payment.

     SEC. 1206. PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS FOR 
                   GRAZED ACREAGE.

       (a) Eligible Producers.--
       (1) In general.--Effective for the 2014 crop year and each 
     succeeding crop year, in the case of a producer that would be 
     eligible for a loan deficiency payment under section 1205 for 
     wheat, barley, or oats, but that elects to use acreage 
     planted to the wheat, barley, or oats for the grazing of 
     livestock, the Secretary shall make a payment to the producer 
     under this section if the producer enters into an agreement 
     with the Secretary to forgo any other harvesting of the 
     wheat, barley, or oats on that acreage.
       (2) Grazing of triticale acreage.--Effective for the 2014 
     crop year and each succeeding crop year, with respect to a 
     producer on a farm that uses acreage planted to triticale for 
     the grazing of livestock, the Secretary shall make a payment 
     to the producer under this section if the producer enters 
     into an agreement with the Secretary to forgo any other 
     harvesting of triticale on that acreage.
       (b) Payment Amount.--
       (1) In general.--The amount of a payment made under this 
     section to a producer on a farm described in subsection 
     (a)(1) shall be equal to the amount determined by 
     multiplying--
       (A) the loan deficiency payment rate determined under 
     section 1205(c) in effect, as of the date of the agreement, 
     for the county in which the farm is located; by
       (B) the payment quantity determined by multiplying--
       (i) the quantity of the grazed acreage on the farm with 
     respect to which the producer elects to forgo harvesting of 
     wheat, barley, or oats; and
       (ii)(I) the payment yield in effect for the calculation of 
     price loss coverage under subtitle A with respect to that 
     loan commodity on the farm; or
       (II) in the case of a farm without a payment yield for that 
     loan commodity, an appropriate yield established by the 
     Secretary in a manner consistent with section 1106(c) of this 
     Act.
       (2) Grazing of triticale acreage.--The amount of a payment 
     made under this section to a producer on a farm described in 
     subsection (a)(2) shall be equal to the amount determined by 
     multiplying--
       (A) the loan deficiency payment rate determined under 
     section 1205(c) in effect for wheat, as of the date of the 
     agreement, for the county in which the farm is located; by
       (B) the payment quantity determined by multiplying--
       (i) the quantity of the grazed acreage on the farm with 
     respect to which the producer elects to forgo harvesting of 
     triticale; and
       (ii)(I) the payment yield in effect for the calculation of 
     price loss coverage under subtitle A with respect to wheat on 
     the farm; or
       (II) in the case of a farm without a payment yield for 
     wheat, an appropriate yield established by the Secretary in a 
     manner consistent with section 1106(c) of this Act.
       (c) Time, Manner, and Availability of Payment.--
       (1) Time and manner.--A payment under this section shall be 
     made at the same time and in the same manner as loan 
     deficiency payments are made under section 1205.
       (2) Availability.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary shall establish an 
     availability period for the payments authorized by this 
     section.
       (B) Certain commodities.--In the case of wheat, barley, and 
     oats, the availability period shall be consistent with the 
     availability period for the commodity established by the 
     Secretary for marketing assistance loans authorized by this 
     subtitle.
       (d) Prohibition on Crop Insurance Indemnity or Noninsured 
     Crop Assistance.--A 2014 crop or succeeding annual crop of 
     wheat, barley, oats, or triticale planted on acreage that a 
     producer elects, in the agreement required by subsection (a), 
     to use for the grazing of livestock in lieu of any other 
     harvesting of the crop shall not be eligible for an indemnity 
     under a policy or plan of insurance authorized under the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) or 
     noninsured crop assistance under section 196 of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     7333).

     SEC. 1207. SPECIAL MARKETING LOAN PROVISIONS FOR UPLAND 
                   COTTON.

       (a) Special Import Quota.--
       (1) Definition of special import quota.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``special import quota'' means a 
     quantity of imports that is not subject to the over-quota 
     tariff rate of a tariff-rate quota.
       (2) Establishment.--
       (A) In general.--The President shall carry out an import 
     quota program beginning on August 1, 2014, as provided in 
     this subsection.
       (B) Program requirements.--Whenever the Secretary 
     determines and announces that for any consecutive 4-week 
     period, the Friday through Thursday average price quotation 
     for the lowest-priced United States growth, as quoted for 
     Middling (M) 1\3/32\-inch cotton, delivered to a definable 
     and significant international market, as determined by the 
     Secretary, exceeds the prevailing world market price, there 
     shall immediately be in effect a special import quota.
       (3) Quantity.--The quota shall be equal to the consumption 
     during a 1-week period of cotton by domestic mills at the 
     seasonally adjusted average rate of the most recent 3 months 
     for which official data of the Department of Agriculture are 
     available or, in the absence of sufficient data, as estimated 
     by the Secretary.
       (4) Application.--The quota shall apply to upland cotton 
     purchased not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     Secretary's announcement under paragraph (2) and entered into 
     the United States not later than 180 days after that date.
       (5) Overlap.--A special quota period may be established 
     that overlaps any existing quota period if required by 
     paragraph (2), except that a special quota period may not be 
     established under this subsection if a quota period has been 
     established under subsection (b).
       (6) Preferential tariff treatment.--The quantity under a 
     special import quota shall be considered to be an in-quota 
     quantity for purposes of--
       (A) section 213(d) of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 
     Act (19 U.S.C. 2703(d));
       (B) section 204 of the Andean Trade Preference Act (19 
     U.S.C. 3203);
       (C) section 503(d) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
     2463(d)); and
       (D) General Note 3(a)(iv) to the Harmonized Tariff 
     Schedule.
       (7) Limitation.--The quantity of cotton entered into the 
     United States during any marketing year under the special 
     import quota established under this subsection may not exceed 
     the equivalent of 10 weeks' consumption of upland cotton by 
     domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate of the 
     3 months immediately preceding the first special import quota 
     established in any marketing year.
       (b) Limited Global Import Quota for Upland Cotton.--
       (1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Demand.--The term ``demand'' means--
       (i) the average seasonally adjusted annual rate of domestic 
     mill consumption of cotton during the most recent 3 months 
     for which official data of the Department of Agriculture are 
     available or, in the absence of sufficient data, as estimated 
     by the Secretary; and
       (ii) the larger of--

       (I) average exports of upland cotton during the preceding 6 
     marketing years; or
       (II) cumulative exports of upland cotton plus outstanding 
     export sales for the marketing year in which the quota is 
     established.

       (B) Limited global import quota.--The term ``limited global 
     import quota'' means a quantity of imports that is not 
     subject to the over-quota tariff rate of a tariff-rate quota.
       (C) Supply.--The term ``supply'' means, using the latest 
     official data of the Department of Agriculture--
       (i) the carry-over of upland cotton at the beginning of the 
     marketing year (adjusted to 480-pound bales) in which the 
     quota is established;
       (ii) production of the current crop; and
       (iii) imports to the latest date available during the 
     marketing year.
       (2) Program.--The President shall carry out an import quota 
     program that provides that whenever the Secretary determines 
     and announces that the average price of the base quality of 
     upland cotton, as determined by the Secretary, in the 
     designated spot markets for a month exceeded 130 percent of 
     the average price of the quality of cotton in the markets for 
     the preceding 36 months, notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, there shall immediately be in effect a limited global 
     import quota subject to the following conditions:
       (A) Quantity.--The quantity of the quota shall be equal to 
     21 days of domestic mill consumption of upland cotton at the 
     seasonally adjusted average rate of the most recent 3 months 
     for which official data of the Department of Agriculture are 
     available or, in the absence of sufficient data, as estimated 
     by the Secretary.
       (B) Quantity if prior quota.--If a quota has been 
     established under this subsection during the preceding 12 
     months, the quantity of the quota next established under this 
     subsection shall be the smaller of 21 days of domestic mill 
     consumption calculated under subparagraph (A) or the quantity 
     required to increase the supply to 130 percent of the demand.
       (C) Preferential tariff treatment.--The quantity under a 
     limited global import quota shall be considered to be an in-
     quota quantity for purposes of--
       (i) section 213(d) of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 
     Act (19 U.S.C. 2703(d));
       (ii) section 204 of the Andean Trade Preference Act (19 
     U.S.C. 3203);
       (iii) section 503(d) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
     2463(d)); and
       (iv) General Note 3(a)(iv) to the Harmonized Tariff 
     Schedule.
       (D) Quota entry period.--When a quota is established under 
     this subsection, cotton may be entered under the quota during 
     the 90-day period beginning on the date the quota is 
     established by the Secretary.
       (3) No overlap.--Notwithstanding paragraph (2), a quota 
     period may not be established that overlaps an existing quota 
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     or a special quota period established under subsection (a).
       (c) Economic Adjustment Assistance to Users of Upland 
     Cotton.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
     shall, on a monthly basis, make economic adjustment 
     assistance available to domestic users of upland cotton in 
     the form of payments for all documented use of that upland 
     cotton during the previous monthly period regardless of the 
     origin of the upland cotton.
       (2) Value of assistance.--Effective beginning on August 1, 
     2013, the value of the assistance provided under paragraph 
     (1) shall be 3 cents per pound.
       (3) Allowable purposes.--Economic adjustment assistance 
     under this subsection shall be made available only to 
     domestic users of upland cotton that certify that the 
     assistance shall be used only to acquire, construct, install, 
     modernize, develop, convert, or expand land, plant, 
     buildings, equipment, facilities, or machinery.
       (4) Review or audit.--The Secretary may conduct such review 
     or audit of the records of a domestic user under this 
     subsection as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out 
     this subsection.
       (5) Improper use of assistance.--If the Secretary 
     determines, after a review or audit of the records of the 
     domestic user, that economic adjustment assistance under this 
     subsection was not used for the purposes specified in 
     paragraph (3), the domestic user shall be--
       (A) liable for the repayment of the assistance to the 
     Secretary, plus interest, as determined by the Secretary; and
       (B) ineligible to receive assistance under this subsection 
     for a period of 1 year following the determination of the 
     Secretary.

     SEC. 1208. SPECIAL COMPETITIVE PROVISIONS FOR EXTRA LONG 
                   STAPLE COTTON.

       (a) Competitiveness Program.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the Secretary shall carry out a program--
       (1) to maintain and expand the domestic use of extra long 
     staple cotton produced in the United States;
       (2) to increase exports of extra long staple cotton 
     produced in the United States; and
       (3) to ensure that extra long staple cotton produced in the 
     United States remains competitive in world markets.
       (b) Payments Under Program; Trigger.--Under the program, 
     the Secretary shall make payments available under this 
     section whenever--
       (1) for a consecutive 4-week period, the world market price 
     for the lowest priced competing growth of extra long staple 
     cotton (adjusted to United States quality and location and 
     for other factors affecting the competitiveness of such 
     cotton), as determined by the Secretary, is below the 
     prevailing United States price for a competing growth of 
     extra long staple cotton; and
       (2) the lowest priced competing growth of extra long staple 
     cotton (adjusted to United States quality and location and 
     for other factors affecting the competitiveness of such 
     cotton), as determined by the Secretary, is less than 134 
     percent of the loan rate for extra long staple cotton.
       (c) Eligible Recipients.--The Secretary shall make payments 
     available under this section to domestic users of extra long 
     staple cotton produced in the United States and exporters of 
     extra long staple cotton produced in the United States that 
     enter into an agreement with the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     to participate in the program under this section.
       (d) Payment Amount.--Payments under this section shall be 
     based on the amount of the difference in the prices referred 
     to in subsection (b)(1) during the fourth week of the 
     consecutive 4-week period multiplied by the amount of 
     documented purchases by domestic users and sales for export 
     by exporters made in the week following such a consecutive 4-
     week period.

     SEC. 1209. AVAILABILITY OF RECOURSE LOANS FOR HIGH MOISTURE 
                   FEED GRAINS AND SEED COTTON.

       (a) High Moisture Feed Grains.--
       (1) Definition of high moisture state.--In this subsection, 
     the term ``high moisture state'' means corn or grain sorghum 
     having a moisture content in excess of Commodity Credit 
     Corporation standards for marketing assistance loans made by 
     the Secretary under section 1201.
       (2) Recourse loans available.--For the 2014 crop and each 
     succeeding annual crop of corn and grain sorghum, the 
     Secretary shall make available recourse loans, as determined 
     by the Secretary, to producers on a farm that--
       (A) normally harvest all or a portion of their crop of corn 
     or grain sorghum in a high moisture state;
       (B) present--
       (i) certified scale tickets from an inspected, certified 
     commercial scale, including a licensed warehouse, feedlot, 
     feed mill, distillery, or other similar entity approved by 
     the Secretary, pursuant to regulations issued by the 
     Secretary; or
       (ii) field or other physical measurements of the standing 
     or stored crop in regions of the United States, as determined 
     by the Secretary, that do not have certified commercial 
     scales from which certified scale tickets may be obtained 
     within reasonable proximity of harvest operation;
       (C) certify that the producers on the farm were the owners 
     of the feed grain at the time of delivery to, and that the 
     quantity to be placed under loan under this subsection was in 
     fact harvested on the farm and delivered to, a feedlot, feed 
     mill, or commercial or on-farm high-moisture storage 
     facility, or to a facility maintained by the users of corn 
     and grain sorghum in a high moisture state; and
       (D) comply with deadlines established by the Secretary for 
     harvesting the corn or grain sorghum and submit applications 
     for loans under this subsection within deadlines established 
     by the Secretary.
       (3) Eligibility of acquired feed grains.--A loan under this 
     subsection shall be made on a quantity of corn or grain 
     sorghum of the same crop acquired by the producer equivalent 
     to a quantity determined by multiplying--
       (A) the acreage of the corn or grain sorghum in a high 
     moisture state harvested on the farm of the producer; by
       (B) the lower of the farm program payment yield used to 
     make payments under subtitle A or the actual yield on a 
     field, as determined by the Secretary, that is similar to the 
     field from which the corn or grain sorghum was obtained.
       (b) Recourse Loans Available for Seed Cotton.--For the 2014 
     crop and each succeeding annual crop of upland cotton and 
     extra long staple cotton, the Secretary shall make available 
     recourse seed cotton loans, as determined by the Secretary, 
     on any production.
       (c) Repayment Rates.--Repayment of a recourse loan made 
     under this section shall be at the loan rate established for 
     the commodity by the Secretary, plus interest (determined in 
     accordance with section 163 of the Federal Agriculture 
     Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)).

     SEC. 1210. ADJUSTMENTS OF LOANS.

       (a) Adjustment Authority.--Subject to subsection (e), the 
     Secretary may make appropriate adjustments in the loan rates 
     for any loan commodity (other than cotton) for differences in 
     grade, type, quality, location, and other factors.
       (b) Manner of Adjustment.--The adjustments under subsection 
     (a) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be made in such 
     a manner that the average loan level for the commodity will, 
     on the basis of the anticipated incidence of the factors, be 
     equal to the level of support determined in accordance with 
     this subtitle and subtitle C.
       (c) Adjustment on County Basis.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary may establish loan rates for 
     a crop for producers in individual counties in a manner that 
     results in the lowest loan rate being 95 percent of the 
     national average loan rate, if those loan rates do not result 
     in an increase in outlays.
       (2) Prohibition.--Adjustments under this subsection shall 
     not result in an increase in the national average loan rate 
     for any year.
       (d) Adjustment in Loan Rate for Cotton.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary may make appropriate 
     adjustments in the loan rate for cotton for differences in 
     quality factors.
       (2) Types of adjustments.--Loan rate adjustments under 
     paragraph (1) may include--
       (A) the use of non-spot market price data, in addition to 
     spot market price data, that would enhance the accuracy of 
     the price information used in determining quality adjustments 
     under this subsection;
       (B) adjustments in the premiums or discounts associated 
     with upland cotton with a staple length of 33 or above due to 
     micronaire with the goal of eliminating any unnecessary 
     artificial splits in the calculations of the premiums or 
     discounts; and
       (C) such other adjustments as the Secretary determines 
     appropriate, after consultations conducted in accordance with 
     paragraph (3).
       (3) Consultation with private sector.--
       (A) Prior to revision.--In making adjustments to the loan 
     rate for cotton (including any review of the adjustments) as 
     provided in this subsection, the Secretary shall consult with 
     representatives of the United States cotton industry.
       (B) Inapplicability of federal advisory committee act.--The 
     Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not 
     apply to consultations under this subsection.
       (4) Review of adjustments.--The Secretary may review the 
     operation of the upland cotton quality adjustments 
     implemented pursuant to this subsection and may make further 
     adjustments to the administration of the loan program for 
     upland cotton, by revoking or revising any adjustment taken 
     under paragraph (2).
       (e) Rice.--The Secretary shall not make adjustments in the 
     loan rates for long grain rice and medium grain rice, except 
     for differences in grade and quality (including milling 
     yields).

                           Subtitle C--Sugar

     SEC. 1301. SUGAR PROGRAM.

       (a) Continuation of Current Program and Loan Rates.--
       (1) Sugarcane.--Section 156(a)(5) of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     7272(a)(5)) is amended by striking ``the 2012 crop year'' and 
     inserting ``the 2012 crop year and each succeeding crop 
     year''.
       (2) Sugar beets.--Section 156(b)(2) of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     7272(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``each of the 2009 through 
     2012 crop years'' and inserting ``the 2009 crop year and each 
     succeeding crop year''.
       (3) Effective period.--Section 156(i) of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     7272(i)) is repealed.
       (b) Flexible Marketing Allotments for Sugar.--

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       (1) Sugar estimates.--Section 359b(a)(1) of the 
     Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359bb(a)(1)) 
     is amended by striking ``each of the 2008 through 2012 crop 
     years'' and inserting ``the 2008 crop year and each 
     succeeding crop year''.
       (2) Effective period.--Section 359i(a) of the Agricultural 
     Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1359ii(a)) is amended by 
     striking ``only for the 2008 through 2012 crop years'' and 
     inserting ``for the 2008 crop year and each succeeding crop 
     year''.

                           Subtitle D--Dairy

            PART I--DAIRY PRODUCER MARGIN INSURANCE PROGRAM

     SEC. 1401. DAIRY PRODUCER MARGIN INSURANCE PROGRAM.

       Subtitle E of title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy 
     Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8771 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 1511. DAIRY PRODUCER MARGIN INSURANCE PROGRAM.

       ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Actual dairy producer margin.--The term `actual dairy 
     producer margin' means the difference between the all-milk 
     price and the average feed cost, as calculated under 
     subsection (b)(2).
       ``(2) All-milk price.--The term `all-milk price' means the 
     average price received, per hundredweight of milk, by dairy 
     producers for all milk sold to plants and dealers in the 
     United States, as reported by the National Agricultural 
     Statistics Service.
       ``(3) Average feed cost.--The term `average feed cost' 
     means the average cost of feed used by a dairy operation to 
     produce a hundredweight of milk, determined under subsection 
     (b)(1) using the sum of the following:
       ``(A) The product determined by multiplying--
       ``(i) 1.0728; by
       ``(ii) the price of corn per bushel.
       ``(B) The product determined by multiplying--
       ``(i) 0.00735; by
       ``(ii) the price of soybean meal per ton.
       ``(C) The product determined by multiplying--
       ``(i) 0.0137; by
       ``(ii) the price of alfalfa hay per ton.
       ``(4) Consecutive 2-month period.--The term `consecutive 2-
     month period' refers to the 2-month period consisting of the 
     months of January and February, March and April, May and 
     June, July and August, September and October, or November and 
     December, respectively.
       ``(5) Dairy producer.--The term `dairy producer' means an 
     individual or entity that directly or indirectly (as 
     determined by the Secretary)--
       ``(A) shares in the risk of producing milk; and
       ``(B) makes contributions (including land, labor, 
     management, equipment, or capital) to the dairy operation of 
     the individual or entity that are at least commensurate with 
     the share of the individual or entity of the proceeds of the 
     operation.
       ``(6) Margin insurance program.--The term `margin insurance 
     program' means the dairy producer margin insurance program 
     required by this section.
       ``(7) Participating dairy producer.--The term 
     `participating dairy producer' means a dairy producer that 
     registers under subsection (d)(2) to participate in the 
     margin insurance program.
       ``(8) Production history.--The term `production history' 
     means the quantity of annual milk marketings determined for a 
     dairy producer under subsection (e)(1).
       ``(9) United states.--The term `United States', in a 
     geographical sense, means the 50 States.
       ``(b) Calculation of Average Feed Cost and Actual Dairy 
     Producer Margins.--
       ``(1) Calculation of average feed cost.--The Secretary 
     shall calculate the national average feed cost for each month 
     using the following data:
       ``(A) The price of corn for a month shall be the price 
     received during that month by agricultural producers in the 
     United States for corn, as reported in the monthly 
     Agriculture Prices report by the Secretary.
       ``(B) The price of soybean meal for a month shall be the 
     central Illinois price for soybean meal, as reported in the 
     Market News-Monthly Soybean Meal Price Report by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(C) The price of alfalfa hay for a month shall be the 
     price received during that month by agricultural producers in 
     the United States for alfalfa hay, as reported in the monthly 
     Agriculture Prices report by the Secretary.
       ``(2) Calculation of actual dairy producer margins.--The 
     Secretary shall calculate the actual dairy producer margin 
     for each consecutive 2-month period by subtracting--
       ``(A) the average feed cost for that consecutive 2-month 
     period, determined in accordance with paragraph (1); from
       ``(B) the all-milk price for that consecutive 2-month 
     period.
       ``(c) Establishment of Dairy Producer Margin Insurance 
     Program.--The Secretary shall establish and administer a 
     dairy producer margin insurance program for the purpose of 
     protecting dairy producer income by paying participating 
     dairy producers margin insurance payments when actual dairy 
     producer margins are less than the threshold levels for the 
     payments.
       ``(d) Eligibility and Registration of Dairy Producers for 
     Margin Insurance Program.--
       ``(1) Eligibility.--All dairy producers in the United 
     States shall be eligible to participate in the margin 
     insurance program.
       ``(2) Registration process.--
       ``(A) Registration.--
       ``(i) Annual registration.--On an annual basis, the 
     Secretary shall register all interested dairy producers in 
     the margin insurance program.
       ``(ii) Manner and form.--The Secretary shall specify the 
     manner and form by which a dairy producer shall register for 
     the margin insurance program.
       ``(B) Treatment of multi-producer operations.--If a dairy 
     operation consists of more than 1 dairy producer, all of the 
     dairy producers of the operation shall be treated as a single 
     dairy producer for purposes of--
       ``(i) purchasing margin insurance; and
       ``(ii) payment of producer premiums under subsection 
     (f)(4).
       ``(C) Treatment of producers with multiple dairy 
     operations.--If a dairy producer operates 2 or more dairy 
     operations, each dairy operation of the producer shall 
     require a separate registration to participate and purchase 
     margin insurance.
       ``(3) Time for registration.--
       ``(A) Existing dairy producers.--During the 1-year period 
     beginning on the date of enactment of this section, and 
     annually thereafter, a dairy producer that is actively 
     engaged in a dairy operation as of that date may register 
     with the Secretary to participate in the margin insurance 
     program.
       ``(B) New entrants.--A dairy producer that has no existing 
     interest in a dairy operation as of the date of enactment of 
     this section, but that, after that date, establishes a new 
     dairy operation, may register with the Secretary during the 
     180-day period beginning on the date on which the dairy 
     operation first markets milk commercially to participate in 
     the margin insurance program.
       ``(4) Retroactivity.--
       ``(A) Notice of availability of retroactive protection.--
     Not later than 30 days after the effective date of this 
     section, the Secretary shall publish a notice in the Federal 
     Register to inform dairy producers of the availability of 
     retroactive margin insurance, subject to the condition that 
     interested producers must file a notice of intent (in such 
     form and manner as the Secretary specifies in the Federal 
     Register notice) to participate in the margin insurance 
     program.
       ``(B) Retroactive margin insurance.--
       ``(i) Availability.--If a dairy producer files a notice of 
     intent under subparagraph (A) to participate in the margin 
     insurance program before the initiation of the sign-up period 
     for the margin insurance program and subsequently signs up 
     for the margin insurance program, the producer shall receive 
     margin insurance retroactive to the effective date of this 
     section.
       ``(ii) Duration.--Retroactive margin insurance under this 
     paragraph for a dairy producer shall apply from the effective 
     date of this section until the date on which the producer 
     signs up for the margin insurance program.
       ``(C) Notice of intent and obligation to participate.--In 
     no way does filing a notice of intent under this paragraph 
     obligate a dairy producer to sign up for the margin insurance 
     program once the program rules are final, but if a producer 
     does file a notice of intent and subsequently signs up for 
     the margin insurance program, that dairy producer is 
     obligated to pay premiums for any retroactive margin 
     insurance selected in the notice of intent.
       ``(5) Reconstitution.--The Secretary shall ensure that a 
     dairy producer does not reconstitute a dairy operation for 
     the sole purpose of purchasing margin insurance.
       ``(e) Production History of Participating Dairy 
     Producers.--
       ``(1) Determination of production history.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall determine the 
     production history of the dairy operation of each 
     participating dairy producer in the margin insurance program.
       ``(B) Calculation.--Except as provided in subparagraphs (C) 
     and (D), the production history of a participating dairy 
     producer shall be equal to the highest annual milk marketings 
     of the dairy producer during any 1 of the 3 calendar years 
     immediately preceding the registration of the dairy producer 
     for participation in the margin insurance program.
       ``(C) Updating production history.--So long as a 
     participating producer remains registered, the production 
     history of the participating producer shall be annually 
     updated based on the highest annual milk marketings of the 
     dairy producer during any one of the 3 immediately preceding 
     calendar years.
       ``(D) New producers.--If a dairy producer has been in 
     operation for less than 1 year, the Secretary shall determine 
     the initial production history of the dairy producer under 
     subparagraph (B) by extrapolating the actual milk marketings 
     for the months that the dairy producer has been in operation 
     to a yearly amount.
       ``(2) Required information.--A participating dairy producer 
     shall provide all information that the Secretary may require 
     in order to establish the production history of the dairy 
     operation of the dairy producer.
       ``(3) Transfer of production history.--
       ``(A) Transfer by sale.--

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       ``(i) Request for transfer.--If an existing dairy producer 
     sells an entire dairy operation to another party, the seller 
     and purchaser may jointly request that the Secretary transfer 
     to the purchaser the interest of the seller in the production 
     history of the dairy operation.
       ``(ii) Transfer.--If the Secretary determines that the 
     seller has sold the entire dairy operation to the purchaser, 
     the Secretary shall approve the transfer and, thereafter, the 
     seller shall have no interest in the production history of 
     the sold dairy operation.
       ``(B) Transfer by lease.--
       ``(i) Request for transfer.--If an existing dairy producer 
     leases an entire dairy operation to another party, the lessor 
     and lessee may jointly request that the Secretary transfer to 
     the lessee for the duration of the term of the lease the 
     interest of the lessor in the production history of the dairy 
     operation.
       ``(ii) Transfer.--If the Secretary determines that the 
     lessor has leased the entire dairy operation to the lessee, 
     the Secretary shall approve the transfer and, thereafter, the 
     lessor shall have no interest for the duration of the term of 
     the lease in the production history of the leased dairy 
     operation.
       ``(C) Coverage level.--A purchaser or lessee to whom the 
     Secretary transfers a production history under this paragraph 
     may not obtain a different level of margin insurance coverage 
     held by the seller or lessor from whom the transfer was 
     obtained.
       ``(D) New entrants.--The Secretary may not transfer the 
     production history determined for a dairy producer described 
     in subsection (d)(3)(B) to another person.
       ``(4) Movement and transfer of production history.--
       ``(A) Movement and transfer authorized.--Subject to 
     subparagraph (B), if a dairy producer moves from 1 location 
     to another location, the dairy producer may maintain the 
     production history associated with the operation.
       ``(B) Notification requirement.--A dairy producer shall 
     notify the Secretary of any move of a dairy operation under 
     subparagraph (A).
       ``(C) Subsequent occupation of vacated location.--A party 
     subsequently occupying a dairy operation location vacated as 
     described in subparagraph (A) shall have no interest in the 
     production history previously associated with the operation 
     at that location.
       ``(f) Margin Insurance.--
       ``(1) In general.--At the time of the registration of a 
     dairy producer in the margin insurance program under 
     subsection (d) and annually thereafter during the duration of 
     the margin insurance program, an eligible dairy producer may 
     purchase margin insurance.
       ``(2) Selection of payment threshold.--A participating 
     dairy producer purchasing margin insurance shall elect a 
     coverage level in any increment of $0.50, with a minimum of 
     $4.00 and a maximum of $8.00.
       ``(3) Selection of coverage percentage.--A participating 
     dairy producer purchasing margin insurance shall elect a 
     percentage of coverage, equal to not more than 80 percent nor 
     less than 25 percent, of the production history of the dairy 
     operation of the participating dairy producer.
       ``(4) Producer premiums.--
       ``(A) Premiums required.--A participating dairy producer 
     that purchases margin insurance shall pay an annual premium 
     equal to the product obtained by multiplying--
       ``(i) the percentage selected by the dairy producer under 
     paragraph (3);
       ``(ii) the production history applicable to the dairy 
     producer; and
       ``(iii) the premium per hundredweight of milk, as specified 
     in the applicable table under subparagraph (B) or (C).
       ``(B) Premium per hundredweight for first 4 million pounds 
     of production.--For the first 4,000,000 pounds of milk 
     marketings included in the annual production history of a 
     participating dairy operation, the premium per hundredweight 
     corresponding to each coverage level specified in the 
     following table is as follows:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
          ``Coverage Level                     Premium per Cwt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       $4.00                                $0.00
                       $4.50                                $0.01
                       $5.00                                $0.02
                       $5.50                               $0.035
                       $6.00                               $0.045
                       $6.50                                $0.09
                       $7.00                                $0.18
                       $7.50                                $0.60
                       $8.00                                $0.95
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       ``(C) Premium per hundredweight for production in excess of 
     4 million pounds.--For milk marketings in excess of 4,000,000 
     pounds included in the annual production history of a 
     participating dairy operation, the premium per hundredweight 
     corresponding to each coverage level is as follows:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
          ``Coverage Level                     Premium per Cwt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       $4.00                               $0.030
                       $4.50                               $0.045
                       $5.00                               $0.066
                       $5.50                                $0.11
                       $6.00                               $0.185
                       $6.50                                $0.29
                       $7.00                                $0.38
                       $7.50                                $0.83
                       $8.00                                $1.06
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       ``(D) Time for payment.--
       ``(i) First year.--As soon as practicable after a dairy 
     producer registers to participate in the margin insurance 
     program and purchases margin insurance, the dairy producer 
     shall pay the premium determined under subparagraph (A) for 
     the dairy producer for the first calendar year of the margin 
     insurance.
       ``(ii) Subsequent years.--

       ``(I) In general.--When the dairy producer first purchases 
     margin insurance, the dairy producer shall also elect the 
     method by which the dairy producer will pay premiums under 
     this subsection for subsequent years in accordance with 1 of 
     the schedules described in subclauses (II) and (III).
       ``(II) Single annual payment.--The participating dairy 
     producer may elect to pay 100 percent of the annual premium 
     determined under subparagraph (A) for the dairy producer for 
     a calendar year by not later than January 15 of the calendar 
     year.
       ``(III) Semi-annual payments.--The participating dairy 
     producer may elect to pay--

       ``(aa) 50 percent of the annual premium determined under 
     subparagraph (A) for the dairy producer for a calendar year 
     by not later than January 15 of the calendar year; and
       ``(bb) the remaining 50 percent of the premium by not later 
     than June 15 of the calendar year.
       ``(5) Producer premium obligations.--
       ``(A) Pro-ration of first year premium.--A participating 
     dairy producer that purchases margin insurance after initial 
     registration in the margin insurance program shall pay a pro-
     rated premium for the first calendar year based on the date 
     on which the producer purchases the coverage.
       ``(B) Subsequent premiums.--Except as provided in 
     subparagraph (A), the annual premium for a participating 
     dairy producer shall be determined under paragraph (4) for 
     each year in which the margin insurance program is in effect.
       ``(C) Legal obligation.--
       ``(i) In general.--Except as provided in clauses (ii) and 
     (iii), a participating dairy producer that purchases margin 
     insurance shall be legally obligated to pay the applicable 
     premiums for the entire period of the margin insurance 
     program (as provided in the payment schedule elected under 
     paragraph (4)(B)), and may not opt out of the margin 
     insurance program.
       ``(ii) Death.--If the dairy producer dies, the estate of 
     the deceased may cancel the margin insurance and shall not be 
     responsible for any further premium payments.
       ``(iii) Retirement.--If the dairy producer retires, the 
     producer may request that Secretary cancel the margin 
     insurance if the producer has terminated the dairy operation 
     entirely and certifies under oath that the producer will not 
     be actively engaged in any dairy operation for at least the 
     next 7 years.
       ``(6)  Payment threshold.--A participating dairy producer 
     with margin insurance shall receive a margin insurance 
     payment whenever the average actual dairy producer margin for 
     a consecutive 2-month period is less than the coverage level 
     threshold selected by the dairy producer under paragraph (2).
       ``(7)  Margin insurance payments.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall make a margin 
     insurance protection payment to each participating dairy 
     producer whenever the average actual dairy producer margin 
     for a consecutive 2-month period is less than the coverage 
     level threshold selected by the dairy producer under 
     paragraph (2).
       ``(B) Amount of payment.--The margin insurance payment for 
     the dairy operation of a participating dairy producer shall 
     be determined as follows:
       ``(i) The Secretary shall calculate the difference 
     between--

       ``(I) the coverage level threshold selected by the dairy 
     producer under paragraph (2); and
       ``(II) the average actual dairy producer margin for the 
     consecutive 2-month period.

       ``(ii) The amount determined under clause (i) shall be 
     multiplied by--

       ``(I) the percentage selected by the dairy producer under 
     paragraph (3); and
       ``(II) the lesser of--

       ``(aa) the quotient obtained by dividing--
       ``(AA) the production history applicable to the producer 
     under subsection (e)(1); by
       ``(BB) 6; and
       ``(bb) the actual quantity of milk marketed by the dairy 
     operation of the dairy producer during the consecutive 2-
     month period.
       ``(g) Effect of Failure To Pay Premiums.--
       ``(1) Loss of benefits.--A participating dairy producer 
     that is in arrears on premium payments for margin insurance--
       ``(A) remains legally obligated to pay the premiums; and
       ``(B) may not receive margin insurance until the premiums 
     are fully paid.
       ``(2) Enforcement.--The Secretary may take such action as 
     is necessary to collect premium payments for margin 
     insurance.
       ``(h) Use of Commodity Credit Corporation.--The Secretary 
     shall use the funds, facilities, and the authorities of the 
     Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this section.
       ``(i) Program Start Date.--The Secretary shall conduct the 
     margin insurance program beginning on October 1, 2013.''.

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     SEC. 1402. RULEMAKING.

       (a) Procedure.--The promulgation of regulations for the 
     initiation of the margin insurance program, and for 
     administration of the margin insurance program, shall be 
     made--
       (1) without regard to chapter 35 of title 44, United States 
     Code (commonly known as the Paperwork Reduction Act);
       (2) without regard to the Statement of Policy of the 
     Secretary of Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. 
     Reg. 13804), relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and 
     public participation in rulemaking; and
       (3) subject to subsection (b), pursuant to section 553 of 
     title 5, United States Code.
       (b) Special Rulemaking Requirements.--
       (1) Interim rules authorized.--With respect to the margin 
     insurance program, the Secretary may promulgate interim rules 
     under the authority provided in subparagraph (B) of section 
     553(b) of title 5, United States Code, if the Secretary 
     determines such interim rules to be needed. Any such interim 
     rules for the margin insurance program shall be effective on 
     publication.
       (2) Final rules.--With respect to the margin insurance 
     program, the Secretary shall promulgate final rules, with an 
     opportunity for public notice and comment, no later than 21 
     months after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (c) Inclusion of Additional Order.--Section 143(a)(2) of 
     the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
     U.S.C. 7253(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new sentence: ``Subsection (b)(2) does not apply to 
     the authority of the Secretary under this subsection.''.

  PART II--REPEAL OR REAUTHORIZATION OF OTHER DAIRY-RELATED PROVISIONS

     SEC. 1411. REPEAL OF DAIRY PRODUCT PRICE SUPPORT AND MILK 
                   INCOME LOSS CONTRACT PROGRAMS.

       (a) Repeal of Dairy Product Price Support Program.--Section 
     1501 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
     U.S.C. 8771) is repealed.
       (b) Repeal of Milk Income Loss Contract Program.--Section 
     1506 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
     U.S.C. 8773) is repealed.

     SEC. 1412. REPEAL OF DAIRY EXPORT INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 153 of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (15 U.S.C. 713a-14) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 902(2) of the Trade 
     Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 
     U.S.C. 7201(2)) is amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (D); and
       (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as 
     subparagraphs (D) and (E), respectively.

     SEC. 1413. EXTENSION OF DAIRY FORWARD PRICING PROGRAM.

       Section 1502(e) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8772(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``2015'' and inserting 
     ``2021''.

     SEC. 1414. EXTENSION OF DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM.

       Section 3 of Public Law 90-484 (7 U.S.C. 450l) is amended 
     by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 1415. EXTENSION OF DAIRY PROMOTION AND RESEARCH PROGRAM.

       Section 113(e)(2) of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act 
     of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 4504(e)(2)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 1416. REPEAL OF FEDERAL MILK MARKETING ORDER REVIEW 
                   COMMISSION.

       Section 1509 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 1726) is repealed.

                        PART III--EFFECTIVE DATE

     SEC. 1421. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       This subtitle and the amendments made by this subtitle 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

   Subtitle E--Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance Programs

     SEC. 1501. SUPPLEMENTAL AGRICULTURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Eligible producer on a farm.--
       (A) In general.--The term ``eligible producer on a farm'' 
     means an individual or entity described in subparagraph (B) 
     that, as determined by the Secretary, assumes the production 
     and market risks associated with the agricultural production 
     of crops or livestock.
       (B) Description.--An individual or entity referred to in 
     subparagraph (A) is--
       (i) a citizen of the United States;
       (ii) a resident alien;
       (iii) a partnership of citizens of the United States; or
       (iv) a corporation, limited liability corporation, or other 
     farm organizational structure organized under State law.
       (2) Farm-raised fish.--The term ``farm-raised fish'' means 
     any aquatic species that is propagated and reared in a 
     controlled environment.
       (3) Livestock.--The term ``livestock'' includes--
       (A) cattle (including dairy cattle);
       (B) bison;
       (C) poultry;
       (D) sheep;
       (E) swine;
       (F) horses; and
       (G) other livestock, as determined by the Secretary.
       (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       (b) Livestock Indemnity Payments.--
       (1) Payments.--For fiscal year 2012 and each succeeding 
     fiscal year, the Secretary shall use such sums as are 
     necessary of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
     make livestock indemnity payments to eligible producers on 
     farms that have incurred livestock death losses in excess of 
     the normal mortality, as determined by the Secretary, due 
     to--
       (A) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the 
     Federal Government or protected by Federal law, including 
     wolves and avian predators; or
       (B) adverse weather, as determined by the Secretary, during 
     the calendar year, including losses due to hurricanes, 
     floods, blizzards, disease, wildfires, extreme heat, and 
     extreme cold.
       (2) Payment rates.--Indemnity payments to an eligible 
     producer on a farm under paragraph (1) shall be made at a 
     rate of 75 percent of the market value of the applicable 
     livestock on the day before the date of death of the 
     livestock, as determined by the Secretary.
       (3) Special rule for payments made due to disease.--The 
     Secretary shall ensure that payments made to an eligible 
     producer under paragraph (1) are not made for the same 
     livestock losses for which compensation is provided pursuant 
     to section 10407(d) of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 
     U.S.C. 8306(d)).
       (c) Livestock Forage Disaster Program.--
       (1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Covered livestock.--
       (i) In general.--Except as provided in clause (ii), the 
     term ``covered livestock'' means livestock of an eligible 
     livestock producer that, during the 60 days prior to the 
     beginning date of a qualifying drought or fire condition, as 
     determined by the Secretary, the eligible livestock 
     producer--

       (I) owned;
       (II) leased;
       (III) purchased;
       (IV) entered into a contract to purchase;
       (V) is a contract grower; or
       (VI) sold or otherwise disposed of due to qualifying 
     drought conditions during--

       (aa) the current production year; or
       (bb) subject to paragraph (3)(B)(ii), 1 or both of the 2 
     production years immediately preceding the current production 
     year.
       (ii) Exclusion.--The term ``covered livestock'' does not 
     include livestock that were or would have been in a feedlot, 
     on the beginning date of the qualifying drought or fire 
     condition, as a part of the normal business operation of the 
     eligible livestock producer, as determined by the Secretary.
       (B) Drought monitor.--The term ``drought monitor'' means a 
     system for classifying drought severity according to a range 
     of abnormally dry to exceptional drought, as defined by the 
     Secretary.
       (C) Eligible livestock producer.--
       (i) In general.--The term ``eligible livestock producer'' 
     means an eligible producer on a farm that--

       (I) is an owner, cash or share lessee, or contract grower 
     of covered livestock that provides the pastureland or grazing 
     land, including cash-leased pastureland or grazing land, for 
     the livestock;
       (II) provides the pastureland or grazing land for covered 
     livestock, including cash-leased pastureland or grazing land 
     that is physically located in a county affected by drought;
       (III) certifies grazing loss; and
       (IV) meets all other eligibility requirements established 
     under this subsection.

       (ii) Exclusion.--The term ``eligible livestock producer'' 
     does not include an owner, cash or share lessee, or contract 
     grower of livestock that rents or leases pastureland or 
     grazing land owned by another person on a rate-of-gain basis.
       (D) Normal carrying capacity.--The term ``normal carrying 
     capacity'', with respect to each type of grazing land or 
     pastureland in a county, means the normal carrying capacity, 
     as determined under paragraph (3)(D)(i), that would be 
     expected from the grazing land or pastureland for livestock 
     during the normal grazing period, in the absence of a drought 
     or fire that diminishes the production of the grazing land or 
     pastureland.
       (E) Normal grazing period.--The term ``normal grazing 
     period'', with respect to a county, means the normal grazing 
     period during the calendar year for the county, as determined 
     under paragraph (3)(D)(i).
       (2) Program.--For fiscal year 2012 and each succeeding 
     fiscal year, the Secretary shall use such sums as are 
     necessary of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 
     provide compensation for losses to eligible livestock 
     producers due to grazing losses for covered livestock due 
     to--
       (A) a drought condition, as described in paragraph (3); or
       (B) fire, as described in paragraph (4).
       (3) Assistance for losses due to drought conditions.--
       (A) Eligible losses.--
       (i) In general.--An eligible livestock producer may receive 
     assistance under this subsection only for grazing losses for 
     covered livestock that occur on land that--

       (I) is native or improved pastureland with permanent 
     vegetative cover; or
       (II) is planted to a crop planted specifically for the 
     purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock.

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       (ii) Exclusions.--An eligible livestock producer may not 
     receive assistance under this subsection for grazing losses 
     that occur on land used for haying or grazing under the 
     conservation reserve program established under subchapter B 
     of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.).
       (B) Monthly payment rate.--
       (i) In general.--Except as provided in clause (ii), the 
     payment rate for assistance under this paragraph for 1 month 
     shall, in the case of drought, be equal to 60 percent of the 
     lesser of--

       (I) the monthly feed cost for all covered livestock owned 
     or leased by the eligible livestock producer, as determined 
     under subparagraph (C); or
       (II) the monthly feed cost calculated by using the normal 
     carrying capacity of the eligible grazing land of the 
     eligible livestock producer.

       (ii) Partial compensation.--In the case of an eligible 
     livestock producer that sold or otherwise disposed of covered 
     livestock due to drought conditions in 1 or both of the 2 
     production years immediately preceding the current production 
     year, as determined by the Secretary, the payment rate shall 
     be 80 percent of the payment rate otherwise calculated in 
     accordance with clause (i).
       (C) Monthly feed cost.--
       (i) In general.--The monthly feed cost shall equal the 
     product obtained by multiplying--

       (I) 30 days;
       (II) a payment quantity that is equal to the feed grain 
     equivalent, as determined under clause (ii); and
       (III) a payment rate that is equal to the corn price per 
     pound, as determined under clause (iii).

       (ii) Feed grain equivalent.--For purposes of clause 
     (i)(II), the feed grain equivalent shall equal--

       (I) in the case of an adult beef cow, 15.7 pounds of corn 
     per day; or
       (II) in the case of any other type of weight of livestock, 
     an amount determined by the Secretary that represents the 
     average number of pounds of corn per day necessary to feed 
     the livestock.

       (iii) Corn price per pound.--For purposes of clause 
     (i)(III), the corn price per pound shall equal the quotient 
     obtained by dividing--

       (I) the higher of--

       (aa) the national average corn price per bushel for the 12-
     month period immediately preceding March 1 of the year for 
     which the disaster assistance is calculated; or
       (bb) the national average corn price per bushel for the 24-
     month period immediately preceding that March 1; by

       (II) 56.

       (D) Normal grazing period and drought monitor intensity.--
       (i) FSA county committee determinations.--

       (I) In general.--The Secretary shall determine the normal 
     carrying capacity and normal grazing period for each type of 
     grazing land or pastureland in the county served by the 
     applicable committee.
       (II) Changes.--No change to the normal carrying capacity or 
     normal grazing period established for a county under 
     subclause (I) shall be made unless the change is requested by 
     the appropriate State and county Farm Service Agency 
     committees.

       (ii) Drought intensity.--

       (I) D2.--An eligible livestock producer that owns or leases 
     grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a 
     county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a 
     D2 (severe drought) intensity in any area of the county for 
     at least 8 consecutive weeks during the normal grazing period 
     for the county, as determined by the Secretary, shall be 
     eligible to receive assistance under this paragraph in an 
     amount equal to 1 monthly payment using the monthly payment 
     rate determined under subparagraph (B).
       (II) D3.--An eligible livestock producer that owns or 
     leases grazing land or pastureland that is physically located 
     in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as 
     having at least a D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area 
     of the county at any time during the normal grazing period 
     for the county, as determined by the Secretary, shall be 
     eligible to receive assistance under this paragraph--

       (aa) in an amount equal to 3 monthly payments using the 
     monthly payment rate determined under subparagraph (B);
       (bb) if the county is rated as having a D3 (extreme 
     drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 4 
     weeks during the normal grazing period for the county, or is 
     rated as having a D4 (exceptional drought) intensity in any 
     area of the county at any time during the normal grazing 
     period, in an amount equal to 4 monthly payments using the 
     monthly payment rate determined under subparagraph (B); or
       (cc) if the county is rated as having a D4 (exceptional 
     drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 4 
     weeks during the normal grazing period, in an amount equal to 
     5 monthly payments using the monthly rate determined under 
     subparagraph (B).
       (4) Assistance for losses due to fire on public managed 
     land.--
       (A) In general.--An eligible livestock producer may receive 
     assistance under this paragraph only if--
       (i) the grazing losses occur on rangeland that is managed 
     by a Federal agency; and
       (ii) the eligible livestock producer is prohibited by the 
     Federal agency from grazing the normal permitted livestock on 
     the managed rangeland due to a fire.
       (B) Payment rate.--The payment rate for assistance under 
     this paragraph shall be equal to 50 percent of the monthly 
     feed cost for the total number of livestock covered by the 
     Federal lease of the eligible livestock producer, as 
     determined under paragraph (3)(C).
       (C) Payment duration.--
       (i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), an eligible 
     livestock producer shall be eligible to receive assistance 
     under this paragraph for the period--

       (I) beginning on the date on which the Federal agency 
     excludes the eligible livestock producer from using the 
     managed rangeland for grazing; and
       (II) ending on the last day of the Federal lease of the 
     eligible livestock producer.

       (ii) Limitation.--An eligible livestock producer may only 
     receive assistance under this paragraph for losses that occur 
     on not more than 180 days per year.
       (5) No duplicative payments.--An eligible livestock 
     producer may elect to receive assistance for grazing or 
     pasture feed losses due to drought conditions under paragraph 
     (3) or fire under paragraph (4), but not both for the same 
     loss, as determined by the Secretary.
       (d) Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and 
     Farm-Raised Fish.--
       (1) In general.--For fiscal year 2012 and each succeeding 
     fiscal year, the Secretary shall use not more than 
     $20,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     to provide emergency relief to eligible producers of 
     livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the 
     reduction of losses due to disease (including cattle tick 
     fever), adverse weather, or other conditions, such as 
     blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary, that 
     are not covered under subsection (b) or (c).
       (2) Use of funds.--Funds made available under this 
     subsection shall be used to reduce losses caused by feed or 
     water shortages, disease, or other factors as determined by 
     the Secretary.
       (3) Availability of funds.--Any funds made available under 
     this subsection shall remain available until expended.
       (e) Tree Assistance Program.--
       (1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Eligible orchardist.--The term ``eligible orchardist'' 
     means a person that produces annual crops from trees for 
     commercial purposes.
       (B) Natural disaster.--The term ``natural disaster'' means 
     plant disease, insect infestation, drought, fire, freeze, 
     flood, earthquake, lightning, or other occurrence, as 
     determined by the Secretary.
       (C) Nursery tree grower.--The term ``nursery tree grower'' 
     means a person who produces nursery, ornamental, fruit, nut, 
     or Christmas trees for commercial sale, as determined by the 
     Secretary.
       (D) Tree.--The term ``tree'' includes a tree, bush, and 
     vine.
       (2) Eligibility.--
       (A) Loss.--Subject to subparagraph (B), for fiscal year 
     2012 and each succeeding fiscal year, the Secretary shall use 
     such sums as are necessary of the funds of the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation to provide assistance--
       (i) under paragraph (3) to eligible orchardists and nursery 
     tree growers that planted trees for commercial purposes but 
     lost the trees as a result of a natural disaster, as 
     determined by the Secretary; and
       (ii) under paragraph (3)(B) to eligible orchardists and 
     nursery tree growers that have a production history for 
     commercial purposes on planted or existing trees but lost the 
     trees as a result of a natural disaster, as determined by the 
     Secretary.
       (B) Limitation.--An eligible orchardist or nursery tree 
     grower shall qualify for assistance under subparagraph (A) 
     only if the tree mortality of the eligible orchardist or 
     nursery tree grower, as a result of damaging weather or 
     related condition, exceeds 15 percent (adjusted for normal 
     mortality).
       (3) Assistance.--Subject to paragraph (4), the assistance 
     provided by the Secretary to eligible orchardists and nursery 
     tree growers for losses described in paragraph (2) shall 
     consist of--
       (A)(i) reimbursement of 65 percent of the cost of 
     replanting trees lost due to a natural disaster, as 
     determined by the Secretary, in excess of 15 percent 
     mortality (adjusted for normal mortality); or
       (ii) at the option of the Secretary, sufficient seedlings 
     to reestablish a stand; and
       (B) reimbursement of 50 percent of the cost of pruning, 
     removal, and other costs incurred by an eligible orchardist 
     or nursery tree grower to salvage existing trees or, in the 
     case of tree mortality, to prepare the land to replant trees 
     as a result of damage or tree mortality due to a natural 
     disaster, as determined by the Secretary, in excess of 15 
     percent damage or mortality (adjusted for normal tree damage 
     and mortality).
       (4) Limitations on assistance.--
       (A) Definitions of legal entity and person.--In this 
     paragraph, the terms ``legal entity'' and ``person'' have the 
     meaning given those terms in section 1001(a) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(a)).
       (B) Amount.--The total amount of payments received, 
     directly or indirectly, by a person or legal entity 
     (excluding a joint venture or general partnership) under this 
     subsection may not exceed $125,000 for any crop year, or an 
     equivalent value in tree seedlings.

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       (C) Acres.--The total quantity of acres planted to trees or 
     tree seedlings for which a person or legal entity shall be 
     entitled to receive payments under this subsection may not 
     exceed 500 acres.
       (f) Payment Limitations.--
       (1) Definitions of legal entity and person.--In this 
     subsection, the terms ``legal entity'' and ``person'' have 
     the meaning given those terms in section 1001(a) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308(a)).
       (2) Amount.--The total amount of disaster assistance 
     payments received, directly or indirectly, by a person or 
     legal entity (excluding a joint venture or general 
     partnership) under this section (excluding payments received 
     under subsection (e)) may not exceed $125,000 for any crop 
     year.
       (3) Direct attribution.--Subsections (e) and (f) of section 
     1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308) or any 
     successor provisions relating to direct attribution shall 
     apply with respect to assistance provided under this section.

     SEC. 1502. NATIONAL DROUGHT COUNCIL AND NATIONAL DROUGHT 
                   POLICY ACTION PLAN.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Council.--The term ``Council'' means the National 
     Drought Council established by this section.
       (2) Drought.--The term ``drought'' means a natural disaster 
     that is caused by a deficiency in precipitation--
       (A) that may lead to a deficiency in surface and subsurface 
     water supplies (including rivers, streams, wetlands, ground 
     water, soil moisture, reservoir supplies, lake levels, and 
     snow pack); and
       (B) that causes or may cause--
       (i) substantial economic or social impacts; or
       (ii) physical damage or injury to individuals, property, or 
     the environment.
       (3) Indian tribe.--The term ``Indian tribe'' has the 
     meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-
     Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b).
       (4) Member.--The term ``member'', with respect to the 
     National Drought Council, means a member of the Council 
     specified or appointed under this section or, in the absence 
     of the member, the member's designee.
       (5) Mitigation.--The term ``mitigation'' means a short- or 
     long-term action, program, or policy that is implemented in 
     advance of or during a drought to minimize any risks and 
     impacts of drought.
       (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       (7) State.--The term ``State'' means the several States, 
     the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the 
     Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 
     Islands.
       (8) Trigger.--The term ``trigger'' means the thresholds or 
     criteria that must be satisfied before mitigation or 
     emergency assistance may be provided to an area--
       (A) in which drought is emerging; or
       (B) that is experiencing a drought.
       (9) Watershed.--The term ``watershed'' means a region or 
     area with common hydrology, an area drained by a waterway 
     that drains into a lake or reservoir, the total area above a 
     given point on a stream that contributes water to the flow at 
     that point, or the topographic dividing line from which 
     surface streams flow in two different directions. In no case 
     shall a watershed be larger than a river basin.
       (10) Watershed group.--The term ``watershed group'' means a 
     group of individuals, formally recognized by the appropriate 
     State or States, who represent the broad scope of relevant 
     interests within a watershed and who work together in a 
     collaborative manner to jointly plan the management of the 
     natural resources contained within the watershed.
       (b) Effect of Section.--This section does not affect--
       (1) the authority of a State to allocate quantities of 
     water under the jurisdiction of the State; or
       (2) any State water rights established as of the date of 
     enactment of this Act.
       (c) National Drought Council.--
       (1) Establishment.--There is established in the Office of 
     the Secretary of Agriculture a council to be known as the 
     ``National Drought Council''.
       (2) Membership.--
       (A) Composition.--The Council shall be composed of--
       (i) the Secretary (or the designee of the Secretary);
       (ii) the Secretary of Commerce (or the designee of the 
     Secretary of Commerce);
       (iii) the Secretary of the Army (or the designee of the 
     Secretary of the Army);
       (iv) the Secretary of the Interior (or the designee of the 
     Secretary of the Interior);
       (v) the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
     (or the designee of the Director);
       (vi) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency (or the designee of the Administrator);
       (vii) 4 members appointed by the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the National Governors Association, each of whom shall 
     be the Governor of a State (or the designee of the Governor) 
     and who collectively shall represent the geographic diversity 
     of the Nation;
       (viii) 1 member appointed by the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the National Association of Counties;
       (ix) 1 member appointed by the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the United States Conference of Mayors;
       (x) 1 member appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, in 
     coordination with Indian tribes, to represent the interests 
     of tribal governments; and
       (xi) 1 member appointed by the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the National Association of Conservation Districts, to 
     represent local soil and water conservation districts.
       (B) Date of appointment.--The appointment of each member of 
     the Council shall be made not later than 120 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act.
       (3) Term; vacancies.--
       (A) Term.--A non-Federal member of the Council appointed 
     under paragraph (2) shall be appointed for a term of two 
     years.
       (B) Vacancies.--A vacancy on the Council--
       (i) shall not affect the powers of the Council; and
       (ii) shall be filled in the same manner as the original 
     appointment was made.
       (C) Terms of members filling vacancies.--Any member 
     appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration 
     of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed 
     shall be appointed only for the remainder of that term.
       (4) Meetings.--
       (A) In general.--The Council shall meet at the call of the 
     co-chairs.
       (B) Frequency.--The Council shall meet at least 
     semiannually.
       (5) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the Council shall 
     constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may hold hearings or 
     conduct other business.
       (6) Council leadership.--
       (A) In general.--There shall be a Federal co-chair and non-
     Federal co-chair of the Council.
       (B) Appointment.--
       (i) Federal co-chair.--The Secretary shall be the Federal 
     co-chair.
       (ii) Non-federal co-chair.--The non-Federal members of the 
     Council shall elect, on a biannual basis, a non-Federal co-
     chair of the Council from among the members appointed under 
     paragraph (2).
       (d) Duties of the Council.--
       (1) In general.--The Council shall--
       (A) not later than one year after the date of the first 
     meeting of the Council, develop a comprehensive National 
     Drought Policy Action Plan that--
       (i)(I) delineates and integrates responsibilities for 
     activities relating to drought (including drought 
     preparedness, mitigation, research, risk management, 
     training, and emergency relief) among Federal agencies; and
       (II) ensures that those activities are coordinated with the 
     activities of the States, local governments, Indian tribes, 
     and neighboring countries;
       (ii) is consistent with--

       (I) this Act and other applicable Federal laws; and
       (II) the laws and policies of the States for water 
     management;

       (iii) is integrated with drought management programs of the 
     States, Indian tribes, local governments, watershed groups, 
     and private entities; and
       (iv) avoids duplicating Federal, State, tribal, local, 
     watershed, and private drought preparedness and monitoring 
     programs in existence on the date of enactment of this Act;
       (B) evaluate Federal drought-related programs in existence 
     on the date of enactment of this Act and make recommendations 
     to Congress and the President on means of eliminating--
       (i) discrepancies between the goals of the programs and 
     actual service delivery;
       (ii) duplication among programs; and
       (iii) any other circumstances that interfere with the 
     effective operation of the programs;
       (C) make recommendations to the President, Congress, and 
     appropriate Federal agencies on--
       (i) the establishment of common interagency triggers for 
     authorizing Federal drought mitigation programs; and
       (ii) improving the consistency and fairness of assistance 
     among Federal drought relief programs;
       (D) encourage and facilitate the development of drought 
     preparedness plans under subtitle C, including establishing 
     the guidelines under this section;
       (E) based on a review of drought preparedness plans, 
     develop and make available to the public drought planning 
     models to reduce water resource conflicts relating to water 
     conservation and droughts;
       (F) develop and coordinate public awareness activities to 
     provide the public with access to understandable and 
     informative materials on drought, including--
       (i) explanations of the causes of drought, the impacts of 
     drought, and the damages from drought;
       (ii) descriptions of the value and benefits of land 
     stewardship to reduce the impacts of drought and to protect 
     the environment;
       (iii) clear instructions for appropriate responses to 
     drought, including water conservation, water reuse, and 
     detection and elimination of water leaks;
       (iv) information on State and local laws applicable to 
     drought; and
       (v) opportunities for assistance to resource-dependent 
     businesses and industries in times of drought; and
       (G) establish operating procedures for the Council.
       (2) Consultation.--In carrying out this subsection, the 
     Council shall consult with groups affected by drought 
     emergencies.

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       (3) Reports to congress.--
       (A) Annual report.--
       (i) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the first meeting of the Council, and annually thereafter, 
     the Council shall submit to Congress a report on the 
     activities carried out under this section.
       (ii) Inclusions.--

       (I) In general.--The annual report shall include a summary 
     of drought preparedness plans.
       (II) Initial report.--The initial report submitted under 
     subparagraph (A) shall include any recommendations of the 
     Council.

       (B) Final report.--Not later than seven years after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Council shall submit to 
     Congress a report that recommends--
       (i) amendments to this section; and
       (ii) whether the Council should continue.
       (e) Powers of the Council.--
       (1) Hearings.--The Council may hold hearings, meet and act 
     at any time and place, take any testimony and receive any 
     evidence that the Council considers advisable to carry out 
     this section.
       (2) Information from federal agencies.--
       (A) In general.--The Council may obtain directly from any 
     Federal agency any information that the Council considers 
     necessary to carry out this section.
       (B) Provision of information.--
       (i) In general.--Except as provided in clause (ii), on 
     request of the Secretary or the non-Federal co-chair of the 
     Council, the head of a Federal agency may provide information 
     to the Council.
       (ii) Limitation.--The head of a Federal agency shall not 
     provide any information to the Council that the Federal 
     agency head determines the disclosure of which may cause harm 
     to national security interests.
       (3) Postal services.--The Council may use the United States 
     mail in the same manner and under the same conditions as 
     other agencies of the Federal Government.
       (4) Gifts.--The Council may accept, use, and dispose of 
     gifts or donations of services or property.
       (f) Council Personnel Matters.--
       (1) Compensation of members.--
       (A) Non-federal employees.--A member of the Council who is 
     not an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall 
     serve without compensation.
       (B) Federal employees.--A member of the Council who is an 
     officer or employee of the United States shall serve without 
     compensation in addition to the compensation received for 
     services of the member as an officer or employee of the 
     Federal Government.
       (2) Travel expenses.--A member of the Council shall be 
     allowed travel expenses at rates authorized for an employee 
     of an agency under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, 
     United States Code, while away from the home or regular place 
     of business of the member in the performance of the duties of 
     the Council.
       (g) Termination of Council.--The Council shall terminate at 
     the end of the eighth fiscal year beginning on or after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.

                       Subtitle F--Administration

     SEC. 1601. ADMINISTRATION GENERALLY.

       (a) Use of Commodity Credit Corporation.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall use the funds, facilities, and authorities 
     of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this title.
       (b) Determinations by Secretary.--A determination made by 
     the Secretary under this title shall be final and conclusive.
       (c) Regulations.--
       (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     subsection, not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation, as appropriate, shall promulgate such 
     regulations as are necessary to implement this title and the 
     amendments made by this title.
       (2) Procedure.--The promulgation of the regulations and 
     administration of this title and the amendments made by this 
     title and sections 10003 and 10016 of this Act shall be 
     made--
       (A) pursuant to section 553 of title 5, United States Code, 
     including by interim rules effective on publication under the 
     authority provided in subparagraph (B) of subsection (b) of 
     such section if the Secretary determines such interim rules 
     to be needed and final rules, with an opportunity for notice 
     and comment, no later than 21 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act;
       (B) without regard to chapter 35 of title 44, United States 
     Code (commonly known as the ``Paperwork Reduction Act''); and
       (C) without regard to the Statement of Policy of the 
     Secretary of Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. 
     Reg. 13804), relating to notices of proposed rulemaking and 
     public participation in rulemaking.
       (d) Adjustment Authority Related to Trade Agreements 
     Compliance.--
       (1) Required determination; adjustment.--If the Secretary 
     determines that expenditures under this title that are 
     subject to the total allowable domestic support levels under 
     the Uruguay Round Agreements (as defined in section 2 of the 
     Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501)) will exceed 
     the allowable levels for any applicable reporting period, the 
     Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, make 
     adjustments in the amount of the expenditures during that 
     period to ensure that the expenditures do not exceed the 
     allowable levels.
       (2) Congressional notification.--Before making any 
     adjustment under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report describing the determination made under 
     that paragraph and the extent of the adjustment to be made.

     SEC. 1602. REPEAL OF PERMANENT PRICE SUPPORT AUTHORITY.

       (a) Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.--
       (1) Repeals.--The following provisions of the Agricultural 
     Adjustment Act of 1938 are repealed:
       (A) Parts II through V of subtitle B of title III (7 U.S.C. 
     1326 et seq.).
       (B) Subtitle D of title III (7 U.S.C. 1379a et seq.).
       (C) Title IV (7 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.).
       (2) Inapplicability to upland cotton.--Section 377 of the 
     Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1377) is 
     amended by striking ``was not fully planted'' and inserting 
     ``was not fully planted: Provided further, That effective on 
     the date of the enactment of the Federal Agriculture Reform 
     and Risk Management Act of 2013, this section shall not apply 
     to upland cotton''.
       (b) Agricultural Act of 1949.--The following provisions of 
     the Agricultural Act of 1949 are repealed:
       (1) Section 101 (7 U.S.C. 1441).
       (2) Section 103(a) (7 U.S.C. 1444(a)).
       (3) Section 105 (7 U.S.C. 1444b).
       (4) Section 107 (7 U.S.C. 1445a).
       (5) Section 110 (7 U.S.C. 1445e).
       (6) Section 112 (7 U.S.C. 1445g).
       (7) Section 115 (7 U.S.C. 1445k).
       (8) Section 201 (7 U.S.C. 1446).
       (9) Title III (7 U.S.C. 1447 et seq.).
       (10) Title IV (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.), other than sections 
     404, 412, and 416 (7 U.S.C. 1424, 1429, and 1431).
       (11) Title V (7 U.S.C. 1461 et seq.).
       (12) Title VI (7 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.).
       (c) Suspension of Certain Quota Provisions.--The joint 
     resolution entitled ``A joint resolution relating to corn and 
     wheat marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
     of 1938, as amended'', approved May 26, 1941 (7 U.S.C. 1330, 
     1340), is repealed.

     SEC. 1603. PAYMENT LIMITATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(3) Legal entity.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `legal entity' means--
       ``(i) an organization that (subject to the requirements of 
     this section and section 1001A) is eligible to receive a 
     payment under a provision of law referred to in subsection 
     (b), (c), or (d);
       ``(ii) a corporation, joint stock company, association, 
     limited partnership, limited liability company, limited 
     liability partnership, charitable organization, estate, 
     irrevocable trust, grantor of a revocable trust, or other 
     similar entity (as determined by the Secretary); and
       ``(iii) an organization that is participating in a farming 
     operation as a partner in a general partnership or as a 
     participant in a joint venture.
       ``(B) Exclusion.--The term `legal entity' does not include 
     a general partnership or joint venture.'';
       (2) by striking subsections (b) through (d) and inserting 
     the following:
       ``(b) Limitation on Payments for Covered Commodities and 
     Peanuts.--The total amount of payments received, directly or 
     indirectly, by a person or legal entity for any crop year for 
     1 or more covered commodities and peanuts under title I of 
     the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 
     2013 may not exceed $125,000, of which--
       ``(1) not more than $75,000 may consist of marketing loan 
     gains and loan deficiency payments under subtitle B of title 
     I of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act 
     of 2013; and
       ``(2) not more than $50,000 may consist of any other 
     payments made for covered commodities and peanuts under title 
     I of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act 
     of 2013.
       ``(c) Spousal Equity.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding subsection (b), except 
     as provided in paragraph (2), if a person and the spouse of 
     the person are covered by paragraph (2) and receive, directly 
     or indirectly, any payment or gain covered by this section, 
     the total amount of payments or gains (as applicable) covered 
     by this section that the person and spouse may jointly 
     receive during any crop year may not exceed an amount equal 
     to twice the applicable dollar amounts specified in 
     subsection (b).
       ``(2) Exceptions.--
       ``(A) Separate farming operations.--In the case of a 
     married couple in which each spouse, before the marriage, was 
     separately engaged in an unrelated farming operation, each 
     spouse shall be treated as a separate person with respect to 
     a farming operation brought into the marriage by a spouse, 
     subject to the condition that the farming operation shall 
     remain a separate farming operation, as determined by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(B) Election to receive separate payments.--A married 
     couple may elect to receive payments separately in the name 
     of each spouse if the total amount of payments and benefits 
     described in subsection (b) that the married couple receives, 
     directly or indirectly, does not exceed an amount equal to 
     twice the applicable dollar amounts specified in those 
     subsections.'';

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       (3) in paragraph (3)(B) of subsection (f), by adding at the 
     end the following:
       ``(iii) Irrevocable trusts.--In promulgating regulations to 
     define the term `legal entity' as the term applies to 
     irrevocable trusts, the Secretary shall ensure that 
     irrevocable trusts are legitimate entities that have not been 
     created for the purpose of avoiding a payment limitation.''; 
     and
       (4) in subsection (h), in the second sentence, by striking 
     ``or other entity'' and inserting ``or legal entity''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1308) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (e), by striking ``subsections (b) and 
     (c)'' each place it appears in paragraphs (1) and (3)(B) and 
     inserting ``subsection (b)'';
       (B) in subsection (f)--
       (i) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Subsections (b) and 
     (c)'' and inserting ``Subsection (b)'';
       (ii) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking ``subsection (b) or 
     (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)'';
       (iii) in paragraph (5)--

       (I) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``subsection (d)''; 
     and
       (II) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subsection (b), 
     (c), or (d)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)''; and

       (iv) in paragraph (6)--

       (I) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``Notwithstanding 
     subsection (d), except as provided in subsection (g)'' and 
     inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (f)''; and
       (II) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subsections (b), 
     (c), and (d)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)'';

       (C) in subsection (g)--
       (i) in paragraph (1)--

       (I) by striking ``subsection (f)(6)(A)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (e)(6)(A)''; and
       (II) by striking ``subsection (b) or (c)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (b)''; and

       (ii) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``subsections (b) and 
     (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)''; and
       (D) by redesignating subsections (e) through (h) as 
     subsections (d) through (g), respectively.
       (2) Section 1001A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 
     U.S.C. 1308-1) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsections (b) and 
     (c) of section 1001'' and inserting ``section 1001(b)''; and
       (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``subsection (b) or 
     (c) of section 1001'' and inserting ``section 1001(b)''.
       (3) Section 1001B(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 
     U.S.C. 1308-2(a)) is amended in the matter preceding 
     paragraph (1) by striking ``subsections (b) and (c) of 
     section 1001'' and inserting ``section 1001(b)''.
       (c) Application.--The amendments made by this section shall 
     apply beginning with the 2014 crop year.

     SEC. 1603A. PAYMENTS LIMITED TO ACTIVE FARMERS.

       Section 1001A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1308-1) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(2)--
       (A) by striking ``or active personal management'' each 
     place it appears in subparagraphs (A)(i)(II) and (B)(ii); and
       (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``, as applied to the 
     legal entity, are met by the legal entity, the partners or 
     members making a significant contribution of personal labor 
     or active personal management'' and inserting ``are met by 
     partners or members making a significant contribution of 
     personal labor, those partners or members''; and
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(A) the landowner share-rents the land at a rate that is 
     usual and customary;'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) the share of the payments received by the landowner 
     is commensurate with the share of the crop or income received 
     as rent.'';
       (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``active personal 
     management or'';
       (C) in paragraph (5)--
       (i) by striking ``(5)'' and all that follows through ``(A) 
     In general.--A person'' and inserting the following:
       ``(5) Custom farming services.--A person'';
       (ii) by inserting ``under usual and customary terms'' after 
     ``services''; and
       (iii) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (D) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(7) Farm managers.--A person who otherwise meets the 
     requirements of this subsection other than (b)(2)(A)(i)(II) 
     shall be considered to be actively engaged in farming, as 
     determined by the Secretary, with respect to the farming 
     operation, including a farming operation that is a sole 
     proprietorship, a legal entity such as a joint venture or 
     general partnership, or a legal entity such as a corporation 
     or limited partnership, if the person--
       ``(A) makes a significant contribution of management to the 
     farming operation necessary for the farming operation, taking 
     into account--
       ``(i) the size and complexity of the farming operation; and
       ``(ii) the management requirements normally and customarily 
     required by similar farming operations;
       ``(B)(i) is the only person in the farming operation 
     qualifying as actively engaged in farming by using the farm 
     manager special class designation under this paragraph; and
       ``(ii) together with any other persons in the farming 
     operation qualifying as actively engaged in farming under 
     subsection (b)(2) or as part of a special class under this 
     subsection, does not collectively receive, directly or 
     indirectly, an amount equal to more than the applicable 
     limits under section 1001(b);
       ``(C) does not use the management contribution under this 
     paragraph to qualify as actively engaged in more than 1 
     farming operation; and
       ``(D) manages a farm operation that does not substantially 
     share equipment, labor, or management with persons or legal 
     entities that with the person collectively receive, directly 
     or indirectly, an amount equal to more than the applicable 
     limits under section 1001(b).''.

     SEC. 1604. ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME LIMITATION.

       (a) Limitations and Covered Benefits.--Section 1001D(b) of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a(b)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Limitations'' 
     and inserting ``Limitations on Commodity and Conservation 
     Programs'';
       (2) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the 
     following new paragraphs:
       ``(1) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, a person or legal entity shall not be eligible to 
     receive any benefit described in paragraph (2) during a crop, 
     fiscal, or program year, as appropriate, if the average 
     adjusted gross income of the person or legal entity exceeds 
     $950,000.
       ``(2) Covered benefits.--Paragraph (1) applies with respect 
     to a payment or benefit under subtitle A, B, or E of title I, 
     or title II of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk 
     Management Act of 2013, title II of the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002, title II of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, title XII of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985, section 524(b) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)), or section 196 of the 
     Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
     U.S.C. 7333).''.
       (b) Elimination of Unused Definitions.--Paragraph (1) of 
     section 1001D(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1308-3a(a)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) Average adjusted gross income.--In this section, the 
     term `average adjusted gross income', with respect to a 
     person or legal entity, means the average of the adjusted 
     gross income or comparable measure of the person or legal 
     entity over the 3 taxable years preceding the most 
     immediately preceding complete taxable year, as determined by 
     the Secretary.''.
       (c) Income Determination.--Section 1001D of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (c); and
       (2) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as 
     subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively.
       (d) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1001D of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (A) by striking ``subparagraph (A) or (B) of''; and
       (B) by striking ``, the average adjusted gross farm income, 
     and the average adjusted gross nonfarm income'';
       (2) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``, average adjusted 
     gross farm income, and average adjusted gross nonfarm 
     income'' both places it appears;
       (3) in subsection (c) (as redesignated by subsection (c)(2) 
     of this section)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, average adjusted 
     gross farm income, and average adjusted gross nonfarm 
     income'' both places it appears; and
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``paragraphs (1)(C) and 
     (2)(B) of subsection (b)'' and inserting ``subsection 
     (b)(2)''; and
       (4) in subsection (d) (as redesignated by subsection (c)(2) 
     of this section)--
       (A) by striking ``paragraphs (1)(C) and (2)(B) of 
     subsection (b)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)(2)''; and
       (B) by striking ``, average adjusted gross farm income, or 
     average adjusted gross nonfarm income''.
       (e) Effective Period.--Subsection (e) of section 1001D of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a), as 
     redesignated by subsection (c)(2) of this section, is 
     repealed.
       (f) Limitation on Applicability.--Section 1001(d) of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308) is amended by 
     inserting before the period at the end the following: ``or 
     title I of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management 
     Act of 2013''.
       (g) Transition.--Section 1001D of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (7 U.S.C. 1308-3a), as in effect on the day before the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, shall apply with respect 
     to the 2013 crop, fiscal, or program year, as appropriate, 
     for each program described in paragraphs (1)(C) and (2)(B) of 
     subsection (b) of that section (as so in effect on that day).

     SEC. 1605. GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

       Section 1621(d) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8792(d)) is amended by striking ``each of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2012'' and inserting ``fiscal year 
     2009 and each succeeding fiscal year''.

     SEC. 1606. PERSONAL LIABILITY OF PRODUCERS FOR DEFICIENCIES.

       Section 164 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
     Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7284) is amended by striking 
     ``and title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of

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     2008'' each place it appears and inserting ``title I of the 
     Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8702 et 
     seq.), and title I of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk 
     Management Act of 2013''.

     SEC. 1607. PREVENTION OF DECEASED INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING 
                   PAYMENTS UNDER FARM COMMODITY PROGRAMS.

       (a) Reconciliation.--At least twice each year, the 
     Secretary shall reconcile Social Security numbers of all 
     individuals who receive payments under this title, whether 
     directly or indirectly, with the Commissioner of Social 
     Security to determined if the individuals are alive.
       (b) Preclusion.--The Secretary shall preclude the issuance 
     of payments to, and on behalf of, deceased individuals that 
     were not eligible for payments.

     SEC. 1608. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

       (a) Missing Punctuation.--Section 359f(c)(1)(B) of the 
     Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 
     1359ff(c)(1)(B)) is amended by adding a period at the end.
       (b) Erroneous Cross Reference.--
       (1) Amendment.--Section 1603(g) of the Food, Conservation, 
     and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 1739) 
     is amended in paragraphs (2) through (6) and the amendments 
     made by those paragraphs by striking ``1703(a)'' each place 
     it appears and inserting ``1603(a)''.
       (2) Effective date.--This subsection and the amendments 
     made by this subsection take effect as if included in the 
     Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-
     246; 122 Stat. 1651).
       (c) Continued Applicability of Appropriations General 
     Provision.--Section 767 of division A of Public Law 108-7 (7 
     U.S.C. 7911 note; 117 Stat. 48) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking ``sections 1101 and 1102 of Public Law 107-
     171'' and inserting ``subtitle A of title I of the Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``such section 1102'' and inserting ``such 
     subtitle''; and
       (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(b) This section, as amended by section 1608(c) of the 
     Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, 
     shall take effect beginning with the 2014 crop year.''.

     SEC. 1609. ASSIGNMENT OF PAYMENTS.

       (a) In General.--The provisions of section 8(g) of the Soil 
     Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(g)), 
     relating to assignment of payments, shall apply to payments 
     made under this title.
       (b) Notice.--The producer making the assignment, or the 
     assignee, shall provide the Secretary with notice, in such 
     manner as the Secretary may require, of any assignment made 
     under this section.

     SEC. 1610. TRACKING OF BENEFITS.

       As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary may track the benefits provided, directly 
     or indirectly, to individuals and entities under titles I and 
     II and the amendments made by those titles.

     SEC. 1611. SIGNATURE AUTHORITY.

       (a) In General.--In carrying out this title and title II 
     and amendments made by those titles, if the Secretary 
     approves a document, the Secretary shall not subsequently 
     determine the document is inadequate or invalid because of 
     the lack of authority of any person signing the document on 
     behalf of the applicant or any other individual, entity, 
     general partnership, or joint venture, or the documents 
     relied upon were determined inadequate or invalid, unless the 
     person signing the program document knowingly and willfully 
     falsified the evidence of signature authority or a signature.
       (b) Affirmation.--
       (1) In general.--Nothing in this section prohibits the 
     Secretary from asking a proper party to affirm any document 
     that otherwise would be considered approved under subsection 
     (a).
       (2) No retroactive effect.--A denial of benefits based on a 
     lack of affirmation under paragraph (1) shall not be 
     retroactive with respect to third-party producers who were 
     not the subject of the erroneous representation of authority, 
     if the third-party producers--
       (A) relied on the prior approval by the Secretary of the 
     documents in good faith; and
       (B) substantively complied with all program requirements.

     SEC. 1612. IMPLEMENTATION.

       (a) Streamlining.--In implementing this title, the 
     Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable--
       (1) seek to reduce administrative burdens and costs to 
     producers by streamlining and reducing paperwork, forms, and 
     other administrative requirements;
       (2) improve coordination, information sharing, and 
     administrative work with the Risk Management Agency and the 
     Natural Resources Conservation Service; and
       (3) take advantage of new technologies to enhance 
     efficiency and effectiveness of program delivery to 
     producers.
       (b) Maintenance of Base Acres and Payment Yields.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary shall maintain, for each 
     covered commodity and upland cotton, base acres and payment 
     yields on a farm established under--
       (A)(i) in the case of covered commodities and upland 
     cotton, sections 1101 and 1102 of the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7911, 7912); and
       (ii) in the case of peanuts, section 1302 of that Act (7 
     U.S.C. 7952); and
       (B)(i) in the case of covered commodities and upland 
     cotton, sections 1101 and 1102 of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8711, 8712); and
       (ii) in the case of peanuts, section 1302 of that Act (7 
     U.S.C. 8752).
       (2)  Special rule for long grain and medium grain rice.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary shall maintain separate base 
     acres for long grain rice and medium grain rice.
       (B) Limitation.--In carrying out this paragraph, the 
     Secretary shall use the same total base acres and payment 
     yields established with respect to rice under sections 1108 
     of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
     8718), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment 
     of this Act, subject to any adjustment under section 1105.
       (c) Implementation.--The Secretary shall make available to 
     the Farm Service Agency to carry out this title $100,000,000.

     SEC. 1613. PROTECTION OF PRODUCER INFORMATION.

       (a) Prohibition of Public Disclosure of Protected 
     Information.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
     Secretary, any officer or employee of the Department of 
     Agriculture, any contractor or cooperator of the Department, 
     and any officer or employee of another Federal agency shall 
     not disclose--
       (1) information submitted by a producer or owner of 
     agricultural land to the Federal Government pursuant to title 
     I or II of this Act; or
       (2) other information provided by a producer or owner of 
     agricultural land concerning the agricultural operation, 
     farming or conservation practices, or the land itself in 
     order to participate in programs of the Department of 
     Agriculture or other Federal agencies.
       (b) Exceptions.--Information described in subsection (a) 
     may be disclosed if--
       (1) the information is required to be made publicly 
     available under any other provision of Federal law;
       (2) the producer or owner of agricultural land who provided 
     the information has lawfully publicly disclosed the 
     information;
       (3) the producer or owner of agricultural land who provided 
     the information consents to the disclosure; or
       (4) the information is disclosed to the Attorney General, 
     to the extent necessary, to ensure compliance and law 
     enforcement.
       (c) Notice of Disclosure.--Any disclosure of information 
     pursuant to an exception provided in subsection (b) shall be 
     reported to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate within 24 hours after the 
     disclosure.
       (d) Producer Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``producer'' has the meaning given that term in section 
     1104(14) of this Act.

                         TITLE II--CONSERVATION

                Subtitle A--Conservation Reserve Program

     SEC. 2001. EXTENSION AND ENROLLMENT REQUIREMENTS OF 
                   CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Extension.--Section 1231(a) of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(a)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Eligible Land.--Section 1231(b) of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``the date of 
     enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008'' 
     and inserting ``the date of the enactment of the Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013'';
       (2) by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraph 
     (3) as paragraph (2);
       (3) by inserting before paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(3) grasslands that--
       ``(A) contain forbs or shrubland (including improved 
     rangeland and pastureland) for which grazing is the 
     predominant use;
       ``(B) are located in an area historically dominated by 
     grasslands; and
       ``(C) could provide habitat for animal and plant 
     populations of significant ecological value if the land is 
     retained in its current use or restored to a natural 
     condition;'';
       (4) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking ``filterstrips devoted 
     to trees or shrubs'' and inserting ``filterstrips or riparian 
     buffers devoted to trees, shrubs, or grasses''; and
       (5) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(5) the portion of land in a field not enrolled in the 
     conservation reserve in a case in which--
       ``(A) more than 50 percent of the land in the field is 
     enrolled as a buffer or filterstrip, or more than 75 percent 
     of the land in the field is enrolled as a conservation 
     practice other than as a buffer or filterstrip; and
       ``(B) the remainder of the field is--
       ``(i) infeasible to farm; and
       ``(ii) enrolled at regular rental rates.''.
       (c) Planting Status of Certain Land.--Section 1231(c) of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(c)) is amended 
     by striking ``if'' and all that follows through the period at 
     the end and inserting ``if, during the crop year, the land 
     was devoted to a conserving use.''.
       (d) Enrollment.--Subsection (d) of section 1231 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(d) Enrollment.--
       ``(1) Maximum acreage enrolled.--The Secretary may maintain 
     in the conservation reserve at any one time during--

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       ``(A) fiscal year 2014, no more than 27,500,000 acres;
       ``(B) fiscal year 2015, no more than 26,000,000 acres;
       ``(C) fiscal year 2016, no more than 25,000,000 acres;
       ``(D) fiscal year 2017, no more than 24,000,000 acres; and
       ``(E) fiscal year 2018, no more than 24,000,000 acres.
       ``(2) Grasslands.--
       ``(A) Limitation.--For purposes of applying the limitations 
     in paragraph (1), no more than 2,000,000 acres of the land 
     described in subsection (b)(3) may be enrolled in the program 
     at any one time during the 2014 through 2018 fiscal years.
       ``(B) Priority.--In enrolling acres under subparagraph (A), 
     the Secretary may give priority to land with expiring 
     conservation reserve program contracts.
       ``(C) Method of enrollment.--In enrolling acres under 
     subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall make the program 
     available to owners or operators of eligible land on a 
     continuous enrollment basis with one or more ranking 
     periods.''.
       (e) Duration of Contract.--Section 1231(e) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(e)) is amended by 
     striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(2) Special rule for certain land.--In the case of land 
     devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, windbreaks, or 
     wildlife corridors under a contract entered into under this 
     subchapter, the owner or operator of the land may, within the 
     limitations prescribed under paragraph (1), specify the 
     duration of the contract.''.
       (f) Conservation Priority Areas.--Section 1231(f) of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(f)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``watershed areas of the 
     Chesapeake Bay Region, the Great Lakes Region, the Long 
     Island Sound Region, and other'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``watersheds.--
     Watersheds'' and inserting ``areas.--Areas''; and
       (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a watershed's 
     designation--'' and all that follows through the period at 
     the end and inserting ``an area's designation if the 
     Secretary finds that the area no longer contains actual and 
     significant adverse water quality or habitat impacts related 
     to agricultural production activities.''.

     SEC. 2002. FARMABLE WETLAND PROGRAM.

       (a) Extension.--Section 1231B(a)(1) of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831b(a)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''; and
       (2) by striking ``a program'' and inserting ``a farmable 
     wetland program''.
       (b) Eligible Acreage.--Section 1231B(b)(1)(B) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831b(b)(1)(B)) is amended by 
     striking ``flow from a row crop agriculture drainage system'' 
     and inserting ``surface and subsurface flow from row crop 
     agricultural production''.
       (c) Acreage Limitation.--Section 1231B(c)(1)(B) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831b(c)(1)(B)) is amended by 
     striking ``1,000,000'' and inserting ``750,000''.
       (d) Clerical Amendment.--The heading of section 1231B of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831b) is amended to 
     read as follows: ``FARMABLE WETLAND PROGRAM.''.

     SEC. 2003. DUTIES OF OWNERS AND OPERATORS.

       (a) Limitation on Harvesting, Grazing, or Commercial Use of 
     Forage.--Section 1232(a)(8) of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3832(a)(8)) is amended by striking ``except that'' 
     and all that follows through the semicolon at the end of the 
     paragraph and inserting ``except as provided in subsection 
     (b) or (c) of section 1233;''.
       (b) Conservation Plan Requirements.--Subsection (b) of 
     section 1232 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3832) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(b) Conservation Plans.--The plan referred to in 
     subsection (a)(1) shall set forth--
       ``(1) the conservation measures and practices to be carried 
     out by the owner or operator during the term of the contract; 
     and
       ``(2) the commercial use, if any, to be permitted on the 
     land during the term.''.
       (c) Rental Payment Reduction.--Section 1232 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3832) is amended by striking 
     subsection (d).

     SEC. 2004. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.

       Section 1233 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3833) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 1233. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.

       ``(a) Cost-Share and Rental Payments.--In return for a 
     contract entered into by an owner or operator under the 
     conservation reserve program, the Secretary shall--
       ``(1) share the cost of carrying out the conservation 
     measures and practices set forth in the contract for which 
     the Secretary determines that cost sharing is appropriate and 
     in the public interest; and
       ``(2) for a period of years not in excess of the term of 
     the contract, pay an annual rental payment in an amount 
     necessary to compensate for--
       ``(A) the conversion of highly erodible cropland or other 
     eligible lands normally devoted to the production of an 
     agricultural commodity on a farm or ranch to a less intensive 
     use;
       ``(B) the retirement of any base history that the owner or 
     operator agrees to retire permanently; and
       ``(C) the development and management of grasslands for 
     multiple natural resource conservation benefits, including to 
     soil, water, air, and wildlife.
       ``(b) Specified Activities Permitted.--The Secretary shall 
     permit certain activities or commercial uses of land that is 
     subject to a contract under the conservation reserve program 
     in a manner that is consistent with a plan approved by the 
     Secretary, as follows:
       ``(1) Harvesting, grazing, or other commercial use of the 
     forage in response to a drought or other emergency created by 
     a natural disaster, without any reduction in the rental rate.
       ``(2) Consistent with the conservation of soil, water 
     quality, and wildlife habitat (including habitat during 
     nesting seasons for birds in the area), and in exchange for a 
     reduction of not less than 25 percent in the annual rental 
     rate for the acres covered by the authorized activity--
       ``(A) managed harvesting and other commercial use 
     (including the managed harvesting of biomass), except that in 
     permitting managed harvesting, the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the State technical committee--
       ``(i) shall develop appropriate vegetation management 
     requirements; and
       ``(ii) shall identify periods during which managed 
     harvesting may be conducted, such that the frequency is not 
     more than once every three years;
       ``(B) routine grazing or prescribed grazing for the control 
     of invasive species, except that in permitting such routine 
     grazing or prescribed grazing, the Secretary, in coordination 
     with the State technical committee--
       ``(i) shall develop appropriate vegetation management 
     requirements and stocking rates for the land that are 
     suitable for continued routine grazing; and
       ``(ii) shall identify the periods during which routine 
     grazing may be conducted, such that the frequency is not more 
     than once every two years, taking into consideration regional 
     differences such as--

       ``(I) climate, soil type, and natural resources;
       ``(II) the number of years that should be required between 
     routine grazing activities; and
       ``(III) how often during a year in which routine grazing is 
     permitted that routine grazing should be allowed to occur; 
     and

       ``(C) the installation of wind turbines and associated 
     access, except that in permitting the installation of wind 
     turbines, the Secretary shall determine the number and 
     location of wind turbines that may be installed, taking into 
     account--
       ``(i) the location, size, and other physical 
     characteristics of the land;
       ``(ii) the extent to which the land contains wildlife and 
     wildlife habitat; and
       ``(iii) the purposes of the conservation reserve program 
     under this subchapter.
       ``(3) The intermittent and seasonal use of vegetative 
     buffer practices incidental to agricultural production on 
     lands adjacent to the buffer such that the permitted use does 
     not destroy the permanent vegetative cover.
       ``(c) Authorized Activities on Grasslands.--For eligible 
     land described in section 1231(b)(3), the Secretary shall 
     permit the following activities:
       ``(1) Common grazing practices, including maintenance and 
     necessary cultural practices, on the land in a manner that is 
     consistent with maintaining the viability of grassland, forb, 
     and shrub species appropriate to that locality.
       ``(2) Haying, mowing, or harvesting for seed production, 
     subject to appropriate restrictions during the nesting season 
     for critical bird species in the area.
       ``(3) Fire presuppression, fire-related rehabilitation, and 
     construction of fire breaks.
       ``(4) Grazing-related activities, such as fencing and 
     livestock watering.
       ``(d) Resource Conserving Use.--
       ``(1) In general.--Beginning on the date that is 1 year 
     before the date of termination of a contract under the 
     program, the Secretary shall allow an owner or operator to 
     make conservation and land improvements that facilitate 
     maintaining protection of enrolled land after expiration of 
     the contract.
       ``(2) Conservation plan.--The Secretary shall require an 
     owner or operator carrying out the activities described in 
     paragraph (1) to develop and implement a conservation plan.
       ``(3) Re-enrollment prohibited.--Land improved under 
     paragraph (1) may not be re-enrolled in the conservation 
     reserve program for 5 years after the date of termination of 
     the contract.''.

     SEC. 2005. PAYMENTS.

       (a) Trees, Windbreaks, Shelterbelts, and Wildlife 
     Corridors.--Section 1234(b)(3)(A) of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(b)(3)(A)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (i), by inserting ``and'' after the 
     semicolon;
       (2) by striking clause (ii); and
       (3) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (ii).
       (b) Annual Rental Payments.--Section 1234(c) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or other eligible 
     lands'' after ``highly erodible cropland'' both places it 
     appears; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(2) Methods of determination.--
       ``(A) In general.--The amounts payable to owners or 
     operators in the form of rental

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     payments under contracts entered into under this subchapter 
     may be determined through--
       ``(i) the submission of bids for such contracts by owners 
     and operators in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe; 
     or
       ``(ii) such other means as the Secretary determines are 
     appropriate.
       ``(B) Grasslands.--In the case of eligible land described 
     in section 1231(b)(3), the Secretary shall make annual 
     payments in an amount that is not more than 75 percent of the 
     grazing value of the land covered by the contract.''.
       (c) Payment Schedule.--Subsection (d) of section 1234 of 
     the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(d) Payment Schedule.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     section, payments under this subchapter shall be made in cash 
     in such amount and on such time schedule as is agreed on and 
     specified in the contract.
       ``(2) Advance payment.--Payments under this subchapter may 
     be made in advance of determination of performance.''.
       (d) Payment Limitation.--Section 1234(f) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(f)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, including rental 
     payments made in the form of in-kind commodities,'';
       (2) by striking paragraph (3); and
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (2).

     SEC. 2006. CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Early Termination by Owner or Operator.--Section 
     1235(e) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3835(e)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A)--
       (A) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``During 
     fiscal year 2014, the Secretary''; and
       (B) by striking ``before January 1, 1995,'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking subparagraph (C) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(C) Land devoted to hardwood trees.
       ``(D) Wildlife habitat, duck nesting habitat, pollinator 
     habitat, upland bird habitat buffer, wildlife food plots, 
     State acres for wildlife enhancement, shallow water areas for 
     wildlife, and rare and declining habitat.
       ``(E) Farmable wetland and restored wetland.
       ``(F) Land that contains diversions, erosion control 
     structures, flood control structures, contour grass strips, 
     living snow fences, salinity reducing vegetation, cross wind 
     trap strips, and sediment retention structures.
       ``(G) Land located within a federally-designated wellhead 
     protection area.
       ``(H) Land that is covered by an easement under the 
     conservation reserve program.
       ``(I) Land located within an average width, according to 
     the applicable Natural Resources Conservation Service field 
     office technical guide, of a perennial stream or permanent 
     water body.''; and
       (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``60 days after the date 
     on which the owner or operator submits the notice required 
     under paragraph (1)(C)'' and inserting ``upon approval by the 
     Secretary''.
       (b) Transition Option for Certain Farmers or Ranchers.--
     Section 1235(f) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3835(f)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     ``Duties'' and all that follows through ``a beginning 
     farmer'' and inserting ``Transition to covered farmer or 
     rancher.--In the case of a contract modification approved in 
     order to facilitate the transfer of land subject to a 
     contract from a retired farmer or rancher to a beginning 
     farmer'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A)(i), by inserting ``, including 
     preparing to plant an agricultural crop'' after 
     ``improvements'';
       (C) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``the farmer or 
     rancher'' and inserting ``the covered farmer or rancher''; 
     and
       (D) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``section 
     1001A(b)(3)(B)'' and inserting ``section 1001''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``requirement of section 
     1231(h)(4)(B)'' and inserting ``option pursuant to section 
     1234(c)(2)(A)(ii)''.
       (c) Final Year Contract.--Section 1235 of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3835) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsections:
       ``(g) Final Year of Contract.--The Secretary shall not 
     consider an owner or operator to be in violation of a term or 
     condition of the conservation reserve contract if--
       ``(1) during the year prior to expiration of the contract, 
     the land is enrolled in the conservation stewardship program; 
     and
       ``(2) the activity required under the conservation 
     stewardship program pursuant to such enrollment is consistent 
     with this subchapter.
       ``(h) Land Enrolled in Agricultural Conservation Easement 
     Program.--The Secretary may terminate or modify a contract 
     entered into under this subchapter if eligible land that is 
     subject to such contract is transferred into the agricultural 
     conservation easement program under subtitle H.''.

     SEC. 2007. CONVERSION OF LAND SUBJECT TO CONTRACT TO OTHER 
                   CONSERVING USES.

       Section 1235A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3835a) is repealed.

     SEC. 2008. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       (a) In General.--The amendments made by this subtitle shall 
     take effect on October 1, 2013, except the amendment made by 
     section 2001(d), which shall take effect on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Effect on Existing Contracts.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     amendments made by this subtitle shall not affect the 
     validity or terms of any contract entered into by the 
     Secretary of Agriculture under subchapter B of chapter 1 of 
     subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3831 et seq.) before October 1, 2013, or any payments 
     required to be made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Updating of existing contracts.--The Secretary shall 
     permit an owner or operator of land subject to a contract 
     entered into under subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D of 
     title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et 
     seq.) before October 1, 2013, to update the contract to 
     reflect the activities and uses of land under contract 
     permitted under the terms and conditions of section 1233(b) 
     of that Act (as amended by section 2004), as determined 
     appropriate by the Secretary.

              Subtitle B--Conservation Stewardship Program

     SEC. 2101. CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.

       (a) Revision of Current Program.--Subchapter B of chapter 2 
     of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3838d et seq.) is amended to read as follows:

            ``Subchapter B--Conservation Stewardship Program

     ``SEC. 1238D. DEFINITIONS.

       ``In this subchapter:
       ``(1) Agricultural operation.--The term `agricultural 
     operation' means all eligible land, whether or not 
     contiguous, that is--
       ``(A) under the effective control of a producer at the time 
     the producer enters into a contract under the program; and
       ``(B) operated with equipment, labor, management, and 
     production or cultivation practices that are substantially 
     separate from other agricultural operations, as determined by 
     the Secretary.
       ``(2) Conservation activities.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `conservation activities' means 
     conservation systems, practices, or management measures.
       ``(B) Inclusions.--The term `conservation activities' 
     includes--
       ``(i) structural measures, vegetative measures, and land 
     management measures, including agriculture drainage 
     management systems, as determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(ii) planning needed to address a priority resource 
     concern.
       ``(3) Conservation stewardship plan.--The term 
     `conservation stewardship plan' means a plan that--
       ``(A) identifies and inventories priority resource 
     concerns;
       ``(B) establishes benchmark data and conservation 
     objectives;
       ``(C) describes conservation activities to be implemented, 
     managed, or improved; and
       ``(D) includes a schedule and evaluation plan for the 
     planning, installation, and management of the new and 
     existing conservation activities.
       ``(4) Eligible land.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `eligible land' means--
       ``(i) private or tribal land on which agricultural 
     commodities, livestock, or forest-related products are 
     produced; and
       ``(ii) lands associated with the land described in clause 
     (i) on which priority resource concerns could be addressed 
     through a contract under the program.
       ``(B) Inclusions.--The term `eligible land' includes--
       ``(i) cropland;
       ``(ii) grassland;
       ``(iii) rangeland;
       ``(iv) pasture land;
       ``(v) nonindustrial private forest land; and
       ``(vi) other agricultural areas (including cropped 
     woodland, marshes, and agricultural land used or capable of 
     being used for the production of livestock), as determined by 
     the Secretary.
       ``(5) Priority resource concern.--The term `priority 
     resource concern' means a natural resource concern or 
     problem, as determined by the Secretary, that--
       ``(A) is identified at the national, State, or local level 
     as a priority for a particular area of a State;
       ``(B) represents a significant concern in a State or 
     region; and
       ``(C) is likely to be addressed successfully through the 
     implementation of conservation activities under this program.
       ``(6) Program.--The term `program' means the conservation 
     stewardship program established by this subchapter.
       ``(7) Stewardship threshold.--The term `stewardship 
     threshold' means the level of management required, as 
     determined by the Secretary, to conserve and improve the 
     quality and condition of a natural resource.

     ``SEC. 1238E. CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.

       ``(a) Establishment and Purpose.--During each of fiscal 
     years 2014 through 2018, the Secretary shall carry out a 
     conservation stewardship program to encourage producers to 
     address priority resource concerns in a comprehensive 
     manner--
       ``(1) by undertaking additional conservation activities; 
     and
       ``(2) by improving, maintaining, and managing existing 
     conservation activities.
       ``(b) Exclusions.--
       ``(1) Land enrolled in other conservation programs.--
     Subject to paragraph (2),

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     the following land (even if covered by the definition of 
     eligible land) is not eligible for enrollment in the program:
       ``(A) Land enrolled in the conservation reserve program, 
     unless--
       ``(i) the conservation reserve contract will expire at the 
     end of the fiscal year in which the land is to be enrolled in 
     the program; and
       ``(ii) conservation reserve program payments for land 
     enrolled in the program cease before the first program 
     payment is made to the applicant under this subchapter.
       ``(B) Land enrolled in a wetland easement through the 
     agricultural conservation easement program.
       ``(C) Land enrolled in the conservation security program.
       ``(2) Conversion to cropland.--Eligible land used for crop 
     production after October 1, 2013, that had not been planted, 
     considered to be planted, or devoted to crop production for 
     at least 4 of the 6 years preceding that date shall not be 
     the basis for any payment under the program, unless the land 
     does not meet the requirement because--
       ``(A) the land had previously been enrolled in the 
     conservation reserve program;
       ``(B) the land has been maintained using long-term crop 
     rotation practices, as determined by the Secretary; or
       ``(C) the land is incidental land needed for efficient 
     operation of the farm or ranch, as determined by the 
     Secretary.

     ``SEC. 1238F. STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTS.

       ``(a) Submission of Contract Offers.--To be eligible to 
     participate in the conservation stewardship program, a 
     producer shall submit to the Secretary a contract offer for 
     the agricultural operation that--
       ``(1) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary 
     that the producer, at the time of the contract offer, meets 
     or exceeds the stewardship threshold for at least 2 priority 
     resource concerns; and
       ``(2) would, at a minimum, meet or exceed the stewardship 
     threshold for at least 1 additional priority resource concern 
     by the end of the stewardship contract by--
       ``(A) installing and adopting additional conservation 
     activities; and
       ``(B) improving, maintaining, and managing existing 
     conservation activities across the entire agricultural 
     operation in a manner that increases or extends the 
     conservation benefits in place at the time the contract offer 
     is accepted by the Secretary.
       ``(b) Evaluation of Contract Offers.--
       ``(1) Ranking of applications.--In evaluating contract 
     offers submitted under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
     rank applications based on--
       ``(A) the level of conservation treatment on all applicable 
     priority resource concerns at the time of application;
       ``(B) the degree to which the proposed conservation 
     activities effectively increase conservation performance;
       ``(C) the number of applicable priority resource concerns 
     proposed to be treated to meet or exceed the stewardship 
     threshold by the end of the contract;
       ``(D) the extent to which other priority resource concerns 
     will be addressed to meet or exceed the stewardship threshold 
     by the end of the contract period;
       ``(E) the extent to which the actual and anticipated 
     conservation benefits from the contract are provided at the 
     least cost relative to other similarly beneficial contract 
     offers; and
       ``(F) the extent to which priority resource concerns will 
     be addressed when transitioning from the conservation reserve 
     program to agricultural production.
       ``(2) Prohibition.--The Secretary may not assign a higher 
     priority to any application because the applicant is willing 
     to accept a lower payment than the applicant would otherwise 
     be eligible to receive.
       ``(3) Additional criteria.--The Secretary may develop and 
     use such additional criteria that the Secretary determines 
     are necessary to ensure that national, State, and local 
     priority resource concerns are effectively addressed.
       ``(c) Entering Into Contracts.--After a determination that 
     a producer is eligible for the program under subsection (a), 
     and a determination that the contract offer ranks 
     sufficiently high under the evaluation criteria under 
     subsection (b), the Secretary shall enter into a conservation 
     stewardship contract with the producer to enroll the eligible 
     land to be covered by the contract.
       ``(d) Contract Provisions.--
       ``(1) Term.--A conservation stewardship contract shall be 
     for a term of 5 years.
       ``(2) Required provisions.--The conservation stewardship 
     contract of a producer shall--
       ``(A) state the amount of the payment the Secretary agrees 
     to make to the producer for each year of the conservation 
     stewardship contract under section 1238G(d);
       ``(B) require the producer--
       ``(i) to implement a conservation stewardship plan that 
     describes the program purposes to be achieved through 1 or 
     more conservation activities;
       ``(ii) to maintain and supply information as required by 
     the Secretary to determine compliance with the conservation 
     stewardship plan and any other requirements of the program; 
     and
       ``(iii) not to conduct any activities on the agricultural 
     operation that would tend to defeat the purposes of the 
     program;
       ``(C) permit all economic uses of the eligible land that--
       ``(i) maintain the agricultural nature of the land; and
       ``(ii) are consistent with the conservation purposes of the 
     conservation stewardship contract;
       ``(D) include a provision to ensure that a producer shall 
     not be considered in violation of the contract for failure to 
     comply with the contract due to circumstances beyond the 
     control of the producer, including a disaster or related 
     condition, as determined by the Secretary;
       ``(E) include provisions requiring that upon the violation 
     of a term or condition of the contract at any time the 
     producer has control of the land--
       ``(i) if the Secretary determines that the violation 
     warrants termination of the contract--

       ``(I) the producer shall forfeit all rights to receive 
     payments under the contract; and
       ``(II) the producer shall refund all or a portion of the 
     payments received by the producer under the contract, 
     including any interest on the payments, as determined by the 
     Secretary; or

       ``(ii) if the Secretary determines that the violation does 
     not warrant termination of the contract, the producer shall 
     refund or accept adjustments to the payments provided to the 
     producer, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate;
       ``(F) include provisions in accordance with paragraphs (3) 
     and (4) of this section; and
       ``(G) include any additional provisions the Secretary 
     determines are necessary to carry out the program.
       ``(3) Change of interest in land subject to a contract.--
       ``(A) In general.--At the time of application, a producer 
     shall have control of the eligible land to be enrolled in the 
     program. Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a change in 
     the interest of a producer in eligible land covered by a 
     contract under the program shall result in the termination of 
     the contract with regard to that land.
       ``(B) Transfer of duties and rights.--Subparagraph (A) 
     shall not apply if--
       ``(i) within a reasonable period of time (as determined by 
     the Secretary) after the date of the change in the interest 
     in eligible land covered by a contract under the program, the 
     transferee of the land provides written notice to the 
     Secretary that all duties and rights under the contract have 
     been transferred to, and assumed by, the transferee for the 
     portion of the land transferred;
       ``(ii) the transferee meets the eligibility requirements of 
     the program; and
       ``(iii) the Secretary approves the transfer of all duties 
     and rights under the contract.
       ``(4) Modification and termination of contracts.--
       ``(A) Voluntary modification or termination.--The Secretary 
     may modify or terminate a contract with a producer if--
       ``(i) the producer agrees to the modification or 
     termination; and
       ``(ii) the Secretary determines that the modification or 
     termination is in the public interest.
       ``(B) Involuntary termination.--The Secretary may terminate 
     a contract if the Secretary determines that the producer 
     violated the contract.
       ``(5) Repayment.--If a contract is terminated, the 
     Secretary may, consistent with the purposes of the program--
       ``(A) allow the producer to retain payments already 
     received under the contract; or
       ``(B) require repayment, in whole or in part, of payments 
     received and assess liquidated damages.
       ``(e) Contract Renewal.--At the end of the initial 5-year 
     contract period, the Secretary may allow the producer to 
     renew the contract for 1 additional 5-year period if the 
     producer--
       ``(1) demonstrates compliance with the terms of the initial 
     contract;
       ``(2) agrees to adopt and continue to integrate 
     conservation activities across the entire agricultural 
     operation, as determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(3) agrees, by the end of the contract period--
       ``(A) to meet the stewardship threshold of at least two 
     additional priority resource concerns on the agricultural 
     operation; or
       ``(B) to exceed the stewardship threshold of two existing 
     priority resource concerns that are specified by the 
     Secretary in the initial contract.

     ``SEC. 1238G. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.

       ``(a) In General.--To achieve the conservation goals of a 
     contract under the conservation stewardship program, the 
     Secretary shall--
       ``(1) make the program available to eligible producers on a 
     continuous enrollment basis with 1 or more ranking periods, 
     one of which shall occur in the first quarter of each fiscal 
     year;
       ``(2) identify not less than 5 priority resource concerns 
     in a particular watershed or other appropriate region or area 
     within a State; and
       ``(3) establish a science-based stewardship threshold for 
     each priority resource concern identified under paragraph 
     (2).
       ``(b) Allocation to States.--The Secretary shall allocate 
     acres to States for enrollment, based--
       ``(1) primarily on each State's proportion of eligible land 
     to the total acreage of eligible land in all States; and
       ``(2) also on consideration of--
       ``(A) the extent and magnitude of the conservation needs 
     associated with agricultural production in each State;

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       ``(B) the degree to which implementation of the program in 
     the State is, or will be, effective in helping producers 
     address those needs; and
       ``(C) other considerations to achieve equitable geographic 
     distribution of funds, as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(c) Acreage Enrollment Limitation.--During the period 
     beginning on October 1, 2013, and ending on September 30, 
     2021, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent 
     practicable--
       ``(1) enroll in the program an additional 8,695,000 acres 
     for each fiscal year; and
       ``(2) manage the program to achieve a national average rate 
     of $18 per acre, which shall include the costs of all 
     financial assistance, technical assistance, and any other 
     expenses associated with enrollment or participation in the 
     program.
       ``(d) Conservation Stewardship Payments.--
       ``(1) Availability of payments.--The Secretary shall 
     provide annual payments under the program to compensate the 
     producer for--
       ``(A) installing and adopting additional conservation 
     activities; and
       ``(B) improving, maintaining, and managing conservation 
     activities in place at the agricultural operation of the 
     producer at the time the contract offer is accepted by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(2) Payment amount.--The amount of the conservation 
     stewardship annual payment shall be determined by the 
     Secretary and based, to the maximum extent practicable, on 
     the following factors:
       ``(A) Costs incurred by the producer associated with 
     planning, design, materials, installation, labor, management, 
     maintenance, or training.
       ``(B) Income forgone by the producer.
       ``(C) Expected conservation benefits.
       ``(D) The extent to which priority resource concerns will 
     be addressed through the installation and adoption of 
     conservation activities on the agricultural operation.
       ``(E) The level of stewardship in place at the time of 
     application and maintained over the term of the contract.
       ``(F) The degree to which the conservation activities will 
     be integrated across the entire agricultural operation for 
     all applicable priority resource concerns over the term of 
     the contract.
       ``(G) Such other factors as determined appropriate by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(3) Exclusions.--A payment to a producer under this 
     subsection shall not be provided for--
       ``(A) the design, construction, or maintenance of animal 
     waste storage or treatment facilities or associated waste 
     transport or transfer devices for animal feeding operations; 
     or
       ``(B) conservation activities for which there is no cost 
     incurred or income forgone to the producer.
       ``(4) Delivery of payments.--In making payments under this 
     subsection, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable--
       ``(A) prorate conservation performance over the term of the 
     contract so as to accommodate, to the extent practicable, 
     producers earning equal annual payments in each fiscal year; 
     and
       ``(B) make payments as soon as practicable after October 1 
     of each fiscal year for activities carried out in the 
     previous fiscal year.
       ``(e) Supplemental Payments for Resource-conserving Crop 
     Rotations.--
       ``(1) Availability of payments.--The Secretary shall 
     provide additional payments to producers that, in 
     participating in the program, agree to adopt or improve 
     resource-conserving crop rotations to achieve beneficial crop 
     rotations as appropriate for the eligible land of the 
     producers.
       ``(2) Beneficial crop rotations.--The Secretary shall 
     determine whether a resource-conserving crop rotation is a 
     beneficial crop rotation eligible for additional payments 
     under paragraph (1) based on whether the resource-conserving 
     crop rotation is designed to provide natural resource 
     conservation and production benefits.
       ``(3) Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a payment 
     described in paragraph (1), a producer shall agree to adopt 
     and maintain beneficial resource-conserving crop rotations 
     for the term of the contract.
       ``(4) Resource-conserving crop rotation.--In this 
     subsection, the term `resource-conserving crop rotation' 
     means a crop rotation that--
       ``(A) includes at least 1 resource-conserving crop (as 
     defined by the Secretary);
       ``(B) reduces erosion;
       ``(C) improves soil fertility and tilth;
       ``(D) interrupts pest cycles; and
       ``(E) in applicable areas, reduces depletion of soil 
     moisture or otherwise reduces the need for irrigation.
       ``(f) Payment Limitations.--A person or legal entity may 
     not receive, directly or indirectly, payments under the 
     program that, in the aggregate, exceed $200,000 under all 
     contracts entered into during fiscal years 2014 through 2018, 
     excluding funding arrangements with Indian tribes, regardless 
     of the number of contracts entered into under the program by 
     the person or legal entity.
       ``(g) Specialty Crop and Organic Producers.--The Secretary 
     shall ensure that outreach and technical assistance are 
     available, and program specifications are appropriate to 
     enable specialty crop and organic producers to participate in 
     the program.
       ``(h) Coordination With Organic Certification.--The 
     Secretary shall establish a transparent means by which 
     producers may initiate organic certification under the 
     Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) 
     while participating in a contract under the program.
       ``(i) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate 
     regulations that--
       ``(1) prescribe such other rules as the Secretary 
     determines to be necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable 
     application of the limitations established under subsection 
     (f); and
       ``(2) otherwise enable the Secretary to carry out the 
     program.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.
       (c) Effect on Existing Contracts.--
       (1) In general.--The amendment made by this section shall 
     not affect the validity or terms of any contract entered into 
     by the Secretary of Agriculture under subchapter B of chapter 
     2 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3838d et seq.) before October 1, 2013, or any 
     payments required to be made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Conservation stewardship program.--Funds made available 
     under section 1241(a)(4) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3841(a)(4)) (as amended by section 2601(a) of this 
     title) may be used to administer and make payments to program 
     participants that enrolled into contracts during any of 
     fiscal years 2009 through 2013.

          Subtitle C--Environmental Quality Incentives Program

     SEC. 2201. PURPOSES.

       Section 1240 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839aa) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C) 
     and, in such subparagraph, by inserting ``and'' after the 
     semicolon; and
       (C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(B) developing and improving wildlife habitat; and'';
       (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
     period; and
       (3) by striking paragraph (5).

     SEC. 2202. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION.

       Section 1240B of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839aa-2) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2014'' and inserting 
     ``2018'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (2) and 
     inserting the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Term.--A contract under the program shall have a term 
     that does not exceed 10 years.'';
       (3) in subsection (d)(4)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding clause 
     (i), by inserting ``, veteran farmer or rancher (as defined 
     in section 2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e))),'' before ``or a 
     beginning farmer or rancher''; and
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Advance payments.--
       ``(i) In general.--Not more than 50 percent of the amount 
     determined under subparagraph (A) may be provided in advance 
     for the purpose of purchasing materials or contracting.
       ``(ii) Return of funds.--If funds provided in advance are 
     not expended during the 90-day period beginning on the date 
     of receipt of the funds, the funds shall be returned within a 
     reasonable time frame, as determined by the Secretary.'';
       (4) by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(f) Allocation of Funding.--
       ``(1) Livestock.--For each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018, at least 60 percent of the funds made available for 
     payments under the program shall be targeted at practices 
     relating to livestock production.
       ``(2) Wildlife habitat.--For each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018, 7.5 percent of the funds made available for 
     payments under the program shall be targeted at practices 
     benefitting wildlife habitat.'';
       (5) in subsection (g)--
       (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Federally 
     Recognized Native American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native 
     Corporations'' and inserting ``Indian Tribes'';
       (B) by striking ``federally recognized Native American 
     Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations (including their 
     affiliated membership organizations)'' and inserting ``Indian 
     tribes''; and
       (C) by striking ``or Native Corporation''; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(j) Wildlife Habitat Incentive Practice.--The Secretary 
     shall provide payments to producers under the program for 
     practices, including recurring practices for the term of the 
     contract, that support the restoration, development, 
     protection, and improvement of wildlife habitat on eligible 
     land, including--
       ``(1) upland wildlife habitat;
       ``(2) wetland wildlife habitat;
       ``(3) habitat for threatened and endangered species;
       ``(4) fish habitat;
       ``(5) habitat on pivot corners and other irregular areas of 
     a field; and
       ``(6) other types of wildlife habitat, as determined 
     appropriate by the Secretary.

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       ``(k) Funding for Community Irrigation Associations.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may enter into an 
     alternative funding arrangement with an eligible irrigation 
     association if the Secretary determines that--
       ``(A) the purposes of the program will be met by such an 
     arrangement; and
       ``(B) statutory limitations regarding contracts with 
     individual producers will not be exceeded by any member of 
     the irrigation association.
       ``(2) Eligible irrigation associations.--In this 
     subsection, the term `eligible irrigation association' means 
     an irrigation association that is--
       ``(A) comprised of producers; and
       ``(B) a local government entity, but does not have the 
     authority to impose taxes or levies.''.

     SEC. 2203. EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS.

       Section 1240C(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3839aa-3(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``environmental'' and 
     inserting ``conservation''; and
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``purpose of the 
     environmental quality incentives program specified in section 
     1240(1)'' and inserting ``purposes of the program''.

     SEC. 2204. DUTIES OF PRODUCERS.

       Section 1240D(2) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3839aa-4(2)) is amended by striking ``farm, ranch, or 
     forest'' and inserting ``enrolled''.

     SEC. 2205. LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS.

       Section 1240G of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839aa-7) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 1240G. LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS.

       ``A person or legal entity may not receive, directly or 
     indirectly, cost-share or incentive payments under this 
     chapter that, in aggregate, exceed $450,000 for all contracts 
     entered into under this chapter by the person or legal entity 
     during the period of fiscal years 2014 through 2018, 
     regardless of the number of contracts entered into under this 
     chapter by the person or legal entity.''.

     SEC. 2206. CONSERVATION INNOVATION GRANTS AND PAYMENTS.

       Section 1240H of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839aa-8) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
     inserting a semicolon;
       (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period and 
     inserting a semicolon; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
       ``(E) facilitate on-farm conservation research and 
     demonstration activities; and
       ``(F) facilitate pilot testing of new technologies or 
     innovative conservation practices.''; and
       (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(b) Reporting.--Not later than December 31, 2014, and 
     every two years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the status of projects funded 
     under this section, including--
       ``(1) funding awarded;
       ``(2) project results; and
       ``(3) incorporation of project findings, such as new 
     technology and innovative approaches, into the conservation 
     efforts implemented by the Secretary.''.

     SEC. 2207. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       (a) In General.--The amendments made by this subtitle shall 
     take effect on October 1, 2013.
       (b) Effect on Existing Contracts.--The amendments made by 
     this subtitle shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) before October 1, 2013, or 
     any payments required to be made in connection with the 
     contract.

         Subtitle D--Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

     SEC. 2301. AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Establishment.--Title XII of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subtitle:

        ``Subtitle H--Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

     ``SEC. 1265. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSES.

       ``(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish an 
     agricultural conservation easement program for the 
     conservation of eligible land and natural resources through 
     easements or other interests in land.
       ``(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the program are to--
       ``(1) combine the purposes and coordinate the functions of 
     the wetlands reserve program established under section 1237, 
     the grassland reserve program established under section 
     1238N, and the farmland protection program established under 
     section 1238I, as such sections were in effect on September 
     30, 2013;
       ``(2) restore, protect, and enhance wetlands on eligible 
     land;
       ``(3) protect the agricultural use and related conservation 
     values of eligible land by limiting nonagricultural uses of 
     that land; and
       ``(4) protect grazing uses and related conservation values 
     by restoring and conserving eligible land.

     ``SEC. 1265A. DEFINITIONS.

       ``In this subtitle:
       ``(1) Agricultural land easement.--The term `agricultural 
     land easement' means an easement or other interest in 
     eligible land that--
       ``(A) is conveyed for the purpose of protecting natural 
     resources and the agricultural nature of the land; and
       ``(B) permits the landowner the right to continue 
     agricultural production and related uses subject to an 
     agricultural land easement plan, as approved by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(2) Eligible entity.--The term `eligible entity' means--
       ``(A) an agency of State or local government or an Indian 
     tribe (including a farmland protection board or land resource 
     council established under State law); or
       ``(B) an organization that is--
       ``(i) organized for, and at all times since the formation 
     of the organization has been operated principally for, 1 or 
     more of the conservation purposes specified in clause (i), 
     (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 170(h)(4)(A) of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986;
       ``(ii) an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of 
     that Code that is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) 
     of that Code; or
       ``(iii) described in--

       ``(I) paragraph (1) or (2) of section 509(a) of that Code; 
     or
       ``(II) section 509(a)(3) of that Code and is controlled by 
     an organization described in section 509(a)(2) of that Code.

       ``(3) Eligible land.--The term `eligible land' means 
     private or tribal land that is--
       ``(A) in the case of an agricultural land easement, 
     agricultural land, including land on a farm or ranch--
       ``(i) that is subject to a pending offer for purchase of an 
     agricultural land easement from an eligible entity;
       ``(ii) that--

       ``(I) has prime, unique, or other productive soil;
       ``(II) contains historical or archaeological resources; or
       ``(III) the protection of which will further a State or 
     local policy consistent with the purposes of the program; and

       ``(iii) that is--

       ``(I) cropland;
       ``(II) rangeland;
       ``(III) grassland or land that contains forbs, or shrubland 
     for which grazing is the predominate use;
       ``(IV) pastureland; or
       ``(V) nonindustrial private forest land that contributes to 
     the economic viability of an offered parcel or serves as a 
     buffer to protect such land from development;

       ``(B) in the case of a wetland easement, a wetland or 
     related area, including--
       ``(i) farmed or converted wetlands, together with adjacent 
     land that is functionally dependent on that land, if the 
     Secretary determines it--

       ``(I) is likely to be successfully restored in a cost-
     effective manner; and
       ``(II) will maximize the wildlife benefits and wetland 
     functions and values, as determined by the Secretary in 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Interior at the local 
     level;

       ``(ii) cropland or grassland that was used for agricultural 
     production prior to flooding from the natural overflow of--

       ``(I) a closed basin lake and adjacent land that is 
     functionally dependent upon it, if the State or other entity 
     is willing to provide 50 percent share of the cost of an 
     easement; and
       ``(II) a pothole and adjacent land that is functionally 
     dependent on it;

       ``(iii) farmed wetlands and adjoining lands that--

       ``(I) are enrolled in the conservation reserve program;
       ``(II) have the highest wetland functions and values, as 
     determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(III) are likely to return to production after they leave 
     the conservation reserve program;

       ``(iv) riparian areas that link wetlands that are protected 
     by easements or some other device that achieves the same 
     purpose as an easement; or
       ``(v) other wetlands of an owner that would not otherwise 
     be eligible, if the Secretary determines that the inclusion 
     of such wetlands in a wetland easement would significantly 
     add to the functional value of the easement; or
       ``(C) in the case of either an agricultural land easement 
     or wetland easement, other land that is incidental to land 
     described in subparagraph (A) or (B), if the Secretary 
     determines that it is necessary for the efficient 
     administration of the easements under this program.
       ``(4) Program.--The term `program' means the agricultural 
     conservation easement program established by this subtitle.
       ``(5) Wetland easement.--The term `wetland easement' means 
     a reserved interest in eligible land that--
       ``(A) is defined and delineated in a deed; and
       ``(B) stipulates--
       ``(i) the rights, title, and interests in land conveyed to 
     the Secretary; and
       ``(ii) the rights, title, and interests in land that are 
     reserved to the landowner.

     ``SEC. 1265B. AGRICULTURAL LAND EASEMENTS.

       ``(a) Availability of Assistance.--The Secretary shall 
     facilitate and provide funding for--
       ``(1) the purchase by eligible entities of agricultural 
     land easements and other interests in eligible land; and
       ``(2) technical assistance to provide for the conservation 
     of natural resources pursuant to an agricultural land 
     easement plan.

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       ``(b) Cost-Share Assistance.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall protect the 
     agricultural use, including grazing, and related conservation 
     values of eligible land through cost-share assistance to 
     eligible entities for purchasing agricultural land easements.
       ``(2) Scope of assistance available.--
       ``(A) Federal share.--An agreement described in paragraph 
     (4) shall provide for a Federal share determined by the 
     Secretary of an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the fair 
     market value of the agricultural land easement or other 
     interest in land, as determined by the Secretary using--
       ``(i) the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal 
     Practice;
       ``(ii) an area-wide market analysis or survey; or
       ``(iii) another industry-approved method.
       ``(B) Non-federal share.--
       ``(i) In general.--Under the agreement, the eligible entity 
     shall provide a share that is at least equivalent to that 
     provided by the Secretary.
       ``(ii) Source of contribution.--An eligible entity may 
     include as part of its share a charitable donation or 
     qualified conservation contribution (as defined by section 
     170(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) from the private 
     landowner if the eligible entity contributes its own cash 
     resources in an amount that is at least 50 percent of the 
     amount contributed by the Secretary.
       ``(C) Exception.--In the case of grassland of special 
     environmental significance, as determined by the Secretary, 
     the Secretary may provide an amount not to exceed 75 percent 
     of the fair market value of the agricultural land easement.
       ``(3) Evaluation and ranking of applications.--
       ``(A) Criteria.--The Secretary shall establish evaluation 
     and ranking criteria to maximize the benefit of Federal 
     investment under the program.
       ``(B) Considerations.--In establishing the criteria, the 
     Secretary shall emphasize support for--
       ``(i) protecting agricultural uses and related conservation 
     values of the land; and
       ``(ii) maximizing the protection of areas devoted to 
     agricultural use.
       ``(C) Bidding down.--If the Secretary determines that 2 or 
     more applications for cost-share assistance are comparable in 
     achieving the purpose of the program, the Secretary shall not 
     assign a higher priority to any of those applications solely 
     on the basis of lesser cost to the program.
       ``(4) Agreements with eligible entities.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall enter into 
     agreements with eligible entities to stipulate the terms and 
     conditions under which the eligible entity is permitted to 
     use cost-share assistance provided under this section.
       ``(B) Length of agreements.--An agreement shall be for a 
     term that is--
       ``(i) in the case of an eligible entity certified under the 
     process described in paragraph (5), a minimum of five years; 
     and
       ``(ii) for all other eligible entities, at least three, but 
     not more than five years.
       ``(C) Minimum terms and conditions.--An eligible entity 
     shall be authorized to use its own terms and conditions for 
     agricultural land easements so long as the Secretary 
     determines such terms and conditions--
       ``(i) are consistent with the purposes of the program;
       ``(ii) permit effective enforcement of the conservation 
     purposes of such easements;
       ``(iii) include a right of enforcement for the Secretary, 
     that may be used only if the terms of the easement are not 
     enforced by the holder of the easement;
       ``(iv) subject the land in which an interest is purchased 
     to an agricultural land easement plan that--

       ``(I) describes the activities which promote the long-term 
     viability of the land to meet the purposes for which the 
     easement was acquired;
       ``(II) requires the management of grasslands according to a 
     grasslands management plan; and
       ``(III) includes a conservation plan, where appropriate, 
     and requires, at the option of the Secretary, the conversion 
     of highly erodible cropland to less intensive uses; and

       ``(v) include a limit on the impervious surfaces to be 
     allowed that is consistent with the agricultural activities 
     to be conducted.
       ``(D) Substitution of qualified projects.--An agreement 
     shall allow, upon mutual agreement of the parties, 
     substitution of qualified projects that are identified at the 
     time of the proposed substitution.
       ``(E) Effect of violation.--If a violation occurs of a term 
     or condition of an agreement under this subsection--
       ``(i) the Secretary may terminate the agreement; and
       ``(ii) the Secretary may require the eligible entity to 
     refund all or part of any payments received by the entity 
     under the program, with interest on the payments as 
     determined appropriate by the Secretary.
       ``(5) Certification of eligible entities.--
       ``(A) Certification process.--The Secretary shall establish 
     a process under which the Secretary may--
       ``(i) directly certify eligible entities that meet 
     established criteria;
       ``(ii) enter into long-term agreements with certified 
     eligible entities; and
       ``(iii) accept proposals for cost-share assistance for the 
     purchase of agricultural land easements throughout the 
     duration of such agreements.
       ``(B) Certification criteria.--In order to be certified, an 
     eligible entity shall demonstrate to the Secretary that the 
     entity will maintain, at a minimum, for the duration of the 
     agreement--
       ``(i) a plan for administering easements that is consistent 
     with the purpose of this subtitle;
       ``(ii) the capacity and resources to monitor and enforce 
     agricultural land easements; and
       ``(iii) policies and procedures to ensure--

       ``(I) the long-term integrity of agricultural land 
     easements on eligible land;
       ``(II) timely completion of acquisitions of such easements; 
     and
       ``(III) timely and complete evaluation and reporting to the 
     Secretary on the use of funds provided under the program.

       ``(C) Review and revision.--
       ``(i) Review.--The Secretary shall conduct a review of 
     eligible entities certified under subparagraph (A) every 
     three years to ensure that such entities are meeting the 
     criteria established under subparagraph (B).
       ``(ii) Revocation.--If the Secretary finds that the 
     certified eligible entity no longer meets the criteria 
     established under subparagraph (B), the Secretary may--

       ``(I) allow the certified eligible entity a specified 
     period of time, at a minimum 180 days, in which to take such 
     actions as may be necessary to meet the criteria; and
       ``(II) revoke the certification of the eligible entity, if, 
     after the specified period of time, the certified eligible 
     entity does not meet such criteria.

       ``(c) Method of Enrollment.--The Secretary shall enroll 
     eligible land under this section through the use of--
       ``(1) permanent easements; or
       ``(2) easements for the maximum duration allowed under 
     applicable State laws.
       ``(d) Technical Assistance.--The Secretary may provide 
     technical assistance, if requested, to assist in--
       ``(1) compliance with the terms and conditions of 
     easements; and
       ``(2) implementation of an agricultural land easement plan.

     ``SEC. 1265C. WETLAND EASEMENTS.

       ``(a) Availability of Assistance.--The Secretary shall 
     provide assistance to owners of eligible land to restore, 
     protect, and enhance wetlands through--
       ``(1) wetland easements and related wetland easement plans; 
     and
       ``(2) technical assistance.
       ``(b) Easements.--
       ``(1) Method of enrollment.--The Secretary shall enroll 
     eligible land under this section through the use of--
       ``(A) 30-year easements;
       ``(B) permanent easements;
       ``(C) easements for the maximum duration allowed under 
     applicable State laws; or
       ``(D) as an option for Indian tribes only, 30-year 
     contracts (which shall be considered to be 30-year easements 
     for the purposes of this subtitle).
       ``(2) Limitations.--
       ``(A) Ineligible land.--The Secretary may not acquire 
     easements on--
       ``(i) land established to trees under the conservation 
     reserve program, except in cases where the Secretary 
     determines it would further the purposes of the program; and
       ``(ii) farmed wetlands or converted wetlands where the 
     conversion was not commenced prior to December 23, 1985.
       ``(B) Changes in ownership.--No wetland easement shall be 
     created on land that has changed ownership during the 
     preceding 24-month period unless--
       ``(i) the new ownership was acquired by will or succession 
     as a result of the death of the previous owner;
       ``(ii)(I) the ownership change occurred because of 
     foreclosure on the land; and
       ``(II) immediately before the foreclosure, the owner of the 
     land exercises a right of redemption from the mortgage holder 
     in accordance with State law; or
       ``(iii) the Secretary determines that the land was acquired 
     under circumstances that give adequate assurances that such 
     land was not acquired for the purposes of placing it in the 
     program.
       ``(3) Evaluation and ranking of offers.--
       ``(A) Criteria.--The Secretary shall establish evaluation 
     and ranking criteria to maximize the benefit of Federal 
     investment under the program.
       ``(B) Considerations.--When evaluating offers from 
     landowners, the Secretary may consider--
       ``(i) the conservation benefits of obtaining a wetland 
     easement, including the potential environmental benefits if 
     the land was removed from agricultural production;
       ``(ii) the cost-effectiveness of each wetland easement, so 
     as to maximize the environmental benefits per dollar 
     expended;
       ``(iii) whether the landowner or another person is offering 
     to contribute financially to the cost of the wetland easement 
     to leverage Federal funds; and
       ``(iv) such other factors as the Secretary determines are 
     necessary to carry out the purposes of the program.
       ``(C) Priority.--The Secretary shall place priority on 
     acquiring wetland easements based on the value of the wetland 
     easement for protecting and enhancing habitat for migratory 
     birds and other wildlife.
       ``(4) Agreement.--To be eligible to place eligible land 
     into the program through a wetland easement, the owner of 
     such land shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary 
     to--

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       ``(A) grant an easement on such land to the Secretary;
       ``(B) authorize the implementation of a wetland easement 
     plan developed for the eligible land under subsection (f);
       ``(C) create and record an appropriate deed restriction in 
     accordance with applicable State law to reflect the easement 
     agreed to;
       ``(D) provide a written statement of consent to such 
     easement signed by those holding a security interest in the 
     land;
       ``(E) comply with the terms and conditions of the easement 
     and any related agreements; and
       ``(F) permanently retire any existing base history for the 
     land on which the easement has been obtained.
       ``(5) Terms and conditions of easement.--
       ``(A) In general.--A wetland easement shall include terms 
     and conditions that--
       ``(i) permit--

       ``(I) repairs, improvements, and inspections on the land 
     that are necessary to maintain existing public drainage 
     systems; and
       ``(II) owners to control public access on the easement 
     areas while identifying access routes to be used for 
     restoration activities and management and easement 
     monitoring;

       ``(ii) prohibit--

       ``(I) the alteration of wildlife habitat and other natural 
     features of such land, unless specifically authorized by the 
     Secretary;
       ``(II) the spraying of such land with chemicals or the 
     mowing of such land, except where such spraying or mowing is 
     authorized by the Secretary or is necessary--

       ``(aa) to comply with Federal or State noxious weed control 
     laws;
       ``(bb) to comply with a Federal or State emergency pest 
     treatment program; or
       ``(cc) to meet habitat needs of specific wildlife species;

       ``(III) any activities to be carried out on the owner's or 
     successor's land that is immediately adjacent to, and 
     functionally related to, the land that is subject to the 
     easement if such activities will alter, degrade, or otherwise 
     diminish the functional value of the eligible land; and
       ``(IV) the adoption of any other practice that would tend 
     to defeat the purposes of the program, as determined by the 
     Secretary;

       ``(iii) provide for the efficient and effective 
     establishment of wildlife functions and values; and
       ``(iv) include such additional provisions as the Secretary 
     determines are desirable to carry out the program or 
     facilitate the practical administration thereof.
       ``(B) Violation.--On the violation of the terms or 
     conditions of a wetland easement, the wetland easement shall 
     remain in force and the Secretary may require the owner to 
     refund all or part of any payments received by the owner 
     under the program, together with interest thereon as 
     determined appropriate by the Secretary.
       ``(C) Compatible uses.--Land subject to a wetland easement 
     may be used for compatible economic uses, including such 
     activities as hunting and fishing, managed timber harvest, or 
     periodic haying or grazing, if such use is specifically 
     permitted by the wetland easement plan developed for the land 
     under subsection (f) and is consistent with the long-term 
     protection and enhancement of the wetland resources for which 
     the easement was established.
       ``(D) Reservation of grazing rights.--The Secretary may 
     include in the terms and conditions of a wetland easement a 
     provision under which the owner reserves grazing rights if--
       ``(i) the Secretary determines that the reservation and use 
     of the grazing rights--

       ``(I) is compatible with the land subject to the easement;
       ``(II) is consistent with the historical natural uses of 
     the land and the long-term protection and enhancement goals 
     for which the easement was established; and
       ``(III) complies with the wetland easement plan developed 
     for the land under subsection (f); and

       ``(ii) the agreement provides for a commensurate reduction 
     in the easement payment to account for the grazing value, as 
     determined by the Secretary.
       ``(6) Compensation.--
       ``(A) Determination.--
       ``(i) Permanent easements.--The Secretary shall pay as 
     compensation for a permanent wetland easement acquired under 
     the program an amount necessary to encourage enrollment in 
     the program, based on the lowest of--

       ``(I) the fair market value of the land, as determined by 
     the Secretary, using the Uniform Standards of Professional 
     Appraisal Practice or an area-wide market analysis or survey;
       ``(II) the amount corresponding to a geographical cap, as 
     determined by the Secretary in regulations; or
       ``(III) the offer made by the landowner.

       ``(ii) 30-year easements.--Compensation for a 30-year 
     wetland easement shall be not less than 50 percent, but not 
     more than 75 percent, of the compensation that would be paid 
     for a permanent wetland easement.
       ``(B) Form of payment.--Compensation for a wetland easement 
     shall be provided by the Secretary in the form of a cash 
     payment, in an amount determined under subparagraph (A).
       ``(C) Payment schedule.--
       ``(i) Easements valued at $500,000 or less.--For wetland 
     easements valued at $500,000 or less, the Secretary may 
     provide easement payments in not more than 10 annual 
     payments.
       ``(ii) Easements valued at more than $500,000.--For wetland 
     easements valued at more than $500,000, the Secretary may 
     provide easement payments in at least 5, but not more than 10 
     annual payments, except that, if the Secretary determines it 
     would further the purposes of the program, the Secretary may 
     make a lump-sum payment for such an easement.
       ``(c) Easement Restoration.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall provide financial 
     assistance to owners of eligible land to carry out the 
     establishment of conservation measures and practices and 
     protect wetland functions and values, including necessary 
     maintenance activities, as set forth in a wetland easement 
     plan developed for the eligible land under subsection (f).
       ``(2) Payments.--The Secretary shall--
       ``(A) in the case of a permanent wetland easement, pay an 
     amount that is not less than 75 percent, but not more than 
     100 percent, of the eligible costs, as determined by the 
     Secretary; and
       ``(B) in the case of a 30-year wetland easement, pay an 
     amount that is not less than 50 percent, but not more than 75 
     percent, of the eligible costs, as determined by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(d) Technical Assistance.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall assist owners in 
     complying with the terms and conditions of wetland easements.
       ``(2) Contracts or agreements.--The Secretary may enter 
     into 1 or more contracts with private entities or agreements 
     with a State, non-governmental organization, or Indian tribe 
     to carry out necessary restoration, enhancement, or 
     maintenance of a wetland easement if the Secretary determines 
     that the contract or agreement will advance the purposes of 
     the program.
       ``(e) Wetland Enhancement Option.--The Secretary may enter 
     into 1 or more agreements with a State (including a political 
     subdivision or agency of a State), nongovernmental 
     organization, or Indian tribe to carry out a special wetland 
     enhancement option that the Secretary determines would 
     advance the purposes of program.
       ``(f) Administration.--
       ``(1) Wetland easement plan.--The Secretary shall develop a 
     wetland easement plan for eligible lands subject to a wetland 
     easement, which shall include practices and activities 
     necessary to restore, protect, enhance, and maintain the 
     enrolled lands.
       ``(2) Delegation of easement administration.--The Secretary 
     may delegate--
       ``(A) any of the easement management, monitoring, and 
     enforcement responsibilities of the Secretary to other 
     Federal or State agencies that have the appropriate 
     authority, expertise, and resources necessary to carry out 
     such delegated responsibilities; and
       ``(B) any of the easement management responsibilities of 
     the Secretary to other conservation organizations if the 
     Secretary determines the organization has the appropriate 
     expertise and resources.
       ``(3) Payments.--
       ``(A) Timing of payments.--The Secretary shall provide 
     payment for obligations incurred by the Secretary under this 
     section--
       ``(i) with respect to any easement restoration obligation 
     under subsection (c), as soon as possible after the 
     obligation is incurred; and
       ``(ii) with respect to any annual easement payment 
     obligation incurred by the Secretary, as soon as possible 
     after October 1 of each calendar year.
       ``(B) Payments to others.--If an owner who is entitled to a 
     payment under this section dies, becomes incompetent, is 
     otherwise unable to receive such payment, or is succeeded by 
     another person or entity who renders or completes the 
     required performance, the Secretary shall make such payment, 
     in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary 
     and without regard to any other provision of law, in such 
     manner as the Secretary determines is fair and reasonable in 
     light of all of the circumstances.

     ``SEC. 1265D. ADMINISTRATION.

       ``(a) Ineligible Land.--The Secretary may not use program 
     funds for the purposes of acquiring an easement on--
       ``(1) lands owned by an agency of the United States, other 
     than land held in trust for Indian tribes;
       ``(2) lands owned in fee title by a State, including an 
     agency or a subdivision of a State, or a unit of local 
     government;
       ``(3) land subject to an easement or deed restriction 
     which, as determined by the Secretary, provides similar 
     protection as would be provided by enrollment in the program; 
     or
       ``(4) lands where the purposes of the program would be 
     undermined due to on-site or off-site conditions, such as 
     risk of hazardous substances, proposed or existing rights of 
     way, infrastructure development, or adjacent land uses.
       ``(b) Priority.--In evaluating applications under the 
     program, the Secretary may give priority to land that is 
     currently enrolled in the conservation reserve program in a 
     contract that is set to expire within 1 year and--
       ``(1) in the case of an agricultural land easement, is 
     grassland that would benefit from protection under a long-
     term easement; and
       ``(2) in the case of a wetland easement, is a wetland or 
     related area with the highest functions and value and is 
     likely to return to production after the land leaves the 
     conservation reserve program.
       ``(c) Subordination, Exchange, Modification, and 
     Termination.--

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       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may subordinate, exchange, 
     modify, or terminate any interest in land, or portion of such 
     interest, administered by the Secretary, either directly or 
     on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation under the 
     program if the Secretary determines that--
       ``(A) it is in the Federal Government's interest to 
     subordinate, exchange, modify, or terminate the interest in 
     land;
       ``(B) the subordination, exchange, modification, or 
     termination action--
       ``(i) will address a compelling public need for which there 
     is no practicable alternative; or
       ``(ii) such action will further the practical 
     administration of the program; and
       ``(C) the subordination, exchange, modification, or 
     termination action will result in comparable conservation 
     value and equivalent or greater economic value to the United 
     States.
       ``(2) Consultation.--The Secretary shall work with the 
     owner, and eligible entity if applicable, to address any 
     subordination, exchange, modification, or termination of the 
     interest, or portion of such interest, in land.
       ``(3) Notice.--At least 90 days before taking any 
     termination action described in paragraph (1), the Secretary 
     shall provide written notice of such action to the Committee 
     on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate.
       ``(d) Land Enrolled in Conservation Reserve Program.--The 
     Secretary may terminate or modify a contract entered into 
     under section 1231(a) if eligible land that is subject to 
     such contract is transferred into the program.
       ``(e) Allocation of Funds for Agricultural Land 
     Easements.--Of the funds made available under section 1241 to 
     carry out the program for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall, 
     to the extent practicable, use for agricultural land 
     easements--
       ``(1) no less than 40 percent in each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2017; and
       ``(2) no less than 50 percent in fiscal year 2018.''.
       (b) Compliance With Certain Requirements.--Before an 
     eligible entity or owner of eligible land may receive 
     assistance under subtitle H of title XII of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985, the eligible entity or person shall agree, 
     during the crop year for which the assistance is provided and 
     in exchange for the assistance--
       (1) to comply with applicable conservation requirements 
     under subtitle B of title XII of that Act (16 U.S.C. 3811 et 
     seq.); and
       (2) to comply with applicable wetland protection 
     requirements under subtitle C of title XII of that Act (16 
     U.S.C. 3821 et seq.).
       (c) Cross Reference; Calculation.--Section 1244 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (A);
       (ii) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B); 
     and
       (iii) by striking subparagraph (C);
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) the agricultural conservation easement program 
     established under subtitle H; and''; and
       (2) in subsection (f)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``programs 
     administered under subchapters B and C of chapter 1 of 
     subtitle D'' and inserting ``conservation reserve program 
     established under subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle D and 
     wetland easements under section 1265C''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``an easement 
     acquired under subchapter C of chapter 1 of subtitle D'' and 
     inserting ``a wetland easement under section 1265C''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) Calculation.--In calculating the percentages 
     described in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall include any 
     acreage that was included in calculations of percentages made 
     under such paragraph, as in effect on September 30, 2013, and 
     that remains enrolled when the calculation is made after that 
     date under paragraph (1).''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

         Subtitle E--Regional Conservation Partnership Program

     SEC. 2401. REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     is amended by inserting after subtitle H, as added by section 
     2301, the following new subtitle:

        ``Subtitle I--Regional Conservation Partnership Program

     ``SEC. 1271. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSES.

       ``(a) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     regional conservation partnership program to implement 
     eligible activities on eligible land through--
       ``(1) partnership agreements with eligible partners; and
       ``(2) contracts with producers.
       ``(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the program are as 
     follows:
       ``(1) To use covered programs to accomplish purposes and 
     functions similar to those of the following programs, as in 
     effect on September 30, 2013:
       ``(A) The agricultural water enhancement program 
     established under section 1240I.
       ``(B) The Chesapeake Bay watershed program established 
     under section 1240Q.
       ``(C) The cooperative conservation partnership initiative 
     established under section 1243.
       ``(D) The Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and 
     sediment control established under section 1240P.
       ``(2) To further the conservation, restoration, and 
     sustainable use of soil, water, wildlife, and related natural 
     resources on eligible land on a regional or watershed scale.
       ``(3) To encourage eligible partners to cooperate with 
     producers in--
       ``(A) meeting or avoiding the need for national, State, and 
     local natural resource regulatory requirements related to 
     production on eligible land; and
       ``(B) implementing projects that will result in the 
     carrying out of eligible activities that affect multiple 
     agricultural or nonindustrial private forest operations on a 
     local, regional, State, or multistate basis.

     ``SEC. 1271A. DEFINITIONS.

       ``In this subtitle:
       ``(1) Covered program.--The term `covered program' means 
     the following:
       ``(A) The agricultural conservation easement program.
       ``(B) The environmental quality incentives program.
       ``(C) The conservation stewardship program.
       ``(D) The healthy forests reserve program established under 
     section 501 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
     (16 U.S.C. 6571).
       ``(2) Eligible activity.--The term `eligible activity' 
     means any of the following conservation activities:
       ``(A) Water quality or quantity conservation, restoration, 
     or enhancement projects relating to surface water and 
     groundwater resources, including--
       ``(i) the conversion of irrigated cropland to the 
     production of less water-intensive agricultural commodities 
     or dryland farming; or
       ``(ii) irrigation system improvement and irrigation 
     efficiency enhancement.
       ``(B) Drought mitigation.
       ``(C) Flood prevention.
       ``(D) Water retention.
       ``(E) Air quality improvement.
       ``(F) Habitat conservation, restoration, and enhancement.
       ``(G) Erosion control and sediment reduction.
       ``(H) Other related activities that the Secretary 
     determines will help achieve conservation benefits.
       ``(3) Eligible land.--The term `eligible land' means land 
     on which agricultural commodities, livestock, or forest-
     related products are produced, including--
       ``(A) cropland;
       ``(B) grassland;
       ``(C) rangeland;
       ``(D) pastureland;
       ``(E) nonindustrial private forest land; and
       ``(F) other land incidental to agricultural production 
     (including wetlands and riparian buffers) on which 
     significant natural resource issues could be addressed under 
     the program.
       ``(4) Eligible partner.--The term `eligible partner' means 
     any of the following:
       ``(A) An agricultural or silvicultural producer association 
     or other group of producers.
       ``(B) A State or unit of local government.
       ``(C) An Indian tribe.
       ``(D) A farmer cooperative.
       ``(E) A water district, irrigation district, rural water 
     district or association, or other organization with specific 
     water delivery authority to producers on agricultural land.
       ``(F) An institution of higher education.
       ``(G) An organization or entity with an established history 
     of working cooperatively with producers on agricultural land, 
     as determined by the Secretary, to address--
       ``(i) local conservation priorities related to agricultural 
     production, wildlife habitat development, or nonindustrial 
     private forest land management; or
       ``(ii) critical watershed-scale soil erosion, water 
     quality, sediment reduction, or other natural resource 
     issues.
       ``(5) Partnership agreement.--The term `partnership 
     agreement' means an agreement entered into under section 
     1271B between the Secretary and an eligible partner.
       ``(6) Program.--The term `program' means the regional 
     conservation partnership program established by this 
     subtitle.

     ``SEC. 1271B. REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIPS.

       ``(a) Partnership Agreements Authorized.--The Secretary may 
     enter into a partnership agreement with an eligible partner 
     to implement a project that will assist producers with 
     installing and maintaining an eligible activity on eligible 
     land.
       ``(b) Length.--A partnership agreement shall be for a 
     period not to exceed 5 years, except that the Secretary may 
     extend the agreement one time for up to 12 months when an 
     extension is necessary to meet the objectives of the program.
       ``(c) Duties of Partners.--
       ``(1) In general.--Under a partnership agreement, the 
     eligible partner shall--
       ``(A) define the scope of a project, including--
       ``(i) the eligible activities to be implemented;
       ``(ii) the potential agricultural or nonindustrial private 
     forest land operations affected;

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       ``(iii) the local, State, multistate, or other geographic 
     area covered; and
       ``(iv) the planning, outreach, implementation, and 
     assessment to be conducted;
       ``(B) conduct outreach to producers for potential 
     participation in the project;
       ``(C) at the request of a producer, act on behalf of a 
     producer participating in the project in applying for 
     assistance under section 1271C;
       ``(D) leverage financial or technical assistance provided 
     by the Secretary with additional funds to help achieve the 
     project objectives;
       ``(E) conduct an assessment of the project's effects; and
       ``(F) at the conclusion of the project, report to the 
     Secretary on its results and funds leveraged.
       ``(2) Contribution.--An eligible partner shall provide a 
     significant portion of the overall costs of the scope of the 
     project that is the subject of the agreement entered into 
     under subsection (a), as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(d) Applications.--
       ``(1) Competitive process.--The Secretary shall conduct a 
     competitive process to select applications for partnership 
     agreements and may assess and rank applications with similar 
     conservation purposes as a group.
       ``(2) Criteria used.--In carrying out the process described 
     in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall make public the 
     criteria used in evaluating applications.
       ``(3) Content.--An application to the Secretary shall 
     include a description of--
       ``(A) the scope of the project, as described in subsection 
     (c)(1)(A);
       ``(B) the plan for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on 
     progress made toward achieving the project's objectives;
       ``(C) the program resources requested for the project, 
     including the covered programs to be used and estimated 
     funding needed from the Secretary;
       ``(D) eligible partners collaborating to achieve project 
     objectives, including their roles, responsibilities, 
     capabilities, and financial contribution; and
       ``(E) any other elements the Secretary considers necessary 
     to adequately evaluate and competitively select applications 
     for funding under the program.
       ``(4) Priority to certain applications.--The Secretary may 
     give a higher priority to applications that--
       ``(A) assist producers in meeting or avoiding the need for 
     a natural resource regulatory requirement;
       ``(B) have a high percentage of eligible producers in the 
     area to be covered by the agreement;
       ``(C) significantly leverage non-Federal financial and 
     technical resources and coordinate with other local, State, 
     or national efforts;
       ``(D) deliver high percentages of applied conservation to 
     address conservation priorities or regional, State, or 
     national conservation initiatives;
       ``(E) provide innovation in conservation methods and 
     delivery, including outcome-based performance measures and 
     methods; or
       ``(F) meet other factors that are important for achieving 
     the purposes of the program, as determined by the Secretary.

     ``SEC. 1271C. ASSISTANCE TO PRODUCERS.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall enter into contracts 
     with producers to provide financial and technical assistance 
     to--
       ``(1) producers participating in a project with an eligible 
     partner, as described in section 1271B; or
       ``(2) producers that fit within the scope of a project 
     described in section 1271B or a critical conservation area 
     designated under section 1271F, but who are seeking to 
     implement an eligible activity on eligible land independent 
     of a partner.
       ``(b) Terms and Conditions.--
       ``(1) Consistency with program rules.--Except as provided 
     in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall ensure that the terms 
     and conditions of a contract under this section are 
     consistent with the applicable rules of the covered programs 
     to be used as part of the project, as described in the 
     application under section 1271B(d)(3)(C).
       ``(2) Adjustments.--Except with respect to statutory 
     program requirements governing appeals, payment limitations, 
     and conservation compliance, the Secretary may adjust the 
     discretionary program rules of a covered program--
       ``(A)   to provide a simplified application and evaluation 
     process; and
       ``(B) to better reflect unique local circumstances and 
     purposes if the Secretary determines such adjustments are 
     necessary to achieve the purposes of the program.
       ``(c) Payments.--
       ``(1) In general.--In accordance with statutory 
     requirements of the covered programs involved, the Secretary 
     may make payments to a producer in an amount determined by 
     the Secretary to be necessary to achieve the purposes of the 
     program.
       ``(2) Payments to producers in states with water quantity 
     concerns.--The Secretary may provide payments to producers 
     participating in a project that addresses water quantity 
     concerns for a period of five years in an amount sufficient 
     to encourage conversion from irrigated farming to dryland 
     farming.
       ``(3) Waiver authority.--To assist in the implementation of 
     the program, the Secretary may waive the applicability of the 
     limitation in section 1001D(b)(2) of this Act for 
     participating producers if the Secretary determines that the 
     waiver is necessary to fulfill the objectives of the program.

     ``SEC. 1271D. FUNDING.

       ``(a) Availability of Funds.--The Secretary shall use 
     $100,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
     for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 to carry out the 
     program.
       ``(b) Duration of Availability.--Funds made available under 
     subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.
       ``(c) Additional Funding and Acres.--
       ``(1) In general.--In addition to the funds made available 
     under subsection (a), the Secretary shall reserve 6 percent 
     of the funds and acres made available for a covered program 
     for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 in order to ensure 
     additional resources are available to carry out this program.
       ``(2) Unused funds and acres.--Any funds or acres reserved 
     under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year from a covered program 
     that are not obligated under this program by April 1 of that 
     fiscal year shall be returned for use under the covered 
     program.
       ``(d) Allocation of Funding.--Of the funds and acres made 
     available for the program under subsections (a) and (c), the 
     Secretary shall allocate--
       ``(1) 25 percent of the funds and acres to projects based 
     on a State competitive process administered by the State 
     Conservationist, with the advice of the State technical 
     committee established under subtitle G;
       ``(2) 50 percent of the funds and acres to projects based 
     on a national competitive process to be established by the 
     Secretary; and
       ``(3) 25 percent of the funds and acres to projects for the 
     critical conservation areas designated under section 1271F.
       ``(e) Limitation on Administrative Expenses.--None of the 
     funds made available under the program may be used to pay for 
     the administrative expenses of eligible partners.

     ``SEC. 1271E. ADMINISTRATION.

       ``(a) Disclosure.--In addition to the criteria used in 
     evaluating applications as described in section 1271B(d)(2), 
     the Secretary shall make publicly available information on 
     projects selected through the competitive process described 
     in section 1271B(d)(1).
       ``(b) Reporting.--Not later than December 31, 2014, and 
     every two years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a report on the status of projects funded under the 
     program, including--
       ``(1) the number and types of eligible partners and 
     producers participating in the partnership agreements 
     selected;
       ``(2) the number of producers receiving assistance; and
       ``(3) total funding committed to projects, including from 
     Federal and non-Federal resources.

     ``SEC. 1271F. CRITICAL CONSERVATION AREAS.

       ``(a) In General.--In administering funds under section 
     1271D(d)(3), the Secretary shall select applications for 
     partnership agreements and producer contracts within critical 
     conservation areas designated under this section.
       ``(b) Critical Conservation Area Designations.--
       ``(1) Priority.--In designating critical conservation areas 
     under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to 
     geographical areas based on the degree to which the 
     geographical area--
       ``(A) includes multiple States with significant 
     agricultural production;
       ``(B) is covered by an existing regional, State, 
     binational, or multistate agreement or plan that has 
     established objectives, goals, and work plans and is adopted 
     by a Federal, State, or regional authority;
       ``(C) would benefit from water quality improvement, 
     including through reducing erosion, promoting sediment 
     control, and addressing nutrient management activities 
     affecting large bodies of water of regional, national, or 
     international significance;
       ``(D) would benefit from water quantity improvement, 
     including improvement relating to--
       ``(i) groundwater, surface water, aquifer, or other water 
     sources; or
       ``(ii) a need to promote water retention and flood 
     prevention; or
       ``(E) contains producers that need assistance in meeting or 
     avoiding the need for a natural resource regulatory 
     requirement that could have a negative economic impact on 
     agricultural operations within the area.
       ``(2) Limitation.--The Secretary may not designate more 
     than 8 geographical areas as critical conservation areas 
     under this section.
       ``(c) Administration.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary shall administer any partnership agreement or 
     producer contract under this section in a manner that is 
     consistent with the terms of the program.
       ``(2) Relationship to existing activity.--The Secretary 
     shall, to the maximum extent practicable, ensure that 
     eligible activities carried out in critical conservation 
     areas designated under this section complement and are 
     consistent with other Federal and State programs and water 
     quality and quantity strategies.
       ``(3) Additional authority.--For a critical conservation 
     area described in subsection (b)(1)(D), the Secretary may use 
     authorities under the Watershed Protection and Flood

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     Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), other than section 
     14 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 1012), to carry out projects for 
     the purposes of this section.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

                Subtitle F--Other Conservation Programs

     SEC. 2501. CONSERVATION OF PRIVATE GRAZING LAND.

       Section 1240M(e) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3839bb(e)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 2502. GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM.

       Section 1240O(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3839bb-2) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(b) Funding.--
       ``(1) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2008 through 2018.
       ``(2) Availability of funds.--In addition to funds made 
     available under paragraph (1), of the funds of the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall use $5,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.''.

     SEC. 2503. VOLUNTARY PUBLIC ACCESS AND HABITAT INCENTIVE 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Funding.--Section 1240R(f)(1) of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-5(f)(1)) is amended by inserting 
     before the period at the end the following: ``and $30,000,000 
     for the period of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Report on Program Effectiveness.--Not later than two 
     years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a 
     report evaluating the effectiveness of the voluntary public 
     access program established by section 1240R of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-5), including--
       (1) identifying cooperating agencies;
       (2) identifying the number of land holdings and total acres 
     enrolled by each State and tribal government;
       (3) evaluating the extent of improved access on eligible 
     lands, improved wildlife habitat, and related economic 
     benefits; and
       (4) any other relevant information and data relating to the 
     program that would be helpful to such committees.

     SEC. 2504. AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION EXPERIENCED SERVICES 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Funding.--Subsection (c) of section 1252 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(c) Funding.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may carry out the ACES 
     program using funds made available to carry out each program 
     under this title.
       ``(2) Exclusion.--Funds made available to carry out the 
     conservation reserve program may not be used to carry out the 
     ACES program.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2505. SMALL WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM.

       (a) Availability of Funds.--Section 14(h)(1) of the 
     Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 U.S.C. 
     1012(h)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``; and'' and 
     inserting a semicolon;
       (2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period and 
     inserting a semicolon;
       (3) in subparagraph (G), by striking the period and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(H) $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2014, to remain 
     available until expended.''.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 14(h)(2)(E) 
     of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
     U.S.C. 1012(h)(2)(E)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 2506. AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       (a) Uses.--Section 524(b)(2) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)(2)) is amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (B) and redesignating 
     subparagraphs (C) through (F) as subparagraphs (B) through 
     (E), respectively; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``or 
     resource conservation practices''; and
       (B) by striking clause (i) and redesignating clauses (ii) 
     through (iv) as clauses (i) through (iii), respectively.
       (b) Commodity Credit Corporation.--
       (1) Funding.--Section 524(b)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)(4)(B)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(B) Funding.--The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make 
     available to carry out this subsection not less than 
     $10,000,000 for each fiscal year.''.
       (2) Certain uses.--Section 524(b)(4)(C) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)(4)(C)) is amended--
       (A) in clause (i)--
       (i) by striking ``50'' and inserting ``30''; and
       (ii) by striking ``(A), (B), and (C)'' and inserting ``(A) 
     and (B)''; and
       (B) in clause (iii), by striking ``40'' and inserting 
     ``60''.

     SEC. 2507. EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION PROGRAM.

       Section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 
     U.S.C. 2203) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new sentence: ``In evaluating requests for assistance under 
     this section, the Secretary shall give priority consideration 
     to projects that address runoff retardation and soil-erosion 
     preventive measures needed to mitigate the risks and 
     remediate the effects of catastrophic wildfire on land that 
     is the source of drinking water for landowners and land 
     users.''.

                 Subtitle G--Funding and Administration

     SEC. 2601. FUNDING.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 1241 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(a) Annual Funding.--For each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018, the Secretary shall use the funds, facilities, 
     and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry 
     out the following programs under this title (including the 
     provision of technical assistance):
       ``(1) The conservation reserve program under subchapter B 
     of chapter 1 of subtitle D, including, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, $25,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018 to carry out section 1235(f) to facilitate the 
     transfer of land subject to contracts from retired or 
     retiring owners and operators to beginning farmers or 
     ranchers and socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers.
       ``(2) The agriculture conservation easement program under 
     subtitle H, using, to the maximum extent practicable--
       ``(A) $425,000,000 in fiscal year 2014;
       ``(B) $450,000,000 in fiscal year 2015;
       ``(C) $475,000,000 in fiscal year 2016;
       ``(D) $500,000,000 in fiscal year 2017; and
       ``(E) $200,000,000 in fiscal year 2018.
       ``(3) The conservation security program under subchapter A 
     of chapter 2 of subtitle D, using such sums as are necessary 
     to administer contracts entered into before September 30, 
     2008.
       ``(4) The conservation stewardship program under subchapter 
     B of chapter 2 of subtitle D.
       ``(5) The environmental quality incentives program under 
     chapter 4 of subtitle D, using, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, $1,750,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018.''.
       (b) Regional Equity; Guaranteed Availability of Funds.--
     Section 1241 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3841) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (d);
       (2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
     (c) and (d), respectively; and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts made available by 
     subsection (a) shall be used by the Secretary to carry out 
     the programs specified in such subsection for fiscal years 
     2014 through 2018 and shall remain available until expended. 
     Amounts made available for the programs specified in such 
     subsection during a fiscal year through modifications, 
     cancellations, terminations, and other related administrative 
     actions and not obligated in that fiscal year shall remain 
     available for obligation during subsequent fiscal years, but 
     shall reduce the amount of additional funds made available in 
     the subsequent fiscal year by an amount equal to the amount 
     remaining unobligated.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2602. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (c) of section 1241 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841), as redesignated by 
     section 2601(b)(2) of this Act, is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(c) Technical Assistance.--
       ``(1) Availability of funds.--Commodity Credit Corporation 
     funds made available for a fiscal year for each of the 
     programs specified in subsection (a)--
       ``(A) shall be available for the provision of technical 
     assistance for the programs for which funds are made 
     available as necessary to implement the programs effectively; 
     and
       ``(B) shall not be available for the provision of technical 
     assistance for conservation programs specified in subsection 
     (a) other than the program for which the funds were made 
     available.
       ``(2) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2013, the 
     Secretary shall submit (and update as necessary in subsequent 
     years) to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate a report--
       ``(A) detailing the amount of technical assistance funds 
     requested and apportioned in each program specified in 
     subsection (a) during the preceding fiscal year; and
       ``(B) any other data relating to this subsection that would 
     be helpful to such committees.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2603. RESERVATION OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO 
                   CERTAIN FARMERS OR RANCHERS FOR CONSERVATION 
                   ACCESS.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (g) of section 1241 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) Preference.--In providing assistance under paragraph 
     (1), the Secretary shall give

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     preference to a veteran farmer or rancher (as defined in 
     section 2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e))) that qualifies under 
     subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1).''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2604. ANNUAL REPORT ON PROGRAM ENROLLMENTS AND 
                   ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (h) of section 1241 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``wetlands reserve 
     program'' and inserting ``agricultural conservation easement 
     program'';
       (2) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and redesignating 
     paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), 
     respectively; and
       (3) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by striking ``agricultural water enhancement program'' 
     and inserting ``regional conservation partnership program''; 
     and
       (B) by striking ``1240I(g)'' and inserting ``1271C(c)(3)''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2605. REVIEW OF CONSERVATION PRACTICE STANDARDS.

       Section 1242(h)(1)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3842(h)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008'' and inserting ``the 
     Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013''.

     SEC. 2606. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL 
                   CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1244 of the Food Security Act of 
     1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Veteran farmers or ranchers (as defined in section 
     2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 
     of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e))).'';
       (2) in subsection (d), by inserting ``, H, and I'' before 
     the period at the end;
       (3) in subsection (f)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``country'' and 
     inserting ``county''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``subsection (c)(2)(B) or 
     (f)(4)'' and inserting ``subsection (c)(2)(A)(ii) or 
     (f)(2)'';
       (4) in subsection (h)(2), by inserting ``, including, to 
     the extent practicable, practices that maximize benefits for 
     honey bees'' after ``pollinators''; and
       (5) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
       ``(j) Improved Administrative Efficiency and 
     Effectiveness.--In administrating a conservation program 
     under this title, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent 
     practicable--
       ``(1) seek to reduce administrative burdens and costs to 
     producers by streamlining conservation planning and program 
     resources; and
       ``(2) take advantage of new technologies to enhance 
     efficiency and effectiveness.
       ``(k) Relation to Other Payments.--Any payment received by 
     an owner or operator under this title, including an easement 
     payment or rental payment, shall be in addition to, and not 
     affect, the total amount of payments that the owner or 
     operator is otherwise eligible to receive under any of the 
     following:
       ``(1) This Act.
       ``(2) The Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.).
       ``(3) The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management 
     Act of 2013.
       ``(4) Any law that succeeds a law specified in paragraph 
     (1), (2), or (3).''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2607. STANDARDS FOR STATE TECHNICAL COMMITTEES.

       Section 1261(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3861(b)) is amended by striking ``Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008, the Secretary shall develop'' and 
     inserting ``The Secretary shall review and update as 
     necessary''.

     SEC. 2608. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY.

       Subtitle E of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3841 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new section:

     ``SEC. 1246. REGULATIONS.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall promulgate such 
     regulations as are necessary to implement programs under this 
     title, including such regulations as the Secretary determines 
     to be necessary to ensure a fair and reasonable application 
     of the limitations established under section 1244(f).
       ``(b) Rulemaking Procedure.--The promulgation of 
     regulations and administration of programs under this title--
       ``(1) shall be carried out without regard to--
       ``(A) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary effective 
     July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to notices of 
     proposed rulemaking and public participation in rulemaking; 
     and
       ``(B) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly 
     known as the Paperwork Reduction Act); and
       ``(2) shall be made pursuant to section 553 of title 5, 
     United States Code, including by interim rules effective on 
     publication under the authority provided in subparagraph (B) 
     of subsection (b) of such section if the Secretary determines 
     such interim rules to be needed and final rules, with an 
     opportunity for notice and comment, no later than 21 months 
     after the date of the enactment of the Federal Agriculture 
     Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.''.

     SEC. 2609. WETLANDS MITIGATION.

       Section 1222 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3822) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (f)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)(D), by striking ``unless more acreage 
     is needed to provide equivalent functions and values that 
     will be lost as a result of the wetland conversion to be 
     mitigated''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(E)--
       (i) by inserting ``not'' before ``greater than''; and
       (ii) by striking ``if more acreage is needed to provide 
     equivalent functions and values that will be lost as a result 
     of the wetland conversion that is mitigated''; and
       (2) by striking subsection (g).

     SEC. 2610. LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN CONSERVATION REPORT.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a report containing the results of a review and 
     analysis of each of the programs administered by the 
     Secretary that pertain to the conservation of the lesser 
     prairie-chicken, including the conservation reserve program, 
     the environmental quality incentives program, the wildlife 
     habitat incentive program, and the Lesser Prairie-Chicken 
     Initiative.
       (b) Contents.--The Secretary shall include in the report 
     required by this section, at a minimum--
       (1) with respect to each program described in subsection 
     (a) as it relates to the conservation of the lesser prairie-
     chicken, findings regarding--
       (A) the cost of the program to the Federal Government, 
     impacted State governments, and the private sector;
       (B) the conservation effectiveness of the program; and
       (C) the cost-effectiveness of the program; and
       (2) a ranking of the programs described in subsection (a) 
     based on their relative cost-effectiveness.

 Subtitle H--Repeal of Superseded Program Authorities and Transitional 
                    Provisions; Technical Amendments

     SEC. 2701. COMPREHENSIVE CONSERVATION ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1230 of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3830) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The heading of chapter 1 of 
     subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3830 et seq.) is amended to read as follows: 
     ``CONSERVATION RESERVE''.

     SEC. 2702. EMERGENCY FORESTRY CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1231A of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3831a) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     section 1231A of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3831a) before October 1, 2013, or any payments required to be 
     made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the conservation reserve program under subchapter B 
     of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831 et seq.) to continue to carry out 
     contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the provisions 
     of law and regulation applicable to such contracts as they 
     existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2703. WETLANDS RESERVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Subchapter C of chapter 1 of subtitle D of 
     title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837 et 
     seq.) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     subchapter C of chapter 1 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3837 et seq.) before 
     October 1, 2013, or any payments required to be made in 
     connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the agricultural conservation easement program 
     under subtitle H of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
     1985, as added by section 2301 of this Act, to continue to 
     carry out contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the 
     provisions of law and regulation applicable to such contracts 
     as they existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2704. FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM AND FARM VIABILITY 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Subchapter C of chapter 2 of subtitle D of 
     title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838h 
     et seq.) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The heading of chapter 2 of 
     subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
     U.S.C. 3838 et seq.) is amended by striking ``AND FARMLAND 
     PROTECTION''.

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       (c) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendments made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     subchapter C of chapter 2 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838h et seq.) before 
     October 1, 2013, or any payments required to be made in 
     connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the agricultural conservation easement program 
     under subtitle H of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
     1985, as added by section 2301 of this Act, to continue to 
     carry out contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the 
     provisions of law and regulation applicable to such contracts 
     as they existed on September 30, 2013.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2705. GRASSLAND RESERVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Subchapter D of chapter 2 of subtitle D of 
     title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838n 
     et seq.) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     subchapter D of chapter 2 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
     Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3838n et seq.) before 
     October 1, 2013, or any payments required to be made in 
     connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the agricultural conservation easement program 
     under subtitle H of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
     1985, as added by section 2301 of this Act, to continue to 
     carry out contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the 
     provisions of law and regulation applicable to such contracts 
     as they existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2706. AGRICULTURAL WATER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1240I of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3839aa-9) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     section 1240I of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839aa-9) before October 1, 2013, or any payments required to 
     be made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the regional conservation partnership program under 
     subtitle I of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, as 
     added by section 2401 of this Act, to continue to carry out 
     contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the provisions 
     of law and regulation applicable to such contracts as they 
     existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2707. WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1240N of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-1) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     section 1240N of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839bb-1) before October 1, 2013, or any payments required to 
     be made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the environmental quality incentives program under 
     chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) to continue to carry out 
     contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the provisions 
     of law and regulation applicable to such contracts as they 
     existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2708. GREAT LAKES BASIN PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1240P of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-3) is repealed.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2709. CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1240Q of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3839bb-4) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     section 1240Q of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3839bb-4) before October 1, 2013, or any payments required to 
     be made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the regional conservation partnership program under 
     subtitle I of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, as 
     added by section 2401 of this Act, to continue to carry out 
     contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the provisions 
     of law and regulation applicable to such contracts as they 
     existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2710. COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 1243 of the Food Security Act of 1985 
     (16 U.S.C. 3843) is repealed.
       (b) Transitional Provisions.--
       (1) Effect on existing contracts.--The amendment made by 
     this section shall not affect the validity or terms of any 
     contract entered into by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
     section 1243 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
     3843) before October 1, 2013, or any payments required to be 
     made in connection with the contract.
       (2) Funding.--The Secretary may use funds made available to 
     carry out the regional conservation partnership program under 
     subtitle I of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, as 
     added by section 2401 of this Act, to continue to carry out 
     contracts referred to in paragraph (1) using the provisions 
     of law and regulation applicable to such contracts as they 
     existed on September 30, 2013.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 2711. ENVIRONMENTAL EASEMENT PROGRAM.

       Chapter 3 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food Security 
     Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839 et seq.) is repealed.

     SEC. 2712. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 1201(a) of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801(a)) is amended in the matter 
     preceding paragraph (1) by striking ``E'' and inserting 
     ``I''.
       (b) Program Ineligibility.--Section 1211(a) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3811(a)) is amended by 
     striking ``predominate'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``predominant''.
       (c) Specialty Crop Producers.--Section 1242(i) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3842(i)) is amended in the 
     header by striking ``Speciality'' and inserting 
     ``Specialty''.

                            TITLE III--TRADE

                     Subtitle A--Food for Peace Act

     SEC. 3001. GENERAL AUTHORITY.

       Section 201 of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721) is 
     amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting 
     ``(to be implemented by the Administrator)'' after ``under 
     this title''; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (7) and the second sentence and 
     inserting the following new paragraph:
       ``(7) build resilience to mitigate and prevent food crises 
     and reduce the future need for emergency aid.''.

     SEC. 3002. SUPPORT FOR ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH WHICH ASSISTANCE 
                   IS PROVIDED.

       Section 202(e)(1) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1722(e)(1)) is amended by striking ``13 percent'' and 
     inserting ``11 percent''.

     SEC. 3003. FOOD AID QUALITY.

       Section 202(h) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1722(h)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``The Administrator shall use funds made 
     available for fiscal year 2009'' and inserting ``In 
     consultation with the Secretary, the Administrator shall use 
     funds made available for fiscal year 2013''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``to establish a mechanism'' after ``this 
     title'';
       (B) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B); and
       (C) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraphs:
       ``(C) to evaluate, as necessary, the use of current and new 
     agricultural commodities and products thereof in different 
     program settings and for particular recipient groups, 
     including the testing of prototypes;
       ``(D) to establish and implement appropriate protocols for 
     quality assurance of food products procured by the Secretary 
     for food aid programs; and
       ``(E) to periodically update program guidelines on the 
     recommended use of agricultural commodities and food products 
     in food aid programs to reflect findings from the 
     implementation of this subsection and other relevant 
     information.'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``The Administrator'' and 
     inserting ``In consultation with the Secretary, the 
     Administrator''; and
       (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``section 207(f)'' and 
     all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
     the following: ``section 207(f)--
       ``(A) for fiscal years 2009 through 2013, not more than 
     $4,500,000 may be used to carry out this subsection; and
       ``(B) for fiscal years 2014 through 2018, not more than 
     $1,000,000 may be used to carry out this subsection.''.

     SEC. 3004. MINIMUM LEVELS OF ASSISTANCE.

       Section 204(a) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1724(a)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 3005. FOOD AID CONSULTATIVE GROUP.

       (a) Membership.--Section 205(b) of the Food for Peace Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 1725(b)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (6);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (8); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new 
     paragraph:

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       ``(7) representatives from the United States agricultural 
     processing sector involved in providing agricultural 
     commodities for programs under this Act; and''.
       (b) Consultation.--Section 205(d) of the Food for Peace Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 1725(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking the first sentence and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(1) Consultation in advance of issuance of implementation 
     regulations, handbooks, and guidelines.--Not later than 45 
     days before a proposed regulation, handbook, or guideline 
     implementing this title, or a proposed significant revision 
     to a regulation, handbook, or guideline implementing this 
     title, becomes final, the Administrator shall provide the 
     proposal to the Group for review and comment.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Consultation regarding food aid quality efforts.--The 
     Administrator shall seek input from and consult with the 
     Group on the implementation of section 202(h).''.
       (c) Reauthorization.--Section 205(f) of the Food for Peace 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1725(f)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3006. OVERSIGHT, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION.

       (a) Regulations and Guidance.--Section 207(c) of the Food 
     for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1726a(c)) is amended--
       (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``and 
     Guidance'' after ``Regulations'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following 
     new sentence: ``Not later than 270 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk 
     Management Act of 2013, the Administrator shall issue all 
     regulations and revisions to agency guidance necessary to 
     implement the amendments made to this title by such Act.''; 
     and
       (3) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``and guidance'' after 
     ``develop regulations''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 207(f) of the Food for Peace Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1726a(f)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (D);
       (B) by striking ``; and'' at the end of subparagraph (E) 
     and inserting the period; and
       (C) by striking subparagraph (F);
       (2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4); and
       (3) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs 
     (3) and (4), respectively; and
       (4) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``2012'' and all that 
     follows through the period at the end and inserting ``2013, 
     and up to $10,000,000 of such funds for each of fiscal years 
     2014 through 2018.''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.
       (c) Implementation Reports.--Not later than 270 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 
     the Agency for International Development shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate and the Committees on Agriculture and Foreign Affairs 
     of the House of Representatives a report describing--
       (1) the implementation of section 207(c) of the Food for 
     Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1726a(c));
       (2) the surveys, studies, monitoring, reporting, and audit 
     requirements for programs conducted under title II of such 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) by an eligible organization that 
     is a nongovernmental organization (as such term is defined in 
     section 402 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1732)); and
       (3) the surveys, studies, monitoring, reporting, and audit 
     requirements for such programs by an eligible organization 
     that is an intergovernmental organization, such as the World 
     Food Program or other multilateral organization.

     SEC. 3007. ASSISTANCE FOR STOCKPILING AND RAPID 
                   TRANSPORTATION, DELIVERY, AND DISTRIBUTION OF 
                   SHELF-STABLE PREPACKAGED FOODS.

       Section 208(f) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1726b(f)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 3008. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

       (a) Impact on Local Farmers and Economy.--Section 403(b) of 
     the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1733(b)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new sentence: ``The Secretary 
     or the Administrator, as appropriate, shall seek information, 
     as part of the regular proposal and submission process, from 
     implementing agencies on the potential benefits to the local 
     economy of sales of agricultural commodities within the 
     recipient country.''.
       (b) Prevention of Price Disruptions.--Section 403(e) of the 
     Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1733(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``reasonable market 
     price'' and inserting ``fair market value''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) Coordination on assessments.--The Secretary and the 
     Administrator shall coordinate in assessments to carry out 
     paragraph (1) and in the development of approaches to be used 
     by implementing agencies for determining the fair market 
     value described in paragraph (2).''.
       (c) Report on Use of Funds.--Section 403 of the Food for 
     Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1733) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(m) Report on Use of Funds.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of the Federal Agriculture 
     Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, and annually 
     thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a 
     report--
       ``(1) specifying the amount of funds (including funds for 
     administrative costs, indirect cost recovery, and internal 
     transportation, storage and handling, and associated 
     distribution costs) provided to each eligible organization 
     that received assistance under this Act in the previous 
     fiscal year; and
       ``(2) describing how those funds were used by the eligible 
     organization.''.

     SEC. 3009. PREPOSITIONING OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.

       Section 407(c)(4) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1736a(c)(4)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''; and
       (B) by striking ``for each such fiscal year not more than 
     $10,000,000 of such funds'' and inserting ``for each of 
     fiscal years 2001 through 2013 not more than $10,000,000 of 
     such funds and for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 not 
     more than $15,000,000 of such funds''; and
       (2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Additional prepositioning sites.--The Administrator 
     may establish additional sites for prepositioning in foreign 
     countries or change the location of current sites for 
     prepositioning in foreign countries after conducting, and 
     based on the results of, assessments of need, the 
     availability of appropriate technology for long-term storage, 
     feasibility, and cost.''.

     SEC. 3010. ANNUAL REPORT REGARDING FOOD AID PROGRAMS AND 
                   ACTIVITIES.

       Section 407(f)(1) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1736a(f)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``agricultural 
     trade'' and inserting ``food aid'';
       (2) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting before the 
     semicolon at the end the following: ``and the total number of 
     beneficiaries of the project and the activities carried out 
     through such project''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (B)(iii)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subclause (I), by inserting ``, 
     and the total number of beneficiaries in,'' after 
     ``commodities made available to'';
       (B) by striking ``and'' at the end of subclause (I);
       (C) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subclause (II); and
       (D) by inserting after subclause (II) the following new 
     subclause:

       ``(III) the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education 
     and Child Nutrition Program established by section 3107 of 
     the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
     1736o-1);''.

     SEC. 3011. DEADLINE FOR AGREEMENTS TO FINANCE SALES OR TO 
                   PROVIDE OTHER ASSISTANCE.

       Section 408 of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1736b) is 
     amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3012. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 412(a)(1) of 
     the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1736f(a)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``for fiscal year 2008 and each fiscal year 
     thereafter, $2,500,000,000'' and inserting ``$2,500,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 and $2,000,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Minimum Level of Nonemergency Food Assistance.--
     Paragraph (1) of section 412(e) of the Food for Peace Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1736f(e)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) Funds and commodities.--For each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018, of the amounts made available to carry out 
     emergency and nonemergency food assistance programs under 
     title II, not less than $400,000,000 shall be expended for 
     nonemergency food assistance programs under such title.''.

     SEC. 3013. MICRONUTRIENT FORTIFICATION PROGRAMS.

       (a) Elimination of Obsolete Reference to Study.--Section 
     415(a)(2)(B) of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1736g-
     2(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``, using 
     recommendations'' and all that follows through ``quality 
     enhancements''.
       (b) Extension.--Section 415(c) of the Food for Peace Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1736g-2(c)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3014. JOHN OGONOWSKI AND DOUG BEREUTER FARMER-TO-FARMER 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 501 of the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1737) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph 
     (1), by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2013, and not less 
     than the greater of $15,000,000 or 0.5 percent of the amounts 
     made available for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018,''; 
     and
       (2) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

               Subtitle B--Agricultural Trade Act of 1978

     SEC. 3101. FUNDING FOR EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM.

       Section 211(b) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 
     U.S.C. 5641(b)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 3102. FUNDING FOR MARKET ACCESS PROGRAM.

       Section 211(c)(1)(A) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 
     (7 U.S.C. 5641(c)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3103. FOREIGN MARKET DEVELOPMENT COOPERATOR PROGRAM.

       Section 703(a) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 
     U.S.C. 5723(a)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

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               Subtitle C--Other Agricultural Trade Laws

     SEC. 3201. FOOD FOR PROGRESS ACT OF 1985.

       (a) Extension.--The Food for Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1736o) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (f)(3), by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018'';
       (2) in subsection (g), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018'';
       (3) in subsection (k), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (4) in subsection (l)(1), by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Repeal of Completed Project.--Subsection (f) of the 
     Food for Progress Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736o) is amended by 
     striking paragraph (6).

     SEC. 3202. BILL EMERSON HUMANITARIAN TRUST ACT.

       Section 302 of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1736f-1) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(2)(B)(i), by striking ``2012'' both 
     places it appears and inserting ``2018''; and
       (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``2012'' both places it 
     appears and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3203. PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO EMERGING 
                   MARKETS.

       (a) Direct Credits or Export Credit Guarantees.--Section 
     1542(a) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 
     of 1990 (Public Law 101-624; 7 U.S.C. 5622 note) is amended 
     by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Development of Agricultural Systems.--Section 
     1542(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-624; 7 U.S.C. 5622 note) is 
     amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 3204. MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION AND 
                   CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM.

       (a) Reauthorization.--Section 3107(l)(2) of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-
     1(l)(2)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.
       (b) Technical Correction.--Section 3107(d) of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-
     1(d)) is amended by striking ``to'' in the matter preceding 
     paragraph (1).

     SEC. 3205. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR SPECIALTY CROPS.

       (a) Purpose.--Section 3205(b) of the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5680(b)) is amended by 
     striking ``related barriers to trade'' and inserting 
     ``technical barriers to trade''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 3205(e)(2) of the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5680(e)(2)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (C); 
     and
       (2) by striking subparagraphs (D) and (E) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(D) $9,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 
     2018.''.
       (c) U.S. Atlantic Spiny Dogfish Study.--Not later than 90 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary shall conduct an economic study on the existing 
     market in the United States for U.S. Atlantic Spiny Dogfish.

     SEC. 3206. GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST.

       Section 3202(c) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 22 U.S.C. 2220a note) is amended 
     by striking ``section'' and all that follows through the 
     period and inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(1) $60,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2008 
     through 2013; and
       ``(2) $50,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018.''.

     SEC. 3207. UNDER SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR FOREIGN 
                   AGRICULTURAL SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle B of the Department of 
     Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 is amended by 
     inserting after section 225 (7 U.S.C. 6931) the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 225A. UNDER SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR FOREIGN 
                   AGRICULTURAL SERVICES.

       ``(a) Authorization.--The Secretary is authorized to 
     establish in the Department the position of Under Secretary 
     of Agriculture for Foreign Agricultural Services.
       ``(b) Confirmation Required.--If the Secretary establishes 
     the position of Under Secretary of Agriculture for Foreign 
     Agricultural Services under subsection (a), the Under 
     Secretary shall be appointed by the President, by and with 
     the advice and consent of the Senate.
       ``(c) Functions of Under Secretary.--
       ``(1) Principal functions.--Upon establishment, the 
     Secretary shall delegate to the Under Secretary of 
     Agriculture for Foreign Agricultural Services those functions 
     under the jurisdiction of the Department that are related to 
     foreign agricultural services.
       ``(2) Additional functions.--The Under Secretary of 
     Agriculture for Foreign Agricultural Services shall perform 
     such other functions as may be required by law or prescribed 
     by the Secretary.
       ``(d) Succession.--Any official who is serving as Under 
     Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
     Services on the date of the enactment of this section and who 
     was appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate, shall not be required to be 
     reappointed under subsection (b) or section 225(b) to the 
     successor position authorized under subsection (a) or section 
     225(a) if the Secretary establishes the position, and the 
     official occupies the new position, with 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this section (or such later date set 
     by the Secretary if litigation delays rapid succession).''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 225 of the Department 
     of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6931) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm 
     and Foreign Agricultural Services'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm 
     Services''; and
       (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``and foreign 
     agricultural''.
       (c) Permanent Authority.--Section 296(b) of the Department 
     of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 7014(b)) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (6)(C), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting a semicolon; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(8) the authority of the Secretary to establish in the 
     Department the position of Under Secretary of Agriculture for 
     Foreign Agricultural Services in accordance with section 
     225A;''.

     SEC. 3208. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN.

       The Secretary of Agriculture shall seek to ensure that 
     Department of Agriculture certificates of origin are accepted 
     by any country with respect to which the United States has 
     entered into a free trade agreement providing for 
     preferential duty treatment.

                            TITLE IV--CREDIT

                    Subtitle A--Farm Ownership Loans

     SEC. 4001. ELIGIBILITY FOR FARM OWNERSHIP LOANS.

       (a) In General.--Section 302(a) of the Consolidated Farm 
     and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1922(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(a) In General.--The'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(a) In General.--
       ``(1) Eligibility requirements.--The'';
       (2) in the 1st sentence, by inserting after ``limited 
     liability companies'' the following: ``, and such other legal 
     entities as the Secretary deems appropriate,'';
       (3) in the 2nd sentence, by redesignating clauses (1) 
     through (4) as clauses (A) through (D), respectively;
       (4) in each of the 2nd and 3rd sentences, by striking ``and 
     limited liability companies'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``limited liability companies, and such other legal 
     entities'';
       (5) in the 3rd sentence, by striking ``(3)'' and ``(4)'' 
     and inserting ``(C)'' and ``(D)'', respectively; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) Special deeming rules.--
       ``(A) Eligibility of certain operating-only entities.--An 
     entity that is or will become only the operator of a family 
     farm is deemed to meet the owner-operator requirements of 
     paragraph (1) if the individuals that are the owners of the 
     family farm own more than 50 percent (or such other 
     percentage as the Secretary determines is appropriate) of the 
     entity.
       ``(B) Eligibility of certain embedded entities.--An entity 
     that is an owner-operator described in paragraph (1), or an 
     operator described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph that 
     is owned, in whole or in part, by other entities, is deemed 
     to meet the direct ownership requirement imposed under 
     paragraph (1) if at least 75 percent of the ownership 
     interests of each embedded entity of such entity is owned 
     directly or indirectly by the individuals that own the family 
     farm.''.
       (b) Direct Farm Ownership Experience Requirement.--Section 
     302(b)(1) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1922(b)(1)) is amended by 
     inserting ``or has other acceptable experience for a period 
     of time, as determined by the Secretary,'' after ``3 years''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 304(c)(2) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1924(c)(2)) by 
     striking ``paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 302(a)'' and 
     inserting ``clauses (A) and (B) of section 302(a)(1)''.
       (2) Section 310D of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1934) is amended--
       (A) by inserting after ``partnership'' the following: ``, 
     or such other legal entities as the Secretary deems 
     appropriate,''; and
       (B) by striking ``or partners'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``partners, or owners''.

     SEC. 4002. CONSERVATION LOAN AND LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM.

       (a) Eligibility.--Section 304(c) of the Consolidated Farm 
     and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1924(c)) is amended by 
     inserting after ``limited liability companies'' the 
     following: ``, or such other legal entities as the Secretary 
     deems appropriate,''.
       (b) Limitation on Loan Guarantee Amount.--Section 304(e) of 
     such Act (7 U.S.C. 1924(e)) is amended by striking ``75 
     percent'' and inserting ``90 percent''.
       (c) Extension of Program.--Section 304(h) of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1924(h)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 4003. DOWN PAYMENT LOAN PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Section 310E(b)(1)(C) of the Consolidated 
     Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1935(b)(1)(C)) is 
     amended by striking ``$500,000'' and inserting ``$667,000''.
       (b) Technical Correction.--Section 310E(b) of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1935(b)) is amended by striking the 2nd paragraph (2).

     SEC. 4004. ELIMINATION OF MINERAL RIGHTS APPRAISAL 
                   REQUIREMENT.

       Section 307 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1927) is

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     amended by striking subsection (d) and redesignating 
     subsection (e) as subsection (d).

                      Subtitle B--Operating Loans

     SEC. 4101. ELIGIBILITY FOR FARM OPERATING LOANS.

       Section 311(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1941(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(a) In General.--The'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(a) In General.--
       ``(1) Eligibility requirements.--The'';
       (2) in the 1st sentence, by inserting after ``limited 
     liability companies'' the following: ``, and such other legal 
     entities as the Secretary deems appropriate,'';
       (3) in the 2nd sentence, by redesignating clauses (1) 
     through (4) as clauses (A) through (D), respectively;
       (4) in each of the 2nd and 3rd sentences, by striking ``and 
     limited liability companies'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``limited liability companies, and such other legal 
     entities'';
       (5) in the 3rd sentence, by striking ``(3)'' and ``(4)'' 
     and inserting ``(C)'' and ``(D)'', respectively; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) Special deeming rule.--An entity that is an operator 
     described in paragraph (1) that is owned, in whole or in 
     part, by other entities, is deemed to meet the direct 
     ownership requirement imposed under paragraph (1) if at least 
     75 percent of the ownership interests of each embedded entity 
     of such entity is owned directly or indirectly by the 
     individuals that own the family farm.''.

     SEC. 4102. ELIMINATION OF RURAL RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR 
                   OPERATING LOANS TO YOUTH.

       Section 311(b)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1941(b)(1)) is amended by striking 
     ``who are rural residents''.

     SEC. 4103. AUTHORITY TO WAIVE PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR YOUTH 
                   LOANS DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND BORROWER 
                   CONTROL.

       Section 311(b) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1941(b)) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following:
       ``(5) The Secretary may, on a case-by-case basis, waive the 
     personal liability of a borrower for a loan made under this 
     subsection if any default on the loan was due to 
     circumstances beyond the control of the borrower.''.

     SEC. 4104. MICROLOANS.

       (a) In General.--Section 313 of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1943) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following:
       ``(c) Microloans.--
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
     may establish a program to make or guarantee microloans.
       ``(2) Limitation.--The Secretary shall not make or 
     guarantee a microloan under this subsection that exceeds 
     $35,000 or that would cause the total principal indebtedness 
     outstanding at any 1 time for microloans made under this 
     chapter to any 1 borrower to exceed $70,000.
       ``(3) Applications.--To the maximum extent practicable, the 
     Secretary shall limit the administrative burdens and 
     streamline the application and approval process for 
     microloans under this subsection.
       ``(4) Cooperative lending projects.--
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
     Secretary may contract with community-based and 
     nongovernmental organizations, State entities, or other 
     intermediaries, as the Secretary determines appropriate--
       ``(i) to make or guarantee a microloan under this 
     subsection; and
       ``(ii) to provide business, financial, marketing, and 
     credit management services to borrowers.
       ``(B) Requirements.--Before contracting with an entity 
     described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary--
       ``(i) shall review and approve--

       ``(I) the loan loss reserve fund for microloans established 
     by the entity; and
       ``(II) the underwriting standards for microloans of the 
     entity; and

       ``(ii) establish such other requirements for contracting 
     with the entity as the Secretary determines necessary.''.
       (b) Exceptions for Direct Loans.--Section 311(c)(2) of such 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1941(c)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) Exceptions.--In this subsection, the term `direct 
     operating loan' shall not include--
       ``(A) a loan made to a youth under subsection (b); or
       ``(B) a microloan made to a beginning farmer or rancher or 
     a veteran farmer or rancher (as defined in section 2501(e) of 
     the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 2279(e)).''.
       (c) Section 312(a) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1942(a)) is 
     amended by inserting ``(including a microloan, as defined by 
     the Secretary)'' after ``A direct loan''.
       (d) Section 316(a)(2) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1946(a)(2)) is 
     amended by inserting ``a microloan to a beginning farmer or 
     rancher or veteran farmer or rancher (as defined in section 
     2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 
     of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e)), or'' after ``The interest rate 
     on''.

                      Subtitle C--Emergency Loans

     SEC. 4201. ELIGIBILITY FOR EMERGENCY LOANS.

       Section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``owner-operators (in the case of loans for 
     a purpose under subtitle A) or operators (in the case of 
     loans for a purpose under subtitle B)'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``(in the case of farm ownership loans in 
     accordance with subtitle A) owner-operators or operators, or 
     (in the case of loans for a purpose under subtitle B) 
     operators'';
       (2) by inserting after ``limited liability companies'' the 
     1st place it appears the following: ``, or such other legal 
     entities as the Secretary deems appropriate'';
       (3) by inserting after ``limited liability companies'' the 
     2nd place it appears the following: ``, or other legal 
     entities'';
       (4) by striking ``and limited liability companies,'' and 
     inserting ``limited liability companies, and such other legal 
     entities'';
       (5) by striking ``ownership and operator'' and inserting 
     ``ownership or operator''; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following: ``An entity that is 
     an owner-operator or operator described in this subsection is 
     deemed to meet the direct ownership requirement imposed under 
     this subsection if at least 75 percent of the ownership 
     interests of each embedded entity of such entity is owned 
     directly or indirectly by the individuals that own the family 
     farm.''.

                 Subtitle D--Administrative Provisions

     SEC. 4301. BEGINNING FARMER AND RANCHER INDIVIDUAL 
                   DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS PILOT PROGRAM.

       Section 333B(h) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1983b(h)) is amended by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 4302. ELIGIBLE BEGINNING FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

       (a) Conforming Amendments Relating to Changes in 
     Eligibility Rules.--Section 343(a)(11) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1991(a)(11)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting after ``joint operation,'' the 1st place 
     it appears the following: ``or such other legal entity as the 
     Secretary deems appropriate,'';
       (2) by striking ``or joint operators'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``joint operators, or owners''; and
       (3) by inserting after ``joint operation,'' the 2nd and 3rd 
     place it appears the following: ``or such other legal 
     entity,''.
       (b) Modification of Acreage Ownership Limitation.--Section 
     343(a)(11)(F) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1991(a)(11)(F)) is 
     amended by striking ``median acreage'' and inserting 
     ``average acreage''.

     SEC. 4303. LOAN AUTHORIZATION LEVELS.

       Section 346(b)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1994(b)(1)) is amended in the 
     matter preceding subparagraph (A) by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 4304. PRIORITY FOR PARTICIPATION LOANS.

       Section 346(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1994(b)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:

       ``(III) Priority.--In order to maximize the number of 
     borrowers served under this clause, the Secretary--

       ``(aa) shall give priority to applicants who apply under 
     the down payment loan program under section 310E or joint 
     financing arrangements under section 307(a)(3)(D); and
       ``(bb) may offer other financing options under this 
     subtitle to applicants only if the Secretary determines that 
     down payment or other participation loan options are not a 
     viable approach for the applicants.''.

     SEC. 4305. LOAN FUND SET-ASIDES.

       Section 346(b)(2)(A)(ii)(III) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1994(b)(2)(A)(ii)(III)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''; and
       (2) by striking ``of the total amount''.

     SEC. 4306. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO BORROWER TRAINING 
                   PROVISION, RELATING TO ELIGIBILITY CHANGES.

       Section 359(c)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2006a(c)(2)) is amended by striking 
     ``section 302(a)(2) or 311(a)(2)'' and inserting ``section 
     302(a)(1)(B) or 311(a)(1)(B)''.

           Subtitle E--State Agricultural Mediation Programs

     SEC. 4401. STATE AGRICULTURAL MEDIATION PROGRAMS.

       Section 506 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (7 
     U.S.C. 5106) is amended by striking ``2015'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

      Subtitle F--Loans to Purchasers of Highly Fractionated Land

     SEC. 4501. LOANS TO PURCHASERS OF HIGHLY FRACTIONATED LAND.

       The first section of Public Law 91-229 (25 U.S.C. 488) is 
     amended in subsection (b)(1) by striking ``pursuant to 
     section 205(c) of the Indian Land Consolidation Act (25 
     U.S.C. 2204(c))'' and inserting ``or to intermediaries in 
     order to establish revolving loan funds for the purchase of 
     highly fractionated land''.

                       TITLE V--RURAL DEVELOPMENT

        Subtitle A--Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act

     SEC. 5001. WATER, WASTE DISPOSAL, AND WASTEWATER FACILITY 
                   GRANTS.

       Section 306(a)(2)(B)(vii) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(2)(B)(vii)) is 
     amended by striking ``2008 through 2012'' and inserting 
     ``2014 through 2018''.

     SEC. 5002. RURAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY GRANTS.

       Section 306(a)(11)(D) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C.

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     1926(a)(11)(D)) is amended by striking ``$15,000,000 for each 
     of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' and inserting 
     ``$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.

     SEC. 5003. ELIMINATION OF RESERVATION OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES 
                   GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS.

       Section 306(a)(19) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(19)) is amended by striking 
     subparagraph (C).

     SEC. 5004. UTILIZATION OF LOAN GUARANTEES FOR COMMUNITY 
                   FACILITIES.

       Section 306(a)(24) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(24)) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(C) Utilization of loan guarantees for community 
     facilities.--The Secretary shall consider the benefits to 
     communities that result from using loan guarantees in the 
     Community Facilities Program and to the maximum extent 
     possible utilize guarantees to enhance community 
     involvement.''.

     SEC. 5005. RURAL WATER AND WASTEWATER CIRCUIT RIDER PROGRAM.

       Section 306(a)(22) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(22)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(22) Rural water and wastewater circuit rider program.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall continue a national 
     rural water and wastewater circuit rider program that--
       ``(i) is consistent with the activities and results of the 
     program conducted before the date of enactment of this 
     paragraph, as determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(ii) receives funding from the Secretary, acting through 
     the Rural Utilities Service.
       ``(B) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph $20,000,000 
     for fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal year thereafter.''.

     SEC. 5006. TRIBAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY 
                   FACILITIES.

       Section 306(a)(25)(C) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(25)(C)) is amended by 
     striking ``$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 
     2012'' and inserting ``$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
     2014 through 2018''.

     SEC. 5007. ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES TECHNICAL 
                   ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.

       Section 306(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(19)) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(26) Essential community facilities technical assistance 
     and training.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may make grants to public 
     bodies and private nonprofit corporations, such as States, 
     counties, cities, townships, and incorporated towns and 
     villages, boroughs, authorities, districts and Indian tribes 
     on Federal and State reservations which will serve rural 
     areas for the purpose of enabling them to provide to 
     associations described in this subsection technical 
     assistance and training, with respect to essential community 
     facilities programs authorized under this subsection, to--
       ``(i) assist communities in identifying and planning for 
     community facility needs;
       ``(ii) identify public and private resources to finance 
     community facilities needs;
       ``(iii) prepare reports and surveys necessary to request 
     financial assistance to develop community facilities;
       ``(iv) prepare applications for financial assistance;
       ``(v) improve the management, including financial 
     management, related to the operation of community facilities; 
     or
       ``(vi) assist with other areas of need identified by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(B) Selection priority.--In selecting recipients of 
     grants under this paragraph, the Secretary shall give 
     priority to private, nonprofit, or public organizations that 
     have experience in providing technical assistance and 
     training to rural entities.
       ``(C) Funding.--Not less than 3 nor more than 5 percent of 
     any funds appropriated to carry out each of the essential 
     community facilities grant, loan and loan guarantee programs 
     as authorized under this subsection for any fiscal year shall 
     be reserved for grants under this paragraph.''.

     SEC. 5008. EMERGENCY AND IMMINENT COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE 
                   GRANT PROGRAM.

       Section 306A(i)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926a(i)(2)) is amended by striking 
     ``$35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' 
     and inserting ``$27,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 5009. HOUSEHOLD WATER WELL SYSTEMS.

       Section 306E(d) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926e(d)) is amended by striking 
     ``$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' 
     and inserting ``$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 5010. RURAL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LOAN PROGRAM.

       (a) Flexibility for the Business and Loan Program.--Section 
     310B(a)(2)(A) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(a)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting 
     ``including working capital'' after ``employment''.
       (b) Greater Flexibility for Adequate Collateral Through 
     Accounts Receivable.--Section 310B(g)(7) of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1932(g)(7)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following: ``In the discretion of the Secretary, if the 
     Secretary determines that the action would not create or 
     otherwise contribute to an unreasonable risk of default or 
     loss to the Federal Government, the Secretary may take 
     account receivables as security for the obligations entered 
     into in connection with loans and a borrower may use account 
     receivables as collateral to secure a loan made or guaranteed 
     under this subsection.''.
       (c) Regulations.--Not later than 6 months after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall promulgate 
     such regulations as are necessary to implement the amendments 
     made by this section.

     SEC. 5011. RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.

       Section 310B(e)(12) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(e)(12)) is amended by striking 
     ``$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' 
     and inserting ``$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 5012. LOCALLY OR REGIONALLY PRODUCED AGRICULTURAL FOOD 
                   PRODUCTS.

       Section 310B(g)(9)(B)(v)(I) of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(g)(9)(B)(v)(I)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''; and
       (2) by inserting ``and not more than 7 percent'' after ``5 
     percent''.

     SEC. 5013. INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle A of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1922-1936a) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 310H. INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall make loans to the 
     entities, for the purposes, and subject to the terms and 
     conditions specified in the 1st, 2nd, and last sentences of 
     section 623(a) of the Community Economic Development Act of 
     1981 (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)).
       ``(b) Limitations on Authorization of Appropriations.--For 
     loans under subsection (a), there are authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Secretary not more than $10,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1323(b)(2) of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-198; 7 U.S.C. 1932 note) 
     is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by adding ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; and'' and 
     inserting a period; and
       (3) by striking subparagraph (C).

     SEC. 5014. RURAL COLLEGE COORDINATED STRATEGY.

       Section 331 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1981) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(d) Rural College Coordinated Strategy.--The Secretary 
     shall develop a coordinated strategy across the relevant 
     programs within the Rural Development mission areas to serve 
     the specific, local needs of rural communities when making 
     investments in rural community colleges and technical 
     colleges through other current authorities. During the 
     development of a coordinated strategy, the Secretary shall 
     consult with groups representing rural-serving community 
     colleges and technical colleges to coordinate critical 
     investments in rural community colleges and technical 
     colleges involved in workforce training. Nothing in this 
     subsection shall be construed to provide a priority for 
     funding within current authorities. The Secretary shall use 
     the coordinated strategy and information developed for the 
     strategy to more effectively serve rural communities with 
     respect to investments in community colleges and technical 
     colleges.''.

     SEC. 5015. RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

       Section 333 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1983) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``require'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``require'' after 
     ``(1)'';
       (3) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, require'' after 
     ``314'';
       (4) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``require'' after 
     ``loans,'';
       (5) in paragraph (4)--
       (A) by inserting ``require'' after ``(4)''; and
       (B) by striking ``and'' after the semicolon;
       (6) in paragraph (5)--
       (A) by inserting ``require'' after ``(5)''; and
       (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     and''; and
       (7) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(6) with respect to water and waste disposal direct and 
     guaranteed loans provided under section 306, encourage, to 
     the maximum extent practicable, private or cooperative 
     lenders to finance rural water and waste disposal facilities 
     by--
       ``(A) maximizing the use of loan guarantees to finance 
     eligible projects in rural communities where the population 
     exceeds 5,500;
       ``(B) maximizing the use of direct loans to finance 
     eligible projects in rural communities where the impact on 
     rate payers will be material when compared to financing with 
     a loan guarantee;
       ``(C) establishing and applying a materiality standard when 
     determining the difference in impact on rate payers between a 
     direct loan and a loan guarantee;
       ``(D) in the case of projects that require interim 
     financing in excess of $500,000, requiring that such projects 
     initially seek such financing from private or cooperative 
     lenders; and
       ``(E) determining if an existing direct loan borrower can 
     refinance with a private or cooperative lender, including 
     with a loan guarantee, prior to providing a new direct 
     loan.''.

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     SEC. 5016. SIMPLIFIED APPLICATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Section 333A of the Consolidated Farm and 
     Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1983a) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(h) Simplified Application Forms.--Except as provided in 
     subsection (g)(2) of this section, the Secretary shall, to 
     the maximum extent practicable, develop a simplified 
     application process, including a single page application 
     where possible, for grants and relending authorized under 
     sections 306, 306C, 306D, 306E, 310B(b), 310B(c), 310B(e), 
     310B(f), 310H, 379B, and 379E.''.
       (b) Report to the Congress.--Within 2 years after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a written report that contains an evaluation of 
     the implementation of the amendment made by subsection (a).

     SEC. 5017. GRANTS FOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO TRANSMITTERS.

       Section 379B(d) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008p(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 5018. RURAL MICROENTREPRENEUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       Section 379E(d)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
     Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s(d)(2)) is amended by striking 
     ``$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2012'' 
     and inserting ``$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 5019. DELTA REGIONAL AUTHORITY.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 382M(a) of 
     the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     2009aa-12(a)) is amended by striking ``$30,000,000 for each 
     of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' and inserting 
     ``$12,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Termination of Authority.--Section 382N of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 2009aa-13) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 5020. NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS REGIONAL AUTHORITY.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 383N(a) of 
     the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     2009bb-12(a)) is amended by striking ``$30,000,000 for each 
     of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' and inserting 
     ``$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Termination of Authority.--Section 383O of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 2009bb-13) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 5021. RURAL BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM.

       Section 384S of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 2009cc-18) is amended by striking ``$50,000,000 
     for the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' and 
     inserting ``$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018''.

             Subtitle B--Rural Electrification Act of 1936

     SEC. 5101. RELENDING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.

       (a) In General.--The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 2(a), by inserting ``(including relending 
     for this purpose as provided in section 4)'' after 
     ``efficiency'';
       (2) in section 4(a), by inserting ``(including relending to 
     ultimate consumers for this purpose by borrowers enumerated 
     in the proviso in this section)'' after ``efficiency''; and
       (3) in section 313(b)(2)(B)--
       (A) by inserting ``(acting through the Rural Utilities 
     Service)'' after ``Secretary''; and
       (B) by inserting ``energy efficiency (including relending 
     to ultimate consumers for this purpose),'' after 
     ``promoting''.
       (b) Current Authority.--The authority provided in this 
     section is in addition to any other relending authority of 
     the Secretary under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 901 et. seq.) or any other law.
       (c) Administration.--The Secretary (acting through the 
     Rural Utilities Service) shall continue to carry out section 
     313 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c) 
     in the same manner as on the day before enactment of this Act 
     until such time as any regulations necessary to carry out the 
     amendments made by this section are fully implemented.

     SEC. 5102. FEES FOR CERTAIN LOAN GUARANTEES.

       The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 901 et 
     seq.) is amended by inserting after section 4 the following:

     ``SEC. 5. FEES FOR CERTAIN LOAN GUARANTEES.

       ``(a) In General.--For electrification baseload generation 
     loan guarantees, the Secretary shall, at the request of the 
     borrower, charge an upfront fee to cover the costs of the 
     loan guarantee.
       ``(b) Fee.--The fee described in subsection (a) for a loan 
     guarantee shall be equal to the costs of the loan guarantee 
     (within the meaning of section 502(5)(C) of the Federal 
     Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661a(5)(C))).
       ``(c) Limitation.--Funds received from a borrower to pay 
     the fee described in this section shall not be derived from a 
     loan or other debt obligation that is made or guaranteed by 
     the Federal Government.''.

     SEC. 5103. RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.

       Section 18(c) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 918(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Rural Electrification 
     Administration'' each place it appears and inserting ``Rural 
     Utilities Service''; and
       (2) in paragraph (4)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``cooperative'' 
     before ``agreements''; and
       (B) by inserting after the 1st sentence the following: ``A 
     contract funded by a borrower that is to be paid for out of 
     the general funds of the borrower is not a public contract 
     within the meaning of title 41, United States Code.''.

     SEC. 5104. GUARANTEES FOR BONDS AND NOTES ISSUED FOR 
                   ELECTRIFICATION OR TELEPHONE PURPOSES.

       Section 313A(f) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 940c-1(f)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 5105. EXPANSION OF 911 ACCESS.

       Section 315(d) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 940e(d)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 5106. ACCESS TO BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES IN 
                   RURAL AREAS.

       Section 601 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 
     U.S.C. 950bb) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (2) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(2) Priorities.--In making or guaranteeing loans under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give--
       ``(A) the highest priority to applicants that offer to 
     provide broadband service to the greatest proportion of 
     households that, prior to the provision of the broadband 
     service, had no incumbent service provider; and
       ``(B) priority to applicants that offer in their 
     applications to provide broadband service not predominantly 
     for business service, but where at least 25 percent of 
     customers in the proposed service territory are commercial 
     interests.'';
       (2) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (5)--
       (i) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
       (ii) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) 
     and inserting a semicolon; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) the amount and type of support requested; and
       ``(E) a list of the census block groups or tracts proposed 
     to be so served.''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(8) Additional process.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     process under which an incumbent service provider which, as 
     of the date of the publication of notice under paragraph (5) 
     with respect to an application submitted by the provider, is 
     providing broadband service to a remote rural area, may (but 
     shall not be required to) submit to the Secretary, not less 
     than 15 and not more than 30 days after that date, 
     information regarding the broadband services that the 
     provider offers in the proposed service territory, so that 
     the Secretary may assess whether the application meets the 
     requirements of this section with respect to eligible 
     projects.'';
       (3) in subsection (e), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Requirement.--In considering the technology needs of 
     customers in a proposed service territory, the Secretary 
     shall take into consideration the upgrade or replacement cost 
     for the construction or acquisition of facilities and 
     equipment in the territory.''; and
       (4) in each of subsections (k)(1) and (l), by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

                       Subtitle C--Miscellaneous

     SEC. 5201. DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 2335A of the 
     Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 950aaa-5) is amended by striking ``$100,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 1996 through 2012'' and inserting 
     ``$65,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1(b) of Public Law 102-
     551 (7 U.S.C. 950aaa note) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 5202. VALUE-ADDED AGRICULTURAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT 
                   PROGRAM GRANTS.

       Section 231(b)(7) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act 
     of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1632a(b)(7)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by striking ``2008'' and inserting ``2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``$15,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$50,000,000''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 5203. AGRICULTURE INNOVATION CENTER DEMONSTRATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 6402(i) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1632b(i)) is amended by striking 
     ``$6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012'' and 
     inserting ``$1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018''.

     SEC. 5204. PROGRAM METRICS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall collect 
     data regarding economic activities created through grants and 
     loans, including any technical assistance provided as a 
     component of the grant or loan program, and measure the short 
     and long term viability of award recipients and any entities 
     to whom those recipients provide assistance using award funds 
     under section 231 of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 
     2000 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note; Public Law 106-224),

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     section 9007 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 
     2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107), section 313(b)(2) of the Rural 
     Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c(b)(2)), or section 
     306(a)(11), 310B(c), 310B(e), 310B(g), 310H, or 379E, or 
     subtitle E, of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)(11), 1932(c), 1932(e), 1932(g), 2008s, 
     or 2009 through 2009m).
       (b) Data.--The data collected under subsection (a) shall 
     include information collected from recipients both during the 
     award period and after the period as determined by the 
     Secretary, but not less than 2 years after the award period 
     ends.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 4 years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, 
     Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that contains 
     the data described in subsection (a). The report shall 
     include detailed information regarding--
       (1) actions taken by the Secretary to utilize the data;
       (2) the number of jobs, including self-employment and the 
     value of salaries and wages;
       (3) how the provision of funds from the grant or loan 
     involved affected the local economy;
       (4) any benefit, such as an increase in revenue or customer 
     base; and
       (5) such other information as the Secretary deems 
     appropriate.

     SEC. 5205. STUDY OF RURAL TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture and the 
     Secretary of Transportation shall publish an updated version 
     of the study described in section 6206 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (as amended by 
     subsection (b)).
       (b) Addition to Study.--Section 6206(b) of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 
     Stat. 1971) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) the sufficiency of infrastructure along waterways in 
     the United States and the impact of such infrastructure on 
     the movement of agricultural goods in terms of safety, 
     efficiency and speed, as well as the benefits derived through 
     upgrades and repairs to locks and dams.''.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
     and the Secretary of Transportation shall submit to the 
     Congress the updated version of the study required by 
     subsection (a).

     SEC. 5206. CERTAIN FEDERAL ACTIONS NOT TO BE CONSIDERED 
                   MAJOR.

       In the case of a loan, loan guarantee, or grant program in 
     the rural development mission area of the Department of 
     Agriculture, an action of the Secretary before, on, or after 
     the date of enactment of this Act that does not involve the 
     provision by the Department of Agriculture of Federal dollars 
     or a Federal loan guarantee, including--
       (1) the approval by the Department of Agriculture of the 
     decision of a borrower to commence a privately funded 
     activity;
       (2) a lien accommodation or subordination;
       (3) a debt settlement or restructuring; or
       (4) the restructuring of a business entity by a borrower,
     shall not be considered a major Federal action.

     SEC. 5207. TELEMEDICINE AND DISTANCE LEARNING SERVICES IN 
                   RURAL AREAS.

       Section 2333(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 950aaa-2(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (12); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (13) as paragraph (14) and 
     inserting after paragraph (12) the following:
       ``(13) whether the applicant for assistance is located in a 
     designated health professional shortage area (within the 
     meaning of section 332 of the Public Health Service Act)''.

     SEC. 5208. REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT.

       Section 15751 of title 40, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by striking ``Not more than'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), not 
     more than''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) Limited funding.--In a case in which less than 
     $10,000,000 is made available to a Commission for a fiscal 
     year under this section, paragraph (1) shall not apply.''.

           TITLE VI--RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND RELATED MATTERS

  Subtitle A--National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
                           Policy Act of 1977

     SEC. 6101. OPTION TO BE INCLUDED AS NON-LAND-GRANT COLLEGE OF 
                   AGRICULTURE.

       Section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(5) Cooperating forestry school.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `cooperating forestry school' 
     means an institution--
       ``(i) that is eligible to receive funds under the Act of 
     October 10, 1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a et seq.), commonly known as 
     the McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962; and
       ``(ii) with respect to which the Secretary has not received 
     a declaration of the intent of that institution to not be 
     considered a cooperating forestry school.
       ``(B) Termination of declaration.--A declaration of the 
     intent of an institution to not be considered a cooperating 
     forestry school submitted to the Secretary shall be in effect 
     until September 30, 2018.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (10)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
     ``that'';
       (ii) in clause (i)--

       (I) by inserting ``that'' before ``qualify''; and
       (II) by striking ``and'' at the end;

       (iii) in clause (ii)--

       (I) by inserting ``that'' before ``offer''; and
       (II) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     and''; and

       (iv) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii) with respect to which the Secretary has not 
     received a statement of the declaration of the intent of a 
     college or university to not be considered a Hispanic-serving 
     agricultural college or university.''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) Termination of declaration of intent.--A declaration 
     of the intent of a college or university to not be considered 
     a Hispanic-serving agricultural college or university 
     submitted to the Secretary shall be in effect until September 
     30, 2018.''.

     SEC. 6102. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, 
                   EDUCATION, AND ECONOMICS ADVISORY BOARD.

       (a) Extension of Termination Date.--Section 1408(h) of the 
     National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3123(h)) is amended by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Duties of National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
     Education, and Economics Advisory Board.--Section 1408(c) of 
     the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3123(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) consult with industry groups on agricultural 
     research, extension, education, and economics, and make 
     recommendations to the Secretary based on that 
     consultation.''.

     SEC. 6103. SPECIALTY CROP COMMITTEE.

       Section 1408A(c) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     3123a(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Measures'' and 
     inserting ``Programs'';
       (2) by striking paragraph (2);
       (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as 
     paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively; and
       (4) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     ``Programs that would'' and inserting ``Research, extension, 
     and teaching programs designed to improve competitiveness in 
     the specialty crop industry, including programs that would'';
       (B) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ``, including 
     improving the quality and taste of processed specialty 
     crops'' before the semicolon; and
       (C) in subparagraph (G), by inserting ``the remote sensing 
     and the'' before ``mechanization''.

     SEC. 6104. VETERINARY SERVICES GRANT PROGRAM.

       The National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 is amended by inserting after section 
     1415A (7 U.S.C. 3151a) the following new section:

     ``SEC. 1415B. VETERINARY SERVICES GRANT PROGRAM.

       ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Qualified entity.--The term `qualified entity' 
     means--
       ``(A) a for-profit or nonprofit entity located in the 
     United States that, or an individual who, operates a 
     veterinary clinic providing veterinary services--
       ``(i) in a rural area, as defined in section 343(a) of the 
     Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1991(a)); and
       ``(ii) in a veterinarian shortage situation;
       ``(B) a State, national, allied, or regional veterinary 
     organization or specialty board recognized by the American 
     Veterinary Medical Association;
       ``(C) a college or school of veterinary medicine accredited 
     by the American Veterinary Medical Association;
       ``(D) a university research foundation or veterinary 
     medical foundation;
       ``(E) a department of veterinary science or department of 
     comparative medicine accredited by the Department of 
     Education;
       ``(F) a State agricultural experiment station; or
       ``(G) a State, local, or tribal government agency.
       ``(2) Veterinarian shortage situation.--The term 
     `veterinarian shortage situation' means a veterinarian 
     shortage situation as

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     determined by the Secretary under section 1415A.
       ``(b) Establishment.--
       ``(1) Competitive grants.--The Secretary shall carry out a 
     program to make competitive grants to qualified entities that 
     carry out programs or activities described in paragraph (2) 
     for the purpose of developing, implementing, and sustaining 
     veterinary services.
       ``(2) Eligibility requirements.--A qualified entity shall 
     be eligible to receive a grant described in paragraph (1) if 
     the entity carries out programs or activities that the 
     Secretary determines will--
       ``(A) substantially relieve veterinarian shortage 
     situations;
       ``(B) support or facilitate private veterinary practices 
     engaged in public health activities; or
       ``(C) support or facilitate the practices of veterinarians 
     who are providing or have completed providing services under 
     an agreement entered into with the Secretary under section 
     1415A(a)(2).
       ``(c) Award Processes and Preferences.--
       ``(1) Application, evaluation, and input processes.--In 
     administering the grant program established under this 
     section, the Secretary shall--
       ``(A) use an appropriate application and evaluation 
     process, as determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(B) seek the input of interested persons.
       ``(2) Coordination preference.--In selecting recipients of 
     grants to be used for any of the purposes described in 
     subsection (d)(1), the Secretary shall give a preference to 
     qualified entities that provide documentation of coordination 
     with other qualified entities, with respect to any such 
     purpose.
       ``(3) Consideration of available funds.--In selecting 
     recipients of grants to be used for any of the purposes 
     described in subsection (d), the Secretary shall take into 
     consideration the amount of funds available for grants and 
     the purposes for which the grant funds will be used.
       ``(4) Nature of grants.--A grant awarded under this section 
     shall be considered to be a competitive research, extension, 
     or education grant.
       ``(d) Use of Grants To Relieve Veterinarian Shortage 
     Situations and Support Veterinary Services.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
     qualified entity may use funds provided by a grant awarded 
     under this section to relieve veterinarian shortage 
     situations and support veterinary services for any of the 
     following purposes:
       ``(A) To promote recruitment (including for programs in 
     secondary schools), placement, and retention of 
     veterinarians, veterinary technicians, students of veterinary 
     medicine, and students of veterinary technology.
       ``(B) To allow veterinary students, veterinary interns, 
     externs, fellows, and residents, and veterinary technician 
     students to cover expenses (other than the types of expenses 
     described in section 1415A(c)(5)) to attend training programs 
     in food safety or food animal medicine.
       ``(C) To establish or expand accredited veterinary 
     education programs (including faculty recruitment and 
     retention), veterinary residency and fellowship programs, or 
     veterinary internship and externship programs carried out in 
     coordination with accredited colleges of veterinary medicine.
       ``(D) To provide continuing education and extension, 
     including veterinary telemedicine and other distance-based 
     education, for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and 
     other health professionals needed to strengthen veterinary 
     programs and enhance food safety.
       ``(E) To provide technical assistance for the preparation 
     of applications submitted to the Secretary for designation as 
     a veterinarian shortage situation under this section or 
     section 1415A.
       ``(2) Qualified entities operating veterinary clinics.--A 
     qualified entity described in subsection (a)(1)(A) may only 
     use funds provided by a grant awarded under this section to 
     establish or expand veterinary practices, including--
       ``(A) equipping veterinary offices;
       ``(B) sharing in the reasonable overhead costs of such 
     veterinary practices, as determined by the Secretary; or
       ``(C) establishing mobile veterinary facilities in which a 
     portion of the facilities will address education or extension 
     needs.
       ``(e) Special Requirements for Certain Grants.--
       ``(1) Terms of service requirements.--
       ``(A) In general.--Funds provided through a grant made 
     under this section to a qualified entity described in 
     subsection (a)(1)(A) and used by such entity under subsection 
     (d)(2) shall be subject to an agreement between the Secretary 
     and such entity that includes a required term of service for 
     such entity (including a qualified entity operating as an 
     individual), as prospectively established by the Secretary.
       ``(B) Considerations.--In establishing a term of service 
     under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall consider only--
       ``(i) the amount of the grant awarded; and
       ``(ii) the specific purpose of the grant.
       ``(2) Breach remedies.--
       ``(A) In general.--An agreement under paragraph (1) shall 
     provide remedies for any breach of the agreement by the 
     qualified entity referred to in paragraph (1)(A), including 
     repayment or partial repayment of the grant funds, with 
     interest.
       ``(B) Waiver.--The Secretary may grant a waiver of the 
     repayment obligation for breach of contract if the Secretary 
     determines that such qualified entity demonstrates extreme 
     hardship or extreme need.
       ``(C) Treatment of amounts recovered.--Funds recovered 
     under this paragraph shall--
       ``(i) be credited to the account available to carry out 
     this section; and
       ``(ii) remain available until expended without further 
     appropriation.
       ``(f) Prohibition on Use of Grant Funds for Construction.--
     Except as provided in subsection (d)(2), funds made available 
     for grants under this section may not be used--
       ``(1) to construct a new building or facility; or
       ``(2) to acquire, expand, remodel, or alter an existing 
     building or facility, including site grading and improvement 
     and architect fees.
       ``(g) Regulations.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall promulgate 
     regulations to carry out this section.
       ``(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out 
     this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal 
     year thereafter, to remain available until expended.''.

     SEC. 6105. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 
                   SCIENCES EDUCATION.

       Section 1417(m) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3152(m)) 
     is amended by striking ``section $60,000,000'' and all that 
     follows and inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(1) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1990 through 
     2013; and
       ``(2) $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6106. POLICY RESEARCH CENTERS.

       Section 1419A of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3155) is 
     amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``AGRICULTURAL AND 
     FOOD'' before ``POLICY'';
       (2) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph 
     (1)--
       (A) by striking ``Secretary may'' and inserting ``Secretary 
     shall, acting through the Office of the Chief Economist,'';
       (B) by striking ``make grants, competitive grants, and 
     special research grants to, and enter into cooperative 
     agreements and other contracting instruments with,'' and 
     inserting ``make competitive grants to, or enter into 
     cooperative agreements with,''; and
       (C) by inserting ``with a history of providing unbiased, 
     nonpartisan economic analysis to Congress'' after 
     ``subsection (b)'';
       (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``other research 
     institutions'' and all that follows through ``shall be 
     eligible'' and inserting ``and other public research 
     institutions and organizations shall be eligible'';
       (4) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
     (d) and (e), respectively;
       (5) by inserting after subsection (b), the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(c) Preference.--In awarding grants under this section, 
     the Secretary shall give a preference to policy research 
     centers that have extensive databases, models, and 
     demonstrated experience in providing Congress with 
     agricultural market projections, rural development analysis, 
     agricultural policy analysis, and baseline projections at the 
     farm, multiregional, national, and international levels.''; 
     and
       (6) by striking subsection (e) (as redesignated by 
     paragraph (4)) and inserting the following new subsection:
       ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1996 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6107. REPEAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION INTERVENTION AND HEALTH 
                   PROMOTION RESEARCH PROGRAM.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1424 of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3174) is repealed.

     SEC. 6108. REPEAL OF PILOT RESEARCH PROGRAM TO COMBINE 
                   MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1424A of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3174a) is repealed.

     SEC. 6109. NUTRITION EDUCATION PROGRAM.

       Section 1425(f) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3175(f)) 
     is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6110. CONTINUING ANIMAL HEALTH AND DISEASE RESEARCH 
                   PROGRAMS.

       Section 1433 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3195) is 
     amended by striking the section designation and heading and 
     all that follows through subsection (a) and inserting the 
     following:

     ``SEC. 1433. APPROPRIATIONS FOR CONTINUING ANIMAL HEALTH AND 
                   DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAMS.

       ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       ``(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     to support continuing animal health and disease research 
     programs at eligible institutions--
       ``(A) $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1991 through 
     2013; and

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       ``(B) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.
       ``(2) Use of funds.--Funds made available under this 
     section shall be used--
       ``(A) to meet the expenses of conducting animal health and 
     disease research, publishing and disseminating the results of 
     such research, and contributing to the retirement of 
     employees subject to the Act of March 4, 1940 (7 U.S.C. 331);
       ``(B) for administrative planning and direction; and
       ``(C) to purchase equipment and supplies necessary for 
     conducting the research described in subparagraph (A).''.

     SEC. 6111. REPEAL OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON NATIONAL 
                   OR REGIONAL PROBLEMS.

       (a) Repeal.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 1434 of the 
     National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3196) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Matching funds.--Section 1438 of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3200) is amended in the first sentence by 
     striking ``, exclusive of the funds provided for research on 
     specific national or regional animal health and disease 
     problems under the provisions of section 1434 of this 
     title,''.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations for existing and 
     certain new agricultural research programs.--Section 1463(c) 
     of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3311(c)) is amended by 
     striking ``sections 1433 and 1434'' and inserting ``section 
     1433''.

     SEC. 6112. GRANTS TO UPGRADE AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCES 
                   FACILITIES AT 1890 LAND-GRANT COLLEGES, 
                   INCLUDING TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY.

       Section 1447(b) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     3222b(b)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 6113. GRANTS TO UPGRADE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SCIENCE 
                   FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT AT INSULAR AREA LAND-
                   GRANT INSTITUTIONS.

       (a) Supporting Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural 
     Research.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1447B(a) of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222b-2(a)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Purpose.--It is the intent of Congress to assist the 
     land-grant colleges and universities in the insular areas in 
     efforts to--
       ``(1) acquire, alter, or repair facilities or relevant 
     equipment necessary for conducting agricultural research; and
       ``(2) support tropical and subtropical agricultural 
     research, including pest and disease research.''.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 1447B of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222b-2) is amended in the heading--
       (A) by inserting ``AND SUPPORT TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL 
     AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH'' after ``EQUIPMENT''; and
       (B) by striking ``INSTITUTIONS'' and inserting ``COLLEGES 
     AND UNIVERSITIES''.
       (b) Extension.--Section 1447B(d) of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222b-2(d)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6114. REPEAL OF NATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING VIRTUAL 
                   CENTERS.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1448 of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222c) is repealed.

     SEC. 6115. HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS.

       Section 1455(c) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3241(c)) 
     is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6116. COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM FOR HISPANIC 
                   AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND YOUTH.

       Section 1456(e)(1) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     3243(e)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     competitive grants program--
       ``(A) to fund fundamental and applied research and 
     extension at Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and 
     universities in agriculture, human nutrition, food science, 
     bioenergy, and environmental science; and
       ``(B) to award competitive grants to Hispanic-serving 
     agricultural colleges and universities to provide for 
     training in the food and agricultural sciences of Hispanic 
     agricultural workers and Hispanic youth working in the food 
     and agricultural sciences.''.

     SEC. 6117. COMPETITIVE GRANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL 
                   SCIENCE AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

       Section 1459A(c) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     3292b(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1999 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6118. REPEAL OF RESEARCH EQUIPMENT GRANTS.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1462A of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310a) is repealed.

     SEC. 6119. UNIVERSITY RESEARCH.

       Section 1463 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3311) is 
     amended in both of subsections (a) and (b) by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6120. EXTENSION SERVICE.

       Section 1464 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3312) is 
     amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6121. AUDITING, REPORTING, BOOKKEEPING, AND 
                   ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS.

       Section 1469 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3315) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by adding ``and'' at the end;
       (B) by striking paragraph (3); and
       (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3);
       (2) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as 
     subsections (d), (e), and (f), respectively; and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsections:
       ``(b) Administrative Expenses.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2) and 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may 
     retain not more than 4 percent of amounts made available for 
     agricultural research, extension, and teaching assistance 
     programs for the administration of those programs authorized 
     under this Act or any other Act.
       ``(2) Exceptions.--The limitation on administrative 
     expenses under paragraph (1) shall not apply to peer panel 
     expenses under subsection (d) or any other provision of law 
     related to the administration of agricultural research, 
     extension, and teaching assistance programs that contains a 
     limitation on administrative expenses that is less than the 
     limitation under paragraph (1).
       ``(c) Agreements With Non-Federal Entities.--
       ``(1) Former agricultural research facilities of the 
     department.--To the maximum extent practicable, the 
     Secretary, for purposes of supporting ongoing research and 
     information dissemination activities, including supporting 
     research and those activities through co-locating scientists 
     and other technical personnel, sharing of laboratory and 
     field equipment, and providing financial support, shall enter 
     into grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other 
     legal instruments with former Department of Agriculture 
     agricultural research facilities.
       ``(2) Agreements with agricultural research 
     organizations.--The Secretary, for purposes of receiving from 
     a non-Federal agricultural research organization support for 
     agricultural research, including staffing, laboratory and 
     field equipment, or direct financial assistance, may enter 
     into grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other 
     legal instruments with a non-Federal agricultural research 
     organization, the operation of which is consistent with the 
     research mission and programs of an agricultural research 
     facility of the Department of Agriculture.''.

     SEC. 6122. SUPPLEMENTAL AND ALTERNATIVE CROPS.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations and Termination.--
     Section 1473D of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3319d) 
     is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(e) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
     this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 2013; and
       ``(2) $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.
       (b) Competitive Grants.--Section 1473D(c)(1) of the 
     National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3319d(c)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``use such research funding, special or competitive 
     grants, or other means, as the Secretary determines,'' and 
     inserting ``make competitive grants''.

     SEC. 6123. CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS FOR NLGCA INSTITUTIONS.

       Section 1473F(b) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     3319i(b)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 6124. AQUACULTURE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

       (a) Competitive Grants.--Section 1475(b) of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3322(b)) is amended in the matter preceding 
     paragraph (1), by inserting ``competitive'' before 
     ``grants''.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 1477 of the 
     National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3324) is amended to read as 
     follows:

     ``SEC. 1477. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       ``(a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     to carry out this subtitle--
       ``(1) $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 1991 through 
     2013; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.
       ``(b) Prohibition on Use.--Funds made available under this 
     section may not be used to acquire or construct a 
     building.''.

     SEC. 6125. RANGELAND RESEARCH PROGRAMS.

       Section 1483(a) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching

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     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3336(a)) is amended by striking 
     ``subtitle'' and all that follows and inserting the 
     following: ``subtitle--
       ``(1) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1991 through 
     2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6126. SPECIAL AUTHORIZATION FOR BIOSECURITY PLANNING AND 
                   RESPONSE.

       Section 1484(a) of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3351(a)) 
     is amended by striking ``response such sums as are 
     necessary'' and all that follows and inserting the following: 
     ``response--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2002 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6127. DISTANCE EDUCATION AND RESIDENT INSTRUCTION GRANTS 
                   PROGRAM FOR INSULAR AREA INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 
                   EDUCATION.

       (a) Distance Education Grants for Insular Areas.--
       (1) Competitive grants.--Section 1490(a) of the National 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 3362(a)) is amended by striking ``or 
     noncompetitive''.
       (2) Authorization of appropriations.--Section 1490(f) of 
     the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3362(f)) is amended by striking 
     ``section'' and all that follows and inserting the following: 
     ``section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2002 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.
       (b) Resident Instruction Grants for Insular Areas.--Section 
     1491(c) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3363(c)) is amended by 
     striking ``such sums as are necessary'' and all that follows 
     and inserting the following: ``to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2002 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6128. MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT.

       (a) In General.--The National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3101 et 
     seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subtitle:

                    ``Subtitle P--General Provisions

     ``SEC. 1492. MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT.

       ``(a) In General.--The recipient of a competitive grant 
     that is awarded by the Secretary under a covered law shall 
     provide funds, in-kind contributions, or a combination of 
     both, from sources other than funds provided through such 
     grant in an amount at least equal to the amount of such 
     grant.
       ``(b) Exception.--The matching funds requirement under 
     subsection (a) shall not apply to grants awarded--
       ``(1) to a research agency of the Department of 
     Agriculture; or
       ``(2) to an entity eligible to receive funds under a 
     capacity and infrastructure program (as defined in section 
     251(f)(1)(C) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization 
     Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6971(f)(1)(C))), including a partner of 
     such entity.
       ``(c) Covered Law.--In this section, the term `covered law' 
     means each of the following provisions of law:
       ``(1) This title.
       ``(2) Title XVI of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.).
       ``(3) The Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education 
     Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.).
       ``(4) Part III of subtitle E of title VII of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 3202 et seq.).
       ``(5) The Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research 
     Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i).''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (9) of subsection (b) 
     of the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)) is amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (2) in the heading, by inserting ``for equipment grants'' 
     after ``funds'';
       (3) by striking ``(A) Equipment grants.--''; and
       (4) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs 
     (A) and (B), respectively, and moving the margins of such 
     subparagraphs two ems to the left.
       (c) Application to Amendments.--
       (1) New grants.--Section 1492 of the National Agricultural, 
     Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as 
     added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to grants 
     described in such section awarded after October 1, 2013, 
     unless the provision of a covered law under which such grants 
     are awarded specifically exempts such grants from the 
     matching funds requirement under such section.
       (2) Existing grants.--A matching funds requirement in 
     effect on or before October 1, 2013, under a covered law 
     shall continue to apply to a grant awarded under such 
     provision of law on or before that date.

     SEC. 6129. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING EXPANSION OF THE LAND 
                   GRANT PROGRAM TO INCLUDE ENHANCED FUNDING AND 
                   ADDITIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

       It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) institutions of higher education designated under the 
     Act of August 30, 1890 (commonly known, and referred to in 
     this section, as the ``Second Morrill Act''; 7 U.S.C. 321 et 
     seq.) have played an integral role in the education and 
     advancement of agriculture and mechanic arts for over a 
     century;
       (2) in addition to those institutions, a number of colleges 
     and universities have fulfilled similar and parallel missions 
     in successfully training and graduating generations of 
     students who have gone on to be leaders in their field;
       (3) the colleges and universities, both with and without 
     designation under the Second Morrill Act, fulfill a vital 
     role to the future of industry, opportunities for increased 
     job creation, and the strength of agriculture in the United 
     States;
       (4) Congress must ensure that the United States' higher 
     education framework and policies meet the needs of young 
     individuals in the United States, and that students from 
     across the country are able to choose from a variety of 
     institutions and programs that will equip them with the 
     skills and training necessary to achieve their individual 
     goals; and
       (5) as Congress and the agricultural community generally 
     consider policies and approaches to improve research, 
     extension, and education in the agricultural sciences, 
     expansion of the land grant program under the Second Morrill 
     Act to include enhanced funding and additional institutions 
     should be considered.

   Subtitle B--Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990

     SEC. 6201. BEST UTILIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS.

       Section 1624 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5814) is amended in the first 
     sentence--
       (1) by striking ``$40,000,000 for each fiscal year''; and
       (2) by inserting ``$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
     2013 through 2018'' after ``chapter''.

     SEC. 6202. INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.

       Section 1627(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5821(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
     through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture 
     $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 6203. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND 
                   TRANSFER PROGRAM.

       Section 1628(f) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5831(f)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 2013; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6204. NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM.

       Section 1629(i) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5832(i)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out the National 
     Training Program $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 
     through 2018.''.

     SEC. 6205. NATIONAL GENETICS RESOURCES PROGRAM.

       Section 1635(b) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5844(b)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``such funds as may be necessary''; and
       (2) by striking ``subtitle'' and all that follows and 
     inserting the following: ``subtitle--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1991 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6206. REPEAL OF NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL WEATHER 
                   INFORMATION SYSTEM.

       Effective October 1, 2013, subtitle D of title XVI of the 
     Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 5851 et seq.) is repealed.

     SEC. 6207. REPEAL OF RURAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE EXTENSION 
                   PROGRAM.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1670 of the Food, 
     Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
     5923) is repealed.

     SEC. 6208. REPEAL OF AGRICULTURAL GENOME INITIATIVE.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1671 of the Food, 
     Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
     5924) is repealed.

     SEC. 6209. HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION INITIATIVES.

       Section 1672 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925) is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by striking 
     ``subsections (e) through (i)'' and inserting ``subsections 
     (e), (f), and (g)'';
       (2) in subsection (b)(2), in the first sentence, by 
     striking ``subsections (e) through (i)'' and inserting `` 
     `subsections (e), (f), and (g)' '';
       (3) by striking subsections (e), (f), and (i);
       (4) by redesignating subsections (g), (h), and (j) as 
     subsections (e), (f), and (h), respectively;
       (5) in subsection (f) (as redesignated by paragraph (4))--
       (A) by striking ``2012'' each place it appears in 
     paragraphs (1)(B), (2)(B), and (3) and inserting ``2018''; 
     and
       (B) in paragraph (4)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and honey bee 
     health disorders'' after ``collapse''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, including best 
     management practices'' after ``strategies'';

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       (6) by inserting after subsection (f) (as redesignated by 
     paragraph (4)) the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Coffee Plant Health Initiative.--
       ``(1) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a 
     coffee plant health initiative to address the critical needs 
     of the coffee industry by--
       ``(A) developing and disseminating science-based tools and 
     treatments to combat the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus 
     hampei); and
       ``(B) establishing an area-wide integrated pest management 
     program in areas affected by, or areas at risk of, being 
     affected by the coffee berry borer.
       ``(2) Eligible entities.--The Secretary may carry out the 
     coffee plant health initiative through--
       ``(A) Federal agencies, including the Agricultural Research 
     Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture;
       ``(B) National Laboratories;
       ``(C) institutions of higher education;
       ``(D) research institutions or organizations;
       ``(E) private organizations or corporations;
       ``(F) State agricultural experiment stations;
       ``(G) individuals; or
       ``(H) groups consisting of 2 or more entities or 
     individuals described in subparagraphs (A) through (G).
       ``(3) Project grants and cooperative agreements.--In 
     carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall--
       ``(A) enter into cooperative agreements with eligible 
     entities, as appropriate; and
       ``(B) award grants on a competitive basis.
       ``(4) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $2,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''; and
       (7) in subsection (h) (as redesignated by paragraph (4)), 
     by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6210. REPEAL OF NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND 
                   EXTENSION INITIATIVE.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1672A of the Food, 
     Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
     5925a) is repealed.

     SEC. 6211. ORGANIC AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EXTENSION 
                   INITIATIVE.

       Section 1672B of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925b) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(e) Farm Business Management Encouraged.--Following the 
     completion of a peer review process for grant proposals 
     received under this section, the Secretary shall give a 
     priority to grant proposals found in the review process to be 
     scientifically meritorious using the same criteria the 
     Secretary uses to give priority to grants under section 
     1672D(b).''; and
       (2) in subsection (f)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in the heading of such paragraph, by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the 
     end and inserting ``; and''; and
       (iv) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in the heading of such paragraph, by striking ``2009 
     through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 through 2018''; and
       (ii) by striking ``2009 through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 6212. REPEAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOENERGY FEEDSTOCK AND 
                   ENERGY EFFICIENCY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION 
                   INITIATIVE.

       (a) Repeal.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 1672C of 
     the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 5925e) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 251(f)(1)(D) of the 
     Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 
     U.S.C. 6971(f)(1)(D)) is amended--
       (1) by striking clause (xi); and
       (2) by redesignating clauses (xii) and (xiii) as clauses 
     (xi) and (xii), respectively.

     SEC. 6213. FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT.

       Section 1672D(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925f(d)) is amended by 
     striking ``such sums as are necessary to carry out this 
     section.'' and inserting the following: ``to carry out this 
     section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 2013; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6214. CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.

       The Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 
     is amended by inserting after section 1672D (7 U.S.C. 5925f) 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 1673. CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.

       ``(a) Funding Priorities.--The Secretary shall prioritize 
     centers of excellence established for specific agricultural 
     commodities for the receipt of funding for any competitive 
     research or extension program administered by the Secretary.
       ``(b) Composition.--A center of excellence is composed of 1 
     or more of the eligible entities specified in subsection 
     (b)(7) of the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research 
     Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)(7)) that provide financial or in-
     kind support to the center of excellence.
       ``(c) Criteria for Centers of Excellence.--
       ``(1) Required efforts.--The criteria for consideration to 
     be recognized as a center of excellence shall include 
     efforts--
       ``(A) to ensure coordination and cost effectiveness by 
     reducing unnecessarily duplicative efforts regarding 
     research, teaching, and extension;
       ``(B) to leverage available resources by using public/
     private partnerships among agricultural industry groups, 
     institutions of higher education, and the Federal Government;
       ``(C) to implement teaching initiatives to increase 
     awareness and effectively disseminate solutions to target 
     audiences through extension activities; and
       ``(D) to increase the economic returns to rural communities 
     by identifying, attracting, and directing funds to high-
     priority agricultural issues.
       ``(2) Additional efforts.--Where practicable, the criteria 
     for consideration to be recognized as a center of excellence 
     shall include efforts to improve teaching capacity and 
     infrastructure at colleges and universities (including land-
     grant institutions, schools of forestry, schools of 
     veterinary medicine, and NLGCA Institutions).''.

     SEC. 6215. REPEAL OF RED MEAT SAFETY RESEARCH CENTER.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 1676 of the Food, 
     Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
     5929) is repealed.

     SEC. 6216. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FOR FARMERS WITH 
                   DISABILITIES.

       Section 1680(c)(1) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5933(c)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``is'' and inserting ``are''; and
       (2) by striking ``section'' and all that follows and 
     inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(A) $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 
     2013; and
       ``(B) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6217. NATIONAL RURAL INFORMATION CENTER CLEARINGHOUSE.

       Section 2381(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 3125b(e)) is amended by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

Subtitle C--Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act 
                                of 1998

     SEC. 6301. RELEVANCE AND MERIT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 
                   EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION FUNDED BY THE 
                   DEPARTMENT.

       Section 103(a)(2) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, 
     and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7613(a)(2)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in the heading by striking ``Merit review of 
     extension'' and inserting ``Relevance and merit review of 
     research, extension,'';
       (2) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by inserting ``relevance and'' before ``merit''; and
       (B) by striking ``extension or education'' and inserting 
     ``research, extension, or education''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``on a continuous 
     basis'' after ``procedures''.

     SEC. 6302. INTEGRATED RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM.

       Section 406(f) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626(f)) is amended by 
     striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6303. REPEAL OF COORDINATED PROGRAM OF RESEARCH, 
                   EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION TO IMPROVE VIABILITY 
                   OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE DAIRY, LIVESTOCK, AND 
                   POULTRY OPERATIONS.

       (a) Repeal.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 407 of the 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
     1998 (7 U.S.C. 7627) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 251(f)(1)(D) of the 
     Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 
     U.S.C. 6971(f)(1)(D)), as amended by section 6212(b), is 
     further amended--
       (1) by striking clause (xi) (as redesignated by section 
     6212(b)); and
       (2) by redesignating clause (xii) (as redesignated by 
     section 6212(b)) as clause (xi).

     SEC. 6304. FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM GRANTS.

       Section 408(e) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7628(e)) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
     years 1999 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6305. REPEAL OF BOVINE JOHNE'S DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 409 of the Agricultural 
     Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 
     U.S.C. 7629) is repealed.

     SEC. 6306. GRANTS FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS.

       Section 410(d) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7630(d)) is amended by 
     striking ``section such sums as are necessary'' and all that 
     follows and inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2008 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

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     SEC. 6307. SPECIALTY CROP RESEARCH INITIATIVE.

       Section 412 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and genomics'' and 
     inserting ``genomics, and other methods''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``handling and 
     processing,'' after ``production efficiency,'';
       (2) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(d) Research Projects.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Secretary shall award competitive grants on the basis of--
       ``(1) an initial scientific peer review conducted by a 
     panel of subject matter experts from Federal agencies, non-
     Federal entities, and the specialty crop industry; and
       ``(2) a final funding determination made by the Secretary 
     based on a review and ranking for merit, relevance, and 
     impact conducted by a panel of specialty crop industry 
     representatives for the specific specialty crop.''; and
       (3) in subsection (h)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``(1) Mandatory funding for fiscal years 
     2008 through 2012.--Of the funds'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(1) Mandatory funding.--
       ``(A) Fiscal years 2008 through 2012.--Of the funds''; and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Subsequent funding.--Of the funds of the Commodity 
     Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall make available to 
     carry out this section--
       ``(i) $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2014 and 2015;
       ``(ii) $55,000,000 for fiscal years 2016 and 2017; and
       ``(iii) $65,000,000 for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal 
     year thereafter.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in the heading, by striking ``2008 Through 2012'' and 
     inserting ``2014 Through 2018''; and
       (ii) by striking ``2008 through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 6308. FOOD ANIMAL RESIDUE AVOIDANCE DATABASE PROGRAM.

       Section 604(e) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7642(e)) is amended by 
     striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6309. REPEAL OF NATIONAL SWINE RESEARCH CENTER.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 612 of the Agricultural 
     Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (Public 
     Law 105-185; 112 Stat. 605) is repealed.

     SEC. 6310. OFFICE OF PEST MANAGEMENT POLICY.

       Section 614(f) of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
     Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7653(f)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``such sums as are necessary''; and
       (2) by striking ``section'' and all that follows and 
     inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1999 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6311. REPEAL OF STUDIES OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 
                   EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION.

       Effective October 1, 2013, subtitle C of title VI of the 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
     1998 (7 U.S.C. 7671 et seq.) is repealed.

                         Subtitle D--Other Laws

     SEC. 6401. CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS ACT.

       Section 16(a) of the Critical Agricultural Materials Act (7 
     U.S.C. 178n(a)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``such sums as are necessary''; and
       (2) by striking ``Act'' and all that follows and inserting 
     the following: ``Act--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1991 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6402. EQUITY IN EDUCATIONAL LAND-GRANT STATUS ACT OF 
                   1994.

       (a) Definition of 1994 Institutions.--Section 532 of the 
     Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 
     301 note; Public Law 103-382) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (8), by striking ``Memorial'';
       (2) in paragraph (26), by striking ``Community'';
       (3) by striking paragraphs (5), (10), and (27);
       (4) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (6), 
     (7), (8), (9), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), 
     (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (28), (29), (30), (31), 
     (32), (33), and (34) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (7), (8), 
     (9), (5), (10), (15), (17), (18), (19), (20), (22), (23), 
     (24), (25), (32), (26), (27), (28), (29), (30), (31), (33), 
     (34), (35), and (14), respectively, and transferring the 
     paragraphs so as to appear in numerical order;
       (5) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so redesignated), 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(1) Aaniih Nakoda College.'';
       (6) by inserting after paragraph (5) (as so redesignated), 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(6) College of the Muscogee Nation.'';
       (7) by inserting after paragraph (15) (as so redesignated) 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(16) Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College.''; and
       (8) by inserting after paragraph (20) (as so redesignated) 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(21) Navajo Technical College.''.
       (b) Endowment for 1994 Institutions.--Section 533(b) of the 
     Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 
     301 note; Public Law 103-382) is amended in the first 
     sentence by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
       (c) Institutional Capacity Building Grants.--Section 535 of 
     the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 
     U.S.C. 301 note; Public Law 103-382) is amended by striking 
     ``2012'' each place it appears in subsections (b)(1) and (c) 
     and inserting ``2018''.
       (d) Research Grants.--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--Section 536(c) of the 
     Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 
     301 note; Public Law 103-382) is amended in the first 
     sentence by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
       (2) Research grant requirements.--Section 536(b) of the 
     Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 
     301 note; Public Law 103-382) is amended by striking ``with 
     at least 1 other land-grant college or university'' and all 
     that follows and inserting the following: ``with--
       ``(1) the Agricultural Research Service of the Department 
     of Agriculture; or
       ``(2) at least 1--
       ``(A) other land-grant college or university (exclusive of 
     another 1994 Institution);
       ``(B) non-land-grant college of agriculture (as defined in 
     section 1404 of the National Agricultural Research, 
     Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)); 
     or
       ``(C) cooperating forestry school (as defined in that 
     section).''.

     SEC. 6403. RESEARCH FACILITIES ACT.

       Section 6(a) of the Research Facilities Act (7 U.S.C. 
     390d(a)) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 6404. REPEAL OF CARBON CYCLE RESEARCH.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 221 of the Agricultural 
     Risk Protection Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 6711) is repealed.

     SEC. 6405. COMPETITIVE, SPECIAL, AND FACILITIES RESEARCH 
                   GRANT ACT.

       (a) Extension.--Subsection (b)(11)(A) of the Competitive, 
     Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 
     450i(b)(11)(A)) is amended in the matter preceding clause (i) 
     by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Priority Areas.--Subsection (b)(2) of the Competitive, 
     Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 
     450i(b)(2)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) in clause (vi), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in clause (vii), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(viii) plant-based foods that are major sources of 
     nutrients of concern (as determined by the Secretary).'';
       (2) in subparagraph (B)--
       (A) in clause (vii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in clause (viii), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting a semicolon; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new clauses:
       ``(ix) the research and development of surveillance 
     methods, vaccines, vaccination delivery systems, or 
     diagnostic tests for pests and diseases (especially zoonotic 
     diseases) in wildlife reservoirs presenting a potential 
     concern to public health or domestic livestock and pests and 
     diseases in minor species (including deer, elk, and bison); 
     and
       ``(x) the identification of animal drug needs and the 
     generation and dissemination of data for safe and effective 
     therapeutic applications of animal drugs for minor species 
     and minor uses of such drugs in major species.'';
       (3) in subparagraph (C)--
       (A) in clause (ii), by inserting before the semicolon ``, 
     including the effects of plant-based foods that are major 
     sources of nutrients of concern on diet and health'';
       (B) in clause (iii), by inserting before the semicolon ``, 
     including plant-based foods that are major sources of 
     nutrients of concern'';
       (C) in clause (iv), by inserting before the semicolon ``, 
     including postharvest practices conducted with respect to 
     plant-based foods that are major sources of nutrients of 
     concern''; and
       (D) in clause (v), by inserting before the period ``, 
     including improving the functionality of plant-based foods 
     that are major sources of nutrients of concern'';
       (4) in subparagraph (D)--
       (A) by redesignating clauses (iv), (v), and (vi) as clauses 
     (v), (vi), and (vii), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting after clause (iii) the following new 
     clause:
       ``(iv) the effectiveness of conservation practices and 
     technologies designed to address nutrient losses and improve 
     water quality;''; and
       (5) in subparagraph (F)--
       (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting 
     ``economics,'' after ``trade,'';
       (B) by redesignating clauses (v) and (vi) as clauses (vi) 
     and (vii), respectively; and
       (C) by inserting after clause (iv) the following new 
     clause:
       ``(v) the economic costs, benefits, and viability of 
     producers adopting conservation

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     practices and technologies designed to improve water 
     quality;''.
       (c) General Administration.--Subsection (b)(4) of the 
     Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 
     U.S.C. 450i(b)(4)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(F) establish procedures under which a commodity board 
     established under a commodity promotion law (as such term is 
     defined under section 501(a) of the Federal Agriculture 
     Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7401(a))) or a 
     State commodity board (or other equivalent State entity) may 
     directly submit to the Secretary proposals for requests for 
     applications to specifically address particular issues 
     related to the priority areas specified in paragraph (2).''.
       (d) Special Considerations.--Subsection (b)(6) of the 
     Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 
     U.S.C. 450i(b)(6)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) to eligible entities to carry out the specific 
     research proposals submitted under procedures established 
     under paragraph (4)(F).''.
       (e) Eligible Entities.--Subsection (b)(7)(G) of the 
     Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 
     U.S.C. 450i(b)(7)(G)) is amended by striking ``or 
     corporations'' and inserting ``, foundations, or 
     corporations''.
       (f) Inter-Regional Research Project Number 4.--Subsection 
     (e) of the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research 
     Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``minor use 
     pesticides'' and inserting ``pesticides for minor 
     agricultural use and for use on specialty crops (as defined 
     in section 3 of the Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act of 
     2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note)),''; and
       (2) in paragraph (4)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and for use on 
     specialty crops'' after ``minor agricultural use'';
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (G); 
     and
       (D) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
     subparagraphs:
       ``(C) prioritize potential pest management technology for 
     minor agricultural use and for use on specialty crops;
       ``(D) conduct research to develop the data necessary to 
     facilitate pesticide registrations, reregistrations, and 
     associated tolerances;
       ``(E) assist in removing trade barriers caused by residues 
     of pesticides registered for minor agricultural use and for 
     use on domestically grown specialty crops;
       ``(F) assist in the registration and reregistration of pest 
     management technologies for minor agricultural use and for 
     use on specialty crops; and''.
       (g) Emphasis on Sustainable Agriculture.--The Competitive, 
     Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i) is 
     amended by striking subsection (k).

     SEC. 6406. RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978.

       (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 6 of the 
     Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1675) is 
     amended in the first sentence by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018''.
       (b) Termination Date.--Section 8 of the Renewable Resources 
     Extension Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1671 note; Public Law 95-
     306) is amended by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6407. NATIONAL AQUACULTURE ACT OF 1980.

       Section 10 of the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 (16 
     U.S.C. 2809) is amended by striking ``2012'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6408. REPEAL OF USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 892 of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     5935) is repealed.

     SEC. 6409. REPEAL OF REPORTS UNDER FARM SECURITY AND RURAL 
                   INVESTMENT ACT OF 2002.

       (a) Repeal of Report on Producers and Handlers for Organic 
     Products.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 7409 of the 
     Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
     5925b note; Public Law 107-171) is repealed.
       (b) Repeal of Report on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected 
     Plants.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 7410 of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-
     171; 116 Stat. 462) is repealed.
       (c) Repeal of Study on Nutrient Banking.--Effective October 
     1, 2013, section 7411 of the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5925a note; Public Law 107-
     171) is repealed.

     SEC. 6410. BEGINNING FARMER AND RANCHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

       Section 7405 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
     of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 3319f) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraphs (A) through 
     (R) and inserting the following new subparagraphs:
       ``(A) basic livestock, forest management, and crop farming 
     practices;
       ``(B) innovative farm, ranch, and private, nonindustrial 
     forest land transfer strategies;
       ``(C) entrepreneurship and business training;
       ``(D) financial and risk management training (including the 
     acquisition and management of agricultural credit);
       ``(E) natural resource management and planning;
       ``(F) diversification and marketing strategies;
       ``(G) curriculum development;
       ``(H) mentoring, apprenticeships, and internships;
       ``(I) resources and referral;
       ``(J) farm financial benchmarking;
       ``(K) assisting beginning farmers or ranchers in acquiring 
     land from retiring farmers and ranchers;
       ``(L) agricultural rehabilitation and vocational training 
     for veterans; and
       ``(M) other similar subject areas of use to beginning 
     farmers or ranchers.'';
       (B) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and community-based 
     organizations'' and inserting ``, community-based 
     organizations, and school-based agricultural educational 
     organizations'';
       (C) by striking paragraph (8) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(8) Military veteran beginning farmers and ranchers.--
       ``(A) In general.--Not less than 5 percent of the funds 
     used to carry out this subsection for a fiscal year shall be 
     used to support programs and services that address the needs 
     of military veteran beginning farmers and ranchers.
       ``(B) Coordination permitted.--A recipient of a grant under 
     this section using the grant as described in subparagraph (A) 
     may coordinate with a recipient of a grant under section 1680 
     of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 
     (7 U.S.C. 5933) in addressing the needs of military veteran 
     beginning farmers and ranchers with disabilities.''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(11) Limitation on indirect costs.--A recipient of a 
     grant under this section may not use more than 10 percent of 
     the funds provided by the grant for the indirect costs of 
     carrying out the initiatives described in paragraph (1).'';
       (2) in subsection (h)(1)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``2012'' and 
     inserting ``2018'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018, to remain available until expended.''; and
       (3) in subsection (h)(2)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``2008 through 
     2012'' and inserting ``2014 through 2018''; and
       (B) by striking ``2008 through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 
     through 2018''.

     SEC. 6411. INCLUSION OF AMERICAN SAMOA, FEDERATED STATES OF 
                   MICRONESIA, AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS AS A 
                   STATE UNDER MCINTIRE-STENNIS COOPERATIVE 
                   FORESTRY ACT.

       Section 8 of Public Law 87-788 (commonly known as the 
     McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act; 16 U.S.C. 582a-7) 
     is amended by striking ``and Guam'' and inserting ``Guam, 
     American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the 
     Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''.

         Subtitle E--Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008

                     PART 1--AGRICULTURAL SECURITY

     SEC. 6501. AGRICULTURAL BIOSECURITY COMMUNICATION CENTER.

       Section 14112(c) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8912(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2008 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6502. ASSISTANCE TO BUILD LOCAL CAPACITY IN AGRICULTURAL 
                   BIOSECURITY PLANNING, PREPARATION, AND 
                   RESPONSE.

       Section 14113 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8913) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (A) by striking ``such sums as may be necessary''; and
       (B) by striking ``subsection'' and all that follows and 
     inserting the following: ``subsection--
       ``(A) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2008 through 2013; and
       ``(B) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``is authorized to be 
     appropriated to carry out this subsection'' and all that 
     follows and inserting the following: ``are authorized to be 
     appropriated to carry out this subsection--
       ``(A) $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 
     2013; and
       ``(B) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6503. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 
                   COUNTERMEASURES.

       Section 14121(b) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8921(b)) is

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     amended by striking ``is authorized to be appropriated to 
     carry out this section'' and all that follows and inserting 
     the following: ``are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
     out this section--
       ``(1) $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 
     2013; and
       ``(2) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 6504. AGRICULTURAL BIOSECURITY GRANT PROGRAM.

       Section 14122(e) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8922(e)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``sums as are necessary''; and
       (2) by striking ``section'' and all that follows and 
     inserting the following: ``section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2008 through 2013, to remain available until expended; and
       ``(2) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018, to remain available until expended.''.

                         PART 2--MISCELLANEOUS

     SEC. 6511. ENHANCED USE LEASE AUTHORITY PILOT PROGRAM.

       Section 308 of the Federal Crop Insurance Reform and 
     Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 
     U.S.C. 3125a) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(6)(A), by striking ``5 years'' and 
     inserting ``10 years''; and
       (2) in subsection (d)(2), by striking ``1, 3, and 5 years'' 
     and inserting ``6, 8, and 10 years''.

     SEC. 6512. GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY.

       Section 7502 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2019) is amended by 
     striking ``5-year period'' and inserting ``10-year period''.

     SEC. 6513. BUDGET SUBMISSION AND FUNDING.

       Section 7506 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 7614c) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Covered program.--The term `covered program' means--
       ``(A) each research program carried out by the Agricultural 
     Research Service or the Economic Research Service for which 
     annual appropriations are requested in the annual budget 
     submission of the President; and
       ``(B) each competitive program carried out by the National 
     Institute of Food and Agriculture for which annual 
     appropriations are requested in the annual budget submission 
     of the President.
       ``(2) Request for awards.--The term `request for awards' 
     means a funding announcement published by the National 
     Institute of Food and Agriculture that provides detailed 
     information on funding opportunities at the Institute, 
     including the purpose, eligibility, restriction, focus areas, 
     evaluation criteria, regulatory information, and instructions 
     on how to apply for such opportunities.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
       ``(e) Additional Presidential Budget Submission 
     Requirement.--
       ``(1) In general.--Each year, the President shall submit to 
     Congress, together with the annual budget submission of the 
     President, the information described in paragraph (2) for 
     each funding request for a covered program.
       ``(2) Information described.--The information described in 
     this paragraph includes--
       ``(A) baseline information, including with respect to each 
     covered program--
       ``(i) the funding level for the program for the fiscal year 
     preceding the year the annual budget submission of the 
     President is submitted;
       ``(ii) the funding level requested in the annual budget 
     submission of the President, including any increase or 
     decrease in the funding level; and
       ``(iii) an explanation justifying any change from the 
     funding level specified in clause (i) to the level specified 
     in clause (ii);
       ``(B) with respect to each covered program that is carried 
     out by the Economic Research Service or the Agricultural 
     Research Service, the location and staff years of the 
     program;
       ``(C) the proposed funding levels to be allocated to, and 
     the expected publication date, scope, and allocation level 
     for, each request for awards to be published under or 
     associated with--
       ``(i) each priority area specified in subsection (b)(2) of 
     the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)(2));
       ``(ii) each research and extension project carried out 
     under section 1621(a) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5811(a));
       ``(iii) each grant to be awarded under section 1672B(a) of 
     the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 
     U.S.C. 5925b(a));
       ``(iv) each grant awarded under section 412(d) of the 
     Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 
     1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(d)); and
       ``(v) each grant awarded under 7405(c)(1) of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
     3319f(c)(1)); or
       ``(D) any other information the Secretary determines will 
     increase congressional oversight with respect to covered 
     programs.
       ``(3) Prohibition.--Unless the President submits the 
     information described in paragraph (2)(C) for a fiscal year, 
     the President may not carry out any program during the fiscal 
     year that is authorized under--
       ``(A) subsection (b) of the Competitive, Special, and 
     Facilities Research Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i(b));
       ``(B) section 1621 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5811);
       ``(C) section 1672B of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925b);
       ``(D) section 412 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, 
     and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632); or
       ``(E) section 7405 of the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 3319f).
       ``(f) Report of the Secretary of Agriculture.--Each year on 
     a date that is not later than the date on which the President 
     submits the annual budget, the Secretary shall submit to 
     Congress a report containing a description of the 
     agricultural research, extension, and education activities 
     carried out by the Federal Government during the fiscal year 
     that immediately precedes the year for which the report is 
     submitted, including--
       ``(1) a review of the extent to which those activities--
       ``(A) are duplicative or overlap within the Department of 
     Agriculture; or
       ``(B) are similar to activities carried out by--
       ``(i) other Federal agencies;
       ``(ii) the States (including the District of Columbia, the 
     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other territories or 
     possessions of the United States);
       ``(iii) institutions of higher education (as defined in 
     section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
     1001)); or
       ``(iv) the private sector; and
       ``(2) for each report submitted under this section on or 
     after January 1, 2013, a 5-year projection of national 
     priorities with respect to agricultural research, extension, 
     and education, taking into account domestic needs.''.

     SEC. 6514. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION GRANTS FOR THE STUDY OF 
                   ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA.

       Section 7521(c) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 3202(c)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 6515. REPEAL OF FARM AND RANCH STRESS ASSISTANCE 
                   NETWORK.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 7522 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 5936) is 
     repealed.

     SEC. 6516. REPEAL OF SEED DISTRIBUTION.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 7523 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 415-1) is 
     repealed.

     SEC. 6517. NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH PROGRAM.

       Section 7525(e) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 5937(e)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
     $7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 6518. SUN GRANT PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Section 7526 of the Food, Conservation, 
     and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8114) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(4)(B), by striking ``the Department 
     of Energy'' and inserting ``other appropriate Federal 
     agencies (as determined by the Secretary)'';
       (2) in subsection (c)(1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``multistate'' and all 
     that follows through the period and inserting ``integrated, 
     multistate research, extension, and education programs on 
     technology development and technology implementation.'';
       (B) by striking subparagraph (C); and
       (C) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (C);
       (3) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``in accordance with paragraph (2)'';
       (ii) by striking ``gasification'' and inserting 
     ``bioproducts''; and
       (iii) by striking ``the Department of Energy'' and 
     inserting ``other appropriate Federal agencies'';
       (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
       (C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
     (2) and (3), respectively; and
       (4) in subsection (g), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 7526(f)(1) of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8114(f)(1)) is 
     amended by striking ``subsection (c)(1)(D)(i)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (c)(1)(C)(i)''.

     SEC. 6519. REPEAL OF STUDY AND REPORT ON FOOD DESERTS.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 7527 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 
     Stat. 2039) is repealed.

     SEC. 6520. REPEAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL TRANSPORTATION 
                   RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 7529 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 5938) is 
     repealed.

                  Subtitle F--Miscellaneous Provisions

     SEC. 6601. AGREEMENTS WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR 
                   NATIONAL ARBORETUM.

       Section 6 of the Act of March 4, 1927 (20 U.S.C. 196), is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (1) and 
     inserting the following new paragraph:

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       ``(1) negotiate agreements for the National Arboretum with 
     nonprofit scientific or educational organizations, the 
     interests of which are complementary to the mission of the 
     National Arboretum, or nonprofit organizations that support 
     the purpose of the National Arboretum, except that the net 
     proceeds of the organizations from the agreements shall be 
     used exclusively for research and educational work for the 
     benefit of the National Arboretum and the operation and 
     maintenance of the facilities of the National Arboretum, 
     including enhancements, upgrades, restoration, and 
     conservation;''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(d) Recognition of Donors.--A non-profit organization 
     that entered into an agreement under subsection (a)(1) may 
     recognize donors if that recognition is approved in advance 
     by the Secretary. In considering whether to approve such 
     recognition, the Secretary shall broadly exercise the 
     discretion of the Secretary to the fullest extent allowed 
     under Federal law in effect on the date of the enactment of 
     this subsection.''.

     SEC. 6602. COTTON DISEASE RESEARCH REPORT.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on 
     the fungus fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4 
     (referred to in this section as ``FOV Race 4'') and the 
     impact of such fungus on cotton, including--
       (1) an overview of the threat FOV Race 4 poses to the 
     cotton industry in the United States;
       (2) the status and progress of Federal research initiatives 
     to detect, contain, or eradicate FOV Race 4, including 
     current FOV Race 4-specific research projects; and
       (3) a comprehensive strategy to combat FOV Race 4 that 
     establishes--
       (A) detection and identification goals;
       (B) containment goals;
       (C) eradication goals; and
       (D) a plan to partner with the cotton industry in the 
     United States to maximize resources, information sharing, and 
     research responsiveness and effectiveness.

     SEC. 6603. ACCEPTANCE OF FACILITY FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 
                   SERVICE.

       (a) Construction Authorized.--Subject to subsections (b) 
     and (c), the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize a non-
     Federal entity to construct, at no cost and without 
     obligation to the Federal Government, a facility for use by 
     the Agricultural Research Service on land owned by the 
     Agricultural Research Service and managed by the Secretary.
       (b) Acceptance of Gift.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), upon the 
     completion of the construction of the facility by the non-
     Federal entity under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
     accept the facility as a gift in accordance with Public Law 
     95-442 (7 U.S.C. 2269).
       (2) Certification.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall 
     certify in advance that the acceptance under paragraph (1) 
     complies with the limitations specified in paragraphs (1) and 
     (2) of subsection (c).
       (c) Limitations.--
       (1) Value.--The Secretary may not accept a facility as a 
     gift under this section if the fair market value of the 
     facility is more than $5,000,000.
       (2) No federal cost.--The Secretary shall not enter into 
     any acquisitions, demonstrations, exchanges, grants, 
     contracts, incentives, leases, procurements, sales, or other 
     transaction authorities or arrangements that would obligate 
     future appropriations with respect to the facility 
     constructed under subsection (a).
       (d) Termination of Authority.--No facility may be accepted 
     by the Secretary for use by the Agricultural Research Service 
     under this section after September 30, 2018.

     SEC. 6604. MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

       Sections 7408 and 7409 of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2013) are 
     both amended by striking ``Title III of the Department of 
     Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994'' and inserting 
     ``Title III of the Federal Crop Insurance Reform and 
     Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994''.

     SEC. 6605. LEGITIMACY OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP RESEARCH.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the Controlled Substances 
     Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 
     1988 (41 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.), the Safe and Drug-Free Schools 
     and Communities Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), or any 
     other Federal law, an institution of higher education (as 
     defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
     (20 U.S.C. 1001)) may grow or cultivate industrial hemp if--
       (1) the industrial hemp is grown or cultivated for purposes 
     of agricultural research or other academic research; and
       (2) the growing or cultivating of industrial hemp is 
     allowed under the laws of the State in which such institution 
     of higher education is located and such research occurs.
       (b) Industrial Hemp Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``industrial hemp'' means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and 
     any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-
     9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 
     percent on a dry weight basis.

                          TITLE VII--FORESTRY

            Subtitle A--Repeal of Certain Forestry Programs

     SEC. 7001. FOREST LAND ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 4 of the Cooperative Forestry 
     Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103) is repealed.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 8002 of the Farm 
     Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-
     171; 16 U.S.C. 2103 note) is amended by striking subsection 
     (a).
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 7002. WATERSHED FORESTRY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 6 of the Cooperative Forestry 
     Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103b) is repealed.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 7003. EXPIRED COOPERATIVE NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS 
                   MARKETING PROGRAM.

       Section 18 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 
     1978 (16 U.S.C. 2112) is repealed.

     SEC. 7004. HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION AGRICULTURAL LAND 
                   NATIONAL RESOURCES LEADERSHIP PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 8402 of the Food, Conservation, and 
     Energy Act of 2008 (16 U.S.C. 1649a) is repealed.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 7005. TRIBAL WATERSHED FORESTRY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 303 of the Healthy Forests Restoration 
     Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6542) is repealed.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 2013.

     SEC. 7006. SEPARATE FOREST SERVICE DECISIONMAKING AND APPEALS 
                   PROCESS.

       Section 322 of the Department of the Interior and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102-381; 16 
     U.S.C. 1612 note) is repealed. Section 428 of division E of 
     the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74; 
     125 Stat. 1046; 16 U.S.C. 6515 note) shall not apply to any 
     project or activity implementing a land and resource 
     management plan developed under section 6 of the Forest and 
     Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
     1604) that is categorically excluded from documentation in an 
     environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement 
     under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
     U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).

 Subtitle B--Reauthorization of Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 
                             1978 Programs

     SEC. 7101. STATE-WIDE ASSESSMENT AND STRATEGIES FOR FOREST 
                   RESOURCES.

       Section 2A(c) of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 
     1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101a(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(5) as feasible, appropriate military installations where 
     the voluntary participation and management of private or 
     State-owned or other public forestland is able to support, 
     promote, and contribute to the missions of such 
     installations; and''.

     SEC. 7102. FOREST LEGACY PROGRAM.

       Subsection (m) of section 7 of the Cooperative Forestry 
     Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103c) is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(m) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this 
     section, there are authorized to be appropriated--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 2013; and
       ``(2) $55,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 7103. COMMUNITY FOREST AND OPEN SPACE CONSERVATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       Subsection (g) of section 7A of the Cooperative Forestry 
     Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2103d) is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this 
     section, there are authorized to be appropriated--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 2013; and
       ``(2) $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

       Subtitle C--Reauthorization of Other Forestry-Related Laws

     SEC. 7201. RURAL REVITALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES.

       Section 2371(d)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6601(d)(2)) is amended by 
     striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 7202. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY.

       Subsection (d) of section 2405 of the Global Climate Change 
     Prevention Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6704) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this 
     section, there are authorized to be appropriated--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     1996 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 7203. CHANGE IN FUNDING SOURCE FOR HEALTHY FORESTS 
                   RESERVE PROGRAM.

       Section 508 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
     (16 U.S.C. 6578) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``In General'' and 
     inserting ``Fiscal Years 2009 Through 2013'';
       (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsections:

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       ``(b) Fiscal Years 2014 Through 2018.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry 
     out this section $9,750,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 
     through 2018.
       ``(c) Additional Source of Funds.--In addition to funds 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary may use 
     such amount of the funds appropriated for that fiscal year to 
     carry out the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act 
     (16 U.S.C. 590a et seq.) as the Secretary determines 
     necessary to cover the cost of technical assistance, 
     management, and enforcement responsibilities for land 
     enrolled in the healthy forests reserve program pursuant to 
     subsections (a) and (b) of section 504.''.

     SEC. 7204. STEWARDSHIP END RESULT CONTRACTING PROJECT 
                   AUTHORITY.

       Section 347 of the Department of the Interior and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 
     101(e) of division A of Public Law 105-277; 16 U.S.C. 2104 
     note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2013'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraphs:
       ``(6) Contract for sale of property.--At the discretion of 
     the Secretary of Agriculture, a contract entered into by the 
     Forest Service under this section may be considered a 
     contract for the sale of property under such terms as the 
     Secretary may prescribe without regard to any other provision 
     of law.
       ``(7) Fire liability provisions.--Not later than 90 days 
     after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Chief and 
     the Director shall issue for use in all contracts and 
     agreements under this section fire liability provisions that 
     are in substantially the same form as the fire liability 
     provisions contained in--
       ``(A) integrated resource timber contracts, as described in 
     the Forest Service contract numbered 2400-13, part H, section 
     H.4; and
       ``(B) timber sale contracts conducted pursuant to section 
     14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 
     472a).''.

           Subtitle D--National Forest Critical Area Response

     SEC. 7301. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title:
       (1) Critical area.--The term ``critical area'' means an 
     area of the National Forest System designated by the 
     Secretary under section 7302.
       (2) National forest system.--The term ``National Forest 
     System'' has the meaning given that term in section 11(a) of 
     the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
     1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a)).
       (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.

     SEC. 7302. DESIGNATION OF CRITICAL AREAS.

       (a) Designation Requirements.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
     shall designate critical areas within the National Forest 
     System for the purposes of addressing--
       (1) deteriorating forest health conditions in existence as 
     of the date of the enactment of this Act due to insect 
     infestation, drought, disease, or storm damage; and
       (2) the future risk of insect infestations or disease 
     outbreaks through preventative treatments.
       (b) Designation Method.--In considering National Forest 
     System land for designation as a critical area, the Secretary 
     shall use--
       (1) for purposes of subsection (a)(1), the most recent 
     annual forest health aerial surveys of mortality and 
     defoliation; and
       (2) for purposes of subsection (a)(2), the National Insect 
     and Disease Risk Map.
       (c) Time for Initial Designations.--The first critical 
     areas shall be designated by the Secretary not later than 60 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (d) Duration of Designation.--The designation of a critical 
     area shall expire not later than 10 years after the date of 
     the designation.

     SEC. 7303. APPLICATION OF EXPEDITED PROCEDURES AND ACTIVITIES 
                   OF THE HEALTHY FORESTS RESTORATION ACT OF 2003 
                   TO CRITICAL AREAS.

       (a) Applicability.--Subject to subsections (b) through (e), 
     title I of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 
     U.S.C. 6511 et seq.) (including the environmental analysis 
     requirements of section 104 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 6514), the 
     special administrative review process under section 105 of 
     that Act (16 U.S.C. 6515), and the judicial review process 
     under section 106 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 6516)), shall apply 
     to all Forest Service projects and activities carried out in 
     a critical area.
       (b) Application of Other Law.--Section 322 of Public Law 
     102-381 (16 U.S.C. 1612 note; 106 Stat. 1419) shall not apply 
     to projects conducted in accordance with this section.
       (c) Required Modifications.--In applying title I of the 
     Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511 et 
     seq.) to Forest Service projects and activities in a critical 
     area, the Secretary shall make the following modifications:
       (1) The authority shall apply to the entire critical area, 
     including land that is outside of a wildland-urban interface 
     area or that does not satisfy any of the other eligibility 
     criteria specified in section 102(a) of that Act (16 U.S.C. 
     6512(a)).
       (2) All projects and activities of the Forest Service, 
     including necessary connected actions (as described in 
     section 1508.25(a)(1) of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (or a successor regulation)), shall be considered 
     to be authorized hazardous fuel reduction projects for 
     purposes of applying the title.
       (d) Smaller Projects.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), a 
     project conducted in a critical area in accordance with this 
     section that comprises less than 10,000 acres shall be--
       (A) considered an action categorically excluded from the 
     requirements for an environmental assessment or an 
     environmental impact statement under section 1508.4 of title 
     40, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation); 
     and
       (B) exempt from the special administrative review process 
     under section 105 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 
     2003 (16 U.S.C. 6515).
       (2) Exclusion of certain areas.--Paragraph (1) does not 
     apply to--
       (A) a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
     System;
       (B) any Federal land on which, by Act of Congress or 
     Presidential proclamation, the removal of vegetation is 
     restricted or prohibited;
       (C) a congressionally designated wilderness study area; or
       (D) an area in which activities under paragraph (1) would 
     be inconsistent with the applicable land and resource 
     management plan.
       (e) Forest Management Plans.--All projects and activities 
     carried out in a critical area pursuant to this subtitle 
     shall be consistent with the land and resource management 
     plan established under section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland 
     Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604) for 
     the unit of the National Forest System containing the 
     critical area.

     SEC. 7304. GOOD NEIGHBOR AUTHORITY.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Eligible state.--The term ``eligible State'' means a 
     State that contains National Forest System land.
       (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       (3) State forester.--The term ``State forester'' means the 
     head of a State agency with jurisdiction over State forestry 
     programs in an eligible State.
       (b) Cooperative Agreements and Contracts.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary may enter into a cooperative 
     agreement or contract (including a sole source contract) with 
     a State forester to authorize the State forester to provide 
     the forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration, management, 
     and protection services described in paragraph (2) on 
     National Forest System land in the eligible State.
       (2) Authorized services.--The forest, rangeland, and 
     watershed restoration, management, and protection services 
     referred to in paragraph (1) include the conduct of--
       (A) activities to treat insect infected forests;
       (B) activities to reduce hazardous fuels;
       (C) activities involving commercial harvesting or other 
     mechanical vegetative treatments; or
       (D) any other activities to restore or improve forest, 
     rangeland, and watershed health, including fish and wildlife 
     habitat.
       (3) State as agent.--Except as provided in paragraph (6), a 
     cooperative agreement or contract entered into under 
     paragraph (1) may authorize the State forester to serve as 
     the agent for the Secretary in providing the restoration, 
     management, and protection services authorized under that 
     paragraph.
       (4) Subcontracts.--In accordance with applicable contract 
     procedures for the eligible State, a State forester may enter 
     into subcontracts to provide the restoration, management, and 
     protection services authorized under a cooperative agreement 
     or contract entered into under paragraph (1).
       (5) Timber sales.--Subsections (d) and (g) of section 14 of 
     the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) 
     shall not apply to services performed under a cooperative 
     agreement or contract entered into under paragraph (1).
       (6) Retention of nepa responsibilities.--Any decision 
     required to be made under the National Environmental Policy 
     Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) with respect to any 
     restoration, management, and protection services to be 
     provided under this section by a State forester on National 
     Forest System land shall not be delegated to a State forester 
     or any other officer or employee of the eligible State.
       (7) Applicable law.--The restoration, management, and 
     protection services to be provided under this section shall 
     be carried out on a project-to-project basis under existing 
     authorities of the Forest Service.

                  Subtitle E--Miscellaneous Provisions

     SEC. 7401. REVISION OF STRATEGIC PLAN FOR FOREST INVENTORY 
                   AND ANALYSIS.

       (a) Revision Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall revise the strategic plan for forest 
     inventory and analysis initially prepared pursuant to section 
     3(e) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research 
     Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1642(e)) to address the requirements 
     imposed by subsection (b).
       (b) Elements of Revised Strategic Plan.--In revising the 
     strategic plan, the Secretary of Agriculture shall describe 
     in detail the organization, procedures, and funding needed to 
     achieve each of the following:
       (1) Complete the transition to a fully annualized forest 
     inventory program and include inventory and analysis of 
     interior Alaska.
       (2) Implement an annualized inventory of trees in urban 
     settings, including the status and trends of trees and 
     forests, and assessments of their ecosystem services, values, 
     health, and risk to pests and diseases.

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       (3) Report information on renewable biomass supplies and 
     carbon stocks at the local, State, regional, and national 
     level, including by ownership type.
       (4) Engage State foresters and other users of information 
     from the forest inventory and analysis in reevaluating the 
     list of core data variables collected on forest inventory and 
     analysis plots with an emphasis on demonstrated need.
       (5) Improve the timeliness of the timber product output 
     program and accessibility of the annualized information on 
     that database.
       (6) Foster greater cooperation among the forest inventory 
     and analysis program, research station leaders, and State 
     foresters and other users of information from the forest 
     inventory and analysis.
       (7) Promote availability of and access to non-Federal 
     resources to improve information analysis and information 
     management.
       (8) Collaborate with the Natural Resources Conservation 
     Service, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and United 
     States Geological Survey to integrate remote sensing, spatial 
     analysis techniques, and other new technologies in the forest 
     inventory and analysis program.
       (9) Understand and report on changes in land cover and use.
       (10) Expand existing programs to promote sustainable forest 
     stewardship through increased understanding, in partnership 
     with other Federal agencies, of the over 10 million family 
     forest owners, their demographics, and the barriers to forest 
     stewardship.
       (11) Implement procedures to improve the statistical 
     precision of estimates at the sub-State level.
       (c) Submission of Revised Strategic Plan.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall submit the revised strategic plan to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate.

     SEC. 7402. FOREST SERVICE PARTICIPATION IN ACES PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of 
     the Forest Service, may use funds derived from conservation-
     related programs executed on National Forest System lands to 
     utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services 
     Program established pursuant to section 1252 of the Food 
     Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851) to provide technical 
     services for conservation-related programs and authorities 
     carried out by the Secretary on National Forest System lands.

     SEC. 7403. GREEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER RESEARCH 
                   UNDER FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES 
                   RESEARCH ACT OF 1978.

       (a) Additional Forestry and Rangeland Research and 
     Education High Priority.--Section 3(d)(2) of the Forest and 
     Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
     1642(d)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(F) Science and technology transfer, through the Forest 
     Products Laboratory, to demonstrate the beneficial 
     characteristics of wood as a green building material, 
     including investments in life cycle assessment for wood 
     products.''.
       (b) Research Facilities and Cooperation.--Section 4 of the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 
     (16 U.S.C. 1643) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(e) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate an 
     annual report describing, for the period covered by the 
     report--
       ``(1) the research conducted in furtherance of the research 
     and education priority specified in section 3(d)(2)(F);
       ``(2) the number of buildings the Forest Service has built 
     with wood as the primary structural material; and
       ``(3) the investments made by the Forest Service in green 
     building wood promotion.''.

     SEC. 7404. EXTENSION OF STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTS AUTHORITY 
                   REGARDING USE OF DESIGNATION BY PRESCRIPTION TO 
                   ALL THINNING SALES UNDER NATIONAL FOREST 
                   MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1976.

       Subsection (g) of section 14 of the National Forest 
     Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(g) Designation, including but not limited to, marking 
     when necessary, designation by description, or designation by 
     prescription, and supervision of harvesting of trees, 
     portions of trees, or forest products shall be conducted by 
     persons employed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Such 
     persons shall have no personal interest in the purchase or 
     harvest of such products and shall not be directly or 
     indirectly in the employment of the purchaser thereof. 
     Designation by prescription and designation by prescription 
     shall be considered valid methods for designation, and may be 
     supervised by use of post-harvest cruise, sample weight 
     scaling, or other methods determined by the Secretary to be 
     appropriate.''.

     SEC. 7405. REIMBURSEMENT OF FIRE FUNDS EXPENDED BY A STATE 
                   FOR MANAGEMENT AND SUPPRESSION OF CERTAIN 
                   WILDFIRES.

       (a) Definition of State.--In this section, the term 
     ``State'' includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
       (b) Reimbursement Authority.--If a State seeks 
     reimbursement for amounts expended for resources and services 
     provided to another State for the management and suppression 
     of a wildfire, the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to 
     subsections (c) and (d)--
       (1) may accept the reimbursement amounts from the other 
     State; and
       (2) shall pay those amounts to the State seeking 
     reimbursement.
       (c) Mutual Assistance Agreement.--As a condition of seeking 
     and providing reimbursement under subsection (b), the State 
     seeking reimbursement and the State providing reimbursement 
     must each have a mutual assistance agreement with the Forest 
     Service or an agency of the Department of the Interior for 
     providing and receiving wildfire management and suppression 
     resources and services.
       (d) Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary of Agriculture may 
     prescribe the terms and conditions determined to be necessary 
     to carry out subsection (b).
       (e) Effect on Prior Reimbursements.--Any acceptance of 
     funds or reimbursements made by the Secretary of Agriculture 
     before the date of enactment of this Act that otherwise would 
     have been authorized under this section shall be considered 
     to have been made in accordance with this section.

     SEC. 7406. ABILITY OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS TO MEET 
                   NEEDS OF LOCAL WOOD PRODUCING FACILITIES FOR 
                   RAW MATERIALS.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to 
     Congress a report containing--
       (1) an assessment of the raw material needs of wood 
     producing facilities located within the boundaries of each 
     unit of the National Forest System or located outside of the 
     unit, but within 100 miles of such boundaries;
       (2) the volume of timber which would be available if the 
     unit of the National Forest System annually sold its 
     Allowable Sale Quantity in the current Forest Plan;
       (3) the volume of timber actually sold and harvested from 
     each unit of the National Forest System for the previous 
     decade;
       (4) a comparison of the volume actually sold and harvested 
     from the previous decade to the Allowable Sale Quantity 
     calculated in that decade by preceding or current forest 
     plans; and
       (5) an assessment of the ability of each unit of National 
     Forest System to meet the needs of these facilities for raw 
     materials.

     SEC. 7407. REPORT ON THE NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM ROADS.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on 
     the following:
       (1) The total mileage of National Forest System roads and 
     trails not meeting forest plan standards and guidelines.
       (2) The total amount, in dollars, of Capital Improvement & 
     Maintenance deferred maintenance needs for National Forest 
     System roads, including a five-year analysis in the trend in 
     total deferred maintenance costs.
       (3) The sources of funds used for capital improvement & 
     maintenance roads, including appropriated funds, mandatory 
     funds, and receipts from activities on National Forest System 
     lands.
       (4) The impact of road closures on recreational activities 
     and timber harvesting.
       (5) The impact on land acquisitions, whether through fee 
     acquisition, donation, or easement, on the maintenance 
     backlog.

     SEC. 7408. FOREST SERVICE LARGE AIRTANKER AND AERIAL ASSET 
                   FIREFIGHTING RECAPITALIZATION PILOT PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of 
     appropriations, the Secretary, acting through the Chief of 
     the Forest Service, may establish a large airtanker and 
     aerial asset lease program in accordance with this section.
       (b) Aircraft Requirements.--In carrying out the program 
     described in subsection (a), the Secretary may enter into a 
     multiyear lease contract for up to five aircraft that meet 
     the criteria--
       (1) described in the Forest Service document entitled 
     ``Large Airtanker Modernization Strategy'' and dated February 
     10, 2012, for large airtankers; and
       (2) determined by the Secretary, for other aerial assets.
       (c) Lease Terms.--The term of any individual lease 
     agreement into which the Secretary enters under this section 
     shall be--
       (1) up to five years, inclusive of any options to renew or 
     extend the initial lease term; and
       (2) in accordance with section 3903 of title 41, United 
     States Code.
       (d) Prohibition.--No lease entered into under this section 
     shall provide for the purchase of the aircraft by, or the 
     transfer of ownership to, the Forest Service.

     SEC. 7409. LAND CONVEYANCE, JEFFERSON NATIONAL FOREST IN WISE 
                   COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

       (a) Conveyance Required.--Upon payment by the Association 
     of the consideration under subsection (b) and the costs under 
     subsection (d), the Secretary shall, subject to valid 
     existing rights, convey to the Association all right, title, 
     and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of 
     National Forest System land in the Jefferson National Forest 
     in Wise County, Virginia, consisting of approximately 0.70 
     acres and containing the Mullins and Sturgill Cemetery and an 
     easement to provide access to the parcel, as generally 
     depicted on the map.
       (b) Consideration.--
       (1) Fair market value.--As consideration for the land 
     conveyed under subsection (a), the Association shall pay to 
     the Secretary cash in an amount equal to the market value

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     of the land, as determined by an appraisal approved by the 
     Secretary and conducted in conformity with the Uniform 
     Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions and section 
     206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
     U.S.C. 1716).
       (2) Deposit.--The consideration received by the Secretary 
     under paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the general fund 
     of the Treasury of the United States for the purposes of 
     deficit reduction.
       (c) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the land to be conveyed under subsection (a) 
     shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the 
     Secretary.
       (d) Costs.--The Association shall pay to the Secretary at 
     closing the reasonable costs of the survey, the appraisal, 
     and any administrative and environmental analyses required by 
     law.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Association.--The term ``Association'' means the 
     Mullins and Sturgill Cemetery Association of Pound, Virginia.
       (2) Map.--The term ``map'' means the map titled ``Mullins 
     and Sturgill Cemetery'' dated March 1, 2013.
       (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Agriculture.
       (f) Additional Terms and Conditions.-- The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 7410. CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION FOR FOREST PROJECTS IN 
                   RESPONSE TO EMERGENCIES.

       In the case of National Forest System land damaged by a 
     natural disaster regarding which the President declares a 
     disaster or emergency pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford 
     Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 
     et seq.), any forest project carried out to clean up or 
     restore the damaged National Forest System land during the 
     two-year period beginning on the date of the declaration 
     shall be categorically excluded from the requirements 
     relating to environmental assessments or environmental impact 
     statements under section 1508.4 of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations.

                           TITLE VIII--ENERGY

     SEC. 8001. DEFINITION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM.

       Section 9001 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
     of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8101) is amended by--
       (1) striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Biobased product.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `biobased product' means a 
     product determined by the Secretary to be a commercial or 
     industrial product (other than food or feed) that is--
       ``(i) composed, in whole or in significant part, of 
     biological products, including renewable domestic 
     agricultural materials and forestry materials; or
       ``(ii) an intermediate ingredient or feedstock.
       ``(B) Inclusion.--The term `biobased product', with respect 
     to forestry materials, includes forest products that meet 
     biobased content requirements, notwithstanding the market 
     share the product holds, the age of the product, or whether 
     the market for the product is new or emerging.'';
       (2) redesignating paragraphs (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), 
     and (14) as paragraphs (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), and 
     (16);
       (3) inserting after paragraph (8), the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(9) Forest product.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `forest product' means a 
     product made from materials derived from the practice of 
     forestry or the management of growing timber.
       ``(B) Inclusions.--The term `forest product' includes--
       ``(i) pulp, paper, paperboard, pellets, lumber, and other 
     wood products; and
       ``(ii) any recycled products derived from forest 
     materials.''; and
       (4) inserting after paragraph (14) (as so redesignated), 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(15) Renewable energy system.--
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the term 
     `renewable energy system' means a system that--
       ``(i) produces usable energy from a renewable energy 
     source; and
       ``(ii) may include distribution components necessary to 
     move energy produced by such system to the initial point of 
     sale.
       ``(B) Limitation.--A system described in subparagraph (A) 
     may not include a mechanism for dispensing energy at 
     retail.''.

     SEC. 8002. BIOBASED MARKETS PROGRAM.

       Section 9002(h) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8102(h)) is amended by--
       (1) striking ``(h) Funding.--'' and all that follows 
     through ``to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``(h) Funding.--There''; and
       (2) striking ``2013'' and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 8003. BIOREFINERY ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Program Adjustments.--Section 9003 of the Farm Security 
     and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8103) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``to eligible entities'' 
     and all that follows through ``guarantees for loans'' and 
     inserting ``to eligible entities guarantees for loans'';
       (2) by striking subsection (d);
       (3) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), (g), and (h) as 
     subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively; and
       (4) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by striking ``subsection (c)(2)'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``subsection (c)''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``subsection (h)'' and 
     inserting ``subsection (g)''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 9003(g) of the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002, as redesignated by subsection 
     (a)(3), is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discretionary funding'' 
     and inserting ``Fiscal years 2009 through 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``In addition to any other funds made 
     available to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``There''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $75,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8004. REPOWERING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       Section 9004(d) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8104(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discretionary funding'' 
     and inserting ``Fiscal years 2009 through 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``In addition to any other funds made 
     available to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``There''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8005. BIOENERGY PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED BIOFUELS.

       Section 9005(g) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8105(c)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discretionary funding'' 
     and inserting ``Fiscal years 2009 through 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``In addition to any other funds made 
     available to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``There''; and
       (4) by inserting after paragraph (1) (as so redesignated) 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8006. BIODIESEL FUEL EDUCATION PROGRAM.

       Section 9006(d) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8106(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in the heading of paragraph (1) (as so redesignated), 
     by striking ``Authorization of appropriations'' and inserting 
     ``Fiscal year 2013''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8007. RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM.

       (a) Tiered Application Process.--Section 9007(c) of the 
     Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 
     8107(c)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
     (3) and (4), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) Tiered application process.--In carrying out this 
     subsection, the Secretary shall establish a three-tiered 
     application, evaluation, and oversight process that varies 
     based on the cost of the proposed project with the process 
     most simplified for projects referred to in subparagraph (A), 
     more comprehensive for projects referred to in subparagraph 
     (B), and most comprehensive for projects referred to in 
     subparagraph (C). The three tiers for such process shall be 
     as follows:
       ``(A) Tier 1.--Projects for which the cost of the project 
     funded under this subsection is not more than $80,000.
       ``(B) Tier 2.--Projects for which the cost of the project 
     funded under this subsection is more than $80,000 but less 
     than $200,000.
       ``(C) Tier 3.--Projects for which the cost of the project 
     funded under this subsection is $200,000 or more.''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 9007(g) of the Farm Security and 
     Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107(g)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discretionary funding'' 
     and inserting ``Fiscal years 2009 through 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``In addition to any other funds made 
     available to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``There''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

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       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $45,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8008. BIOMASS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

       Section 9008(h) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8108(h)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in the heading, by striking ``Discretionary funding'' 
     and inserting ``Fiscal years 2009 through 2013''; and
       (B) by striking ``In addition to any other funds made 
     available to carry out this section, there'' and inserting 
     ``There''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 8009. FEEDSTOCK FLEXIBILITY PROGRAM FOR BIOENERGY 
                   PRODUCERS.

       Section 9010(b) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8110(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``2013'' and inserting 
     ``2018''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``2013'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 8010. BIOMASS CROP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       Section 9011 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
     of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8111) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (6); and
       (B) by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as paragraphs 
     (6) and (7), respectively;
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by striking ``Program to'' and all that follows through 
     ``support the establishment'' and inserting ``Program to 
     support the establishment'';
       (B) by striking ``; and'' and inserting a period; and
       (C) by striking paragraph (2);
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)(B)--
       (i) in clause (viii), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
     semicolon;
       (ii) by redesignating clause (ix) as clause (x); and
       (iii) by inserting after clause (viii) the following new 
     clause:
       ``(ix) existing project areas that have received funding 
     under this section and the continuation of funding of such 
     project areas to advance the maturity of such project areas; 
     and''; and
       (B) in paragraph (5)(C)(ii)--
       (i) by striking subclause (III); and
       (ii) by redesignating subclauses (IV) and (V) as subclauses 
     (III) and (IV), respectively;
       (4) by striking subsection (d);
       (5) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections 
     (d) and (e), respectively; and
       (6) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (1);
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (1);
       (C) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)--
       (i) by striking ``Fiscal year 2013'' and all that follows 
     through ``There is authorized'' and inserting ``Fiscal year 
     2013.--There is authorized''; and
       (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as paragraph (3) and 
     moving the margin of such paragraph (as so redesignated) two 
     ems to the left;
       (D) by inserting after paragraph (1), the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) Fiscal years 2014 through 2018.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $75,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''; and
       (E) in paragraph (3) (as redesignated by subparagraph 
     (C)(ii) of this paragraph), by striking ``this paragraph'' 
     and inserting ``this subsection''.

     SEC. 8011. COMMUNITY WOOD ENERGY PROGRAM.

       Section 9013(e) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8113(e)) is amended by striking ``carry 
     out this section'' and all that follows and inserting the 
     following: ``carry out this section--
       ``(1) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 
     2013; and
       ``(2) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 8012. REPEAL OF BIOFUELS INFRASTRUCTURE STUDY.

       Section 9002 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2095) is repealed.

     SEC. 8013. REPEAL OF RENEWABLE FERTILIZER STUDY.

       Section 9003 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2096) is repealed.

     SEC. 8014. ENERGY EFFICIENCY REPORT FOR USDA FACILITIES.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate a report on energy use and energy 
     efficiency projects at Department of Agriculture facilities.
       (b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An analysis of energy use by Department of Agriculture 
     facilities.
       (2) A list of energy audits that have been conducted at 
     such facilities.
       (3) A list of energy efficiency projects that have been 
     conducted at such facilities.
       (4) A list of energy savings projects that could be 
     achieved with enacting a consistent, timely, and proper 
     mechanical insulation maintenance program and upgrading 
     mechanical insulation at such facilities.

                         TITLE IX--HORTICULTURE

     SEC. 9001. SPECIALTY CROPS MARKET NEWS ALLOCATION.

       Section 10107(b) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 1622b(b)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 9002. REPEAL OF GRANT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE MOVEMENT OF 
                   SPECIALTY CROPS.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 10403 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 1622c) is 
     repealed.

     SEC. 9003. FARMERS MARKET AND LOCAL FOOD PROMOTION PROGRAM.

       Section 6 of the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 
     1976 (7 U.S.C. 3005) is amended--
       (1) in the heading of such section, by inserting ``AND 
     LOCAL FOOD'' after ``FARMERS' MARKET'';
       (2) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by inserting ``and Local Food'' after ``Farmers' 
     Market'';
       (B) by striking ``farmers' markets and to promote''; and
       (C) by striking the period and inserting ``and assist in 
     the development of local food business enterprises.'';
       (3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(b) Program Purposes.--The purposes of the Program are to 
     increase domestic consumption of, and consumer access to, 
     locally and regionally produced agricultural products by 
     assisting in the development, improvement, and expansion of--
       ``(1) domestic farmers' markets, roadside stands, 
     community-supported agriculture programs, agritourism 
     activities, and other direct producer-to-consumer market 
     opportunities; and
       ``(2) local and regional food business enterprises that 
     process, distribute, aggregate, and store locally or 
     regionally produced food products.'';
       (4) in subsection (c)(1)--
       (A) by inserting ``or other agricultural business entity'' 
     after ``cooperative''; and
       (B) by inserting ``, including a community supported 
     agriculture network or association'' after ``association'';
       (5) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f);
       (6) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(e) Funds Requirements for Eligible Entities.--
       ``(1) Matching funds.--An entity receiving a grant under 
     this section for a project to carry out a purpose described 
     in subsection (b)(2) shall provide matching funds in the form 
     of cash or an in-kind contribution in an amount equal to 25 
     percent of the total cost of such project.
       ``(2) Limitation on use of funds.--An eligible entity may 
     not use a grant or other assistance provided under this 
     section for the purchase, construction, or rehabilitation of 
     a building or structure.''; and
       (7) in subsection (f) (as redesignated by paragraph (5))--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(D) $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.'';
       (B) by striking paragraphs (3) and (5);
       (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (6); and
       (D) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
     paragraphs:
       ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
     $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.
       ``(4) Use of funds.--Of the funds made available to carry 
     out this section for a fiscal year, 50 percent of such funds 
     shall be used for the purposes described in paragraph (1) of 
     subsection (b) and 50 percent of such funds shall be used for 
     the purposes described in paragraph (2) of such subsection.
       ``(5) Limitation on administrative expenses.--Not more than 
     3 percent of the total amount made available to carry out 
     this section for a fiscal year may be used for administrative 
     expenses.''.

     SEC. 9004. ORGANIC AGRICULTURE.

       (a) Organic Production and Market Data Initiatives.--
     Section 7407(d)(2) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment 
     Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 5925c(d)(2)) is amended--
       (1) in the heading of such paragraph, by striking ``2008 
     through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 through 2018''; and
       (2) by striking ``2008 through 2012'' and inserting ``2014 
     through 2018''.
       (b) Modernization and Technology Upgrade for National 
     Organic Program.--Section 2122 of the Organic Foods 
     Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6521) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Modernization and Technology Upgrade for National 
     Organic Program.--The Secretary shall modernize database and 
     technology systems of the national organic program.''.
       (c) Authorization of Appropriations for National Organic 
     Program.--Effective October 1, 2013, section 2123(b)(6) of 
     the Organic

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     Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6522(b)(6)) is amended 
     to read as follows:
       ``(6) $11,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.
       (d) National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program.--
     Effective October 1, 2013, section 10606 of the Farm Security 
     and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 6523) is repealed.
       (e) Exemption of Certified Organic Products From Promotion 
     Order Assessments.--Subsection (e) of section 501 of the 
     Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
     U.S.C. 7401) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(e) Exemption of Certified Organic Products From 
     Promotion Order Assessments.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any provision of a 
     commodity promotion law, a person that produces, handles, 
     markets, or imports organic products may be exempt from the 
     payment of an assessment under a commodity promotion law with 
     respect to any agricultural commodity that is certified as 
     `organic' or `100 percent organic' (as defined in part 205 of 
     title 7, Code of Federal Regulations or a successor 
     regulation).
       ``(2) Split operations.--The exemption described in 
     paragraph (1) shall apply to the certified `organic' or `100 
     percent organic' (as defined in part 205 of title 7 of the 
     Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation)) 
     products of a producer, handler, or marketer regardless of 
     whether the agricultural commodity subject to the exemption 
     is produced, handled, or marketed by a person that also 
     produces, handles, or markets conventional or nonorganic 
     agricultural products, including conventional or nonorganic 
     agricultural products of the same agricultural commodity as 
     that for which the exemption is claimed.
       ``(3) Approval.--The Secretary shall approve the exemption 
     of a person under this subsection if the person maintains a 
     valid organic certificate issued under the Organic Foods 
     Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.).
       ``(4) Termination of effectiveness.--This subsection shall 
     be effective until the date on which the Secretary issues an 
     organic commodity promotion order in accordance with 
     subsection (f).
       ``(5) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate 
     regulations concerning eligibility and compliance for an 
     exemption under paragraph (1).''.
       (f) Organic Commodity Promotion Order.--Section 501 of the 
     Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 
     U.S.C. 7401) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(f) Organic Commodity Promotion Order.--
       ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       ``(A) Certified organic farm.--The term `certified organic 
     farm' has the meaning given the term in section 2103 of the 
     Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6502).
       ``(B) Covered person.--The term `covered person' means a 
     producer, handler, marketer, or importer of an organic 
     agricultural commodity.
       ``(C) Dual-covered agricultural commodity.--The term `dual-
     covered agricultural commodity' means an agricultural 
     commodity that--
       ``(i) is produced on a certified organic farm; and
       ``(ii) is covered under both--

       ``(I) an organic commodity promotion order issued pursuant 
     to paragraph (2); and
       ``(II) any other agricultural commodity promotion order 
     issued under section 514.

       ``(2) Authorization.--The Secretary may issue an organic 
     commodity promotion order under section 514 that includes any 
     agricultural commodity that--
       ``(A) is produced or handled (as defined in section 2103 of 
     the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6502)) and 
     that is certified to be sold or labeled as `organic' or `100 
     percent organic' (as defined in part 205 of title 7, Code of 
     Federal Regulations or a successor regulation)); or
       ``(B) is imported with a valid organic certificate (as 
     defined in such part).
       ``(3) Election.--If the Secretary issues an organic 
     commodity promotion order described in paragraph (2), a 
     covered person may elect, for applicable dual-covered 
     agricultural commodities and in the sole discretion of the 
     covered person, whether to be assessed under the organic 
     commodity promotion order or another applicable agricultural 
     commodity promotion order.
       ``(4) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate 
     regulations concerning eligibility and compliance for an 
     exemption under paragraph (1).''.
       (g) Definition of Agricultural Commodity.--Section 513(1) 
     of the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 
     1996 (7 U.S.C. 7412(1)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as 
     subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(E) products, as a class, that are produced on a 
     certified organic farm (as defined in section 2103 of the 
     Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6502)) and 
     that are certified to be sold or labeled as `organic' or `100 
     percent organic' (as defined in part 205 of title 7, Code of 
     Federal Regulations or a successor regulation);''.

     SEC. 9005. INVESTIGATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORGANIC 
                   FOODS PRODUCTION ACT OF 1990.

       The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 is amended by 
     inserting after section 2122 (7 U.S.C. 6521) the following 
     new section:

     ``SEC. 2122A. INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT.

       ``(a) Expedited Administrative Hearing.--The Secretary 
     shall establish an expedited administrative hearing procedure 
     under which the Secretary may suspend or revoke the organic 
     certification of a producer or handler or the accreditation 
     of a certifying agent in accordance with subsection (d). Such 
     a hearing may be conducted in addition to a hearing conducted 
     pursuant to section 2120.
       ``(b) Investigation.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may take such 
     investigative actions as the Secretary considers to be 
     necessary to carry out this title--
       ``(A) to verify the accuracy of any information reported or 
     made available under this title; and
       ``(B) to determine, with regard to actions, practices, or 
     information required under this title, whether a person 
     covered by this title has committed a violation of this 
     title.
       ``(2) Investigative powers.--The Secretary may administer 
     oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel attendance 
     of witnesses, take evidence, and require the production of 
     any records required to be maintained under section 2112(d) 
     or 2116(c) that are relevant to the investigation.
       ``(c) Unlawful Act.--It shall be unlawful and a violation 
     of this title for any person covered by this title--
       ``(1) to refuse to provide information required by the 
     Secretary under this title; or
       ``(2) to violate--
       ``(A) a suspension or revocation of the organic 
     certification of a producer or handler; or
       ``(B) a suspension or revocation of the accreditation of a 
     certifying agent.
       ``(d) Enforcement.--
       ``(1) Suspension.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may, after notice and 
     opportunity for an expedited administrative hearing, suspend 
     the organic certification of a producer, handler or the 
     accreditation of a certifying agent if--
       ``(i) the Secretary, during such expedited administrative 
     hearing, proved that--

       ``(I) in the case of a producer or handler, the producer or 
     handler--

       ``(aa) has recklessly committed a violation of a term, 
     condition, or requirement of the organic plan to which the 
     producer or handler is subject; or
       ``(bb) has recklessly committed, or is recklessly 
     committing, a violation of this title; or

       ``(II) in the case of a certifying agent, the agent has 
     recklessly committed, or is recklessly committing, a 
     violation of this title; or

       ``(ii) the producer, handler, or certifying agent has 
     waived such expedited administrative hearing.
       ``(B) Issuance of suspension.--A suspension issued under 
     this paragraph shall be issued not later than five days after 
     the date on which--
       ``(i) the expedited administrative hearing referred to in 
     clause (i) of subparagraph (A) concludes; or
       ``(ii) the Secretary receives notice of the waiver referred 
     to in clause (ii) of such subparagraph.
       ``(C) Duration of suspension.--The period of a suspension 
     issued under this paragraph shall be not more than 90 days, 
     beginning on the date on which the Secretary issues the 
     suspension.
       ``(D) Curing of violations.--
       ``(i) In general.--The Secretary may not issue a suspension 
     of a certification or accreditation under this paragraph if 
     the producer, handler, or certifying agent subject to such 
     suspension--

       ``(I) before the date on which the suspension would 
     otherwise have been issued, cures, or corrects the deficiency 
     giving rise to, the violation for which the certification or 
     accreditation would have been suspended; or
       ``(II) within a reasonable timeframe (as determined by the 
     Secretary), enters into a settlement with the Secretary 
     regarding a deficiency referred to in subclause (I).

       ``(ii) During suspension.--The Secretary shall terminate 
     the suspension of an organic certification or accreditation 
     issued under this paragraph if the producer, handler, or 
     certifying agent subject to such suspension cures the 
     violation for which the certification or accreditation was 
     suspended under this paragraph before the date on which the 
     period of the suspension ends.
       ``(2) Revocation.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may, after notice and 
     opportunity for an expedited administrative hearing under 
     this section and an expedited administrative appeal under 
     section 2121, revoke the organic certification of a producer 
     or handler, or the accreditation of a certifying agent if--
       ``(i) the Secretary, during such hearing, proved that--

       ``(I) in the case of a producer or handler, the producer or 
     handler--

       ``(aa) has knowingly committed an egregious violation of a 
     term, condition, or requirement of the organic plan to which 
     the producer or handler is subject; or
       ``(bb) has knowingly committed, or is knowingly committing, 
     an egregious violation of this title; or

       ``(II) in the case of a certifying agent, the agent has 
     knowingly committed, or is knowingly committing, an egregious 
     violation of this title; or

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       ``(ii) the producer, handler, or certifying agent has 
     waived such expedited administrative hearing and such an 
     expedited administrative appeal.
       ``(B) Initiation of revocation proceedings.--
       ``(i) In general.--If the Secretary finds, during an 
     investigation or during the period of a suspension under 
     paragraph (1), that a producer, handler, or certifying agent 
     has knowingly committed an egregious violation of this title, 
     the Secretary shall initiate revocation proceedings with 
     respect to such violation not later than 30 days after the 
     date on which the producer, handler, or certifying agent 
     receives notice of such finding in accordance with clause 
     (ii). The Secretary may not initiate revocation proceedings 
     with respect to such violation after the date on which that 
     30-day period ends.
       ``(ii) Notice.--Not later than five days after the date on 
     which the Secretary makes the finding described in clause 
     (i), the Secretary shall provide to the producer, handler, or 
     certifying agent notice of such finding.
       ``(e) Appeal.--
       ``(1) Suspensions.--
       ``(A) In general.--The suspension of a certification or 
     accreditation under subsection (d)(1) by the Secretary may be 
     appealed to a United States district court in accordance with 
     section 2121(b) not later than 30 business days after the 
     date on which the person subject to such suspension receives 
     notice of the suspension.
       ``(B) Suspension final and conclusive.--A suspension of a 
     certification or accreditation under subsection (d)(1) by the 
     Secretary shall be final and conclusive--
       ``(i) in the case of a suspension that is appealed under 
     subparagraph (A) within the 30-day period specified in such 
     subparagraph, on the date on which judicial review of such 
     suspension is complete; or
       ``(ii) in the case of a suspension that is not so appealed, 
     the date on which such 30-day period ends.
       ``(2) Revocations.--
       ``(A) In general.--The revocation of a certification or an 
     accreditation under subsection (d)(2) by the Secretary may be 
     appealed to a United States district court in accordance with 
     section 2121(b) not later than 30 business days after the 
     date on which the person subject to such revocation receives 
     notice of the revocation.
       ``(B) Revocation final and conclusive.--A revocation of a 
     certification or an accreditation under subsection (d)(2) by 
     the Secretary shall be final and conclusive--
       ``(i) in the case of a revocation that is appealed under 
     subparagraph (A) within the 30-day period specified in such 
     subparagraph, on the date on which judicial review of such 
     revocation is complete; or
       ``(ii) in the case of a revocation that is not so appealed, 
     the date on which such 30-day period ends.
       ``(3) Standards for review of suspensions and 
     revocations.--A suspension or revocation of a certification 
     or an accreditation under subsection (d) shall be reviewed in 
     accordance with the standards of review specified in section 
     706(2) of title 5, United States Code.
       ``(f) Noncompliance.--
       ``(1) In general.--If a person covered by this title fails 
     to obey a revocation of a certification or an accreditation 
     under subsection (d)(2) after such revocation has become 
     final and conclusive or after the appropriate United States 
     district court has entered a final judgment in favor of the 
     Secretary, the United States may apply to the appropriate 
     United States district court for enforcement of such 
     revocation.
       ``(2) Enforcement.--If the court determines that the 
     revocation was lawfully made and duly served and that the 
     person violated the revocation, the court shall enforce the 
     revocation.
       ``(3) Civil penalty.--If the court finds that the person 
     violated the revocation of a certification or an 
     accreditation under subsection (d)(2), the person shall be 
     subject to one or more of the penalties provided in 
     subsections (a) and (b) of section 2120.
       ``(g) Violation of This Title Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `violation of this title' means a violation 
     specified in section 2120.''.

     SEC. 9006. FOOD SAFETY EDUCATION INITIATIVES.

       Section 10105 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 7655) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting ``, 
     including farm workers'' after ``industry'';
       (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) practices that prevent bacterial contamination of 
     food, how to identify sources of food contamination, and 
     other means of decreasing food contamination.''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``2012'' and inserting 
     ``2018''.

     SEC. 9007. SPECIALTY CROP BLOCK GRANTS.

       Section 101 of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 
     2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note; Public Law 108-465) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking ``subsection (j)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (l)''; and
       (B) by striking ``2012'' and inserting ``2018'';
       (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(b) Grants Based on Value and Acreage.--Subject to 
     subsection (c), for each State whose application for a grant 
     for a fiscal year that is accepted by the Secretary under 
     subsection (f), the amount of the grant for such fiscal year 
     to the State under this section shall bear the same ratio to 
     the total amount made available under subsection (l)(1) for 
     such fiscal year as--
       ``(1) the average of the most recent available value of 
     specialty crop production in the State and the acreage of 
     specialty crop production in the State, as demonstrated in 
     the most recent Census of Agriculture data; bears to
       ``(2) the average of the most recent available value of 
     specialty crop production in all States and the acreage of 
     specialty crop production in all States, as demonstrated in 
     the most recent Census of Agriculture data.'';
       (3) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) an assurance that any grant funds received under this 
     section that are used for equipment or capital-related 
     research costs determined to enhance the competitiveness of 
     specialty crops--
       ``(A) shall be supplemented by the expenditure of State 
     funds in an amount that is not less than 50 percent of such 
     costs during the fiscal year in which such costs were 
     incurred; and
       ``(B) shall be completely replaced by State funds on the 
     day after the date on which such fiscal year ends.'';
       (4) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (l);
       (5) by inserting after subsection (i) the following new 
     subsections:
       ``(j) Multistate Projects.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the effective date of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk 
     Management Act of 2013, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     issue guidance for the purpose of making grants to multistate 
     projects under this section for projects involving--
       ``(1) food safety;
       ``(2) plant pests and disease;
       ``(3) research;
       ``(4) crop-specific projects addressing common issues; and
       ``(5) any other area that furthers the purposes of this 
     section, as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(k) Administration.--
       ``(1) Department.--The Secretary of Agriculture may not use 
     more than 3 percent of the funds made available to carry out 
     this section for a fiscal year for administrative expenses.
       ``(2) States.--A State receiving a grant under this section 
     may not use more than 8 percent of the funds received under 
     the grant for a fiscal year for administrative expenses.''; 
     and
       (6) in subsection (l) (as redesignated by paragraph (4))--
       (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as 
     subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, and moving the 
     margins of such subparagraphs two ems to the right;
       (B) by striking ``Of the funds'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(1) In general.--Of the funds'';
       (C) in paragraph (1) (as so designated)--
       (i) in subparagraph (B) (as redesignated by subparagraph 
     (A)), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (ii) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated by subparagraph 
     (A)), by striking the period at the end and inserting a 
     semicolon; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
       ``(D) $72,500,000 for fiscal years 2014 through 2017; and
       ``(E) $85,000,000 for fiscal year 2018.''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Multistate projects.--Of the funds made available 
     under paragraph (1), the Secretary may use to carry out 
     subsection (j), to remain available until expended--
       ``(A) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2014;
       ``(B) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2015;
       ``(C) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2016;
       ``(D) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2017; and
       ``(E) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2018.''.

     SEC. 9008. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONSULTATION REGARDING 
                   ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN LABOR LAW PROVISIONS.

       Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall consult with the 
     Secretary of Labor regarding the restraining of shipments of 
     agricultural commodities, or the confiscation of such 
     commodities, by the Department of Labor for actual or 
     suspected labor law violations in order to consider--
       (1) the perishable nature of such commodities;
       (2) the impact of such restraining or confiscation on the 
     economic viability of farming operations; and
       (3) the competitiveness of specialty crops through grants 
     awarded to States under section 101 of the Specialty Crops 
     Competitiveness Act of 2004 (7 U.S.C. 1621 note).

     SEC. 9009. REPORT ON HONEY.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, in 
     consultation with persons affected by the potential 
     establishment of a Federal standard for the identity of 
     honey, shall submit to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs a 
     report describing how an appropriate Federal standard for the

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     identity of honey would be in the interest of consumers, the 
     honey industry, and United States agriculture.
       (b) Considerations.--In preparing the report required under 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall take into consideration 
     the March 2006, Standard of Identity citizens petition filed 
     with the Food and Drug Administration, including any current 
     industry amendments or clarifications necessary to update 
     such petition.

     SEC. 9010. BULK SHIPMENTS OF APPLES TO CANADA.

       (a) Bulk Shipment of Apples to Canada.--Section 4 of the 
     Export Apple Act (7 U.S.C. 584) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``Apples in'' and inserting ``(a) Apples 
     in''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) Apples may be shipped to Canada in bulk bins without 
     complying with the provisions of this Act.''.
       (b) Definition of Bulk Bin.--Section 9 of the Export Apple 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 589) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(5) The term `bulk bin' means a bin that contains a 
     quantity of apples weighing more than 100 pounds.''.
       (c) Regulations.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     issue regulations to carry out the amendments made by this 
     section.

     SEC. 9011. CONSOLIDATION OF PLANT PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT 
                   AND DISASTER PREVENTION PROGRAMS.

       (a) Relocation of Legislative Language Relating to National 
     Clean Plant Network.--Section 420 of the Plant Protection Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 7721) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(e) National Clean Plant Network.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a program 
     to be known as the `National Clean Plant Network' (referred 
     to in this subsection as the `Program').
       ``(2) Requirements.--Under the Program, the Secretary shall 
     establish a network of clean plant centers for diagnostic and 
     pathogen elimination services--
       ``(A) to produce clean propagative plant material; and
       ``(B) to maintain blocks of pathogen-tested plant material 
     in sites located throughout the United States.
       ``(3) Availability of clean plant source material.--Clean 
     plant source material may be made available to--
       ``(A) a State for a certified plant program of the State; 
     and
       ``(B) private nurseries and producers.
       ``(4) Consultation and collaboration.--In carrying out the 
     Program, the Secretary shall--
       ``(A) consult with--
       ``(i) State departments of agriculture; and
       ``(ii) land-grant colleges and universities and NLGCA 
     Institutions (as those terms are defined in section 1404 of 
     the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
     Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)); and
       ``(B) to the extent practicable and with input from the 
     appropriate State officials and industry representatives, use 
     existing Federal or State facilities to serve as clean plant 
     centers.
       ``(5) Funding for fiscal year 2013.--There is authorized to 
     be appropriated to carry out the Program $5,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 2013.''.
       (b) Funding.--Subsection (f) of section 420 of the Plant 
     Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7721) (as so redesignated) is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and each fiscal year 
     thereafter.'' and inserting a semicolon; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(5) $62,500,000 for fiscal years 2014 through 2017; and
       ``(6) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2018.''.
       (c) Repeal of Existing Provision.--Section 10202 of the 
     Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 7761) is 
     repealed.
       (d) Clarification of Use of Funds for Technical 
     Assistance.--Section 420 of the Plant Protection Act (7 
     U.S.C. 7721), as amended by subsection (a), is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Relationship to Other Law.--The use of Commodity 
     Credit Corporation funds under this section to provide 
     technical assistance shall not be considered an allotment or 
     fund transfer from the Commodity Credit Corporation for 
     purposes of the limit on expenditures for technical 
     assistance imposed by section 11 of the Commodity Credit 
     Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i).''.
       (e) Use of Funds for Clean Plant Network.--Section 420 of 
     the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7721), as amended by 
     subsections (a) and (d), is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(h) Use of Funds for Clean Plant Network.--Of the funds 
     made available under subsection (f) to carry out this section 
     for a fiscal year, not less than $5,000,000 shall be 
     available to carry out the national clean plant network under 
     subsection (e).''.

     SEC. 9012. MODIFICATION, CANCELLATION, OR SUSPENSION ON BASIS 
                   OF A BIOLOGICAL OPINION.

       (a) In General.--Except in the case of a voluntary request 
     from a pesticide registrant to amend a registration under 
     section 3 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
     Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136a), a registration of a 
     pesticide may be modified, canceled, or suspended on the 
     basis of the implementation of a Biological Opinion issued by 
     the National Marine Fisheries Service or the United States 
     Fish and Wildlife Service prior to the date of completion of 
     the study referred to in subsection (b), or January 1, 2015, 
     whichever is earlier, only if--
       (1) the modification, cancellation, or suspension is 
     undertaken pursuant to section 6 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 136d); 
     and
       (2) the Biological Opinion complies with the 
     recommendations contained in the study referred to in 
     subsection (b).
       (b) National Academy of Sciences Study.--The study 
     commissioned by the Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency on March 10, 2011, shall include, at a 
     minimum, each of the following:
       (1) A formal, independent, and external peer review, 
     consistent with Office of Management and Budget policies, of 
     each Biological Opinion described in subsection (a).
       (2) Assessment of economic impacts of measures or 
     alternatives recommended in each such Biological Opinion.
       (3) An examination of the specific scientific and 
     procedural questions and issues pertaining to economic 
     feasibility contained in the June 23, 2011, letter sent to 
     the Administrator (and other Federal officials) by the 
     Chairmen of the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on 
     Natural Resources, and the Subcommittee on Interior, 
     Environment, and Related Agencies of the Committee on 
     Appropriations, of the House of Representatives.

     SEC. 9013. USE AND DISCHARGES OF AUTHORIZED PESTICIDES.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013''.
       (b) Use of Authorized Pesticides.--Section 3(f) of the 
     Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 
     136a(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) Use of authorized pesticides.--Except as provided in 
     section 402(s) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
     the Administrator or a State may not require a permit under 
     such Act for a discharge from a point source into navigable 
     waters of a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or 
     use under this Act, or the residue of such a pesticide, 
     resulting from the application of such pesticide.''.
       (c) Discharges of Pesticides.--Section 402 of the Federal 
     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(s) Discharges of Pesticides.--
       ``(1) No permit requirement.--Except as provided in 
     paragraph (2), a permit shall not be required by the 
     Administrator or a State under this Act for a discharge from 
     a point source into navigable waters of a pesticide 
     authorized for sale, distribution, or use under the Federal 
     Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or the residue 
     of such a pesticide, resulting from the application of such 
     pesticide.
       ``(2) Exceptions.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the 
     following discharges of a pesticide or pesticide residue:
       ``(A) A discharge resulting from the application of a 
     pesticide in violation of a provision of the Federal 
     Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act that is relevant 
     to protecting water quality, if--
       ``(i) the discharge would not have occurred but for the 
     violation; or
       ``(ii) the amount of pesticide or pesticide residue in the 
     discharge is greater than would have occurred without the 
     violation.
       ``(B) Stormwater discharges subject to regulation under 
     subsection (p).
       ``(C) The following discharges subject to regulation under 
     this section:
       ``(i) Manufacturing or industrial effluent.
       ``(ii) Treatment works effluent.
       ``(iii) Discharges incidental to the normal operation of a 
     vessel, including a discharge resulting from ballasting 
     operations or vessel biofouling prevention.''.

     SEC. 9014. SEED NOT PESTICIDE OR DEVICE FOR PURPOSES OF 
                   IMPORTATION.

       Section 17(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
     Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136o(c)) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new sentences: ``Solely for purposes of 
     notifications of arrival upon importation, for purposes of 
     this subsection, seed, including treated seed, shall not be 
     considered a pesticide or device. Nothing in this subsection 
     shall be construed as precluding or limiting the authority of 
     the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to the importation 
     or movement of plants, plant products, or seeds, under the 
     Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) or the Federal 
     Seed Act (7 U.S.C. 1551 et seq.).''.

     SEC. 9015. STAY OF REGULATIONS RELATED TO CHRISTMAS TREE 
                   PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER.

       Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall lift the 
     administrative stay that was imposed by the rule entitled 
     ``Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order; 
     Stay of Regulations'' and published by the Department of 
     Agriculture on November 17, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 71241), on the 
     regulations in subpart A of part 214 of title 7, Code of 
     Federal Regulations, establishing an industry-funded 
     promotion, research, and information program for fresh cut 
     Christmas trees.

     SEC. 9016. STUDY ON PROPOSED ORDER PERTAINING TO SULFURYL 
                   FLUORIDE.

       Not later than two years after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Administrator of

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     the Environmental Protection Agency, in conjunction with the 
     Secretary of Agriculture, shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture of the House of Representatives a report on the 
     potential economic and public health effects that would 
     result from finalization of the proposed order published in 
     the January 19, 2011, Federal Register (76 Fed. Reg. 3422) 
     pertaining to the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, including the 
     anticipated impacts of such finalization on the production of 
     an adequate, wholesome, and economical food supply and on 
     farmers and related agricultural sectors.

     SEC. 9017. STUDY ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL FOOD PRODUCTION AND 
                   PROGRAM EVALUATION.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall--
       (1) collect data on the production and marketing of locally 
     or regionally produced agricultural food products;
       (2) facilitate interagency collaboration and data sharing 
     on programs related to local and regional food systems; and
       (3) monitor the effectiveness of programs designed to 
     expand or facilitate local food systems.
       (b) Requirements.--In carrying out this section, the 
     Secretary shall--
       (1) collect and distribute comprehensive reporting of 
     prices of locally or regionally produced agricultural food 
     products;
       (2) conduct surveys and analysis and publish reports 
     relating to the production, handling, distribution, and 
     retail sales of, and trend studies (including consumer 
     purchasing patterns) on, locally or regionally produced 
     agricultural food products;
       (3) evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs in 
     growing local and regional food systems, including--
       (A) the impact of local food systems on job creation and 
     economic development;
       (B) the level of participation in the Farmers' Market and 
     Local Food Promotion Program established under section 6 of 
     the Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act of 1976 (7 U.S.C. 
     3005), including the percentage of projects funded in 
     comparison to applicants and the types of eligible entities 
     receiving funds;
       (C) the ability for participants to leverage private 
     capital and a synopsis of the places from which non-Federal 
     funds are derived; and
       (D) any additional resources required to aid in the 
     development or expansion of local and regional food systems;
       (4) expand the Agricultural Resource Management Survey to 
     include questions on locally or regionally produced 
     agricultural food products; and
       (5) seek to establish or expand private-public partnerships 
     to facilitate, to the maximum extent practicable, the 
     collection of data on locally or regionally produced 
     agricultural food products, including the development of a 
     nationally coordinated and regionally balanced evaluation of 
     the redevelopment of locally or regionally produced food 
     systems.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until 
     September 30, 2018, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a report describing the progress that has been made in 
     implementing this section and identifying any additional 
     needs related to developing local and regional food systems.

     SEC. 9018. ANNUAL REPORT ON INVASIVE SPECIES.

       (a) Initial Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 
     Congress a report on invasive species.
       (2) Matters included.--The report under paragraph (1) shall 
     include the following:
       (A) A list of each invasive species that is in the United 
     States as of the date of the report.
       (B) For each invasive species listed under subparagraph 
     (A)--
       (i) the country from which the species originated;
       (ii) the means in which the species entered the United 
     States;
       (iii) the year in which the species entered the United 
     States;
       (iv) the rate by which the entry of the species is 
     increasing or decreasing;
       (v) cost estimates, covering both the date of the report 
     and future periods, of the cost of such species to the public 
     and private sectors;
       (vi) if cost estimates cannot be conducted under clause 
     (v), a detailed explanation of why;
       (vii) environmental impact estimates, covering both the 
     date of the report and future periods, of the environmental 
     impact of the species;
       (viii) if environmental impact estimates cannot be 
     conducted under clause (vii), a detailed explanation of why;
       (ix) recommendations as to what steps are needed to combat 
     the species;
       (x) a description of the ongoing research occurring to 
     combat the species; and
       (xi) a description of any legal recourse available to 
     people affected by the species.
       (C) Any other matter the Secretary determines appropriate.
       (3) Period covered.--The report under paragraph (1) shall 
     cover the period beginning in 1980 and ending on the date on 
     which the report is submitted.
       (b) Annual Updated Reports.--Not later than October 1 of 
     each fiscal year beginning after the date on which the report 
     under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) is submitted, the 
     Secretary shall submit annually to Congress an updated 
     report, including an update to each of the matters described 
     in paragraph (2) of such subsection.
       (c) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall make each 
     report under this section available to the public.

                        TITLE X--CROP INSURANCE

     SEC. 10001. INFORMATION SHARING.

       (a) In General.--Section 502(c) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502(c)) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) Information.--
       ``(A) Request.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the Farm 
     Service Agency shall, in a timely manner, provide to an agent 
     or an approved insurance provider authorized by the producer 
     any information (including Farm Service Agency Form 578s (or 
     any successor form) or maps (or any corrections to those 
     forms or maps) that may assist the agent or approved 
     insurance provider in insuring the producer under a policy or 
     plan of insurance under this subtitle.
       ``(B) Privacy.--Except as provided in subparagraph (C), an 
     agent or approved insurance provider that receives the 
     information of a producer pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall 
     treat the information in accordance with paragraph (1).
       ``(C) Sharing.--Nothing in this section prohibits the 
     sharing of the information of a producer pursuant to 
     subparagraph (A) between the agent and the approved insurance 
     provider of the producer.''.
       (b) Disclosure of Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies Made on 
     Behalf of Members of Congress and Certain Other Individuals 
     and Entities.--Section 502(c)(2) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502(c)(2)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
     subparagraphs (D) and (E) respectively; and
       (2) by inserting before subparagraph (C) (as so 
     redesignated) the following:
       ``(A) Disclosure in the public interest.--Notwithstanding 
     paragraph (1) or any other provision of law, except as 
     provided in subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall on an 
     annual basis make available to the public--
       ``(i)(I) the name of each individual or entity specified in 
     subparagraph (C) who obtained a federally subsidized crop 
     insurance, livestock, or forage policy or plan of insurance 
     during the previous fiscal year;
       ``(II) the amount of premium subsidy received by that 
     individual or entity from the Corporation; and
       ``(III) the amount of any Federal portion of indemnities 
     paid in the event of a loss during that fiscal year for each 
     policy associated with that individual or entity; and
       ``(ii) for each private insurance provider, by name--

       ``(I) the underwriting gains earned through participation 
     in the federally subsidized crop insurance program; and
       ``(II) the amount paid under this subtitle for--

       ``(aa) administrative and operating expenses;
       ``(bb) any Federal portion of indemnities and reinsurance; 
     and
       ``(cc) any other purpose.
       ``(B) Limitation.--The Secretary shall not disclose 
     information pertaining to individuals and entities covered by 
     a catastrophic risk protection plan offered under section 
     508(b).
       ``(C) Covered individuals and entities.--Subparagraph (A) 
     applies with respect to the following:
       ``(i) Members of Congress and their immediate families.
       ``(ii) Cabinet Secretaries and their immediate families.
       ``(iii) Entities of which any individual described in 
     clause (i) or (ii), or combination of such individuals, is a 
     majority shareholder.''.

     SEC. 10002. PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION ON VIOLATIONS OF 
                   PROHIBITION ON PREMIUM ADJUSTMENTS.

       Section 508(a)(9) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1508(a)(9)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) Publication of violations.--
       ``(i) Publication required.--Subject to clause (ii), the 
     Corporation shall publish in a timely manner on the website 
     of the Risk Management Agency information regarding each 
     violation of this paragraph, including any sanctions imposed 
     in response to the violation, in sufficient detail so that 
     the information may serve as effective guidance to approved 
     insurance providers, agents, and producers.
       ``(ii) Protection of privacy.--In providing information 
     under clause (i) regarding violations of this paragraph, the 
     Corporation shall redact the identity of the persons and 
     entities committing the violations in order to protect their 
     privacy.''.

     SEC. 10003. SUPPLEMENTAL COVERAGE OPTION.

       (a) Availability of Supplemental Coverage Option.--
     Paragraph (3) of section 508(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(c)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(3) Yield and loss basis options.--A producer shall have 
     the option of purchasing additional coverage based on--
       ``(A)(i) an individual yield and loss basis; or
       ``(ii) an area yield and loss basis;
       ``(B) an individual yield and loss basis, supplemented with 
     coverage based on an area

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     yield and loss basis to cover a part of the deductible under 
     the individual yield and loss policy, as described in 
     paragraph (4)(C); or
       ``(C) a margin basis alone or in combination with the 
     coverages available in subparagraph (A) or (B).''.
       (b) Level of Coverage.--Paragraph (4) of section 508(c) of 
     the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(c)) is amended 
     to read as follows:
       ``(4) Level of coverage.--
       ``(A) Dollar denomination and percentage of yield.--Except 
     as provided in subparagraph (C), the level of coverage--
       ``(i) shall be dollar denominated; and
       ``(ii) may be purchased at any level not to exceed 85 
     percent of the individual yield or 95 percent of the area 
     yield (as determined by the Corporation).
       ``(B) Information.--The Corporation shall provide producers 
     with information on catastrophic risk and additional coverage 
     in terms of dollar coverage (within the allowable limits of 
     coverage provided in this paragraph).
       ``(C) Supplemental coverage option.--
       ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), in the 
     case of the supplemental coverage option described in 
     paragraph (3)(B), the Corporation shall offer producers the 
     opportunity to purchase coverage in combination with a policy 
     or plan of insurance offered under this subtitle that would 
     allow indemnities to be paid to a producer equal to a part of 
     the deductible under the policy or plan of insurance--

       ``(I) at a county-wide level to the fullest extent 
     practicable; or
       ``(II) in counties that lack sufficient data, on the basis 
     of such larger geographical area as the Corporation 
     determines to provide sufficient data for purposes of 
     providing the coverage.

       ``(ii) Trigger.--Coverage offered under paragraph (3)(B) 
     and clause (i) shall be triggered only if the losses in the 
     area exceed 10 percent of normal levels (as determined by the 
     Corporation).
       ``(iii) Coverage.--Subject to the trigger described in 
     clause (ii), coverage offered under paragraph (3)(B) and 
     clause (i) shall not exceed the difference between--

       ``(I) 90 percent; and
       ``(II) the coverage level selected by the producer for the 
     underlying policy or plan of insurance.

       ``(iv) Ineligible crops and acres.--Crops for which the 
     producer has elected under section 1107(c)(1) of the Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 to receive 
     revenue loss coverage and acres that are enrolled in the 
     stacked income protection plan under section 508B shall not 
     be eligible for supplemental coverage under this 
     subparagraph.
       ``(v) Calculation of premium.--Notwithstanding subsection 
     (d), the premium for coverage offered under paragraph (3)(B) 
     and clause (i) shall--

       ``(I) be sufficient to cover anticipated losses and a 
     reasonable reserve; and
       ``(II) include an amount for operating and administrative 
     expenses established in accordance with subsection 
     (k)(4)(F).''.

       (c) Payment of Portion of Premium by Corporation.--Section 
     508(e)(2) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1508(e)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(H) In the case of the supplemental coverage option 
     authorized in subsection (c)(4)(C), the amount shall be equal 
     to the sum of--
       ``(i) 65 percent of the additional premium associated with 
     the coverage; and
       ``(ii) the amount determined under subsection 
     (c)(4)(C)(vi)(II), subject to subsection (k)(4)(F), for the 
     coverage to cover operating and administrative expenses.''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 
     shall begin to provide additional coverage based on an 
     individual yield and loss basis, supplemented with coverage 
     based on an area yield and loss basis, not later than for the 
     2014 crop year.

     SEC. 10004. PREMIUM AMOUNTS FOR CATASTROPHIC RISK PROTECTION.

       Subparagraph (A) of section 508(d)(2) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(d)(2)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(A) In the case of catastrophic risk protection, the 
     amount of the premium established by the Corporation for each 
     crop for which catastrophic risk protection is available 
     shall be reduced by the percentage equal to the difference 
     between the average loss ratio for the crop and 100 percent, 
     plus a reasonable reserve.''.

     SEC. 10005. REPEAL OF PERFORMANCE-BASED DISCOUNT.

       (a) Repeal.--Section 508(d) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (3); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 508(a)(9)(B) of the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(a)(9)(B)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``or'' at the end of clause (i);
       (2) by striking clause (ii); and
       (3) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (ii).

     SEC. 10006. PERMANENT ENTERPRISE UNIT SUBSIDY.

       Subparagraph (A) of section 508(e)(5) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(e)(5)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation may pay a portion of the 
     premiums for plans or policies of insurance for which the 
     insurable unit is defined on a whole farm or enterprise unit 
     basis that is higher than would otherwise be paid in 
     accordance with paragraph (2).''.

     SEC. 10007. ENTERPRISE UNITS FOR IRRIGATED AND NONIRRIGATED 
                   CROPS.

       Section 508(e)(5) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1508(e)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(D) Nonirrigated crops.--Beginning with the 2014 crop 
     year, the Corporation shall make available separate 
     enterprise units for irrigated and nonirrigated acreage of 
     crops in counties.''.

     SEC. 10008. DATA COLLECTION.

       Section 508(g)(2) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1508(g)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Sources of yield data.--To determine yields under 
     this paragraph, the Corporation--
       ``(i) shall use county data collected by the Risk 
     Management Agency or the National Agricultural Statistics 
     Service, or both; or
       ``(ii) if sufficient county data is not available, may use 
     other data considered appropriate by the Secretary.''.

     SEC. 10009. ADJUSTMENT IN ACTUAL PRODUCTION HISTORY TO 
                   ESTABLISH INSURABLE YIELDS.

       Section 508(g)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 
     U.S.C. 1508(g)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ``60'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``70''.

     SEC. 10010. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF POLICIES.

       (a) In General.--Section 508(h) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(h)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
     (i) and (ii), respectively, and indenting appropriately;
       (B) by striking ``(1) In general.--In addition'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(1) Authority to submit.--
       ``(A) In general.--In addition''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Review and submission by corporation.--The 
     Corporation shall review any policy developed under section 
     522(c) or any pilot program developed under section 523 and 
     submit the policy or program to the Board under this 
     subsection if the Corporation, at the sole discretion of the 
     Corporation, finds that the policy or program--
       ``(i) will likely result in a viable and marketable policy 
     consistent with this subsection;
       ``(ii) would provide crop insurance coverage in a 
     significantly improved form; and
       ``(iii) adequately protects the interests of producers.''; 
     and
       (2) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) by striking ``A policy'' and inserting the following:
       ``(A) In general.--A policy''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Specified review and approval priorities.--In 
     reviewing policies and other materials submitted to the Board 
     under this subsection for approval, the Board--
       ``(i) shall make the development and approval of a revenue 
     policy for peanut producers a priority so that a revenue 
     policy is available to peanut producers in time for the 2014 
     crop year;
       ``(ii) shall make the development and approval of a margin 
     coverage policy for rice producers a priority so that a 
     margin coverage policy is available to rice producers in time 
     for the 2014 crop year; and
       ``(iii) may approve a submission that is made pursuant to 
     this subsection that would, beginning with the 2014 crop 
     year, allow producers that purchase policies in accordance 
     with subsection (e)(5)(A) to separate enterprise units by 
     risk rating for acreage of crops in counties.''.
       (b) Advance Payments.--Section 522(b)(2)(E) of the Federal 
     Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(b)(2)(E)) is amended by 
     striking ``50 percent'' and inserting ``75 percent''.

     SEC. 10011. EQUITABLE RELIEF FOR SPECIALTY CROP POLICIES.

       Section 508(k)(8)(E) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 
     1938 (7 U.S.C. 1508(k)(8)(E)) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new clause:
       ``(iii) Equitable relief for specialty crop policies.--

       ``(I) In general.--For each of the 2011 through 2015 
     reinsurance years, in addition to the total amount of funding 
     for reimbursement of administrative and operating costs that 
     is otherwise required to be made available in each such 
     reinsurance year pursuant to an agreement entered into by the 
     Corporation, the Corporation shall use $41,000,000 to provide 
     additional reimbursement with respect to eligible insurance 
     contracts for any agricultural commodity that is not eligible 
     for a benefit under subtitles A, B or C of title I of the 
     Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.
       ``(II) Treatment.--Additional reimbursements made under 
     this clause shall be included as part of the base level of 
     administrative and operating expense reimbursement to which 
     any limit on compensation to persons involved in the direct 
     sale and service of any eligible crop insurance contract 
     required under an agreement entered into by the Corporation 
     is applied.

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       ``(III) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this clause shall 
     be construed as statutory assent to the limit described in 
     subclause (II).''.

     SEC. 10012. BUDGET LIMITATIONS ON RENEGOTIATION OF THE 
                   STANDARD REINSURANCE AGREEMENT.

       Section 508(k)(8) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1938 
     (7 U.S.C. 1508(k)(8)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(F) Budget.--
       ``(i) In general.--The Board shall ensure that any Standard 
     Reinsurance Agreement negotiated under subparagraph (A)(ii), 
     as compared to the previous Standard Reinsurance Agreement--

       ``(I) to the maximum extent practicable, shall be budget 
     neutral; and
       ``(II) in no event, may significantly depart from budget 
     neutrality.

       ``(ii) Use of savings.--To the extent that any budget 
     savings is realized in the renegotiation of a Standard 
     Reinsurance Agreement under subparagraph (A)(ii), and the 
     savings are determined not to be a significant departure from 
     budget neutrality under clause (i), the savings shall be used 
     to increase the obligations of the Corporation under 
     subsections (e)(2) or (k)(4) or section 523.''.

     SEC. 10013. CROP PRODUCTION ON NATIVE SOD.

       (a) Federal Crop Insurance.--Section 508(o) of the Federal 
     Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(o)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ``, or the producer 
     cannot substantiate that the ground has ever been tilled,'' 
     after ``tilled'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``Ineligibility 
     for'' and inserting ``Reduction in''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``for benefits under--
     '' and all that follows through the period at the end and 
     inserting ``for--
       ``(i) a portion of crop insurance premium subsidies under 
     this subtitle in accordance with paragraph (3);
       ``(ii) benefits under section 196 of the Federal 
     Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 
     7333); and
       ``(iii) payments described in subsection (b) or (c) of 
     section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1308).''; and
       (3) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following 
     new paragraphs:
       ``(3) Administration.--
       ``(A) In general.--During the first 4 crop years of 
     planting on native sod acreage by a producer described in 
     paragraph (2)--
       ``(i) paragraph (2) shall apply to 65 percent of the 
     transitional yield of the producer; and
       ``(ii) the crop insurance premium subsidy provided for the 
     producer under this subtitle shall be 50 percentage points 
     less than the premium subsidy that would otherwise apply.
       ``(B) Yield substitution.--During the period native sod 
     acreage is covered by this subsection, a producer may not 
     substitute yields for the native sod acreage.
       ``(4) Application.--This subsection shall only apply to 
     native sod in the Prairie Pothole National Priority Area.''.
       (b) Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance.--Section 196(a)(4) 
     of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 
     (7 U.S.C. 7333(a)(4)) is amended--
       (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``ineligibility'' 
     and inserting ``benefit reduction'';
       (2) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting ``, or the 
     producer cannot substantiate that the ground has ever been 
     tilled,'' after ``tilled'';
       (3) in subparagraph (B)--
       (A) in the subparagraph heading, by striking 
     ``Ineligibility'' and inserting ``Reduction in''; and
       (B) in clause (i), by striking ``for benefits under--'' and 
     all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
     ``for--

       ``(I) benefits under this section;
       ``(II) a portion of crop insurance premium subsidies under 
     the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) in 
     accordance with subparagraph (C); and
       ``(III) payments described in subsection (b) or (c) of 
     section 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 
     1308).''; and

       (4) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraphs:
       ``(C) Administration.--
       ``(i) In general.--During the first 4 crop years of 
     planting on native sod acreage by a producer described in 
     subparagraph (B)--

       ``(I) subparagraph (B) shall apply to 65 percent of the 
     transitional yield of the producer; and
       ``(II) the crop insurance premium subsidy provided for the 
     producer under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 
     et seq.) shall be 50 percentage points less than the premium 
     subsidy that would otherwise apply.

       ``(ii) Yield substitution.--During the period native sod 
     acreage is covered by this paragraph, a producer may not 
     substitute yields for the native sod acreage.
       ``(D) Application.--This paragraph shall only apply to 
     native sod in the Prairie Pothole National Priority Area.''.
       (c) Cropland Report.--
       (1) Baseline.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes the 
     cropland acreage in each applicable county and State, and the 
     change in cropland acreage from the preceding year in each 
     applicable county and State, beginning with calendar year 
     2000 and including that information for the most recent year 
     for which that information is available.
       (2) Annual updates.--Not later than January 1, 2015, and 
     each January 1 thereafter through January 1, 2018, the 
     Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a 
     report that describes--
       (A) the cropland acreage in each applicable county and 
     State as of the date of submission of the report; and
       (B) the change in cropland acreage from the preceding year 
     in each applicable county and State.

     SEC. 10014. COVERAGE LEVELS BY PRACTICE.

       Section 508 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1938 (7 
     U.S.C. 1508) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new subsection:
       ``(p) Coverage Levels by Practice.--Beginning with the 2015 
     crop year, a producer that produces an agricultural commodity 
     on both dry land and irrigated land may elect a different 
     coverage level for each production practice.''.

     SEC. 10015. BEGINNING FARMER AND RANCHER PROVISIONS.

       (a) Definition.--Section 502(b) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1502(b)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (9) as 
     paragraphs (4) through (10), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
       ``(3) Beginning farmer or rancher.--The term `beginning 
     farmer or rancher' means a farmer or rancher who has not 
     actively operated and managed a farm or ranch with a bona 
     fide insurable interest in a crop or livestock as an owner-
     operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper for more than 5 
     crop years, as determined by the Secretary.''.
       (b) Premium Adjustments.--Section 508 of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)(5)(E), by inserting ``and beginning 
     farmers or ranchers'' after ``limited resource farmers'';
       (2) in subsection (e), by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(8) Premium for beginning farmers or ranchers.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection 
     regarding payment of a portion of premiums, a beginning 
     farmer or rancher shall receive premium assistance that is 10 
     percentage points greater than premium assistance that would 
     otherwise be available under paragraphs (2) (except for 
     subparagraph (A) of that paragraph), (5), (6), and (7) for 
     the applicable policy, plan of insurance, and coverage level 
     selected by the beginning farmer or rancher.''; and
       (3) in subsection (g)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)(B)--
       (i) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (ii) in clause (ii)(III), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; or''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(iii) if the producer is a beginning farmer or rancher 
     who was previously involved in a farming or ranching 
     operation, including involvement in the decisionmaking or 
     physical involvement in the production of the crop or 
     livestock on the farm, for any acreage obtained by the 
     beginning farmer or rancher, a yield that is the higher of--

       ``(I) the actual production history of the previous 
     producer of the crop or livestock on the acreage determined 
     under subparagraph (A); or
       ``(II) a yield of the producer, as determined in clause 
     (i).''; and

       (B) in paragraph (4)(B)(ii) (as amended by section 10009)--
       (i) by inserting ``(I)'' after ``(ii)'';
       (ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     or''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(II) in the case of beginning farmers or ranchers, 
     replace each excluded yield with a yield equal to 80 percent 
     of the applicable transitional yield.''.

     SEC. 10016. STACKED INCOME PROTECTION PLAN FOR PRODUCERS OF 
                   UPLAND COTTON.

       (a) Availability of Stacked Income Protection Plan for 
     Producers of Upland Cotton.--The Federal Crop Insurance Act 
     is amended by inserting after section 508A (7 U.S.C. 1508a) 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 508B. STACKED INCOME PROTECTION PLAN FOR PRODUCERS OF 
                   UPLAND COTTON.

       ``(a) Availability.--Beginning not later than the 2014 crop 
     of upland cotton, the Corporation shall make available to 
     producers of upland cotton an additional policy (to be known 
     as the `Stacked Income Protection Plan'), which shall provide 
     coverage consistent with the Group Risk Income Protection 
     Plan (and the associated Harvest Revenue Option Endorsement) 
     offered by the Corporation for the 2011 crop year.
       ``(b) Required Terms.--The Corporation may modify the 
     Stacked Income Protection Plan on a program-wide basis, 
     except that the Stacked Income Protection Plan shall comply 
     with the following requirements:
       ``(1) Provide coverage for revenue loss of not less than 10 
     percent and not more than 30 percent of expected county 
     revenue, specified in increments of 5 percent. The deductible 
     is the minimum percent of revenue loss at

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     which indemnities are triggered under the plan, not to be 
     less than 10 percent of the expected county revenue.
       ``(2) Be offered to producers of upland cotton in all 
     counties with upland cotton production--
       ``(A) at a county-wide level to the fullest extent 
     practicable; or
       ``(B) in counties that lack sufficient data, on the basis 
     of such larger geographical area as the Corporation 
     determines to provide sufficient data for purposes of 
     providing the coverage.
       ``(3) Be purchased in addition to any other individual or 
     area coverage in effect on the producer's acreage or as a 
     stand-alone policy, except that if a producer has an 
     individual or area coverage for the same acreage, the maximum 
     coverage available under the Stacked Income Protection Plan 
     shall not exceed the deductible for the individual or area 
     coverage.
       ``(4) Establish coverage based on--
       ``(A) the expected price established under existing Group 
     Risk Income Protection or area wide policy offered by the 
     Corporation for the applicable county (or area) and crop 
     year; and
       ``(B) an expected county yield that is the higher of--
       ``(i) the expected county yield established for the 
     existing area-wide plans offered by the Corporation for the 
     applicable county (or area) and crop year (or, in geographic 
     areas where area-wide plans are not offered, an expected 
     yield determined in a manner consistent with those of area-
     wide plans); or
       ``(ii) the average of the applicable yield data for the 
     county (or area) for the most recent 5 years, excluding the 
     highest and lowest observations, from the Risk Management 
     Agency or the National Agricultural Statistics Service (or 
     both) or, if sufficient county data is not available, such 
     other data considered appropriate by the Secretary.
       ``(5) Use a multiplier factor to establish maximum 
     protection per acre (referred to as a `protection factor') of 
     not less than the higher of the level established on a 
     program wide basis or 120 percent.
       ``(6) Pay an indemnity based on the amount that the 
     expected county revenue exceeds the actual county revenue, as 
     applied to the individual coverage of the producer. 
     Indemnities under the Stacked Income Protection Plan shall 
     not include or overlap the amount of the deductible selected 
     under paragraph (1).
       ``(7) In all counties for which data are available, 
     establish separate coverage levels for irrigated and non-
     irrigated practices.
       ``(c) Premium.--Notwithstanding section 508(d), the premium 
     for the Stacked Income Protection Plan shall--
       ``(1) be sufficient to cover anticipated losses and a 
     reasonable reserve; and
       ``(2) include an amount for operating and administrative 
     expenses established in accordance with section 508(k)(4)(F).
       ``(d) Payment of Portion of Premium by Corporation.--
     Subject to section 508(e)(4), the amount of premium paid by 
     the Corporation for all qualifying coverage levels of the 
     Stacked Income Protection Plan shall be--
       ``(1) 80 percent of the amount of the premium established 
     under subsection (c) for the coverage level selected; and
       ``(2) the amount determined under subsection (c)(2), 
     subject to section 508(k)(4)(F), for the coverage to cover 
     administrative and operating expenses.
       ``(e) Relation to Other Coverages.--The Stacked Income 
     Protection Plan is in addition to all other coverages 
     available to producers of upland cotton.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 508(k)(4)(F) of the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(k)(4)(F)) is 
     amended by inserting ``or authorized under subsection 
     (c)(4)(C) or section 508B'' after ``of this subparagraph''.

     SEC. 10017. PEANUT REVENUE CROP INSURANCE.

       The Federal Crop Insurance Act is amended by inserting 
     after section 508B, as added by the previous section, the 
     following new section:

     ``SEC. 508C. PEANUT REVENUE CROP INSURANCE.

       ``(a) In General.--Effective beginning with the 2014 crop 
     year, the Risk Management Agency and the Corporation shall 
     make available to producers of peanuts a revenue crop 
     insurance program for peanuts.
       ``(b) Effective Price.--Subject to subsection (c), for 
     purposes of the revenue crop insurance program and the 
     multiperil crop insurance program under this Act, the 
     effective price for peanuts shall be equal to the Rotterdam 
     price index for peanuts, as adjusted to reflect the farmer 
     stock price of peanuts in the United States.
       ``(c) Adjustments.--
       ``(1) In general.--The effective price for peanuts 
     established under subsection (b) may be adjusted by the Risk 
     Management Agency and the Corporation to correct distortions.
       ``(2) Administration.--If an adjustment is made under 
     paragraph (1), the Risk Management Agency and the Corporation 
     shall--
       ``(A) make the adjustment in an open and transparent 
     manner; and
       ``(B) submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House 
     of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, 
     Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that describes 
     the reasons for the adjustment.''.

     SEC. 10018. AUTHORITY TO CORRECT ERRORS.

       Section 515(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1515(c)) is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``The Secretary'' 
     and inserting the following:
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary'';
       (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Beginning with'' 
     and inserting the following:
       ``(2) Frequency.--Beginning with''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) Corrections.--
       ``(A) In general.--In addition to the corrections permitted 
     by the Corporation as of the date of enactment of the Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, the 
     Corporation shall allow an agent or an approved insurance 
     provider, subject to subparagraph (B)--
       ``(i) within a reasonable amount of time following the 
     applicable sales closing date, to correct unintentional 
     errors in information that is provided by a producer for the 
     purpose of obtaining coverage under any policy or plan of 
     insurance made available under this subtitle to ensure that 
     the eligibility information is correct;
       ``(ii) within a reasonable amount of time following--

       ``(I) the acreage reporting date, to correct unintentional 
     errors in factual information that is provided by a producer 
     after the sales closing date to reconcile the information 
     with the information reported by the producer to the Farm 
     Service Agency; or
       ``(II) the date of any subsequent correction of data by the 
     Farm Service Agency made as a result of the verification of 
     information; and

       ``(iii) at any time, to correct unintentional errors that 
     were made by the Farm Service Agency or an agent or approved 
     insurance provider in transmitting the information provided 
     by the producer to the approved insurance provider or the 
     Corporation.
       ``(B) Limitation.--In accordance with the procedures of the 
     Corporation, correction to the information described in 
     clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) may only be made if 
     the corrections do not allow the producer--
       ``(i) to avoid ineligibility requirements for insurance;
       ``(ii) to obtain, enhance, or increase an insurance 
     guarantee or indemnity, or avoid premium owed, if a cause of 
     loss exists or has occurred before any correction has been 
     made; or
       ``(iii) to avoid an obligation or requirement under any 
     Federal or State law.
       ``(C) Exception to late filing sanctions.--Any corrections 
     made pursuant to this paragraph shall not be subject to any 
     late filing sanctions authorized in the reinsurance agreement 
     with the Corporation.''.

     SEC. 10019. IMPLEMENTATION.

       Section 515 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1515) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (j), by striking paragraph (1) and 
     inserting the following new paragraph:
       ``(1) Systems maintenance and upgrades.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall maintain and upgrade 
     the information management systems of the Corporation used in 
     the administration and enforcement of this subtitle.
       ``(B) Requirement.--
       ``(i) In general.--In maintaining and upgrading the 
     systems, the Secretary shall ensure that new hardware and 
     software are compatible with the hardware and software used 
     by other agencies of the Department to maximize data sharing 
     and promote the purposes of this section.
       ``(ii) Acreage report streamlining initiative project.--As 
     soon as practicable, the Secretary shall develop and 
     implement an acreage report streamlining initiative project 
     to allow producers to report acreage and other information 
     directly to the Department.''; and
       (2) in subsection (k), by striking paragraph (1) and 
     inserting the following new paragraph:
       ``(1) Information technology.--
       ``(A) In general.--For purposes of subsection (j)(1), the 
     Corporation may use, from amounts made available from the 
     insurance fund established under section 516(c), not more 
     than--
       ``(i)(I) for fiscal year 2014, $25,000,000; and
       ``(II) for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2018, 
     $10,000,000; or
       ``(ii) if the Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining 
     Initiative (ACRSI) project is substantially completed by 
     September 30, 2015, not more than $15,000,000 for each of the 
     fiscal years 2015 through 2018.
       ``(B) Notification.--The Secretary shall notify the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate of the substantial completion of the Acreage Crop 
     Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) project not later 
     than July 1, 2015.''.

     SEC. 10020. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES.

       (a) Authority To Conduct Research and Development, 
     Priorities.--Section 522(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 1522(c)) is amended--
       (1) in the subsection heading by striking ``Contracting'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
     (A), by striking ``may enter into contracts to carry out 
     research and development to'' and inserting ``may conduct 
     activities or enter into contracts to carry out research and 
     development to maintain or improve existing policies or 
     develop new policies to'';
       (3) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``conduct research 
     and development or'' after ``The Corporation may''; and

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       (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``conducting research 
     and development or'' after ``Before'';
       (4) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``after expert review in 
     accordance with section 505(e)'' after ``approved by the 
     Board''; and
       (5) in paragraph (6), by striking ``a pasture, range, and 
     forage program'' and inserting ``policies that increase 
     participation by producers of underserved agricultural 
     commodities, including sweet sorghum, biomass sorghum, rice, 
     peanuts, sugarcane, alfalfa, pennycress, and specialty 
     crops''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 522(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``(A) Authority.--'' and inserting ``(A) 
     Conducting and contracting for research and development.--'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``conduct research 
     and development and'' after ``the Corporation may use to''; 
     and
       (C) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``conduct research 
     and development and'' after ``for the fiscal year to'';
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``to provide either 
     reimbursement payments or contract payments''; and
       (3) by striking paragraph (4).

     SEC. 10021. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTING 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       Section 522(c) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1522(c)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (17) as paragraph (24); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (16), the following new 
     paragraphs:
       ``(17) Margin coverage for catfish.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation shall offer to enter 
     into a contract with a qualified entity to conduct research 
     and development regarding a policy to insure producers 
     against reduction in the margin between the market value of 
     catfish and selected costs incurred in the production of 
     catfish.
       ``(B) Eligibility.--Eligibility for the policy described in 
     subparagraph (A) shall be limited to freshwater species of 
     catfish that are propagated and reared in controlled or 
     selected environments.
       ``(C) Implementation.--The Board shall review the policy 
     described in subparagraph (B) under subsection 508(h) and 
     approve the policy if the Board finds that the policy--
       ``(i) will likely result in a viable and marketable policy 
     consistent with this subsection;
       ``(ii) would provide crop insurance coverage in a 
     significantly improved form;
       ``(iii) adequately protects the interests of producers; and
       ``(iv) the proposed policy meets other requirements of this 
     subtitle determined appropriate by the Board.
       ``(18) Biomass and sweet sorghum energy crop insurance 
     policies.--
       ``(A) Authority.--The Corporation shall offer to enter into 
     1 or more contracts with qualified entities to carry out 
     research and development regarding--
       ``(i) a policy to insure biomass sorghum that is grown 
     expressly for the purpose of producing a feedstock for 
     renewable biofuel, renewable electricity, or biobased 
     products; and
       ``(ii) a policy to insure sweet sorghum that is grown for a 
     purpose described in clause (i).
       ``(B) Research and development.--Research and development 
     with respect to each of the policies required in subparagraph 
     (A) shall evaluate the effectiveness of risk management tools 
     for the production of biomass sorghum or sweet sorghum, 
     including policies and plans of insurance that--
       ``(i) are based on market prices and yields;
       ``(ii) to the extent that insufficient data exist to 
     develop a policy based on market prices and yields, evaluate 
     the policies and plans of insurance based on the use of 
     weather indices, including excessive or inadequate rainfall, 
     to protect the interest of crop producers; and
       ``(iii) provide protection for production or revenue 
     losses, or both.
       ``(19) Study on swine catastrophic disease program.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation shall contract with a 
     qualified person to conduct a study to determine the 
     feasibility of insuring swine producers for a catastrophic 
     event.
       ``(B) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
     enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report that describes the results of the study 
     conducted under subparagraph (A).
       ``(20) Whole farm diversified risk management insurance 
     plan.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation shall conduct activities 
     or enter into contracts to carry out research and development 
     to develop a whole farm risk management insurance plan, with 
     a liability limitation of $1,250,000, that allows a 
     diversified crop or livestock producer the option to qualify 
     for an indemnity if actual gross farm revenue is below 85 
     percent of the average gross farm revenue or the expected 
     gross farm revenue that can reasonably be expected of the 
     producer, as determined by the Corporation.
       ``(B) Eligible producers.--The Corporation shall permit 
     producers (including direct-to-consumer marketers and 
     producers servicing local and regional and farm identity-
     preserved markets) who produce multiple agricultural 
     commodities, including specialty crops, industrial crops, 
     livestock, and aquaculture products, to participate in the 
     plan in lieu of any other plan under this subtitle.
       ``(C) Diversification.--The Corporation may provide 
     diversification-based additional coverage payment rates, 
     premium discounts, or other enhanced benefits in recognition 
     of the risk management benefits of crop and livestock 
     diversification strategies for producers that grow multiple 
     crops or that may have income from the production of 
     livestock that uses a crop grown on the farm.
       ``(D) Market readiness.--The Corporation may include 
     coverage for the value of any packing, packaging, or any 
     other similar on-farm activity the Corporation determines to 
     be the minimum required in order to remove the commodity from 
     the field.
       ``(E) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
     enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report that describes the results and 
     feasibility of the research and development conducted under 
     this paragraph, including an analysis of potential adverse 
     market distortions.
       ``(21) Study on poultry catastrophic disease program.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation shall contract with a 
     qualified person to conduct a study to determine the 
     feasibility of insuring poultry producers for a catastrophic 
     event.
       ``(B) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
     enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report that describes the results of the study 
     conducted under subparagraph (A).
       ``(22) Poultry business interruption insurance policy.--
       ``(A) Authority.--The Corporation shall offer to enter into 
     a contract or cooperative agreement with a university or 
     other legal entity to carry out research and development 
     regarding a policy to insure the commercial production of 
     poultry against business interruptions caused by integrator 
     bankruptcy.
       ``(B) Research and development.--As part of the research 
     and development conducted pursuant to a contract or 
     cooperative agreement entered into under subparagraph (A), 
     the entity shall--
       ``(i) evaluate the market place for business interruption 
     insurance that is available to poultry growers;
       ``(ii) determine what statutory authority would be 
     necessary to implement a business interruption insurance 
     through the Corporation;
       ``(iii) assess the feasibility of a policy or plan of 
     insurance offered under this subtitle to insure against 
     losses due to the bankruptcy of an business integrator; and
       ``(iv) analyze the costs to the Federal Government of a 
     Federal business interruption insurance program for poultry 
     growers.
       ``(C) Definitions.--In this paragraph, the terms `poultry' 
     and `poultry grower' have the meanings given those terms in 
     section 2(a) of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 
     U.S.C. 182(a)).
       ``(D) Deadline for contract or cooperative agreement.--Not 
     later than six months after the date of the enactment of this 
     paragraph, the Corporation shall enter into the contract or 
     cooperative agreement required by subparagraph (A).
       ``(E) Deadline for completion of research and 
     development.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report that describes the results of the 
     research and development conducted pursuant to the contract 
     or cooperative agreement entered into under subparagraph (A).
       ``(23) Study of food safety insurance.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Corporation shall offer to enter 
     into a contract with 1 or more qualified entities to conduct 
     a study to determine whether offering policies that provide 
     coverage for specialty crops from food safety and 
     contamination issues would benefit agricultural producers.
       ``(B) Subject.--The study described in subparagraph (A) 
     shall evaluate policies and plans of insurance coverage that 
     provide protection for production or revenue impacted by food 
     safety concerns including, at a minimum, government, retail, 
     or national consumer group announcements of a health 
     advisory, removal, or recall related to a contamination 
     concern.
       ``(C) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this paragraph, the Corporation shall submit to 
     the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of 
     the Senate a report that describes the results of the study 
     conducted under subparagraph (A).''.

     SEC. 10022. PROGRAM COMPLIANCE PARTNERSHIPS.

       Paragraph (1) of section 522(d) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(1) Purpose.--The purpose of this subsection is to 
     authorize the Corporation to enter into partnerships with 
     public and private entities for the purpose of either--
       ``(A) increasing the availability of loss mitigation, 
     financial, and other risk management tools for producers, 
     with a priority

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     given to risk management tools for producers of agricultural 
     commodities covered by section 196 of the Agricultural Market 
     Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7333), specialty crops, and 
     underserved agricultural commodities; or
       ``(B) improving analysis tools and technology regarding 
     compliance or identifying and using innovative compliance 
     strategies.''.

     SEC. 10023. PILOT PROGRAMS.

       Section 523(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1523(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, at the sole 
     discretion of the Corporation,'' after ``may''; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (5).

     SEC. 10024. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.

       (a) Eligibility for Department Programs.--Section 508(b) of 
     the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(b)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (7); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (8) through (11) as 
     paragraphs (7) through (10), respectively.
       (b) Exclusions to Assistance for Losses Due to Drought 
     Conditions.--
       (1) In general.--Section 531(d)(3)(A) of the Federal Crop 
     Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1531(d)(3)(A)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``(A) Eligible losses.--'' and all that 
     follows through ``An eligible'' in clause (i) and inserting 
     the following:
       ``(A) Eligible losses.--An eligible'';
       (B) by striking clause (ii); and
       (C) by redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as clauses (i) 
     and (ii), respectively, and indenting appropriately.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 901(d)(3)(A) of the 
     Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2497(d)(3)(A)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``(A) Eligible losses.--'' and all that 
     follows through ``An eligible'' in clause (i) and inserting 
     the following:
       ``(A) Eligible losses.--An eligible'';
       (B) by striking clause (ii); and
       (C) by redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as clauses (i) 
     and (ii), respectively, and indenting appropriately.

     SEC. 10025. ADVANCE PUBLIC NOTICE OF CROP INSURANCE POLICY 
                   AND PLAN CHANGES.

       Section 505(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1505(e)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs 
     (6) and (7); respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph (5):
       ``(5) Advance notice of modification before 
     implementation.--
       ``(A) In general.--Any modification to be made in the terms 
     or conditions of any policy or plan of insurance offered 
     under this subtitle shall not take effect for a crop year 
     unless the Secretary publishes the modification in the 
     Federal Register and on the website of the Corporation and 
     provides for a subsequent period of public comment--
       ``(i) with respect to fall-planted crops, not later than 60 
     days before June 30 during the preceding crop year; and
       ``(ii) with respect to spring-planted crops, not later than 
     60 days before November 30 during the preceding crop year.
       ``(B) Waiver.--The Secretary may waive the application of 
     subparagraph (A) in an emergency situation declared by the 
     Secretary upon notice to Congress of the nature of the 
     emergency and the need for immediate implementation of the 
     policy or plan modification referred to in such 
     subparagraph.''.

                        TITLE XI--MISCELLANEOUS

                         Subtitle A--Livestock

     SEC. 11101. REPEAL OF THE NATIONAL SHEEP INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT 
                   CENTER.

       Effective October 1, 2013, section 375 of the Consolidated 
     Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008j) is repealed.

     SEC. 11102. REPEAL OF CERTAIN REGULATIONS UNDER THE PACKERS 
                   AND STOCKYARDS ACT, 1921.

       (a) Repeal of Certain Regulation Requirement.--Section 
     11006 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 
     (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2120) is repealed.
       (b) Repeal of Certain Existing Regulation.--Subsection (n) 
     of section 201.2 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, is 
     repealed.
       (c) Prohibition on Enforcement of Certain Regulations or 
     Issuance of Similar Regulations.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not--
       (1) enforce subsection (n) of section 201.2 of title 9, 
     Code of Federal Regulations;
       (2) finalize or implement sections 201.2(l), 201.2(t), 
     201.2(u), 201.3(c), 201.210, 201.211, 201.213, and 201.214 of 
     title 9, Code of Federal Regulations, as proposed to be added 
     by the proposed rule entitled ``Implementation of Regulations 
     Required Under Title XI of the Food, Conservation and Energy 
     Act of 2008; Conduct in Violation of the Act'' published by 
     the Department of Agriculture on June 22, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 
     35338); or
       (3) issue regulations or adopt a policy similar to the 
     provisions--
       (A) referred to in paragraph (1) or (2); or
       (B) rescinded by the Secretary pursuant to section 742 of 
     the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
     2013 (Public Law 113-6).

     SEC. 11103. TRICHINAE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM.

       (a) Alternative Certification Process.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall amend the rule made under paragraph (2) of 
     section 11010(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (7 U.S.C. 8304(a)) to implement the voluntary trichinae 
     certification program established under paragraph (1) of such 
     section, to include a requirement to establish an alternative 
     trichinae certification process based on surveillance or 
     other methods consistent with international standards for 
     categorizing compartments as having negligible risk for 
     trichinae.
       (b) Final Regulations.--Not later than one year after the 
     date on which the international standards referred to in 
     subsection (a) are adopted, the Secretary shall finalize the 
     rule amended under such subsection.
       (c) Reauthorization.--Section 10405(d)(1) of the Animal 
     Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8304(d)(1)) is amended in 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B) by striking ``2012'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 11104. NATIONAL AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH PLAN.

       Section 11013(d) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act 
     of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8322(d)) is amended by striking ``2012'' 
     and inserting ``2018''.

     SEC. 11105. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, 
     acting through the Office of the Chief Economist, shall 
     conduct an economic analysis of the proposed rule entitled 
     ``Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Beef, Pork, Lamb, 
     Chicken, Goat Meat, Wild and Farm-raised Fish and Shellfish, 
     Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng 
     and Macadamia Nuts'' published by the Department of 
     Agriculture on March 12, 2013 (76 Fed. Reg. 15645).
       (b) Contents.--The economic analysis described in 
     subsection (a) shall include, with respect to the labeling of 
     beef, pork, and chicken, an analysis of the impact on 
     consumers, producers, and packers in the United States of--
       (1) the implementation of subtitle D of the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638 et seq.); and
       (2) the proposed rule referred to in subsection (a).

     SEC. 11106. NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY NETWORK.

       Subtitle E of title X of the Farm Security and Rural 
     Investment Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after section 
     10409 (7 U.S.C. 8308) the following new section:

     ``SEC. 10409A. NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH LABORATORY NETWORK.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall enter into 
     contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other legal 
     instruments with eligible laboratories for any of the 
     following purposes:
       ``(1) To enhance the capability of the Secretary to detect, 
     and respond in a timely manner to, emerging or existing 
     threats to animal health and to support the protection of 
     public health, the environment, and the agricultural economy 
     of the United States.
       ``(2) To provide the capacity and capability for 
     standardized--
       ``(A) test procedures, reference materials, and equipment;
       ``(B) laboratory biosafety and biosecurity levels;
       ``(C) quality management system requirements;
       ``(D) interconnected electronic reporting and transmission 
     of data; and
       ``(E) evaluation for emergency preparedness.
       ``(3) To coordinate the development, implementation, and 
     enhancement of national veterinary diagnostic laboratory 
     capabilities, with special emphasis on surveillance planning 
     and vulnerability analysis, technology development and 
     validation, training, and outreach.
       ``(b) Eligibility.--An eligible laboratory under this 
     section is a diagnostic laboratory meeting specific criteria 
     developed by the Secretary, in consultation with State animal 
     health officials and State and university veterinary 
     diagnostic laboratories.
       ``(c) Priority.--To the extent practicable and to the 
     extent capacity and specialized expertise may be necessary, 
     the Secretary shall give priority to existing Federal, State, 
     and university facilities.
       ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
     $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.''.

     SEC. 11107. REPEAL OF DUPLICATIVE CATFISH INSPECTION PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Effective on the date of the enactment of 
     the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8701 
     et seq.), section 11016 of such Act (Public Law 110-246; 122 
     Stat. 2130) and the amendments made by such section are 
     repealed.
       (b) Application.--The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
     U.S.C. 1621 et seq.) and the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 
     U.S.C. 601 et seq.) shall be applied and administered as if 
     section 11016 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 2130) of the 
     Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8701 et 
     seq.) and the amendments made by such section had not been 
     enacted.

     SEC. 11108. NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure that the 
     Department of Agriculture continues to administer the 
     diagnostic surveillance program for H5/H7 low pathogenic 
     avian influenza with respect to commercial poultry under 
     section 146.14 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a 
     successor regulation) without amending the regulations in 
     section 147.43 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a 
     successor regulation) with respect to the governance of the 
     General Conference Committee established under such section. 
     The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain--

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       (1) the operations of the General Conference Committee--
       (A) in the physical location at which the Committee was 
     located on the date of the enactment of this Act; and
       (B) with the organizational structure within the Department 
     of Agriculture in effect as of such date; and
       (2) the funding levels for the National Poultry Improvement 
     Plan for Commercial Poultry (established under part 146 of 
     title 9, Code of Federal Regulations or a successor 
     regulation) at the fiscal year 2013 funding levels for the 
     Plan.

     SEC. 11109. REPORT ON BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN TEXAS.

       Not later than December 31, 2014, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of 
     the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report 
     on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in Texas. 
     The report shall cover the period beginning on January 1, 
     1997, and ending on December 31, 2013.

     SEC. 11110. ECONOMIC FRAUD IN WILD AND FARM-RAISED SEAFOOD.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, 
     acting through the Office of the Chief Economist, shall 
     submit to Congress a report on the economic implications for 
     consumers, fishermen, and aquaculturists of fraud and 
     mislabeling in wild and farm-raised seafood.
       (b) Contents.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include, with respect to fraud and mislabeling in wild 
     and farm-raised seafood, an analysis of the impact on 
     consumers and producers in the United States of--
       (1) sales of imported seafood that is misrepresented as 
     domestic product;
       (2) country of origin labeling that allows seafood 
     harvested outside the United States to be labeled as a 
     product of the United States;
       (3) the lack of seafood product traceability through the 
     supply chain; and
       (4) the inadequate use of DNA testing and other technology 
     to address seafood safety and fraud, including traceability.

   Subtitle B--Socially Disadvantaged Producers and Limited Resource 
                               Producers

     SEC. 11201. OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR SOCIALLY 
                   DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS AND VETERAN 
                   FARMERS AND RANCHERS.

       (a) Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged 
     Farmers and Ranchers and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers.--
     Section 2501 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``AND VETERAN 
     FARMERS AND RANCHERS'' after ``RANCHERS'';
       (2) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and veteran farmers or 
     ranchers'' after ``ranchers'';
       (B) in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by inserting ``and veteran 
     farmers or ranchers'' after ``ranchers''; and
       (C) in paragraph (4)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) in the heading of such subparagraph, by striking 
     ``2012'' and inserting ``2018'';
       (II) in clause (i), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (III) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (IV) by adding at the end the following new clause:

       ``(iii) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''; and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
     $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.'';
       (3) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ``or veteran farmers 
     and ranchers'' after ``socially disadvantaged farmers and 
     ranchers'';
       (4) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ``veteran farmers or 
     ranchers and'' before ``members''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting ``veteran farmers or 
     ranchers and'' before ``members''; and
       (5) in subsection (e)(5)(A)--
       (A) in clause (i), by inserting ``and veteran farmers or 
     ranchers'' after ``ranchers''; and
       (B) in clause (ii), by inserting ``and veteran farmers or 
     ranchers'' after ``ranchers''.
       (b) Definition of Veteran Farmer or Rancher.--Section 
     2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 
     of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279(e)) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(7) Veteran farmer or rancher.--The term `veteran farmer 
     or rancher' means a farmer or rancher who served in the 
     active military, naval, or air service, and who was 
     discharged or released from the service under conditions 
     other than dishonorable.''.

     SEC. 11202. OFFICE OF ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH.

       Paragraph (3) of section 226B(f) of the Department of 
     Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6934(f)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection--
       ``(A) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2009 through 2013; and
       ``(B) $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 11203. SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS AND RANCHERS 
                   POLICY RESEARCH CENTER.

       Section 2501 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279), as amended by section 
     11201, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(i) Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 
     Research Center.--The Secretary shall award a grant to a 
     college or university eligible to receive funds under the Act 
     of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321 et seq.), including Tuskegee 
     University, to establish a policy research center to be known 
     as the `Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 
     Research Center' for the purpose of developing policy 
     recommendations for the protection and promotion of the 
     interests of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.''.

     SEC. 11204. RECEIPT FOR SERVICE OR DENIAL OF SERVICE FROM 
                   CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGENCIES.

       Section 2501A(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, 
     and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279-1(e)) is amended by 
     striking ``and, at the time of the request, also requests a 
     receipt''.

               Subtitle C--Other Miscellaneous Provisions

     SEC. 11301. GRANTS TO IMPROVE SUPPLY, STABILITY, SAFETY, AND 
                   TRAINING OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR FORCE.

       Subsection (d) of section 14204 of the Food, Conservation, 
     and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2008q-1) is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section--
       ``(1) such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 
     2008 through 2013; and
       ``(2) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 
     2018.''.

     SEC. 11302. PROGRAM BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY STATUS FOR 
                   PARTICIPANTS IN HIGH PLAINS WATER STUDY.

       Section 2901 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
     2008 (Public Law 110-246; 122 Stat. 1818) is amended by 
     striking ``this Act or an amendment made by this Act'' and 
     inserting ``this Act, an amendment made by this Act, the 
     Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, 
     or an amendment made by the Federal Agriculture Reform and 
     Risk Management Act of 2013''.

     SEC. 11303. OFFICE OF TRIBAL RELATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Title III of the Federal Crop Insurance 
     Reform and Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 
     1994 is amended by adding after section 308 (7 U.S.C. 3125a 
     note; Public Law 103-354) the following new section:

     ``SEC. 309. OFFICE OF TRIBAL RELATIONS.

       ``The Secretary shall establish in the Office of the 
     Secretary an Office of Tribal Relations to advise the 
     Secretary on policies related to Indian tribes.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 296(b) of the Department 
     of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 7014(b)) 
     is amended by inserting after paragraph (8), as added by 
     section 3207, the following new paragraph:
       ``(9) the authority of the Secretary to establish in the 
     Office of the Secretary the Office of Tribal Relations in 
     accordance with section 309; and''.

     SEC. 11304. MILITARY VETERANS AGRICULTURAL LIAISON.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle A of the Department of 
     Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 is amended by 
     inserting after section 218 (7 U.S.C. 6918) the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 219. MILITARY VETERANS AGRICULTURAL LIAISON.

       ``(a) Authorization.--The Secretary shall establish in the 
     Department the position of Military Veterans Agricultural 
     Liaison.
       ``(b) Duties.--The Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison 
     shall--
       ``(1) provide information to returning veterans about, and 
     connect returning veterans with, beginning farmer training 
     and agricultural vocational and rehabilitation programs 
     appropriate to the needs and interests of returning veterans, 
     including assisting veterans in using Federal veterans 
     educational benefits for purposes relating to beginning a 
     farming or ranching career;
       ``(2) provide information to veterans concerning the 
     availability of and eligibility requirements for 
     participation in agricultural programs, with particular 
     emphasis on beginning farmer and rancher programs;
       ``(3) serve as a resource for assisting veteran farmers and 
     ranchers, and potential farmers and ranchers, in applying for 
     participation in agricultural programs; and
       ``(4) advocate on behalf of veterans in interactions with 
     employees of the Department.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 296(b) of the Department 
     of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 7014(b)) 
     is amended by inserting after paragraph (9), as added by 
     section 11303, the following new paragraph:
       ``(10) the authority of the Secretary to establish in the 
     Department the position of Military Veterans Agricultural 
     Liaison in accordance with section 219.''.

     SEC. 11305. PROHIBITION ON KEEPING GSA LEASED CARS OVERNIGHT.

       Effective immediately, a Federal employee of a State office 
     of the Farm Service Agency in the field and non-Federal 
     employees of county and area committees established under 
     section 8(b)(5) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
     Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)(5)) shall keep leased 
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     motor pool vehicles at a location listed on the General 
     Services Administration inventory of owned and leased 
     properties or a location owned or leased by the Department of 
     Agriculture overnight unless the employee assigned the 
     vehicle is on overnight, approved travel status involving per 
     diem.

     SEC. 11306. NONINSURED CROP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       Section 196 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
     Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7333), as amended by section 
     10013(b), is further amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Coverages.--In the case of an eligible crop described 
     in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall operate 
     a noninsured crop disaster assistance program to provide 
     coverages based on individual yields (other than for value-
     loss crops) equivalent to--
       ``(i) catastrophic risk protection available under section 
     508(b) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(b)); 
     or
       ``(ii) additional coverage available under subsections (c) 
     and (h) of section 508 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) that does 
     not exceed 65 percent.
       ``(B) Administration.--The Secretary shall carry out this 
     section through the Farm Service Agency (referred to in this 
     section as the `Agency').''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) in clause (i), by striking ``and'' after the semicolon 
     at the end;
       (II) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii); and
       (III) by inserting after clause (i) the following new 
     clause:

       ``(ii) for which additional coverage under subsections (c) 
     and (h) of section 508 of that Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) is not 
     available; and''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``sweet sorghum, 
     biomass sorghum,'' before ``and industrial crops'';
       (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``The Secretary'' and 
     inserting ``Subject to subsection (l), the Secretary''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(l) Payment Equivalent to Additional Coverage.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall make available to a 
     producer eligible for noninsured assistance under this 
     section a payment equivalent to an indemnity for additional 
     coverage under subsections (c) and (h) of section 508 of the 
     Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) that does not 
     exceed 65 percent of the established yield for the eligible 
     crop on the farm, computed by multiplying--
       ``(A) the quantity that is not greater than 65 percent of 
     the established yield for the crop, as determined by the 
     Secretary, specified in increments of 5 percent;
       ``(B) 100 percent of the average market price for the crop, 
     as determined by the Secretary; and
       ``(C) a payment rate for the type of crop, as determined by 
     the Secretary, that reflects--
       ``(i) in the case of a crop that is produced with a 
     significant and variable harvesting expense, the decreasing 
     cost incurred in the production cycle for the crop that is, 
     as applicable--

       ``(I) harvested;
       ``(II) planted but not harvested; or
       ``(III) prevented from being planted because of drought, 
     flood, or other natural disaster, as determined by the 
     Secretary; or

       ``(ii) in the case of a crop that is produced without a 
     significant and variable harvesting expense, such rate as 
     shall be determined by the Secretary.
       ``(2) Premium.--To be eligible to receive a payment under 
     this subsection, a producer shall pay--
       ``(A) the service fee required by subsection (k); and
       ``(B) a premium for the applicable crop year that is equal 
     to the product obtained by multiplying--
       ``(i) the number of acres devoted to the eligible crop;
       ``(ii) the established yield for the eligible crop, as 
     determined by the Secretary under subsection (e);
       ``(iii) the coverage level elected by the producer;
       ``(iv) the average market price, as determined by the 
     Secretary; and
       ``(v) .0525.
       ``(3) Limited resource, beginning, and socially 
     disadvantaged farmers.--The additional coverage made 
     available under this subsection shall be available to limited 
     resource, beginning, and socially disadvantaged producers, as 
     determined by the Secretary, in exchange for a premium that 
     is 50 percent of the premium determined for a producer under 
     paragraph (2).
       ``(4) Premium payment and application deadline.--
       ``(A) Premium payment.--A producer electing additional 
     coverage under this subsection shall pay the premium amount 
     owed for the additional coverage by September 30 of the crop 
     year for which the additional coverage is purchased.
       ``(B) Application deadline.--The latest date on which 
     additional coverage under this subsection may be elected 
     shall be the application closing date described in subsection 
     (b)(1).
       ``(5) Effective date.--Additional coverage under this 
     subsection shall be available beginning with the 2015 
     crop.''.

     SEC. 11307. ENSURING HIGH STANDARDS FOR AGENCY USE OF 
                   SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.

       (a) Requirement for Final Guidelines.--Not later than 
     January 1, 2014, each Federal agency shall have in effect 
     guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, 
     objectivity, utility, and integrity of scientific information 
     relied upon by such agency.
       (b) Content of Guidelines.--The guidelines described in 
     subsection (a), with respect to a Federal agency, shall 
     ensure that--
       (1) when scientific information is considered by the agency 
     in policy decisions--
       (A) the information is subject to well-established 
     scientific processes, including peer review where 
     appropriate;
       (B) the agency appropriately applies the scientific 
     information to the policy decision;
       (C) except for information that is protected from 
     disclosure by law or administrative practice, the agency 
     makes available to the public the scientific information 
     considered by the agency;
       (D) the agency gives greatest weight to information that is 
     based on experimental, empirical, quantifiable, and 
     reproducible data that is developed in accordance with well-
     established scientific processes; and
       (E) with respect to any proposed rule issued by the agency, 
     such agency follows procedures that include, to the extent 
     feasible and permitted by law, an opportunity for public 
     comment on all relevant scientific findings;
       (2) the agency has procedures in place to make policy 
     decisions only on the basis of the best reasonably obtainable 
     scientific, technical, economic, and other evidence and 
     information concerning the need for, consequences of, and 
     alternatives to the decision; and
       (3) the agency has in place procedures to identify and 
     address instances in which the integrity of scientific 
     information considered by the agency may have been 
     compromised, including instances in which such information 
     may have been the product of a scientific process that was 
     compromised.
       (c) Approval Needed for Policy Decisions To Take Effect.--
     No policy decision issued after January 1, 2014, by an agency 
     subject to this section may take effect prior to such date 
     that the agency has in effect guidelines under subsection (a) 
     that have been approved by the Director of the Office of 
     Science and Technology Policy.
       (d) Policy Decisions Not in Compliance.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), a policy 
     decision of an agency that does not comply with guidelines 
     approved under subsection (c) shall be deemed to be 
     arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and otherwise 
     not in accordance with law.
       (2) Exception.--This subsection shall not apply to policy 
     decisions that are deemed to be necessary because of an 
     imminent threat to health or safety or because of another 
     emergency.
       (e) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
       (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given such 
     term in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code.
       (2) Policy decision.--The term ``policy decision'' means, 
     with respect to an agency, an agency action as defined in 
     section 551(13) of title 5, United States Code, (other than 
     an adjudication, as defined in section 551(7) of such title), 
     and includes--
       (A) the listing, labeling, or other identification of a 
     substance, product, or activity as hazardous or creating risk 
     to human health, safety, or the environment; and
       (B) agency guidance.
       (3) Agency guidance.--The term ``agency guidance'' means an 
     agency statement of general applicability and future effect, 
     other than a regulatory action, that sets forth a policy on a 
     statutory, regulatory, or technical issue or on an 
     interpretation of a statutory or regulatory issue.

     SEC. 11308. EVALUATION REQUIRED FOR PURPOSES OF PROHIBITION 
                   ON CLOSURE OR RELOCATION OF COUNTY OFFICES FOR 
                   THE FARM SERVICE AGENCY.

       (a) Prohibition on Closure or Relocation of Offices With 
     High Workload Volume.--Section 14212 of the Food, 
     Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 6932a) is 
     amended by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(a) Prohibition on Closure or Relocation of Offices With 
     High Workload Volume.--The Secretary of Agriculture may not 
     close or relocate a county or field office of the Farm 
     Service Agency in a State if the Secretary determines, after 
     conducting the evaluation required under subsection 
     (b)(1)(B), that the office has a high workload volume 
     compared with other county offices in the State.''.
       (b) Workload Evaluation.--Section 14212(b)(1) of such Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 6932a(b)(1)) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
     (i) and (ii), respectively, and moving the margins of such 
     clauses two ems to the right;
       (2) by striking ``the Farm Service Agency, to the maximum 
     extent practicable'' and inserting ``the Farm Service 
     Agency--
       ``(A) to the maximum extent practicable'';
       (3) in clause (ii) (as redesignated by paragraph (1))--
       (A) by inserting ``as of the date of the enactment of this 
     Act'' after ``employees''; and
       (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
     and''; and

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       (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) conduct and complete an evaluation of all workload 
     assessments for Farm Service Agency county offices that were 
     open and operational as of January 1, 2012, during the period 
     that begins on a date that is not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of the Federal Agriculture Reform 
     and Risk Management Act of 2013 and ends on the date that is 
     18 months after such date of enactment.''.
       (c) Notice Required.--Section 14212(b)(2) of such Act (7 
     U.S.C. 6932a(b)(2)) is amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     ``After the period referred to in subsection (a)(1), the 
     Secretary of Agriculture may not close a county or field 
     office of the Farm Service Agency unless--'' and inserting 
     ``After carrying out each of the activities required under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, before 
     closing a county or field office of the Farm Service Agency--
     '';
       (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``the Secretary 
     holds'' and inserting ``hold''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``the Secretary 
     notifies'' and inserting ``notify''.
       (d) Conforming Amendment.--Section 14212(b)(1) of such Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 6932a(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``After the 
     period referred to in subsection (a)(1), the Secretary'' and 
     inserting ``The Secretary''.

     SEC. 11309. ACER ACCESS AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Grants Authorized.--The Secretary of Agriculture may 
     make competitive grants to States, tribal governments, and 
     research institutions to support the efforts of such States, 
     tribal governments, and research institutions to promote the 
     domestic maple syrup industry through the following 
     activities:
       (1) Promotion of research and education related to maple 
     syrup production.
       (2) Promotion of natural resource sustainability in the 
     maple syrup industry.
       (3) Market promotion for maple syrup and maple-sap 
     products.
       (4) Encouragement of owners and operators of privately held 
     land containing species of trees in the genus Acer--
       (A) to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities on the 
     land; or
       (B) to voluntarily make the land available, including by 
     lease or other means, for access by the public for maple-
     sugaring activities.
       (b) Application.--In submitting an application for a 
     competitive grant under this section, a State, tribal 
     government, or research institution shall include--
       (1) a description of the activities to be supported using 
     the grant funds;
       (2) a description of the benefits that the State, tribal 
     government, or research institution intends to achieve as a 
     result of engaging in such activities; and
       (3) an estimate of the increase in maple-sugaring 
     activities or maple syrup production that the State, tribal 
     government, or research institution anticipates will occur as 
     a result of engaging in such activities.
       (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed so as to preempt a State or tribal government law, 
     including a State or tribal government liability law.
       (d) Definition of Maple-Sugaring.--In this section, the 
     term ``maple-sugaring'' means the collection of sap from any 
     species of tree in the genus Acer for the purpose of boiling 
     to produce food.
       (e) Regulations.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     promulgate such regulations as are necessary to carry out 
     this section.
       (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for 
     each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.

     SEC. 11310. REGULATORY REVIEW BY THE SECRETARY OF 
                   AGRICULTURE.

       (a) Review of Regulatory Agenda.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall review publications that may give notice 
     that the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing or 
     plans to prepare any guidance, policy, memorandum, 
     regulation, or statement of general applicability and future 
     effect that may have a significant impact on a substantial 
     number of agricultural entities, including--
       (1) any regulatory agenda of the Environmental Protection 
     Agency published pursuant to section 602 of title 5, United 
     States Code;
       (2) any regulatory plan or agenda published by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency or the Office of Management 
     and Budget pursuant to an Executive order, including 
     Executive Order 12866; and
       (3) any other publication issued by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency or the Office of Management and Budget that 
     may reasonably be foreseen to contain notice of plans by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency to prepare any guidance, 
     policy, memorandum, regulation, or statement of general 
     applicability and future effect that may have a significant 
     impact on a substantial number of agricultural entities.
       (b) Information Gathering.--For a publication item reviewed 
     under subsection (a) that the Secretary determines may have a 
     significant impact on a substantial number of agricultural 
     entities, the Secretary shall--
       (1) solicit from the Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency any information the Administrator may 
     provide to facilitate a review of the publication item;
       (2) utilize the Chief Economist of the Department of 
     Agriculture to produce an economic impact statement for the 
     publication item that contains a detailed estimate of 
     potential costs to agricultural entities;
       (3) identify individuals representative of potentially 
     affected agricultural entities for the purpose of obtaining 
     advice and recommendations from such individuals about the 
     potential impacts of the publication item; and
       (4) convene a review panel for analysis of the publication 
     item that includes the Secretary, any full-time Federal 
     employee of the Department of Agriculture appointed to the 
     panel by the Secretary, and any employee of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency or the Office of Information and Regulatory 
     Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget that 
     accepts an invitation from the Secretary to participate in 
     the panel.
       (c) Duties of the Review Panel.--A review panel convened 
     for a publication item under subsection (b)(4) shall--
       (1) review any information or material obtained by the 
     Secretary and prepared in connection with the publication 
     item, including any draft proposed guidance, policy, 
     memorandum, regulation, or statement of general applicability 
     and future effect;
       (2) collect advice and recommendations from agricultural 
     entity representatives identified by the Administrator after 
     consultation with the Secretary;
       (3) compile and analyze such advice and recommendations; 
     and
       (4) make recommendations to the Secretary based on the 
     information gathered by the review panel or provided by 
     agricultural entity representatives.
       (d) Comments.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date the 
     Secretary convenes a review panel pursuant to subsection 
     (b)(4), the Secretary shall submit to the Administrator 
     comments on the planned or proposed guidance, policy, 
     memorandum, regulation, or statement of general applicability 
     and future effect for consideration and inclusion in any 
     related administrative record, including--
       (A) a report by the Secretary on the concerns of 
     agricultural entities;
       (B) the findings of the review panel;
       (C) the findings of the Secretary, including any adopted 
     findings of the review panel; and
       (D) recommendations of the Secretary.
       (2) Publication.--The Secretary shall publish the comments 
     in the Federal Register and make the comments available to 
     the public on the public Internet website of the Department 
     of Agriculture.
       (e) Waivers.--The Secretary may waive initiation of the 
     review panel under subsection (b)(4) as the Secretary 
     determines appropriate.
       (f) Definition of Agricultural Entity.--In this section, 
     the term ``agricultural entity'' means any entity involved in 
     or related to agricultural enterprise, including enterprises 
     that are engaged in the business of production of food and 
     fiber, ranching and raising of livestock, aquaculture, and 
     all other farming and agricultural related industries.

     SEC. 11311. PROHIBITION ON ATTENDING AN ANIMAL FIGHTING 
                   VENTURE OR CAUSING A MINOR TO ATTEND AN ANIMAL 
                   FIGHTING VENTURE.

       Section 26(a)(1) of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 
     2156(a)(1)) is amended by striking the period and inserting 
     ``or to knowingly attend or knowingly cause a minor to attend 
     an animal fighting venture.''.

     SEC. 11312. PROHIBITION AGAINST INTERFERENCE BY STATE AND 
                   LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITH PRODUCTION OR 
                   MANUFACTURE OF ITEMS IN OTHER STATES.

       (a) In General.--Consistent with Article I, section 8, 
     clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States, the 
     government of a State or locality therein shall not impose a 
     standard or condition on the production or manufacture of any 
     agricultural product sold or offered for sale in interstate 
     commerce if--
       (1) such production or manufacture occurs in another State; 
     and
       (2) the standard or condition is in addition to the 
     standards and conditions applicable to such production or 
     manufacture pursuant to--
       (A) Federal law; and
       (B) the laws of the State and locality in which such 
     production or manufacture occurs.
       (b) Agricultural Product Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``agricultural product'' has the meaning given such term 
     in section 207 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
     U.S.C. 1626).

     SEC. 11313. INCREASED PROTECTION FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS 
                   IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Record runoff occurred in the Missouri River basin 
     during 2011 as a result of historic rainfall over portions of 
     the upper basin coupled with heavy plains and mountain 
     snowpack.
       (2) Runoff above Sioux City, Iowa, during the 5-month 
     period of March through July totaled an estimated 48.4 
     million acre-feet (referred to in this section as ``MAF''). 
     This runoff volume was more than 20 percent greater than the 
     design storm for the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System 
     (referred to in this section as the ``System''), which was 
     based on the 1881 runoff of 40.0 MAF during the same 5-month 
     period.
       (3) During the 2011 runoff season, nearly 61 million acre-
     feet of water entered the Missouri River system, far 
     surpassing the previous record of 49 MAF in runoff that was 
     set during the flood of 1997.

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       (4) Given the incredible amount of water entering the 
     System, the summer months were spent working to evacuate as 
     much water from the System as possible, ultimately leading to 
     record high water releases from Gavins Point Dam of 160,000 
     cubic feet per second, a rate that more than doubled the 
     previous release record of 70,000 cubic feet per second set 
     in 1997.
       (5) For nearly four months, those extremely high releases 
     from Gavins Point were maintained, resulting in severe and 
     sustained flooding, with much of western Iowa and eastern 
     Nebraska as well as portions of South Dakota, Kansas, and 
     Missouri inundated by a flooding river three to five feet 
     deep, up to 11 miles wide, and flowing at a rate of 4 to 11 
     miles per hour.
       (6) Thousands of homes and businesses were damaged or 
     destroyed and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage was 
     done to roads and other public infrastructure.
       (7) In addition to the homes, businesses, and 
     infrastructure impacted by the flooding, hundreds of 
     thousands of acres of cropland were affected.
       (8) The Department of Agriculture has estimated that 
     400,000 to 500,000 acres of some of the most productive crop 
     land in the world was flooded in 2011.
       (9) Local Farm Services Agency representatives have 
     estimated that $82,100,000 was lost in 2011 alone due to 
     damaged or lost crops and unplanted acres.
       (10) Not only did the flooding eliminate the 2011 crop, but 
     it is highly unlikely that many farmers will be able to put 
     that land back into production at any point in the near 
     future.
       (11) Producers will have to contend with large piles of 
     sand, silt, and other debris that have been deposited in 
     their fields, meaning the impact of the 2011 flood will be 
     felt in the agricultural communities up and down the Missouri 
     River for many years to come.
       (12) Currently, the amount of storage capacity in the 
     System that is set aside for flood control is based upon the 
     vacated space required to control the 1881 flood, because 
     prior to the 2011 flood, the 1881 flood was seen as the 
     ``high water mark''.
       (13) Given the historic flooding that took place in 2011, 
     it is clear that year's flooding now represents a new ``high 
     water mark'', surpassing the flooding of even the 1881 flood.
       (14) It is important that the flood control related 
     functions of the System management be adjusted to reflect the 
     reality of the 2011 flood as the new ``worst case scenario'' 
     for flooding along the Missouri River.
       (15) System management may begin to be adjusted to account 
     for the 2011 flood through a recalculation of the amount of 
     storage space within the System that is allocated to flood 
     control, using the model not of the 1881 flood, but of the 
     greatest flood experienced--the flood of 2011.
       (16) As a result of the flooding in 2011, many States 
     received disaster declarations from the Department of 
     Agriculture to help farmers and producers recover from the 
     damage done by the high water.
       (17) Though helpful, even the assistance provided by the 
     Department of Agriculture will not provide many in the 
     agriculture community with the resources to put their land 
     back into production any time soon.
       (18) Without the protection that will come from a 
     fundamental change in the System's flood control storage 
     allocations, farmers, producers, and other agricultural 
     interests who may be in a position to restart their 
     operations will find it difficult to justify doing so, given 
     the fact that they will not be protected from similar 
     flooding in the future.
       (b) Updated Management of the Missouri River To Protect 
     Agricultural Interests.--In order to strengthen the 
     agricultural economy, revitalize the rural communities, and 
     conserve the natural resources of the Missouri River basin, 
     the Congress directs that the Secretary of Agriculture take 
     action to promote immediate increased flood protection to 
     farmers, producers, and other agricultural interests in the 
     Missouri River basin by working within its jurisdiction to 
     support efforts--
       (1) to recalculate the amount of space within the System 
     that is allocated to flood control storage using the 2011 
     flood as the model; and
       (2) to increase the Missouri River's channel capacity 
     between the reservoirs and below Gavins Point.

     SEC. 11314. INCREASED PROTECTION FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS 
                   IN THE BLACK DIRT REGION.

       In order to strengthen the agricultural economy, revitalize 
     the rural communities, and conserve the natural resources of 
     the Black Dirt region, the Congress directs that the 
     Secretary of Agriculture take action to promote immediate 
     increased flood protection to farmers, producers, and other 
     agricultural interests around the Wallkill River and in the 
     Black Dirt region.

     SEC. 11315. PROTECTION OF HONEY BEES AND OTHER POLLINATORS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency, shall carry out such 
     activities as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to 
     protect and ensure the long-term viability of populations of 
     honey bees, wild bees, and other beneficial insects of 
     agricultural crops, horticultural plants, wild plants, and 
     other plants, including--
       (1) providing technical expertise relating to proposed 
     agency actions that may threaten pollinator health or 
     jeopardize the long-term viability of populations of 
     pollinators;
       (2) providing formal guidance on national policies relating 
     to--
       (A) permitting managed honey bees to forage on National 
     Forest Service lands where compatible with other natural 
     resource management priorities; and
       (B) planting and maintaining managed honey bee and native 
     pollinator forage on National Forest Service lands where 
     compatible with other natural resource management priorities;
       (3) making use of the best available peer-reviewed science 
     regarding environmental and chemical stressors on pollinator 
     health; and
       (4) regularly monitoring and reporting on the health and 
     population status of managed and native pollinators including 
     bees, birds, bats, and other species.
       (b) Task Force on Bee Health and Commercial Beekeeping.--
       (1) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a task 
     force--
       (A) to coordinate Federal efforts carried out on or after 
     the date of enactment of this Act to address the serious 
     worldwide decline in bee health, especially honey bees and 
     declining native bees; and
       (B) to assess Federal efforts to mitigate pollinator losses 
     and threats to the United States commercial beekeeping 
     industry.
       (2) Agency consultation.--The task force established under 
     this subsection shall seek ongoing consultation from any 
     Federal agency carrying out activities important to bee 
     health and commercial beekeeping, including officials from--
       (A) the Department of Agriculture;
       (B) the Department of the Interior;
       (C) the Environmental Protection Agency;
       (D) the Food and Drug Administration;
       (E) the Department of Commerce; and
       (F) U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
       (3) Stakeholder consultation.--The task force established 
     under this subsection shall consult with beekeeper, 
     conservation, scientist, and agricultural stakeholders.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the task force established 
     under subsection (b) shall submit to Congress a report that--
       (1) summarizes Federal activities carried out pursuant to 
     subsection (f) of section of the Food, Agriculture, 
     Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925) (as 
     redesignated by section 7209) or any other provision of law 
     (including regulations) to address bee decline;
       (2) summarizes international efforts to address the decline 
     of managed honey bees and native pollinators; and
       (3) provides recommendations to Congress regarding how to 
     better coordinate Federal agency efforts to address the 
     decline of managed honey bees and native pollinators.
       (d) Pollinator Research Lab Feasibility Study.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary, acting through the 
     Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, may 
     conduct feasibility studies regarding--
       (A) re-locating existing honey bee and native pollinator 
     research from Federal laboratories to a cooperator-run 
     facility in a location most geographically appropriate for 
     pollinator research; and
       (B) modernizing existing honey bee research laboratories 
     identified by the Agricultural Research Service in the 
     capital investment strategy document dated 2012.
       (2) Consultation.--In conducting the feasibility studies 
     under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall consult with--
       (A) beekeeper, native bee, agricultural, research 
     institution, and bee conservation stakeholders regarding new 
     research laboratory needs under paragraph (1)(A); and
       (B) commercial beekeepers regarding the modernizing of 
     existing honey bee laboratories under paragraph (1)(B).

     SEC. 11316. PRODUCE REPRESENTED AS GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES 
                   WHEN IT IS NOT IN FACT GROWN IN THE UNITED 
                   STATES.

       (a) Technical Assistance to CBP.--The Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall make available to U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection technical assistance related to the identification 
     of produce represented as grown in the United States when it 
     is not in fact grown in the United States.
       (b) Report to Congress.--The Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate a report on produce represented as grown in the United 
     States when it is not in fact grown in the United States.

     SEC. 11317. URBAN AGRICULTURE COORDINATION.

       The Secretary of Agriculture shall coordinate opportunities 
     for urban agriculture, by--
       (1) compiling a list of all programs administered by the 
     Secretary or by the head of any other department, agency, or 
     instrumentality of the United States to which urban farmers 
     can apply for assistance or participation;
       (2) examining and implementing opportunities to adjust the 
     regulations governing the programs to enable urban farmers to 
     participate in more of the programs;
       (3) developing a process for streamlining the process by 
     which urban farmers may apply for assistance from, or for 
     participation in, the programs, including through the use of 
     a single, harmonized application for multiple programs; and

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       (4) such other methods as the Secretary deems appropriate.

     SEC. 11318. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON INCREASED BUSINESS 
                   OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK FARMERS, WOMEN, 
                   MINORITIES, AND SMALL BUSINESSES.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Federal Government 
     should increase the number of contracts the Federal 
     Government awards to black farmers, businesses owned and 
     controlled by women, businesses owned and controlled by 
     minorities, and small business concerns.

     SEC. 11319. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING AGRICULTURE SECURITY 
                   PROGRAMS.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) agricultural nutrients and other agricultural chemicals 
     are essential to ensuring the most efficient production of 
     food, fuel, and fiber;
       (2) these products must be properly stored, handled, 
     transported, and used to ensure that they are not misused or 
     cause harm either accidentally or intentionally;
       (3) the Department of Agriculture is the Federal agency 
     with the staffing and technical expertise to understand the 
     important role these products play in agriculture;
       (4) other Federal departments and agencies have been given 
     lead responsibility to develop and implement security 
     programs affecting the availability, storage, transportation, 
     and use of a variety of chemicals and products used in 
     agriculture;
       (5) it is critical that the Department of Agriculture 
     participates fully in the development of any such security 
     programs to ensure that they do not unnecessarily restrict 
     the availability of the most efficient and beneficial 
     products needed to sustain agriculture in the United States;
       (6) the Secretary of Agriculture should review staffing at 
     the Department to ensure that the agency has senior employees 
     within the Department at the Senior Executive Service level 
     or higher, who have responsibility for coordinating with 
     other Federal, State, and international agencies in the 
     development of regulations, guidance, and procedures for the 
     secure handling of agricultural chemicals; and
       (7) such employees shall--
       (A) work with manufacturers, retailers, and the general 
     farm community to review existing and proposed Federal, 
     State, and international agricultural chemical security 
     regulations;
       (B) coordinate with manufacturers, retailers, transporters, 
     and farmers to evaluate how existing and proposed security 
     regulations, including systems to track the sale, 
     transportation, delivery, and use of agricultural products, 
     can be designed to minimize any adverse impact on 
     agricultural productivity;
       (C) evaluate how existing and proposed security regulations 
     will affect the ability of agricultural producers to have 
     timely access to nutrients, chemicals, and other products 
     that are affordable and best suited to the producers' 
     operations;
       (D) develop recommendations on best practices, policies, 
     and regulatory mechanisms relating to existing and proposed 
     security programs to ensure that there is minimal adverse 
     impact on agricultural productivity; and
       (E) engage with Federal agencies with responsibility for 
     establishing security programs to ensure that they have the 
     information needed to develop procedures for effective 
     security administration and enforcement that minimize any 
     adverse impact on domestic or international agricultural 
     productivity.

     SEC. 11320. REPORT ON WATER SHARING.

       Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State 
     shall submit to Congress a report on--
       (1) efforts by Mexico to meet its treaty deliveries of 
     water to the Rio Grande in accordance with the Treaty between 
     the United States and Mexico Respecting Utilization of waters 
     of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande 
     (done at Washington, February 3, 1944); and
       (2) the benefits to the United States of the Interim 
     International Cooperative Measures in the Colorado River 
     Basin through 2017 and Extension of Minute 318 Cooperative 
     Measures to Address the Continued Effects of the April 2010 
     Earthquake in the Mexicali Valley, Baja, California (done at 
     Coronado, California, November 20, 2012; commonly referred to 
     as ``Minute No. 319'').

     SEC. 11321. SCIENTIFIC AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE FDA FOOD 
                   SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') may not 
     enforce any regulations promulgated under the FDA Food Safety 
     Modernization Act (Public Law 111-353) until the Secretary 
     publishes in the Federal Register the following:
       (1) An analysis of the scientific information used in the 
     final rule to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act 
     with a particular focus on--
       (A) agricultural businesses of a variety of sizes;
       (B) regional differences of agriculture production, 
     processing, marketing, and value added production;
       (C) agricultural businesses that are diverse livestock and 
     produce producers; and
       (D) what, if any, negative impact on the agricultural 
     businesses would be created, or exacerbated, by 
     implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
       (2) An analysis of the economic impact of the proposed 
     final rule to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act 
     with a particular focus on--
       (A) agricultural businesses of a variety of sizes; and
       (B) small and mid-sized value added food processors.
       (3) A plan to systematically evaluate the regulations by 
     surveying farmers and processors and developing an ongoing 
     process to evaluate and address business concerns.
       (b) Annual Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
     shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of 
     the House of Representatives a report on the impact of 
     implementation of the regulations promulgated under the FDA 
     Food Safety Modernization Act.

     SEC. 11322. IMPROVED DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONSIDERATION 
                   OF ECONOMIC IMPACT OF REGULATIONS ON SMALL 
                   BUSINESS.

       The Secretary of Agriculture shall complete procedures 
     consistent with the requirements of subsection (b) of section 
     609 of title 5, United States Code, whenever the Department 
     of Agriculture promulgates any rule which will have a 
     significant economic impact on a substantial number of small 
     entities.

     SEC. 11323. SILVICULTURAL ACTIVITIES.

       Section 402(l) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
     (33 U.S.C. 1342(l)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(3) Silvicultural activities.--
       ``(A) NPDES permit requirements for silvicultural 
     activities.--The Administrator shall not require a permit or 
     otherwise promulgate regulations under this section or 
     directly or indirectly require any State to require a permit 
     under this section for a discharge of stormwater runoff 
     resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture 
     activities: nursery operations, site preparation, 
     reforestation and subsequent cultural treatment, thinning, 
     prescribed burning, pest and fire control, harvesting 
     operations, surface drainage, and road use, construction, and 
     maintenance.
       ``(B) Permits for dredged or fill material.--Nothing in 
     this paragraph exempts a silvicultural activity resulting in 
     the discharge of dredged or fill material from any permitting 
     requirement under section 404.''.

     SEC. 11324. APPLICABILITY OF SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND 
                   COUNTERMEASURE RULE.

       (a) In General.--The Administrator, in implementing the 
     Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with 
     respect to any farm, shall--
       (1) require certification of compliance with such rule by--
       (A) a professional engineer for a farm with--
       (i) an individual tank with an aboveground storage capacity 
     greater than 10,000 gallons;
       (ii) an aggregate aboveground storage capacity greater than 
     or equal to 42,000 gallons; or
       (iii) a history that includes a spill, as determined by the 
     Administrator; or
       (B) the owner or operator of the farm (via self-
     certification) for a farm with--
       (i) an aggregate aboveground storage capacity greater than 
     10,000 gallons but less than 42,000 gallons; and
       (ii) no history of spills, as determined by the 
     Administrator; and
       (2) exempt from all requirements of such rule any farm--
       (A) with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of less 
     than or equal to 10,000 gallons; and
       (B) no history of spills, as determined by the 
     Administrator.
       (b) Calculation of Aggregate Aboveground Storage 
     Capacity.--For the purposes of subsection (a), the aggregate 
     aboveground storage capacity of a farm excludes--
       (1) all containers on separate parcels that have a capacity 
     that is less than 1,320 gallons; and
       (2) all storage containers holding animal feed ingredients 
     approved for use in livestock feed by the Food and Drug 
     Administration.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section, the following 
     definitions apply:
       (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (2) Farm.--The term ``farm'' has the meaning given such 
     term in section 112.2 of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations.
       (3) Gallon.--The term ``gallon'' refers to a United States 
     liquid gallon.
       (4) History of spills.--The term ``history of spills'' has 
     the meaning used to describe the term ``reportable discharge 
     history'' in section 112.7(k)(1) of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (or successor regulations).
       (5) Spill prevention, control, and countermeasure rule.--
     The term ``Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure 
     rule'' means the regulation promulgated by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency under part 112 of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations.

     SEC. 11325. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER INFORMATION DISCLOSURE.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (2) Agency.--The term ``Agency'' means the Environmental 
     Protection Agency.

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       (3) Agricultural operation.--The term ``agricultural 
     operation'' includes any operation where an agricultural 
     commodity crop is raised, including livestock operations.
       (4) Livestock operation.--The term ``livestock operation'' 
     includes any operation involved in the raising or finishing 
     of livestock or poultry.
       (b) Disclosure of Information.--
       (1) Prohibition.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Administrator, any officer or employee of the Agency, or any 
     contractor of the Agency, shall not make public the 
     information of any owner, operator, or employee of an 
     agricultural operation provided to the Agency by a farmer, 
     rancher, or livestock producer or a State agency that has 
     been obtained in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) or any other law, 
     including--
       (A) names;
       (B) telephone numbers;
       (C) email addresses;
       (D) physical addresses;
       (E) Global Positioning System coordinates; or
       (F) other identifying location information.
       (2) Effect.--Nothing in paragraph (1) affects--
       (A) the disclosure of information described in paragraph 
     (1) if--
       (i) the information has been transformed into a statistical 
     or aggregate form at the county level or higher without any 
     information that identifies the agricultural operation or 
     agricultural producer; or
       (ii) the producer consents to the disclosure; or
       (B) the authority of any State agency to collect 
     information on livestock operations.
       (3) Condition of permit or other programs.--The approval of 
     any permit, practice, or program administered by the 
     Administrator shall not be conditioned on the consent of the 
     agricultural producer or livestock producer under paragraph 
     (2)(A)(ii).

     SEC. 11326. REPORT ON NATIONAL OCEAN POLICY.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Executive Order 13547, issued on July 19, 2010, 
     established the national policy for the Stewardship of the 
     Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes and requires--
       (A) Federal implementation of ``ecosystem-based 
     management'' to achieve a ``fundamental shift'' in how the 
     United States manages ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes 
     resources; and
       (B) the establishment of nine new governmental ``Regional 
     Planning Bodies'' and ``Coastal and Marine Spatial Plans'' in 
     every region of the United States.
       (2) Executive Order 13547 created a 54-member National 
     Ocean Council led by the White House Council on Environmental 
     Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy that 
     includes 54 principal and deputy-level representatives from 
     Federal entities, including the Department of Agriculture.
       (3) Executive Order 13547 requires National Ocean Council 
     members, including the Department of Agriculture, to take 
     action to implement the Policy and participate in coastal and 
     marine spatial planning to the maximum extent possible.
       (4) The Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean 
     Policy Task Force that were adopted by Executive Order 13547 
     state that ``effective'' implementation of the National Ocean 
     Policy will ``require clear and easily understood 
     requirements and regulations, where appropriate, that include 
     enforcement as a critical component''.
       (5) Despite repeated Congressional requests, the National 
     Ocean Council, which is charged with overseeing 
     implementation of the policy, has still not provided a 
     complete accounting of Federal activities under the policy 
     and resources expended and allocated in furtherance of 
     implementation of the policy.
       (6) The continued economic and budgetary challenges of the 
     United States underscore the necessity for sound, 
     transparent, and practical Federal policies.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
     Department of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a 
     report detailing--
       (1) all activities engaged in and resources expended in 
     furtherance of Executive Order 13547 since July 19, 2010; and
       (2) any budget requests for fiscal year 2014 for support of 
     implementation of Executive Order 13547.

     SEC. 11327. SUNSETTING OF PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), each fiscal 
     year the Secretary of Agriculture may not carry out any 
     program--
       (1) for which an authorization of appropriations is 
     established or extended under this Act; and
       (2) that is funded by discretionary appropriations (as 
     defined in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and 
     Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c))).
       (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect with 
     respect to a program referred to in such subsection on the 
     date on which the authorization of appropriations under this 
     Act for such program expires.
       (c) Existing Obligations.--Subsection (a) does not affect 
     the ability of the Secretary to carry out responsibilities 
     with regard to loans, grants, or other obligations made or in 
     existence before an applicable effective date under 
     subsection (b).

         Subtitle D--Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery

     SEC. 11401. SHORT TITLE.

       This subtitle may be cited as the ``Chesapeake Bay 
     Accountability and Recovery Act of 2013''.

     SEC. 11402. CHESAPEAKE BAY CROSSCUT BUDGET.

       (a) Crosscut Budget.--The Director, in consultation with 
     the Chesapeake Executive Council, the chief executive of each 
     Chesapeake Bay State, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, 
     shall submit to Congress a financial report containing--
       (1) an interagency crosscut budget that displays--
       (A) the proposed funding for any Federal restoration 
     activity to be carried out in the succeeding fiscal year, 
     including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, 
     for each of the Federal agencies that carry out restoration 
     activities;
       (B) to the extent that information is available, the 
     estimated funding for any State restoration activity to be 
     carried out in the succeeding fiscal year;
       (C) all expenditures for Federal restoration activities 
     from the preceding 2 fiscal years, the current fiscal year, 
     and the succeeding fiscal year; and
       (D) all expenditures, to the extent that information is 
     available, for State restoration activities during the 
     equivalent time period described in subparagraph (C);
       (2) a detailed accounting of all funds received and 
     obligated by all Federal agencies for restoration activities 
     during the current and preceding fiscal years, including the 
     identification of funds which were transferred to a 
     Chesapeake Bay State for restoration activities;
       (3) to the extent that information is available, a detailed 
     accounting from each State of all funds received and 
     obligated from a Federal agency for restoration activities 
     during the current and preceding fiscal years; and
       (4) a description of each of the proposed Federal and State 
     restoration activities to be carried out in the succeeding 
     fiscal year (corresponding to those activities listed in 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1)), including the--
       (A) project description;
       (B) current status of the project;
       (C) Federal or State statutory or regulatory authority, 
     programs, or responsible agencies;
       (D) authorization level for appropriations;
       (E) project timeline, including benchmarks;
       (F) references to project documents;
       (G) descriptions of risks and uncertainties of project 
     implementation;
       (H) adaptive management actions or framework;
       (I) coordinating entities;
       (J) funding history;
       (K) cost sharing; and
       (L) alignment with existing Chesapeake Bay Agreement and 
     Chesapeake Executive Council goals and priorities.
       (b) Minimum Funding Levels.--The Director shall only 
     describe restoration activities in the report required under 
     subsection (a) that--
       (1) for Federal restoration activities, have funding 
     amounts greater than or equal to $100,000; and
       (2) for State restoration activities, have funding amounts 
     greater than or equal to $50,000.
       (c) Deadline.--The Director shall submit to Congress the 
     report required by subsection (a) not later than 30 days 
     after the submission by the President of the President's 
     annual budget to Congress.
       (d) Report.--Copies of the financial report required by 
     subsection (a) shall be submitted to the Committees on 
     Appropriations, Natural Resources, Energy and Commerce, and 
     Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations, 
     Environment and Public Works, and Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation of the Senate.
       (e) Effective Date.--This section shall apply beginning 
     with the first fiscal year after the date of enactment of 
     this Act for which the President submits a budget to 
     Congress.

     SEC. 11403. RESTORATION THROUGH ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation 
     with other Federal and State agencies, and with the 
     participation of stakeholders, shall develop a plan to 
     provide technical and financial assistance to Chesapeake Bay 
     States to employ adaptive management in carrying out 
     restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
       (b) Plan Development.--The plan referred to in subsection 
     (a) shall include--
       (1) specific and measurable objectives to improve water 
     quality, habitat, and fisheries identified by Chesapeake Bay 
     States;
       (2) a process for stakeholder participation;
       (3) monitoring, modeling, experimentation, and other 
     research and evaluation technical assistance requested by 
     Chesapeake Bay States;
       (4) identification of State restoration activities planned 
     by Chesapeake Bay States to attain the State's objectives 
     under paragraph (1);
       (5) identification of Federal restoration activities that 
     could help a Chesapeake Bay State to attain the State's 
     objectives under paragraph (1);

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       (6) recommendations for a process for modification of State 
     and Federal restoration activities that have not attained or 
     will not attain the specific and measurable objectives set 
     forth under paragraph (1); and
       (7) recommendations for a process for integrating and 
     prioritizing State and Federal restoration activities and 
     programs to which adaptive management can be applied.
       (c) Implementation.--In addition to carrying out Federal 
     restoration activities under existing authorities and 
     funding, the Administrator shall implement the plan developed 
     under subsection (a) by providing technical and financial 
     assistance to Chesapeake Bay States using resources available 
     for such purposes that are identified by the Director under 
     section 11402.
       (d) Updates.--The Administrator shall update the plan 
     developed under subsection (a) every 2 years.
       (e) Report to Congress.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the end of a 
     fiscal year, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress an 
     annual report on the implementation of the plan required 
     under this section for such fiscal year.
       (2) Contents.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
     shall contain information about the application of adaptive 
     management to restoration activities and programs, including 
     level changes implemented through the process of adaptive 
     management.
       (3) Effective date.--Paragraph (1) shall apply to the first 
     fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this 
     Act.
       (f) Inclusion of Plan in Annual Action Plan and Annual 
     Progress Report.--The Administrator shall ensure that the 
     Annual Action Plan and Annual Progress Report required by 
     section 205 of Executive Order 13508 includes the adaptive 
     management plan outlined in subsection (a).

     SEC. 11404. INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--There shall be an Independent Evaluator 
     for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 
     who shall review and report on restoration activities and the 
     use of adaptive management in restoration activities, 
     including on such related topics as are suggested by the 
     Chesapeake Executive Council.
       (b) Appointment.--
       (1) In general.--The Independent Evaluator shall be 
     appointed by the Administrator from among nominees submitted 
     by the Chesapeake Executive Council.
       (2) Nominations.--The Chesapeake Executive Council may 
     submit to the Administrator 4 nominees for appointment to any 
     vacancy in the office of the Independent Evaluator.
       (c) Reports.--The Independent Evaluator shall submit a 
     report to the Congress every 2 years in the findings and 
     recommendations of reviews under this section.
       (d) Chesapeake Executive Council.--In this section, the 
     term ``Chesapeake Executive Council'' has the meaning given 
     that term by section 307 of the National Oceanic and 
     Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992 (Public 
     Law 102-567; 15 U.S.C. 1511d).

     SEC. 11405. DEFINITIONS.

       In this subtitle, the following definitions apply:
       (1) Adaptive management.--The term ``adaptive management'' 
     means a type of natural resource management in which project 
     and program decisions are made as part of an ongoing science-
     based process. Adaptive management involves testing, 
     monitoring, and evaluating applied strategies and 
     incorporating new knowledge into programs and restoration 
     activities that are based on scientific findings and the 
     needs of society. Results are used to modify management 
     policy, strategies, practices, programs, and restoration 
     activities.
       (2) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (3) Chesapeake bay state.--The term ``Chesapeake Bay 
     State'' or ``State'' means the States of Maryland, West 
     Virginia, Delaware, and New York, the Commonwealths of 
     Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
       (4) Chesapeake bay watershed.--The term ``Chesapeake Bay 
     watershed'' means the Chesapeake Bay and the geographic area, 
     as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, consisting of 
     36 tributary basins, within the Chesapeake Bay States, 
     through which precipitation drains into the Chesapeake Bay.
       (5) Chief executive.--The term ``chief executive'' means, 
     in the case of a State or Commonwealth, the Governor of each 
     such State or Commonwealth and, in the case of the District 
     of Columbia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
       (6) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
     the Office of Management and Budget.
       (7) State restoration activities.--The term ``State 
     restoration activities'' means any State programs or projects 
     carried out under State authority that directly or indirectly 
     protect, conserve, or restore living resources, habitat, 
     water resources, or water quality in the Chesapeake Bay 
     watershed, including programs or projects that promote 
     responsible land use, stewardship, and community engagement 
     in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Restoration activities may 
     be categorized as follows:
       (A) Physical restoration.
       (B) Planning.
       (C) Feasibility studies.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas) and 
the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson) each will control 30 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2642, the Federal 
Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.
  The bill before us includes 11 of the 12 titles of H.R. 1947 as 
amended on the House floor last month. To recap, we adopted over 60 
amendments in an open process. This bill gives taxpayers nearly $20 
billion in savings from mandatory Federal spending. It's the most 
significant reduction to farm policy in history and further improves 
agricultural programs so that producers have a true safety net that is 
triggered only when they suffer significant losses.
  The bill repeals or consolidates more than 100 programs administered 
by USDA, including direct payments to farmers. The bill also repeals 
outdated and unworkable permanent law and replaces it with the cost-
effective and market-oriented provisions in title I going forward. This 
provides certainty to farmers and ranchers and eliminates the threat of 
government quotas and government price support levels based on 1938 and 
1949 agricultural practices and economic conditions.
  This bill includes multiple regulatory relief provisions, making it 
the largest regulatory relief bill to be voted on this year.
  This process began 4 years ago when then-Chairman Peterson led us 
into the countryside to have eight field hearings across the Nation. We 
followed up with three more sets of hearings, including audits of every 
single policy under the jurisdiction of the House Agriculture 
Committee. The result is the legislation that reduces the Federal 
footprint and makes commonsense reforms to policy.
  It's no secret, my friends, that my preference would have been to 
pass H.R. 1947--the full farm bill--last month, but that didn't happen. 
We are here today with another opportunity. Today is a step towards 
getting a 5-year farm bill on the books this year. We can't lose sight 
of our responsibility to do this work.
  In closing, Mr. Speaker, I would say this: If you're serious about 
reducing billions of dollars in mandatory government spending, then 
vote for the bill. If you're serious about reducing the size and the 
cost of the Federal Government, vote for the bill. If you're serious 
about providing regulatory relief to farmers and small businesses all 
across rural America, then vote for the bill. If you're serious about 
making sure every American has a safe, affordable, reliable food 
supply, then vote for the bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this farm 
bill.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill--and I'm sorry that I 
have to do that because I started, as the chairman said, having 
hearings on this bill April 21 of 2010--and I do it for two reasons. 
First and foremost, I believe the strategy of splitting the farm bill 
is a mistake. It jeopardizes the chances of it ever becoming law. And I 
think that repealing permanent law all but ensures that we will never 
write a farm bill again in this House.
  I'm not alone in my belief that this is a flawed strategy. Last week, 
a broad coalition of 532 agriculture, conservation, rural development, 
finance, forestry, energy, and crop insurance groups expressed their 
opposition to splitting the farm bill and urged House leaders to pass a 
5-year farm bill. When such a large group of organizations--most with 
different, if not conflicting, priorities--can come together and agree 
on something, we should listen to them. Doing the exact opposite of 
what everyone with a stake in this bill urges us to do in my opinion 
does not make sense and is not the way to achieve success.
  I don't see a clear path forward from here. There is no assurance 
from the Republican leadership that passing this bill will allow us to 
begin a conference with the Senate in a timely manner. In fact, the 
Republican leadership has told agriculture groups to support this bill 
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also telling Republican Members, fearful of the wrath of conservative 
groups' opposition, that there will be no conference, or at least not 
without first getting concessions from the Senate--concessions that the 
Senate will never agree to.
  There is a very real chance that we could end up in a situation like 
we have with the Federal budget, where the House majority claim that 
they want something, but instead disregard regular order and demand 
preconditions before appointing conferees, leaving the bill hanging 
with nothing getting done.
  Maybe the chairman has received assurances from his leadership that, 
should this bill pass, that they're going to let this move forward to 
conference and appoint conferees. I have received no assurance to that 
end. And given the majority's past performance, frankly, I don't have a 
lot of confidence that they're going to move in that direction.
  I have repeatedly said that if they only would leave us alone, the 
Agriculture Committee could put together a good bill with good policy, 
and we did in the committee. But last month, the Republican leaders 
interfered by pushing into the farm bill poison pill amendments, 
amendments that the chairman and I both said could bring the bill down. 
And even if the House passes this bill today, I fear the leadership's 
continued interference will doom any prospects of getting a bill that 
the President can sign.
  The other fatal flaw with this bill is the repeal of permanent law 
from 1938 and 1949 and replacing it by making the commodity title in 
this bill permanent. If you want to ensure that Congress never 
considers another farm bill and the farm programs, as written, are 
going to remain forever, then vote for this bill.
  In every farm bill there are some people that like things and some 
people that don't. The beauty of the '38 and '49 laws is that they 
force both groups to work together on a new farm bill. And because 
nobody really wants to go back to the old commodity programs, people 
will get to a point where they don't necessarily like it, but everybody 
can live with it.
  So if you make the new farm safety net programs the new permanent 
law, then what you've got is you've got permanent authorization of food 
stamps, you've got permanent authorization of crop insurance, and then 
you have permanent authorization of the title I programs. So I'll 
guarantee you, what that means is, if you're concerned about 
conservation, fruits and vegetables, research, these other areas, 
there's never going to be a farm bill if we do this.
  Another reason that I'm concerned about this is the Goodlatte 
amendment to the Dairy Security Act that was passed on the floor here. 
I lost that argument--big time. But if I'm proven right in what I said 
about that, and if this bill makes permanent law out of that dairy 
provision, I will guarantee you that this dairy provision that you're 
going to enact will cost more money than what you're going to save in 
this bill here that's being considered on the floor today.
  We had a bipartisan bill out of the committee. We were able to work 
together. We had 13 of the 21 Democrats on the committee support that 
bill. We were doing fine until we got here to the floor and the 
leadership screwed this up.
  We have the votes to do this bill on a bipartisan basis if we just 
take out those amendments that were a poison pill. I'll give you the 
names of the people that will vote for this bill if we do that. You can 
call them up yourself and ask them; you don't have to rely on me. We 
can do that. But no, you've got to make this a partisan bill. You know, 
some people on that side have been trying to make this a partisan bill 
for 4 months, and they finally succeeded.
  I told my caucus something I never thought would happen. You have now 
managed to make me a partisan. And that's a darn hard thing to do, but 
you accomplished it.
  This is a bad bill; it should be defeated. We should go back and do a 
bipartisan bill like we worked in the first place.
  I reserve the balance of my time.


                         Parliamentary Inquiry

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Texas is recognized for 
a parliamentary inquiry.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. On the basis of such an eloquent statement by our 
ranking member, my inquiry is: At this point, could we not, in essence, 
table this bill and begin the process of reconstructing the bill, as 
the ranking member has so eloquently stated, in order to be able to 
feed America's children and not continue the starvation that this farm 
bill will create and promote for years to come?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Any requests for a disposition of this bill 
would have to come from the majority manager.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, if I could continue my parliamentary 
inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman is recognized for a further 
parliamentary inquiry.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Is the bill not flawed, as the ranking member has 
said, for it has left out what has traditionally been a major component 
of the farm bill, which is the supplemental nutrition program, which 
deals with feeding hungry Americans and hungry children?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has not raised a proper 
parliamentary inquiry. That is a matter that's being discussed in 
debate.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. I will go back and return again. Thank you, Mr. 
Speaker.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway), the chairman of the General Farm 
Commodities Subcommittee.
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of this farm bill. The farm 
bill before us was fully debated by this body and subjected to more 
than 100 amendments just a couple of weeks ago. More than 60 of those 
amendments were adopted. This body has had ample opportunity to work 
its will, and now it's time to vote for passage.
  Today, those of us who came to town to cut spending, reduce the 
deficit, reduce the size of government, and make reforms have a real 
opportunity to walk the walk. This farm bill does all of those things.
  This bill is going to save taxpayers $19.3 billion, it's going to 
repeal or consolidate more than 100 programs at USDA, and it's going to 
repeal the direct payment program, something that many of my farmers 
and ranchers back home do not really want to give up.

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  The farm bill also does a couple of other things. It is being 
considered separately on its own merits, as many in this body have 
called for, and it replaces antiquated permanent law so that we don't 
face things, like the dairy cliff, at the end of the year anymore. The 
bill before us reforms not just the politics of the farm bill, but the 
process as well.
  This farm bill has earned our support, I urge my colleagues to vote 
``yes.''
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
minority whip, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).
  Mr. HOYER. I thank the chairman and ranking member.
  Mr. Speaker, the chairman does not want to do this, with all due 
respect. The chairman has said publicly he does not want to do this. 
The chairman has said publicly he wants to do what historically we have 
done: gone forth in a bipartisan way. That is the bill he constructed 
last year, and his colleagues did not bring it to the floor. That's the 
bill he constructed this year, and it was brought to the floor.
  As Mr. Peterson has so eloquently stated, it was turned from a 
bipartisan bill into a partisan bill.
  Why, why, why, do we always have to do that?
  The response to its failure, because 62 of Mr. Lucas' party would not 
join him in the extraordinarily eloquent closing that he gave--not 
speaking to the motion to recommit--but said, look, I understand that 
some of you think this is too much and some of you think it is too 
little, but it's democracy. Yet the chairman's party rejected his bill. 
We reject it as well because you adopted three amendments that you knew 
beforehand were going to turn this into a more partisan bill.
  So what did you do? You left this House and said, we are going to not

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compromise, not try to create a broader coalition, but we are going to 
narrow the coalition, we are going to try to buy off those 62 folks who 
said they really don't like this bill at all anyway and get them to 
say, This is a Republican bill, let's pass it, knowing full well it 
will not pass the Senate, knowing full well that the President won't 
sign it.
  Farmers need our agreement. I support it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman an additional 1 
minute.
  Mr. HOYER. I don't think I have ever opposed a farm bill, not because 
I represent a vast farm district--I don't. But I understand that food 
and fiber is critical for my people, for our Nation, indeed, for much 
of the world.
  So, ladies and gentlemen, let us reject this flawed process, this 
process which abrogates the pledge of 3 days of consideration for 
legislation, last night published, and we are asked to vote on it 
today.
  Why? Because this is a very controversial provision, and they didn't 
want to have the light of day shine too long on this flawed process.
  Let us reject this bill, let us reject a partisan bill, let us speak 
out for the farm community of America, and, yes, those who need 
nutritional help. Let us also speak for job growth in rural America, 
which the bill that the chairman reported out would have helped.
  This bill ought to be rejected, and we ought to do our duty and our 
responsibility in a responsible and effective democratic, bipartisan, 
cooperative way.
  I congratulate the chairman for what he would like to do.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill is a disgraceful abandonment of the most 
vulnerable people in our country.
  The legislation Republicans have chosen to introduce--with just 
hours' notice and in blatant violation of their own stated `three-day' 
policy to read the bill--is missing a major part of any responsible 
farm bill.
  By leaving funding for the supplemental nutrition assistance 
program--or ``SNAP''--out of this bill, they are effectively killing 
that program.
  SNAP is a critical tool in keeping 47.5 million people--including 
many children and seniors--from experiencing hunger and illness.
  It is one of our front-line programs against poverty in America.
  My republican friends know that, even if they pass this bill through 
this House, the United States Senate will not consider a Farm Bill 
without SNAP funding.
  Even conservative Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa has 
said that splitting SNAP from the rest of the Farm Bill ``might fly in 
the House, but I don't think it's going to fly in the Senate.''
  Our Republican friends claim to want fiscally responsible reforms to 
farm programs.
  So it's ironic that their bill actually increases spending and the 
deficit by $1 billion in 2014--and it saves less over ten years than 
the Senate Farm Bill while creating permanent new farm programs.
  The bill before us is just another exercise in house Republicans' 
political messaging game to make it appear that they are moving 
important legislation through Congress while, in reality, they refuse 
to play a constructive role in governing.
  I urge its defeat.
  Instead we ought to consider a farm bill that includes SNAP funding, 
after which we can go to conference with the Senate to achieve a real 
compromise.
  If the Speaker really believes in regular order, which he has called 
for, Republicans should work with Democrats to pass a bipartisan farm 
bill and allow the conference process to move forward.
  He has yet to do so with the budget, and I suspect that the reason we 
are not seeing regular order play out is because Republicans are not 
interested in compromise--only partisan politics.
  Withdraw this bill; defeat this bill; restore regular order.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to one of my prime 
subcommittee chairmen, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King).
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding to 
me and for the work that he has done to pull together this bill over 
these last 2 years.
  There is much that I'm hearing on this floor so far in this debate 
that I do not disagree with. There is much that I do agree with.
  The numbers are this: 62 ``no'' votes on the Republican side and 24 
``yes'' votes on the Democrat side. I said for weeks we should go to 
both sides and pull together 218. I appreciate the effort to do that. I 
appreciate the honor that has been brought to this process by the 
chairman, Mr. Lucas, and others that we work with.
  We are down to this now: we are down to this is our choice for this 
bill which can provide 5 years of predictability for agriculture and an 
uncertain bill that might come before us on nutrition, which I think 
ends up without what I want, which is reform of SNAP.
  I am going to support this bill, I urge my colleagues to do the same, 
and I would like to back this train up, if we could, and do it over. We 
can't, so I'm going to be for moving forward.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am now pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. David Scott).
  Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia. Thank you very much, Chairman Peterson.
  Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House, what we have here is 
not a farm bill. You tell me how in the world we can have a farm bill 
and separate food and nutrition out from it. The American people don't 
get that. When you think of farms and you think of agriculture, do you 
mean to tell me it isn't about food?
  Here we have made this critical, terrible mistake of divorcing, of 
segregating, of separating the most basic essential of farm policy, 
which is to produce the food and the nutrition for the people of 
America. This isn't just about food stamps, although we are here 
because the Republican Party, my friends--and I have many over there--
have been hijacked to turn a bipartisan effort to deal with the 
complexity, the vulgarity, where 38 States in this Nation their primary 
part of their economy is agriculture, is business.
  My members on the Agriculture Committee, we have a broad mandate. We 
should be the most powerful committee up here. We not only deal with 
food, we not only deal with agriculture, we deal with fuel going our 
way up to energy independence. We are dealing with the heavy finance of 
$600 trillion in derivatives. But this makes us look small.
  To bring a bill and call it a farm bill and it has nothing to do with 
food--and it's so hypocritical, my friends. You've seen the news 
reports. The American people have seen the news reports, where we have 
Members who are accepting millions of dollars in subsidies and will be 
voting against poor people who need the food to eat.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I wish to yield 1 minute to the other Mr. 
Scott from Georgia, one of the chairmen of the primary subcommittee on 
the House Agriculture Committee, Mr. Austin Scott.
  Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of 
this bill. While I know that many people who I have worked with, who I 
have a tremendous amount of respect for, oppose the way forward here, I 
rise because it is the only way forward.
  Throughout this entire process, there were many things that we agreed 
on. The agriculture industry needs certainty. Our farmers who produce 
our food and fiber need the ability to plan so that they can produce a 
safe, reliable, and affordable food source for our country.
  I know that many of us who are on the committee would have preferred 
that the last bill pass. I too would have preferred that it pass. As a 
small business owner, I can attest to the importance of having the 
ability to plan. If we are able to get these titles that we agree to, 
these 11 titles that we agree to, passed into law, then our farmers 
will have that ability.
  I appreciate being part of the process. The farms and families in 
this country need the certainty of this agriculture policy.
  I ask that you support this bill.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am now pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Costa).
  Mr. COSTA. I thank the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, the farm bill usually is one of 
the most bipartisan things we do around here, but not today.
  Even though many of my colleagues, unlike myself, were not farm kids, 
I assume that they could tell the horse's head from the horse's rear; 
but they are totally backwards on this one.

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  Last night, we received notice that previously an unreleased farm 
bill was going to be sprung on the floor today. What about regular 
order? This stunt makes a mockery of Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member 
Peterson and the committee's work over the last year and a half.
  Farmers, ranchers, and anyone who believes in government transparency 
must be shaking their heads, saying, There they go again.
  Once again, the majority has chosen to make everything we do around 
here partisan. This is one of the least likely partisan persons you are 
going to talk to. Unlike many of my colleagues on this side of the 
aisle, I supported the farm bill 2 weeks ago when it failed. I 
supported it because I thought we ought to move the process forward. 
This moves us backwards, and it removes permanent law, and I don't 
think we will ever see a farm bill again.
  I cannot support this bill. I urge my colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, once again I turn to one of the outstanding 
subcommittee chairmen who has jurisdiction over Conservation, Energy, 
and Forestry, and yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Thompson).
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, passage of a new farm bill 
is long overdue.
  The House Agriculture Committee has spent 4 years, held dozens of 
hearings and countless hours preparing for this farm bill. Plain and 
simple, the committee-passed bill, which was recently considered by 
this body, made substantial reforms to agriculture programs. It 
eliminated more than 100 programs and reformed outdated, costly, and 
ineffective programs. The committee-passed bill would have saved 
taxpayers over $40 billion, with half of the savings coming out of the 
farm programs.
  The bill before us today repeals the outdated farm programs that we 
don't need and we can't afford. Direct payments, counter-cyclical 
payments, the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program, and the 
Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments (SURE) are all repealed in 
this bill. We get rid of many costly subsidy programs and replace them 
with free market-modeled risk mismanagement.
  For the sake of our Nation's farmers and ranchers, and also for all 
citizens who rely on the safest, most affordable and highest quality 
food, I rise in support of this legislation and strongly encourage my 
colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Minnesota (Mr. Walz).
  Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member.
  I come from a proud agricultural family, I proudly represent a strong 
agricultural district in the heartland in southern Minnesota, I'm a 
proud ranking member on the subcommittee in the House Agriculture 
Committee, and I'm proud to call both the ranking member and the 
chairman my friends.
  I am not proud of what you are seeing here today. The disrespect 
shown to this hallowed ground by hatching this abomination in the 
middle of the night and forcing it here because of extremist elements 
is the reason that the American people think higher of North Korea than 
they do of this body.
  I can tell you, as people listening today, Mr. Speaker, they are 
going to say it is more of the same. They said, he said--Democrats or 
Republicans or whatever--don't listen to me. Listen to this book full 
of people who said this is wrong:
  American Farm Bureau Federation; National Farmers Union; American 
Soybean Association; National Association of Wheat Growers, National 
Milk Producers, National Rural Electric Cooperative, Ducks Unlimited, 
Pheasants Forever, AgriBank, AgStar Financial Services, Izaak Walton 
League, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Renewable Fuels 
Association, First Farm Credit Services, Advanced Biofuels, AgGeorgia, 
AgHeritage, AgriBank, Agriculture Council of Arkansas, Agriculture 
Energy Coalition, AgCarolina, AgCountry, AgFirst, AgStar Financial, 
AgTexas, Alabama Dairy Producers, Alabama Farmers Cooperative, American 
Agriculture Movement, American Association of Crop Insurers, American 
Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, American Bankers 
Association, American Coalition for Ethanol, American Crystal Sugar, 
American Farmland Trust.

  I may need more time. I am on the A's.
  American Fruit and Vegetable Processors, American Forest Foundation, 
American Honey Producers, American Public Works Association, American 
Sugarbeet Growers, American Agriculture Coalition, Arizona Farm Bureau 
Federation, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Arkansas Farmers Union, Association 
of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.
  It goes on and on and on.
  Listen to the public, listen to your constituents, reject the 
extremism. I am one of the 24 who put my money where my money is and 
voted for a bipartisan bill. This is wrong.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. Benishek).

                              {time}  1330

  Mr. BENISHEK. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 2642, the 
farm bill.
  Like many of my colleagues in this body, I am honored to represent a 
district with a deep agricultural heritage. Because I am a doctor by 
trade, not a farmer, it has been important for me to get to know the 
farmers in my district over the last 3 years. As I travel around the 
First District, nearly every producer I meet with stresses the 
importance of passing a long-term farm bill.
  The programs in the farm bill are important to keeping our farmers in 
business with some certainty. I know some will say this bill isn't 
perfect. Some want more reform. Some would like more spending, and some 
would like less. Yet, I urge all of you to strongly consider moving 
H.R. 2642 forward. We have one thing in common: we all need to eat. Our 
country is the breadbasket of the world. Let's keep that in mind and 
remember our farmers who produce our food here today. I urge my 
colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Welch).
  Mr. WELCH. I thank the gentleman.
  This is not a farm bill. This is a leadership-designed train wreck. 
We had a farm bill. It was bipartisan. It saved money. It provided 
farmers with more security. It provided conservation and a way forward. 
Instead, what we have is the result of a failure of the leadership to 
work with their committee chair. They came on this floor, and they 
unraveled intentionally, deliberately and, regrettably, effectively a 
compromise that was reached by Republicans and Democrats who dealt with 
tough issues.
  America needs a farm bill, not something that is designed for 
political consumption and for farm failure.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I and the 
ranking member have remaining in the debate?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 22 minutes 
remaining, and the gentleman from Minnesota has 15 minutes remaining.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Ribble).
  Mr. RIBBLE. I thank the chairman.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the legislation today.
  I'll tell you that I've often told folks back in Wisconsin that 
working in the House of Representatives is sometimes like living in an 
alternate universe. For the last hour and a half here we've been 
debating what is not rather than debating what is. Maybe we should 
debate what is, and that is what is in this bill.
  This bill, for the first time, eliminates direct payments to rich 
farmers. I think that sounds like a pretty good idea. It eliminates it 
by $14 billion. We remove subsidies to people who no longer farm, and I 
think that sounds like a pretty good idea. For Wisconsin, America's 
dairy land, we fix our Nation's dairy policy. That sounds like a pretty 
good idea as well. We fix forestry problems and improve timber harvest. 
We stop the brain drain that has been going on in our national forests. 
It improves the fruit and vegetable production in the Midwest. Finally, 
it minimizes reforms and improves important regulatory problems that 
have put burdens on producers.
  These are all of the really great things that are in the bill, and I 
think

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we ought to focus on what is there rather than on what is not. Let's 
worry about what is there today and worry about what is not tomorrow.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman 
from Oregon (Mr. Schrader).
  Mr. SCHRADER. I thank the gentleman.
  It is with a pretty heavy heart that I am on the floor here today. 
This should have been a high point. I listened to the good chairman and 
even to the Rules Committee chairman about this being the way to get 
the bill to conference. I've heard people say this is the only way to 
get this bill to conference. We had another way, and that got 
sabotaged.
  I guess the point I'd make to this body and to the people at home is 
that some of us are listening to you. The most important thing is for 
us to work together. That's what I hear back home. They don't know 
about the details of all of this policy.
  Colleagues, how a bill gets to conference is as important as getting 
it to conference. Doing it with one party ramrodding it through, 
without listening to half of America, is just wrong. This is anathema 
to what America wants to see happen. We are ceding our authority to the 
Senate and to the President. The Senate will never take this up, and 
the President has said he will veto this bill. Why not go back and work 
together? That was the message of 2 weeks ago. We got it wrong. That's 
the legislative process. It's not pretty. We should have gone back and 
worked together. As you've heard, Democrats are willing to work with 
our Republican colleagues for a good piece of legislation.
  I am proud of the American Farm Bureau, of the National Farmers 
Union, and of others who still oppose this bill because we are not 
working together. This is a travesty, and they recognize it. American 
agriculture is under siege. The world economy, global competition--it's 
gotten scary out there. Now they are under siege from their own 
Congress.
  Colleagues, that is unacceptable to all of us. We can do better. 
America deserves better. I ask my colleagues to research and check 
their hearts, to vote their consciences and to search their moral 
compasses. Let's work together and defeat this particular bill.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis).
  Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Thank you to my colleague from Oklahoma 
for his leadership on this issue because, Mr. Speaker, I rise today in 
support of this farm bill.
  One thing I've learned in my 6 months here in Washington is that the 
farm bill has not been easy. It has been a 3-year saga, but I was proud 
to help produce a strong, bipartisan farm bill out of committee.
  Three weeks ago on this very floor, we had a farm bill that cut $40 
billion, including direct payments. It kept crop insurance as a key 
risk management tool. It made commonsense reforms to a food stamp 
program that helps feed those who need a hand up, but unfortunately, a 
majority of my friends on the other side of the aisle and a minority of 
folks on my side said ``no.''

  I came here to govern, and this bill includes an amendment I authored 
to help family farmers by giving agriculture a seat at the table when 
EPA considers regulations that affect our producers. Today is another 
opportunity to govern and to get to conference so we can iron out our 
differences as reasonable people. If we fail today, I'm not sure we 
will get another chance, and reverting back to 1940s law or getting 
into a perpetual cycle of uncertain 1-year extensions is not an option.
  Some of us are blessed to represent districts with amber waves of 
grain, but even if you don't, everyone is impacted by the farm bill. 
All one needs to do is to go to the rotunda, which is a few steps away 
from here, and look up at the Apotheosis of Washington. It depicts a 
scene that makes this country great, and that is American agriculture. 
This vote is about helping our family farmers. It's about providing 
certainty to the ag economy so that the men and women employed in 
agriculture can survive and thrive and so that our family farmers can 
continue to feed the world.
  Let's move this process forward today by cutting $20 billion and by 
preserving crop insurance as a vital safety net for the many producers 
in central Illinois and in southwestern Illinois who produce the food 
we eat so that our farmers can continue to feed the world. I ask my 
colleagues for their vote on this bill today.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am now pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Fudge).
  Ms. FUDGE. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I've listened to this debate over the last, actually, 
month since I'm a member of the committee of jurisdiction, and I have 
listened to my Christian friends, my religious friends, talk about 
their hearts.
  I want every one of them who goes to the prayer meetings and to all 
of the things that they do here every week to go and see how many times 
``poor'' is mentioned in the Bible and how many times ``hungry'' is 
mentioned in the Bible because, if we are to say today that feeding 
hungry children and seniors and veterans and the disabled is relegated 
to being extraneous, we are not who we say we are.
  It is a sad day for America and this country when we want to separate 
farmers from food and the people they feed. We are going down a path of 
no return, and I urge all who believe they are Christians to vote 
``no'' on this bill.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to note to my colleague that I 
have no additional speakers and that I reserve the rest of my time to 
close.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hinojosa).
  Mr. HINOJOSA. Mr. Speaker, we are here today as a result of a lack of 
leadership of the Republican majority. Instead of passing a bipartisan 
farm bill like the Senate has done, House Republicans have tried to ram 
through a partisan bill that would have attacked our most vulnerable 
children. I'm talking about poor children, senior citizens, and many 
who have lost their jobs.
  When that bill failed, instead of reaching out to Democrats to craft 
a bipartisan bill that could easily pass, like every farm bill has for 
the past 40 years, they resorted to this desperate tactic. By removing 
the reauthorization of the food stamp program from the bill, they are 
doing what they have wanted to do for years--completely gut the 
program--leaving millions of hungry children without anywhere to turn.
  Their heartless action today on the House floor of the Nation's 
Capitol will increase poverty and hurt the weakest among us. Nearly one 
in five children suffers from food insecurity. This bill is an 
embarrassment and should be voted down.
  Mr. LUCAS. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North 
Carolina (Mr. Watt) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend 
my remarks in opposition to this bill because it injures and makes it 
impossible for children in my congressional district to be fed, and it 
makes it impossible for poor veterans to be fed. It disconnects the 
farm policy from nutrition, which has been at play forever and a day in 
this country. I cannot support the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from North Carolina?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota's time will be 
charged.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his point of order.
  Mr. WATT. This is not a proper ruling. It did not constitute debate. 
It was simply a unanimous consent request, and I do not believe this is 
a proper ruling of the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair ruled earlier today, it is not 
in order to embellish a unanimous consent request with debate. When 
such a request extends into debate, the yielding Member is charged.
  In the opinion of the Chair, the request of the gentleman from North 
Carolina contained debate. The point of order is overruled.
  Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is, Shall the decision of the

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Chair stand in the judgment of the House?


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the appeal on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 226, 
nays 189, not voting 19, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 350]

                               YEAS--226

     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Doggett
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schrader
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--189

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duffy
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--19

     Bishop (UT)
     Broun (GA)
     Campbell
     Carney
     Garamendi
     Gingrey (GA)
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Lynch
     McCarthy (NY)
     Negrete McLeod
     Pelosi
     Richmond
     Rogers (MI)
     Schweikert
     Shimkus

                              {time}  1407

  Ms. ESHOO, Messrs. COHEN and RANGEL changed their vote from ``yea'' 
to ``nay.''
  Mrs. LUMMIS, Messrs. DUNCAN of South Carolina, WESTMORELAND, HALL and 
Mrs. BLACKBURN changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                             General Leave

  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may 
have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on 
the bill H.R. 2642.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Oklahoma?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I'd note to my colleague, I have one 
additional 1-minute speaker, and then I'll reserve the rest of my time 
for myself.
  With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Crawford), one of my subcommittee chairmen.
  Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank Chairman Lucas for 
his extraordinary leadership throughout this trying process.
  I'm pleased to say we're one step closer to providing our ag 
producers the certainty that they need to accomplish their goals 
through a 5-year farm bill.
  This bill is a product of our extensive outreach to farmers, 
ranchers, and stakeholders across the country, and reflects the 
critical input we received from our rural constituents in the farm bill 
process that allowed producers to be heard. The Ag Committee held more 
than 40 farm bill hearings in Washington and across the countryside. 
Through this rigorous audit hearing process, we scrutinized every 
dollar authorized in the legislation we're offered today. What's more, 
the bill is the result of an open process that allowed for 
consideration of the ideas of anyone and everyone in the House.
  Ag is the number one industry in my district and the State of 
Arkansas; and according to the University of Arkansas, it accounts for 
over 250,000 direct jobs in my State. But, Mr. Speaker, it is more 
important for everyone to know what's at stake. This legislation may be 
crafted to address the U.S. ag economy, but it's not just important to 
our rural constituents. It's important to everyone. I have always said 
that if you eat, you're involved in agriculture; and I would ask my 
colleagues to think about that. Even if you don't have ag interests or 
production in your district, every single one of our constituents 
depends on it.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from 
Washington (Ms. DelBene).
  Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, I rise with great disappointment today. 
It's a shame that the House has allowed the farm bill to get to this 
point. We should be voting on the bipartisan bill the Agriculture 
Committee passed and I supported, not this bill. This bill has been 
hijacked by divisive politics and is simply not good enough.
  It's not good enough for our farmers because reforms that would have 
protected Washington State's dairy farmers and consumers have been 
stripped out. It is certainly not good enough for the millions of 
working families, seniors, and children who count on nutrition programs 
and have been excluded from this bill. And it's not good enough for 
this country.

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  Our constituents sent us here to work across the aisle to deliver 
results. This bill is certainly not what they had in mind. While I 
appreciate the funding for specialty crops, which I fought hard for, 
and is in this bill, this is the wrong way to conduct agricultural 
policy for the future.
  Our country's farmers and families deserve a farm bill that works for 
everyone. Instead, they've been given this. I am incredibly 
disappointed today, and I urge my colleagues to join me in voting 
``no.''
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Minnesota (Mr. Nolan).
  Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the bill because it 
violates a decades-old principle that has brought rural people and 
urban people together to help protect them from the vagaries of life 
and weather and circumstances. It brought farm producers together to 
help meet the food and nutrition needs of hungry people here in this 
country and all over the world. It is one of the best things we've ever 
done. And this bill violates that fundamental, noble principle of 
bringing people together for a noble cause, feeding hungry people and 
encouraging the production of food and nutrition.
  Mr. Speaker and members of the committee, please vote this bill down.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time is remaining.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 18 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Minnesota has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Gallego).
  Mr. GALLEGO. Mr. Speaker, I spent 20-some years learning the process, 
working my way through the process of the Texas Legislature; and I can 
tell you that this process is worse. And it's worse in the sense that 
so much time and effort went forward by Mr. Lucas and the ranking 
member, Mr. Peterson, to craft a very carefully done bipartisan 
product. It came to the floor, and people who had no intention of 
voting for the bill in the first place were suddenly allowed to amend 
it. And what we have today is a product that has jettisoned the 
nutrition part of that bill.
  And so when we do that, we jettison the women and the children and 
the elderly and the families who depend on that part of the bill. 
Ninety-eight percent of the households who take SNAP in the district 
that I represent are elderly or kids, and they're jettisoned entirely 
in this process.

                              {time}  1415

  This process isn't supposed to work this way. It's supposed to be 
bipartisan. It's supposed to be a product that is carefully crafted by 
the committee chair and the ranking member working together. It's 
unfortunate that it has come to this, and I simply cannot support a 
bill that jettisons our kids and jettisons our elderly.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I'm now pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Maloney).
  Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise, not to 
speak about the food assistance program, others have done that 
eloquently, but as one of 90 new Members of Congress, one of 15 
freshman on the Agriculture Committee, one of 36 Members, bipartisan 
Members, who voted this bill out of committee to bring it to the floor.
  We did so, not because we agreed with everything in it; in fact, many 
of us disagreed very strongly with things in this bill. We did it 
because we respected our chairman and our ranking member, who worked 
across the aisle together for years to get a product that would help 
the country, that would help our farmers, that would help the people I 
represent in the Hudson Valley.
  What we have watched on this floor is the sabotaging and the undoing 
of careful, bipartisan work. And the result, once again, is paralysis.
  Five hundred farm groups are supporting the defeat of this bill. 
Don't tell me it's good for farmers. Everyone who cares about food 
assistance for kids is opposing this bill. Don't tell me it's good for 
food stamps.
  And your own conservative groups, the most conservative groups, are 
opposing this bill as a big-spending bill. Don't tell me it saves the 
taxpayers money.
  We came here to get results. This Congress can do better. Defeat this 
bill, bring it back, and let's work together to get a good result.
  Mr. PETERSON. I'm now pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Enyart).
  Mr. ENYART. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to bad public 
policy. As a member of the Agriculture Committee, I state my strong 
opposition to the leadership's drive to split a comprehensive farm 
bill. It destroys the bipartisan work of the committee. It destroys a 
coalition that has worked for our Nation for generations.
  The Ag Committee did our work. We didn't agree on everything, but we 
achieved a compromise bill that was brought to the floor. I voted to 
keep this process moving and to get a bill signed into law.
  I am stunned that so many in the majority party could not support the 
bill after the draconian nutrition cuts they insisted upon.
  In representing southern Illinois, I represent the two groups that 
need comprehensive legislation the most: our agriculture community and 
the 100,000 citizens out of 700,000 citizens who live in poverty in 
southern Illinois.
  This approach puts both groups in jeopardy. I cannot support that. I 
urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  I urge the House leadership to get serious, to stop playing foolish 
games with our farm economy and with our working poor.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I'm now pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Farr).
  Mr. FARR. Thank you for yielding.
  I'm the ranking member on the Ag Appropriations Committee, and I'm 
very proud that the USDA was founded by Abraham Lincoln.
  This bill essentially destroys agriculture in the United States 
because we grow food to feed people, and the USDA is responsible for 
both sides of that equation. This bill now just turns it into growers.
  My growers are there for the purpose of feeding people, and now we 
knock out all the people that need the food.
  This is ridiculous. This is not agriculture. This is not farming. 
This is destruction. This is divide and conquer.
  When you take away the people that need the food, you take away the 
purpose of agriculture. The best way to give the food back is to defeat 
this bill.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I'm now pleased to yield 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I'm new here, but if there's one thing I've 
learned, this is not what we were sent here to do.
  A Member from the other side, during the rules debate, asked me if 
our side understood that nutrition programs were not in this bill. 
Well, absolutely we understand it.
  The great value of the bipartisan farm bill has been the balance of 
support for our Nation's family farms and the products that their labor 
produces in providing nutrition for those of us of greatest need.
  I've heard this is the only way forward. Time and time again I've 
heard that. Says who?
  I thought we were the Congress of the United States. I urge my 
colleagues to join me in voting ``no'' on this bill.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman 
from Florida (Ms. Brown).
  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to revise and 
extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the Bible says to whom much is 
given, much is required.
  This is a sad day in the House of Representatives. Shame on the 
Republicans. Shame on the House.
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the gentlewoman's words be taken 
down.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend. The 
gentlewoman will be seated. The Clerk will report the words.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Excuse me, Mr. Speaker. Did you rule in my 
favor?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend. The 
gentlewoman will be seated while the Clerk reports the words.

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  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Excuse me? What did I say that was incorrect?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend while the Clerk 
reports the words. The gentlewoman is not recognized at this time.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. I was recognized for a minute. Are you saying 
that I do not have a minute?


                        Parliamentary Inquiries

  Ms. EDWARDS. Parliamentary inquiry, please. Mr. Speaker, a 
parliamentary inquiry, please.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will state her parliamentary 
inquiry.
  Ms. EDWARDS. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  Is it not in order, as we have heard many times on this floor, for a 
Member of the House to simply not mention by name individual Members of 
the House, but to mention categories of Members? That happens all the 
time.
  Mr. Speaker, is it not in order, when there are Members on the other 
side of the aisle who have said ``Obama,'' ``Obamacare,'' ``That Nancy 
Pelosi is a train wreck'' on the floor of this House and their words 
have not been taken down and they have not been seated? Is it not in 
order for the gentlelady to have been recognized and to be able to 
speak on this issue merely saying ``Republicans''? That could be a 
lower case ``republicans.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend. There is 
currently a demand for the words to be taken down pending before the 
body.
  The Clerk will report the words. The gentlewoman from Florida will be 
seated.
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, point of parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Speaker, 
is it in order to appeal your ruling?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will advise the gentleman there 
has been no ruling. There is a pending demand for words to be taken 
down. The Clerk will report the words.

                              {time}  1428

  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my demand.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida may resume. The 
gentlewoman has 42 seconds remaining.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, did you rule in my favor?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The demand has been withdrawn by the 
gentleman from Georgia. There is no longer a demand that the words be 
taken down. Therefore, the gentlewoman from Florida may proceed and has 
42 seconds remaining.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  This is a sad day in the House of Representatives. I want you to know 
that this is the people's House, and to separate the farm bill from the 
elderly, from the children is a shame.
  Mitt Romney was right. You do not care about the 47 percent. Shame on 
you.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this bill. By stripping 
out the nutrition portion of this legislation, the Republican Majority 
is showing their disdain for those people who are struggling to make 
ends meet, and trying to put good nutritious food on the table for 
their children.
  This Republican Leadership is the most partisan in the history of the 
House. By taking bipartisan legislation like the Farm Bill, which helps 
all Americans, they have made it a divisive issue.
  Mitt Romney was right--you don't care about the 47 percent of 
Americans who depend on the government for the basic necessities of 
life--food and shelter.
  The FARRM Bill needs to have all the sections included to genuinely 
affect all aspects of food production. From those who eat to those who 
produce. The family farmer produces the food for our table. The 
recipient of government funding spends all of that funding on food. 
Nothing is saved for later.
  Farm bills represent a delicate balance between America's farm, 
nutrition, conservation, and other priorities, and accordingly require 
strong bipartisan support. It is vital for a broad coalition of 
lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to provide certainty for urban 
and rural America, the environment and our economy in general.
  Splitting the nutrition title from the rest of the bill could result 
in neither farm nor nutrition programs passing.
  I urge the leadership of the House of Representatives to move a 
unified farm bill forward.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their 
remarks to the Chair and not directly to other Members on the floor.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Takano).
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I wish to congratulate my Republican 
colleagues. They really caught us off guard on this one. They have gone 
above and beyond the high jinks that they pulled to get this farm bill 
to the floor. And while they were at it, they willfully ignored the 
nearly 48 million Americans who rely on SNAP and over 500 agriculture 
groups who say that this is bad policy.
  There is a reasonable center here, and I know we can reach a rational 
compromise if we will stay here and work at it. What's the rush to get 
out of town? Let's stay here and get the job done that the American 
people sent us here to do.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, can I inquire as to the time remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota has 2\1/2\ 
minutes remaining.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle 
understand the passion, but I think what we've come to today is the 
ripping apart of our literal hearts around a bill that is going to 
continue to pierce the existence of 46.2 million people living in 
poverty and almost 10 million families. And for my friends from my 
State, it will affect 3.4 percent of children living in poverty, 17 
percent of the elderly, and 21 percent of all adults. Because this is 
about hunger, and hunger is silent.
  We cannot pass this farm bill today because there is no proof, there 
is no documentation, there is no written commitment that we will ever 
get to the SNAP program. And food stamps will be no more. The 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be no more. As I said, 
the only thing we will carry home today will be bragging rights of a 
sound bite: I cut the budget; I threw the children of America under the 
bus.
  We should vote ``no'' on the farm bill and not throw the children 
under the bus.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2642--Federal Agriculture 
Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.
  Food is not an option--it is a right that all people living in this 
nation must have to exist and to prosper. The $20.5 billion cuts in the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as SNAP would 
remove 2 million Americans from this important food assistance program, 
and 210,000 children would lose access to free or reduced priced school 
meals.
  The course of our nation's history led to changes in our economy 
first from agricultural, to industrial and now technological. These 
economic changes impacted the availability and affordability of food. 
Today our nation is still one of the wealthiest in the world, but we 
now have food deserts. A food desert is a place where access to food 
may not be available and certainly access to health sustaining food is 
not available.
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines a food desert as a ``low-
access community,'' where at least 500 people and/or at least 33 
percent of the census tract's population live more than one mile from a 
supermarket or large grocery store. The USDA defines a food desert for 
rural communities as a census tract where the distance to a grocery 
store is more than 10 miles.
  Food deserts exist in rural and urban areas and are spreading as a 
result of fewer farms as well as fewer places to access fresh fruits, 
vegetables, proteins, and other foods as well as a poor economy.
  The result of food deserts are increases in malnutrition and other 
health disparities that impact minority and low-income communities in 
rural and urban areas. Health disparities occur because of a lack of 
access to critical food groups that provide nutrients that it does not 
it does not support normal metabolic functions.
  Poor metabolic function leads to malnutrition that causes breakdown 
in tissue. For example, a lack of protein in a diet leads to disease 
and decay of teeth and bones. Another example of health disparities in 
food deserts are the presence of fast food establishments instead of 
grocery stores. If someone only consumes energy dense foods like fast 
foods this will lead to clogged arteries, which is a precursor for 
arterial disease, a leading cause of heart disease. A person eating a 
constant diet of fast foods are also vulnerable to higher risks of 
insulin resistance which results in diabetes.
  In Harris County, Texas, 149 out of 920 households or 20 percent of 
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have automobiles and live more than one-half mile from a grocery store.
  At the beginning of the third millennium of this nation's existence 
we should know better. Denying a higher quality of life that would 
result from better access to healthier food choices is shortsighted--it 
is also economically unsound and threatens our national security.
  Social stability is threatened when people's basic needs are not 
met--food, clean drinking water and breathable air or the least of the 
requirements for life. Denying access to sufficient amounts of the 
right kinds of food means people will become less productive, more 
prone to disease and will not be able to function as contributing 
members of a society.
  For one in six Americans hunger is real and far too many people 
assume that the problem of hunger is isolated. One in six men, women or 
children you see every day may not know where their next meal is coming 
from or may have missed one or two meals yesterday.
  Hunger is silent--most victims of hunger are ashamed and will not ask 
for help, they work to hide their situation from everyone. Hunger is 
persistent and impacts millions of people who struggle to find enough 
to eat. Food insecurity causes parents to skip meals so that their 
children can eat.
  In Harris County, Texas, 149 out of 920 households or 20 percent of 
residents do not have automobiles and live more than one-half mile from 
a grocery store.
  For one in six Americans hunger is real and far too many people 
assume that the problem of hunger is isolated. One in six men, women or 
children you see every day may not know where their next meal is coming 
from or may have missed one or two meals yesterday.
  In 2009-2010 the Houston, Sugar Land and Baytown area had 27.6 
percent of households with children experiencing food hardship. In 
households without children food hardship was experienced by 16.5. 
Houston, Sugar Land and Baytown rank 22 among the areas surveyed.
  In 2011, According to Feeding America: 46.2 million people were in 
poverty, 9.5 million families were in poverty, 26.5 million of people 
ages 18-64 were in poverty. 16.1 million children under the age of 18 
were in poverty, 3.6 million (9.0 percent) seniors 65 and older were in 
poverty.
  In the State of Texas: 34% of children live in poverty in Texas, 21% 
of adults (19-64) live in poverty in Texas, 17% of elderly live in 
poverty in Texas.
  In my city of Houston Texas the U.S. census reports that over the 
last 12 months 442,881 incomes were below the poverty level.
  In 2011: 50.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, 
33.5 million adults and 16.7 million children, households with children 
reported food insecurity at a significantly higher rate than those 
without children, 20.6 percent compared to 12.2 percent.
  Eighteen percent of households in the state of Texas from 2009 
through 2011 ranked second in the highest rate of food insecurity--only 
the state of Mississippi exceed the ratio of households struggling with 
hunger.
  In the 18th Congressional District an estimated 151,741 families 
lived in poverty.
  There are charitable organizations that many of us contribute to that 
provide food assistance to people in need, but their resources would 
not be able to fill the gap created by a $20.5 billion dollar cut to 
Federal food assistance programs.
  Food banks and pantry's fill an important role by helping the working 
poor, disabled and the poor gain access to food assistance when 
government subsidized food assistance or budgets fall short of basic 
needs. Food pantries also help when an unforeseen circumstance occurs 
and more food is needed for a family to make it until payday or 
government assistance arrives. However, food pantries cannot carry the 
full burden of a communities' need for food on their own.
  During these difficult economic times, people who once gave to food 
pantries may now seek donations from them. Millions of low income 
persons and families receive food assistance through SNAP. This program 
represents the nation's largest program that combats domestic hunger.
  For more than 40 years, SNAP has offered nutrition assistance to 
millions of low income individuals and families. Today, the SNAP 
program serves over 46 million people each month.
  SNAP Statistics: Households with children receive about 75 percent of 
all food stamp benefits, 23 percent of households include a disabled 
person and 18 percent of households include an elderly person, The FSP 
increases household food spending, and the increase is greater than 
what would occur with an equal benefit in cash, every $5 in new food 
stamp benefits generates almost twice as much ($9.20) in total 
community spending.

  The economics of SNAP food it does not support programs benefit 
everyone by preventing new food deserts from developing. The impact of 
SNAP funds coming into local and neighborhood grocery stores is more 
profitable supermarkets. SNAP funds going into local food economies 
also make the cost of food for everyone less expensive and assure a 
variety and abundance of food selections found in grocery stores.
  SNAP is the largest program in the American domestic hunger safety 
net. The Food and Nutrition Service programs it does not supported by 
SNAP work with State agencies, nutrition educators, and neighborhood as 
well as faith-based organizations to assist those eligible for 
nutrition assistance. Food and Nutrition Service programs also work 
with State partners and the retail community to improve program 
administration and work to ensure the program's integrity.
  Yes, more can be done to assure that food distribution from the 
fields to the tables of Americans in most need can be improved. To 
begin the process of improving our nations ability to more efficiently 
and effective in meeting the food needs of citizens must began with 
understanding the problem and acting on facts. I strongly it does not 
support hearings on the subject and encourage all oversight committees 
to consider taking up the matter during this Congress.
  However, we cannot ignore the safety process in place to prevent 
abuse or misuse of the program. The Federal SNAP law provides two basic 
pathways for financial eligibility to the program: (1) meeting federal 
eligibility requirements, or (2) being automatically or 
``categorically'' eligible for SNAP based on being eligible for or 
receiving benefits from other specified low-income assistance programs. 
Categorical eligibility eliminated the requirement that households who 
already met financial eligibility rules in one specified low-income 
program go through another financial eligibility determination in SNAP.
  However, since the 1996 welfare reform law, states have been able to 
expand categorical eligibility beyond its traditional bounds. That law 
created TANF to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children 
(AFDC) program, which was a traditional cash assistance program. TANF 
is a broad-purpose block grant that finances a wide range of social and 
human services.
  TANF gives states flexibility in meeting its goals, resulting in a 
wide variation of benefits and services offered among the states. SNAP 
allows states to convey categorical eligibility based on receipt of a 
TANF ``benefit,'' not just TANF cash welfare. This provides states with 
the ability to convey categorical eligibility based on a wide range of 
benefits and services. TANF benefits other than cash assistance 
typically are available to a broader range of households and at higher 
levels of income than are TANF cash assistance benefits.
  Congress cannot afford to forget that by the year 2050, the world 
population is expected to be 9 billion persons. We cannot build our 
nation's food security on an uncertain future. Domestic food production 
and access to healthy nutritious food is essential to our nation's long 
term national security.
  Until we see the final farm bill, including the amendment adopted by 
the Full House, I cannot offer my it does not support for the 
legislation as it is written.
  The bill is too shortsighted about the realities of hunger in our 
nation--the fact that it proposes to cut $20.5 billion from the SNAP 
program is of great concern. We should work to create certainty for 
farmers who run high risk businesses that are vulnerable to weather 
changes, insects or blight.
  We should be equally concerned about providing long term food 
security for all of our nation's citizens, which include rural, 
suburban and urban dwellers.
  I thank the Agriculture Committee for including the Jackson Lee 
amendment in the en bloc for the bill. I as my colleagues on both sides 
of the isle should have it does not supported the McGovern Amendment to 
prevent the $20.5 billion in cuts to the SNAP program. Food is not an 
option--and people who need help from their government should not be 
treated like they committed a crime.
  I do not support this bill. It removes all authorization to feed our 
nations hungry.
  Mr. PETERSON. I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Thompson) for a unanimous consent request.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to 
revise and extend my remarks in strong opposition to this bill. This 
bill makes millionaire farmers richer. It takes from the poor. It makes 
the poorest Americans suffer. This bill promotes hunger in the richest 
country in the world. We should not be about that. We are a better 
country. We should demonstrate that every day we're on this floor. What 
we're doing today will go down in history as one of the greatest 
misgivings and misguided laws in this country.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Mississippi?

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  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota's time will be 
charged.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order 
that my comments should not be taken from Mr. Peterson's time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair ruled earlier today, it is not 
in order to embellish a unanimous consent request with debate. When 
such a request extends into debate, the yielding Member is charged. In 
the opinion of the Chair, the request of the gentleman from Mississippi 
contained debate. The point of order is overruled.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the 
Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is, Shall the decision of the 
Chair stand in the judgment of the House?


                            Motion to Table

  Mr. LUCAS. I move to lay the appeal on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, 
noes 181, not voting 32, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 351]

                               AYES--221

     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Garamendi
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schrader
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--181

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Hoyer
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pocan
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--32

     Bera (CA)
     Braley (IA)
     Broun (GA)
     Campbell
     Diaz-Balart
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Graves (GA)
     Grijalva
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Langevin
     Lewis
     Markey
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCaul
     McKeon
     Murphy (FL)
     Negrete McLeod
     Pingree (ME)
     Polis
     Rogers (MI)
     Ruiz
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Shimkus
     Smith (WA)
     Stewart
     Van Hollen

                              {time}  1452

  Mr. GUTIERREZ changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. PALAZZO changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 351, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``no.''
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise for an inquiry of my colleague, the 
ranking member.
  Does the gentleman need sufficient time to close?
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Chairman, it would be helpful to me if you could 
yield me 2 minutes. You may not like what I have to say.
  Mr. LUCAS. In the spirit of comity, I yield to my ranking member 2 
minutes for his use.
  Mr. PETERSON. I thank the chairman, and I thank him for his 
leadership through this process.
  America's two largest farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau 
and the National Farmers Union, which don't often agree, both asked us 
to oppose this bill. I will submit their letters for the Record.


                              American Farm Bureau Federation,

                                    Washington, DC, July 11, 2013.
     House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Representatives: The American Farm Bureau Federation 
     is our nation's largest general farm organization, 
     representing more than 6 million member families in all 50 
     states and Puerto Rico. Our members represent the grassroots 
     farmers and ranchers who produce the wide range of food and 
     fiber crops for our customers here and around the world. To 
     achieve this, farmers and ranchers depend on the variety of 
     programs such as risk management, conservation, credit and 
     rural development contained in H.R. 2642 that is scheduled to 
     be voted on by the full House today.
       Last night the House Rules Committee approved the rule for 
     considering H.R. 2642, which also includes separating the 
     nutrition title from the remaining provisions of H.R. 1947, a 
     complete farm bill that was reported out of the House 
     Agriculture Committee by a 36-10 bipartisan vote.
       We are very disappointed in this action. The ``marriage'' 
     between the nutrition and farm communities and our 
     constituents in developing and adopting comprehensive farm 
     legislation has been an effective, balanced arrangement for 
     decades that has worked to ensure all Americans and the 
     nation benefits. In spite of reports to the contrary, this 
     broad food and farm coalition continues to hold strong 
     against partisan politics. In fact, last week, more than 530 
     groups representing the farm, conservation, credit, rural 
     development and forestry industries urged the House to not 
     split the bill. Similar communications were relayed from the 
     nutrition

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     community. Yet today, in spite of the broad-based bipartisan 
     support for keeping the farm bill intact, you will vote on an 
     approach that seeks to affect a divorce of this longstanding 
     partnership. It is frustrating to our members that this broad 
     coalition of support for passage of a complete farm bill 
     appears to have been pushed aside in favor of interests that 
     have no real stake in this farm bill, the economic vitality 
     and jobs agriculture provides or the customers farmers and 
     ranchers serve.
       We are quite concerned that without a workable nutrition 
     title, it will prove to be nearly impossible to adopt a bill 
     that can be successfully conferenced with the Senate's 
     version, approved by both the House and Senate and signed by 
     the President.
       We are also very much opposed to the repeal of permanent 
     law contained in H.R. 2642. This provision received 
     absolutely no discussion in any of the process leading up to 
     the passage of the bill out of either the House or Senate 
     Agriculture Committees. To replace permanent law governing 
     agricultural programs without hearing from so much as a 
     single witness on what that law should be replaced with is 
     not how good policy is developed.
       As recently as last December, the threat of reverting to 
     permanent law was the critical element that forced Congress 
     to pass an extension of the current farm bill when it proved 
     impossible to complete action on the new five-year farm 
     bill--an action that not only provided important safety net 
     programs for this year, it ensured Congress would have time 
     this year to consider comprehensive reforms that contribute 
     billions to deficit reduction.
       We urge you to oppose the rule as well to vote against 
     final passage of this attempt to split the farm bill and end 
     permanent law provisions for agriculture.
           Sincerely,
                                                     Bob Stallman,
     President.
                                  ____

                                                    July 11, 2013.
     House of Representatives,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Members of Congress:  National Farmers Union (NFU), 
     strongly urges you to vote against the rule and final passage 
     of H.R. 2642, a bill that divorces the nutrition title from 
     the rest of the farm bill and repeals permanent law.
       The two largest general farm organizations in the country 
     have spoken out multiple times in opposition to separating 
     nutrition programs from the farm bill. Splitting the bill is 
     a shortsighted strategy that would effectively undermine the 
     long-standing bipartisan coalition of rural and urban members 
     that have traditionally supported passage of a unified bill. 
     We are also very concerned that including a provision that 
     would repeal permanent law did not receive any outside 
     scrutiny or ability to weigh in through hearings. Repealing 
     permanent law would remove the element in the bill which 
     would force Congress to act on a piece of legislation that 
     provides a safety net for farmers, ranchers, the food 
     insecure and protects our nation's natural resources.
       Last week, NFU led a coalition of 531 other organizations 
     in writing a letter calling for the House of Representatives 
     not to split the bill. This broad-based coalition, composed 
     of agriculture, conservation, rural development, finance, 
     forestry, energy and crop insurance companies and 
     organizations is now being undermined by extreme partisan 
     political organizations that do not represent constituents 
     affected by the farm bill.
       Thank you for your consideration of this letter. We urge 
     you to vote against the rule and final passage of H.R. 2642 
     and encourage leadership to bring a unified bill to the floor 
     as soon as possible.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Roger Johnson,
                                                        President.
  Mr. PETERSON. The idea of splitting this bill is a brainchild of the 
conservative groups like Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity and 
Heritage Action. Ironically, now that they have split the bill, they 
don't support it. I will submit their letters and statements in the 
Record.

                             Key Vote Alert


                The House ``Farm-Only'' Bill (HR       )

       The Club for Growth strongly opposes the ``Farm-Only'' bill 
     and urges all House members to oppose it. We believe floor 
     consideration of the bill could happen as early as this week. 
     The vote on final passage will be included in the Club's 2013 
     Congressional Scorecard.
       Breaking up the unholy alliance between agricultural policy 
     and the food stamp program within the traditional farm bill 
     is an excellent decision on behalf of House leadership. 
     However, the whole purpose of splitting up the bill is to 
     enact true reform that reduces the size and scope of 
     government. Sadly, this ``farm-only'' bill does not do that, 
     especially under an anticipated closed rule. It is still 
     loaded down with market-distorting giveaways to special 
     interests with no path established to remove the government's 
     involvement in the agriculture industry.
       Worse, we highly suspect that this whole process is a 
     ``rope-a-dope'' exercise. We think House leadership is 
     splitting up the farm bill only as a means to get to 
     conference with the Senate where a bicameral backroom deal 
     will reassemble the commodity and food stamp titles, leaving 
     us back where we started. Unless our suspicions are proven 
     unwarranted, we will continue to oppose this bill.
       Our Congressional Scorecard for the 113th Congress provides 
     a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member 
     of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and 
     will be distributed to our members and to the public.
                                  ____


                     ``NO'' on Permanent Farm Bill

                            (July 11, 2013)

       Today, the House will vote on the Federal Agriculture 
     Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (H.R. 2642). Although 
     the bill does not contain the $750 billion in food stamp 
     spending like the previous FARRM Act, it does nothing to make 
     ``meaningful reforms'' to America's farm policy. Even worse, 
     the bill would make permanent farm policies--like the sugar 
     program--that harm consumers and taxpayers alike.
       While many realize the bill would repeal the 1938 and 1949 
     permanent farm law, few realize it would also create new 
     permanent law--the commodities title in H.R. 2642 would 
     become permanent. As a result, lawmakers would not have a 
     built in check, in the form of a reauthorization, in the 
     years ahead.
       Instead, market-distorting programs would continue 
     indefinitely, like the government-imposed tariffs on sugar 
     imports and quotas on domestic sugar production, which cause 
     Americans to pay two to four times higher prices for sugar 
     than consumers in other countries.
       The new, untested and expensive crop insurance provisions 
     would become permanent, undermining the effectiveness of the 
     Foxx Amendment, which would have capped the costs of these 
     new programs at 110 percent of the Congressional Budget 
     Office's estimates until the year 2020.
       And as Heritage Action explained during the initial debate:
       The ``shallow loss'' program would protect farmers from 
     virtually all risk. Taxpayers are on the hook to cover even 
     small risks for farmers, eliminating competitive challenges 
     that drive innovation. Finally, the bill includes a reference 
     price program that would designate certain standard prices 
     for commodities; if actual prices are different, taxpayers 
     make up for the difference. The Congressional Budget Office 
     estimate for the Senate's Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) 
     program--the counterpart to the House's Revenue Loss Coverage 
     (RLC)--is based on farmers' record high incomes. If prices 
     decline toward historical levels, taxpayers will be on the 
     hook.
       Finally, farmers are currently carrying far less debt 
     compared to their very strong assets. Net farm income is 
     expected to reach ``a remarkable $128.2 billion this year--
     the highest level since 1973,'' making the aforementioned 
     farm programs all but insanity. The ``farm'' bill means more 
     expenses for taxpayers and higher costs for consumers. It 
     means more unnecessary government dependence for wealthy 
     farmers and food stamp recipients.
       The reason Congress should end the unholy alliance that has 
     dominated the food stamp and farm bill for decades is to 
     allow an open and substantive debate on the issues. By doing 
     so, the House could show its conservative values. As top-
     ranking House Republicans acknowledged last night in the 
     Rules Committee, this is nothing more than a mechanism to get 
     to a conference committee with the Senate.
       Heritage Action opposes H.R. 2642 and will include it as a 
     key vote on our legislative scorecard.
                                  ____

                                                     July 9, 2013.

 Open Letter to Speaker Boehner: Ensure Open Process on ``Farm-Only'' 
                               Farm Bill!

       Dear Speaker Boehner, On behalf of the millions of members 
     and supporters of the undersigned organizations, we write to 
     commend you for separating the agriculture and nutrition 
     portions of the farm bill and for moving to repeal archaic 
     language that reverts back to 1949 law in the absence of 
     Congressional action. However, we are deeply concerned by 
     reports that agriculture legislation will move in the coming 
     days under a closed rule that will prevent any amendments 
     from being heard.
       The purpose of splitting the agriculture and nutrition 
     pieces was to change the political dynamics that conspire to 
     prevent true reform. If the House pushes through agriculture-
     only language taken directly from the combined bill that 
     failed on the floor last month without amendment, it will not 
     only fail to champ those dynamics, it will actively preserve 
     them.
       In doing so, the Republican-controlled House would be 
     advancing an agriculture bill that is substantially worse on 
     policy grounds than the legislation produced by the Democrat-
     controlled Senate. For example, the House language includes 
     no means-testing whatsoever for crop insurance while the 
     Senate reduced subsidies for those with incomes over 
     $750,000. In addition, the so-called ``shallow loss'' 
     programs in the House bill are poorly structured and likely 
     to cost dramatically more than official estimates.
       We urge you to live up to your commitments to robust debate 
     by ensuring that any agriculture or nutrition bill is 
     considered in an open process. A closed rule on farm 
     legislation would run counter to those commitments and 
     produce bad policy.
           Sincerely,
         Andrew Moylan, R Street Institute; Phil Kerpen, American 
           Commitment; Al

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           Cardenas, American Conservative Union; James Valvo, 
           Americans for Prosperity; Grover Norquist, Americans 
           for Tax Reform; John Tate, Campaign for Liberty; Jeff 
           Mazzella, Center for Individual Freedom; Chris Chocola, 
           Club for Growth; Iain Murray, Competitive Enterprise 
           Institute; Rob Sisson, ConservAmerica; Mattie Duppler, 
           Cost of Government Center.
         Tom Schatz, Council for Citizens Against Government 
           Waste; Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks; Michael A. Needham, 
           Heritage Action for America; Baylen J. Linnekin, Keep 
           Food Legal; Colin Hanna, Let Freedom Ring; Duane Parde, 
           National Taxpayers Union; William L. Walton, 
           Rappahannock Ventures; Ryan Alexander, Taxpayers for 
           Common Sense; David Williams, Taxpayers Protection 
           Alliance; Becky Norton Dunlop, Former Secretary of 
           Natural Resources, Virginia.
                                  ____



                                                     R Street,

                                    Washington, DC, July 12, 2013.

   An Open Letter to the House of Representatives: Farm Bill Is Bad 
                         Process, Worse Policy

       Dear Representative, On behalf of the R Street Institute, I 
     write today to urge your opposition to H.R. 2642, the Federal 
     Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM Act). 
     Better known as the ``Farm Bill,'' this flawed and expensive 
     legislation comes before the chamber after being separated 
     from the nutrition assistance provisions. However, rather 
     than utilizing this clean slate as an opportunity to secure 
     long-overdue reforms to farm subsidies, this bill is being 
     shielded from any amendment that could trim its cost or 
     improve its operation.
       As a free market think tank that seeks lower costs for 
     taxpayers, more accountability, and fewer incentives to 
     damage the environment, R Street is appalled by this 
     legislation and the process by which it is being advanced. 
     This legislation's purported agriculture savings amount to $1 
     billion less than those found in the Senate's farm programs. 
     They amount to $18 billion less than proposed in the Ryan 
     budget which passed with the nearly unanimous support of 221 
     Republicans. They even fall short of the agriculture subsidy 
     reductions included in President Obama's budget request by 
     $25 billion. Furthermore, $7 of every $10 in claimed savings 
     occurs after a new farm bill will presumably have passed.
       In addition, the bill contains enormous structural 
     problems. Its expanded crop insurance program includes no 
     limits or caps whatsoever, allowing wealthy agribusinesses to 
     rake in billions in subsidies. The ``reference prices'' for 
     commodity crops are set at near-record highs, thus ensuring 
     that even modest drops from current peaks will trigger huge 
     payments. Common sense provisions like conservation 
     compliance are not attached to crop insurance to prevent 
     taxpayers from subsidizing farming on risky or sensitive 
     lands. Distortionary subsidies and restrictions for both 
     sugar and dairy products remain. All of this in a package 
     that effectively makes its expensive commodity title into 
     permanent law.
       The House should be allowed to debate and modify these 
     provisions, but the rushed process has shut off any such 
     possibility. The result of this bad process is that the 
     chamber has before it a bloated bill that is unworthy of the 
     conservative principles that we share with House leaders. We 
     urge all Members to oppose H.R. 2642, the FARRM Act, and 
     instead work to craft a credible reform package that heeds 
     the bipartisan consensus to trim agriculture subsidies once 
     and for all.
           Sincerely,

                                                Andrew Moylan,

                               Senior Fellow and Outreach Director
     R Street Institute.
                                  ____



                                     Taxpayers for Commonsense

                                    Washington, DC, July 11, 2013.

Oppose AG-only Farm Bill: Changes Make Subsidies Permanent; Spends More 
                            Than Senate Bill

       Dear Representative: Taxpayers for Common Sense urges you 
     to oppose H.R. 2642, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk 
     Management Act of 2013 or FARRM, and H. Res. 295, the rule 
     providing for its debate. Not only does this bill save less 
     money than comparable sections in the Democrat-controlled 
     Senate-passed bill but it also seeks to lock in record 
     commodity prices and farm income as the new business as usual 
     farm policy. While the bill repeals permanent law, the new 
     version strips out the 2018 sunset provisions contained in 
     the previous version making the subsidy ridden 2013 bill 
     permanent law. While we support splitting the Farm Bill up, 
     leadership aides and agriculture centric lawmakers have made 
     it clear that passing this bill is a step to get to 
     conference and re-combine the agriculture and nutrition 
     titles.
       We have found significant changes that were made to this 
     legislation, however lawmakers were allowed less than 12 
     hours to review changes made to the Farm Bill that was voted 
     down in the House less than a month ago. Any and all attempts 
     to amend or debate reforms to this $196 billion legislation 
     were shot down. To deny amendments and reforms would make 
     bifurcation virtually meaningless. Both the agriculture and 
     nutrition ``bills'' must be open to robust debate to allow 
     reforms to be considered.
       With a $16.8 trillion national debt, our country simply 
     cannot afford to continue sending checks to agribusinesses 
     regardless of the state of the farm economy, crop prices, or 
     whether or not producers even need or want government 
     subsidies. H.R. 2642 would spend $1 billion more than 
     comparable sections in the Senate-passed bill, increase FY14 
     spending by $1.34 billion above the current baseline. and 
     only save $3.9 billion over the life of the actual bill 
     (FY14-18) with the rest ($9 billion) occurring after this 
     farm bill expires in FY18. In addition, it would spend 
     drastically more than either the comparable portions of the 
     President's FY14 budget request or Rep. Paul Ryan's FY14 
     budget (which called for $38 billion and $31 billion in 
     savings, respectively). A Congressional Budget Office score 
     hasn't even been posted yet.
       Compared to the bill being voted on today, a summary of 
     changes made to the bill that failed 195-234 less than a 
     month ago include the following:
       No nutrition assistance. While we urged lawmakers to debate 
     the farm bill on its own merits and break the Ag-Urban unholy 
     alliance that logrolled over attempts to reform both 
     programs, there is no indication that a nutrition-only bill 
     will ever receive a vote on the House floor. Therefore, this 
     cynical procedural move is simply a green light to get to 
     conference with the Senate. As Rep. Roe (R-TN) recently said, 
     ``We'll take the farm bill and the food stamp bill and 
     separate those two. Vote both of those and send them to the 
     Senate. And then it'll come back as one bill in a conference 
     and we'll hopefully get something.''
       Repeal permanent law but replace It with the 2013 farm bill 
     law: Instead of reverting to outdated allotments and quotas, 
     now farm policy will revert to 2013 farm bill law. This will 
     ensure profitable agribusinesses receive unlimited crop 
     insurance subsidies, higher government-set target prices, 
     profit margin guarantees for dairy, market distorting sugar 
     subsidies, and new income guarantee entitlements that lock in 
     record farm income for perpetuity.
       This agriculture-only farm bill is the opposite of reform. 
     It would also:
       Exclude all common sense steps toward right-sizing the 
     federally subsidized crop insurance program--which cost 
     taxpayers an estimated record $14 billion in FY12--and 
     actually increase spending by $9 billion. No means testing to 
     exclude millionaire businessmen, no limit on subsidies, zero 
     cuts to insurance company delivery subsidies, no transparency 
     on who is benefiting from taxpayer spending, and no future 
     opportunity for taxpayers to save money by renegotiating crop 
     insurance industry subsidies.
       Continue direct payments for cotton for two additional 
     years.
       Create an array of new special interest carve-outs for 
     pennycress, biomass sorghum, peanuts, catfish, among others
       Again, we encourage you to oppose H.R. 2642 and H. Res. 
     295, the agriculture-only farm bill and the rule governing 
     its debate. We urge you to go back to the drawing board and 
     devise a more fiscally responsible solution that saves at 
     least $100 billion and enacts a more cost-effective, 
     accountable, transparent, and responsive farm safety net.
           Sincerely,
                                                   Ryan Alexander,
                                                        President.
  Mr. PETERSON. You know, I spent 4 years working on dairy policy, and 
I lost a vote on the floor here on that dairy policy. That was not an 
easy thing for me to swallow. In spite of that, I was going to vote for 
the bill, and I did vote for the bill. What I don't get is that you 
guys over there have people that have put amendments on this bill, that 
were successful in amending this bill, and then they vote against it. I 
don't get how we're going to get a bill done in this place when you've 
got that kind of a situation going on.
  I'll say this: We're willing, in spite of everything that's happened, 
to try to work this out somehow or another through this process. I'm 
not sure how it's going to work, I'm not sure if you've got the votes, 
where we're going to end up. But we have stood ready to work with you. 
I think you know that, Mr. Chairman. I believe we had the votes to get 
this done if we would have just taken that Southerland amendment out, 
but it didn't happen.
  So let's finish this up and move ahead. You know, I had the first 
hearing on this when I was chairman on April 21, 2010, and I am sick 
and tired of working on this bill. So let's get this thing over with.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is reminded to address the 
remarks to the Chair and not to other Members of the body.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 16 minutes 
remaining.
  Mr. LUCAS. I yield myself such time as I may consume.

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  Mr. Speaker, colleagues, I stand before you again to discuss a farm 
bill. It has not been that many days ago since we did this very thing. 
On that particular day, it was my hope that the bill put forth on the 
floor--after 100 amendments, approximately, in committee, after 100 
amendments essentially being filed and mostly considered on the floor 
of the House--that we would have a product we could all support. But on 
that day, a sufficient number of my friends from both sides of the 
aisle, from different political perspectives, united together to say 
no.
  Now, I chair the committee of primary jurisdiction on this. I'm a 
member of the majority. My good friend was my coauthor on the bill. But 
I take responsibility. That was my chin that got bopped, and maybe it 
needed it. But I take that responsibility.
  But I am a practical guy. I sat down and I had conversations with as 
many of you as possible and reached out to everyone I could possibly 
reach out to, and I came to the realization that I had to think outside 
the box. Because, after all, what's the most important responsibility 
here? To get our work done in a dignified, orderly fashion, to consider 
the opinions of everyone--yes, protect the right of the political 
minority, whoever that may be, in whichever session of Congress that 
may be--but still, for the majority of the body to decide the actions 
of this House. And yes, on that day, the majority of you decided no 
action was the response.
  So now I come back asking you again to consider a bill. Eleven of the 
12 titles we debated and discussed and rumbled and argued and cheered 
about 2 weeks ago, 11 of those titles. Yes, some of you saw it in 
committee; yes, the rest of you saw it on the floor.
  Now, there is one change, and that is going from 1938, 1949 permanent 
law over to making whatever the ultimate product of this farm bill 
process this year is the permanent law.

                              {time}  1500

  Let me say to you, think about what the '38 and '49 law is all about. 
Franklin Roosevelt was President in 1938; Harry Truman was President in 
1949. That's been a long time ago. The principles of the bill entail 
supply and management, allotments, quotas, production history 
limitations, prices based on parity from 1910 to 1913. Wasn't Taft 
President back then? It is not workable language.
  I know many of you said, that's the hammer with which we force things 
to happen. Well, the hammer hasn't worked very well in the last 2 
years, has it? It is time to move past that old paradigm, to craft 
good, agricultural policy for rural America for the consumers out there 
and make it the permanent law. And, yes, we can pass the new farm bill 
in 5 years if we want or sooner, but everything will be up to debate, 
discussion, and voting.
  Now, what about title IX that was in the previous bill that's not in 
the bill today dealing with nutrition? It became quite clear to me not 
many days ago that that was the most complicated part of the process. 
It was an area where while the committee had by majority vote agreed to 
make very fundamental changes saving to the tune of $20.5 billion in 
mandatory spending, it became quite clear to me that a number of my 
friends in all sincerity felt it was far too draconian, far too 
extreme; and I accept that.
  By the same token, I had a substantial number of my colleagues who 
said, oh, my goodness, why couldn't you do more, we demand more; and I 
couldn't reconcile those two perspectives in this comprehensive bill in 
this traditional way.
  So what's the alternative? I ask you today to vote for a farm bill 
farm bill. What an amazing concept. All of you who represent farmers 
and ranches, the men and women who raise the food and fiber, who get 
things done in this country, when you go talk to them, they say, why 
didn't we do that all along.
  But the nutrition title, let me give you my personal pledge. The 
committee will work in as bipartisan a fashion as I hope we have 
traditionally always have to craft language.
  My only problem is, having dealt with this issue already, I can't 
guarantee you what the product will look like coming out of committee 
or coming across the floor. I can't guarantee that.
  But I can assure you that in the committee it will be a fair and open 
process. I can assure you that you will be able to state your will on 
this floor.
  Hopefully, if 218 of us can agree on a nutrition title, then the two 
bills can hopefully be wedded, matched--a conference is the more 
appropriate phrase to say--with the work of our friends over in the 
Senate and we will ultimately have a product. I just can't give you the 
kind of guarantees you need because I have to have 218 of you agree on 
anything. But I can give you my commitment to work in that direction.
  I know there are some very grave concerns. What if we don't succeed 
in passing a nutrition title? What if the Senate says that is your 
fault, United States House?
  I would remind you that SNAP's programs are an appropriated 
entitlement. That means the issues can be addressed in the 
appropriations process. That has occurred before. No one ever went 
without a benefit that they qualified for.
  But I would also say to all my friends who care so intensely from 
every perspective about this bill, that doesn't guarantee you that you 
will get what you want, any of you. It just means that if we are not 
able to address nutrition through the regular authorizing process, our 
friends on the Appropriations Committee, the Ag Subcommittee of 
Appropriations, in particular, now become the front-line discussion. 
But once again, the House will work its will through the committee 
process and across the floor.
  If you see a common thread here, it is that I have amazing amounts of 
faith in you. In spite of the challenges that outside groups from all 
political perspectives present, in spite of the diversity of opinion 
within elected leadership on both sides of the aisle--I know you are 
fond of me because of the way you've been treating me, all of you, 
lately--but in spite of those actions, my friends, and because you have 
a responsibility to your constituents as Members and to our fellow 
citizens in the country as a whole, I respect what you think.
  I would simply conclude by saying, in the situation we are in right 
now, this I believe very sincerely is the most appropriate way to pass 
a bill that entails 20 percent of traditional farm bill spending. I 
commit to you that we will work on that second piece as hard and as 
diligently as we can. But please, after all the good faith and 
discussions in the spirit of comity, civility, and the nature of making 
this place work, I ask you to pass the farm bill farm bill so I can 
begin to work on the nutrition part of the farm bill next.
  Mr. Speaker, how much time do I have remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 8 minutes remaining.
  Mr. LUCAS. I love all of you. I yield back whatever time I have to 
show it.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 295, the previous question is ordered on 
the bill.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
  Ms. ESTY. I am opposed to the bill in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

         Ms. Esty moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 2642, to the 
     Committee on Agriculture with instructions to report the same 
     back to the House forthwith with the following amendment:
       At the end of title XI, add the following new subtitle:
                        Subtitle E--Food Safety

     SEC. 11501. PROTECTING SAFE FOOD FOR AMERICAN CONSUMERS.

       (a) Meat Products.--Section 20 of the Federal Meat 
     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 620) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(h) The Secretary shall annually conduct an on-site audit 
     of the food regulatory system of each country that is 
     eligible to export carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or 
     meat food products to the United States.''.
       (b) Poultry Products.--Section 17 of the Poultry Products 
     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C.

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     466) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(e) The Secretary shall annually conduct an on-site audit 
     of the food regulatory system of each country that is 
     eligible to export poultry or parts or products of poultry to 
     the United States.''.
       (c) Egg Products.--Section 17 of the Egg Products 
     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1046) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new subsection:
       ``(e) The Secretary shall annually conduct an on-site audit 
     of the food regulatory system of each country that is 
     eligible to export eggs or egg products to the United 
     States.''.
       (d) Funding Transfer Authority for Food Safety 
     Emergencies.--If the Secretary of Agriculture determines that 
     there is a food safety emergency, the Secretary of 
     Agriculture may transfer funds from any program, project, or 
     activity of the Department of Agriculture to the Food Safety 
     and Inspection Service to respond to such food safety 
     emergency.

  Ms. ESTY (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
to dispense with the reading.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill which 
will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, it 
will simply and immediately be amended.
  The farm bill traditionally has been a risk-management tool for our 
country. It has reduced risk from price and weather disruptions or 
disasters for producers like dairy farmers in my district.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, can I reserve a point of order?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's reservation is not timely.
  The gentlewoman from Connecticut is recognized.
  Ms. ESTY. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  It has reduced risk for all consumers through ensuring the plentiful, 
wholesome, safe, and affordable food supply, with the backstop for SNAP 
benefits for the most needy--for those who cannot afford to hire 
lobbyists.
  Like some of our colleagues have inquired earlier, I too thought that 
SNAP's exclusion was so incredibly glaring that it had to be a drafting 
error. After all, how can we ignore the 16 million American children--
including 34,000 in my district--lacking basic food security?
  Unfortunately, today, we are breaking that risk-management tool into 
pieces and, as a result, the risk for far too many will rise. The 
increased risk will fall most heavily on consumers.
  For many children, disabled, and elderly--who comprise almost 60 
percent of SNAP beneficiaries--and for working families receiving SNAP 
benefits, their risk of food insecurity will rise.
  Additionally, as more people look for more sources and varieties of 
food, we are importing record amounts of food from around the world.
  Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more food safety outbreaks that 
are linked to an enormous variety of foods from sources worldwide. One 
needs to look no further than the current and ongoing Hepatitis A 
outbreak that has been linked to imported pomegranate seeds. Over 140 
people have been sickened by this outbreak in eight States, including 
Wisconsin, Nevada, and California. And we are seeing recently the 
largest U.S.-owned meat company being bought by a Chinese company.
  With industry ownership moving into the hands of foreign companies, 
how can we ensure food safety in the United States? As a mom, I know 
how critically important food safety is for our children's long-term 
health. Mothers in every one of our districts are watching our actions 
and hoping that we will help keep their children safe, whether at 
school or at home.
  Congress must do all it can to ensure that the food being imported is 
as safe as the food produced in our country by hardworking Americans. 
The Federal Government has a vital role in ensuring that our food 
supply is safe. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service recently 
announced that it has reduced the number of on-site audits that it 
conducts in foreign countries to ensure that their food safety systems 
meet our standards. These used to be conducted annually, and now 
they've been reduced to only once every 3 years.
  At a time when food imports are increasing, FSIS is doing less to 
ensure that exporting countries are keeping food safe. We have a 
responsibility to correct this trend and this motion to recommit would 
do just that.
  My final amendment addresses two food safety issues:
  First, it directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct annual, on-
site audits of the food safety systems of countries that export meat, 
poultry, and egg products to the United States.
  Second, it authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to move funds from 
other programs within USDA to the Food Safety and Inspection Service in 
order to better respond to food safety emergencies.
  I wish I could have circulated this final amendment to my colleagues 
to read and review ahead of time, but unfortunately we received the 
600-page bill last night.
  I urge my colleagues to support increased food safety and support 
this final amendment to the farm bill.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LUCAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LUCAS. What can I say, my friends. We've covered a lot of ground, 
we discussed a lot of things, we pumped a lot of adrenaline, we focused 
on a lot of issues. I would simply say to you, today is towards a 
conclusion and because I'm so very fond of all of you, I simply ask you 
to reject this motion to recommit, pass the bill, and go home to your 
families.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, due to a family funeral, I was unable to 
vote on today's ``FARRM Bill'' legislation. However, I want the record 
to show my strong opposition to the bill that was passed by the House.
  Despite the fact the welfare portion of the bill, in the form of 
SNAP, was separated; the bill that made its way to the Floor was rife 
with a permanent entitlement system in the form of farm policy.
  If this bill becomes law, there will be no incentive for our friends 
in the agriculture community to pass another farm bill for the next 30 
years because Washington, in one fell swoop, pegged prices at all time 
highs.
  Further, under this bill, shallow-loss programs and wholly uncapped 
crop insurance have become a permanent backstop.
  We had an opportunity to shrink government and chose instead to 
continue down a path of unending subsides and market distortions.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the House 
Republican revised farm bill.
  The bill before us should not be referred to as a farm bill. Farm 
bills have traditionally tried to address challenges facing all of 
American agriculture including nutrition and hunger issues.
  This legislation removes the Nutrition title from the farm bill, 
which includes the programs that help improve nutrition and fight 
hunger. Consequently, the bill before us is nothing more than an 
attempt by House Republicans to undermine the safety net provided to 
low-income Americans struggling to put food on their table.
  It is unconscionable that Republican leadership has removed the 
Nutrition title from the farm bill and are using food as a political 
tool.
  Despite what economists have been reporting, our economy is still in 
a recession for a significant number of Americans and we still have a 
poverty crisis in this country.
  In 2011, there were 46.2 million people in poverty. 16.1 million 
children are living in poverty. Children under the age of 18 have the 
highest poverty rate in the United States.
  More than 3.6 million seniors are living in poverty. Women over the 
age of 85 have the second highest poverty rate in the country.
  Families and individuals living in poverty often rely on the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help put food on 
the table.
  By removing SNAP from the farm bill, millions of Americans including 
many children and seniors will go hungry. This should not happen in the 
richest country on the planet.
  While SNAP is the largest portion of the Nutrition title, there are 
other programs in the Nutrition title that are vital in combating 
hunger that will essentially cease to exist as a result of House 
Republicans.
  I want to mention one of those programs, the Seniors Farmers Market 
Nutrition Program. This important program helps low-income seniors 
purchase fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruits and vegetables at 
farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture 
programs.
  There were nearly 5 million seniors in 2011 that were food insecure. 
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seniors had trouble putting food on their plates in the United States. 
I find that completely unacceptable and no senior citizen should have 
to worry where his or her next meal will come from.
  Given the damage that sequestration is doing to Meals on Wheels and 
other senior assistance programs, House Republicans should be ashamed 
for trying to take food away from our senior citizens.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in opposing the House 
Republican half-hearted farm bill.
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, this bill is another example of House 
Republicans' misplaced priorities. Instead of addressing food 
insecurity in our country, this bill completely omits nutrition 
assistance funding and instead provides millions of dollars in 
subsidies to the nation's largest corporate farms. SNAP is a life line 
for millions of families who suffer from chronic hunger. With one in 
four children in the United States at risk of going hungry, including 
170,000 school children in Southern Nevada, it is not only 
irresponsible, it is morally unacceptable to exclude SNAP funding from 
the Farm Bill. That is why I voted against this legislation, and why I 
have introduced the Weekends Without Hunger Act. My bill fills a 
critical need in our community by providing a nutritious meal to 
students who would not otherwise have access to food on weekends and 
during school breaks. I will continue to advocate on behalf of our 
communities to ensure they have the resources they need to root out the 
causes of hunger and build strategies to eliminate food insecurity.
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this 
latest version of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management 
Act of 2013.
  This deeply flawed and misguided legislation comes before the chamber 
after a last minute decision by the Republican leadership to separate 
the nutrition assistance programs, which are a cornerstone of our 
Nation's food safety net, from the rest of the complete Farm Bill.
  Our nation's nutrition programs, which benefit millions of Americans, 
in every district, and every state, across this great nation, should 
not be left behind as the rest of the Farm Bill advances. Failure to 
find a reasonable compromise to ensure that hardworking Americans are 
not left hungry is not a reason to advance agricultural subsidies.
  H.R. 2642 expands unlimited crop insurance subsidies, increases price 
guarantees for major crops, and locks in these unprecedented giveaways 
by making the new farm bill permanent law and taking the future of 
agricultural programs out of the hands of policymakers.
  At the same time, the bill guts protections of wetlands, prairies and 
forests, eviscerates regulation of pesticides under the Clean Water 
Act, and limits the ability of states to set standards for farm and 
food production.
  This bill is bad procedure and bad policy. I urge my colleagues to 
vote no on the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 
2013.
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Lucas 
and Ranking Member Peterson for their work on this bill. There are some 
good ideas in here, and we should act on them. Now, I still have 
serious concerns with this bill. But I'm hopeful that a conference 
agreement will address these concerns.
  Here's what this bill gets right: In some areas, it cuts wasteful 
spending. It eliminates direct payments. And it consolidates 
duplicative programs. I want to commend the chairman and the members of 
the Agriculture Committee for proposing these reforms. These reforms 
don't go far enough, but I'm hopeful that a conference agreement will 
limit crop-insurance subsidies to small farmers. We should impose a 
limitation on the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for those receiving crop-
insurance subsidies, and I have been given assurances that the House 
will be able to speak on this issue. I will consider supporting a 
conference agreement only if it includes an AGI limitation or 
equivalent reforms.
  I will say there's been noticeable improvement in this bill: First, 
it encourages real reform to our commodity programs. In the past, 
agricultural interests used the threat of skyrocketing costs under 
``permanent law'' to push status quo farm bills through Congress. By 
eliminating this arbitrary threat, we can continue to reform these 
programs under a more deliberative process. Second, this bill considers 
farm programs on their own merits. For far too long, Congress has 
considered agricultural programs and nutrition programs in conjunction. 
Both of these programs need to be reformed, and we should evaluate each 
of them separately--and on their own merits.
  I continue to believe we should have a safety net for our farmers. We 
should help the little guy--the family farm that's in need. We need 
these AGI limitations to maintain a safety net for small farmers and to 
ensure that large agribusinesses do not continue to receive taxpayer 
support.
  I want to commend Chairman Lucas for bringing good ideas to the 
table. I continue to have concerns about this bill, but am hopeful that 
a conference agreement can improve it. And if a conference agreement 
does not improve it, I will vote no on that agreement. I will support 
the passage of this bill--and will look forward to seeing the changes 
made in a conference agreement.
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this 
bill. By stripping out the nutrition portion of this legislation, the 
Republican Majority is showing their disdain for those people who are 
struggling to make ends meet, and trying to put good nutritious food on 
the table for their children.
  This Republican Leadership is the most partisan in the history of the 
House. By taking bipartisan legislation like the Farm Bill, which helps 
all Americans, they have made it a divisive issue.
  Mitt Romney was right--you don't care about the 47 percent of 
Americans who depend on the government for the basic necessities of 
life--food and shelter.
  The FARRM Bill needs to have all the sections included to genuinely 
affect all aspects of food production. From those who eat to those who 
produce. The family farmer produces the food for our table. The 
recipient of government funding spends all of that funding on food. 
Nothing is saved for later.
  Farm bills represent a delicate balance between America's farm, 
nutrition, conservation, and other priorities, and accordingly require 
strong bipartisan support. It is vital for a broad coalition of 
lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to provide certainty for urban 
and rural America, the environment and our economy in general.
  The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP as it's 
called, protects over 46 million Americans who are at risk of going 
without sufficient food. Nearly half of those are children.
  The nutrition title of the FARRM bill includes SNAP. It includes the 
Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program to help people 
learn to eat healthier. Community Food Projects is a grant program for 
eligible nonprofit organizations, in order to improve community access 
to food. The Emergency Food Assistance Program, Commodity Supplemental 
Food Program, Child Nutrition Programs, Farm-to-School Programs, Senior 
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program and the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable 
Program are all programs that both help low income consumers and the 
farmers that produce what we put on our table.
  Splitting the nutrition title from the rest of the bill could result 
in neither farm nor nutrition programs passing.
  I urge the leadership of the House of Representatives to move a 
unified farm bill forward.
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Federal 
Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act, H.R. 2642.
  Mr. Speaker, I refuse to vote for a FARM Bill that omits SNAP.
  SNAP is America's first line of defense against hunger.
  Its benefits improve nutrition, health, and increases the food-
purchasing power of low-income households.
  To move forward with a FARM bill that does not include this funding 
is a shameful abandonment of the most vulnerable people who live in our 
country.
  The program has wide-reaching effects for the individuals 
participating in the program, their communities, and the entire nation.
  My constituents have been clear.
  Mothers have told me that without SNAP they cannot feed their 
children.
  Many seniors, disabled individuals and veterans have told me that 
without SNAP, they will not eat.
  How can we allow our children and those in need to starve?
  How can we allow our seniors to go hungry?
  I cannot and will not vote to harm our nation's most vulnerable.
  I will not turn my back on low-income families, children, seniors and 
the disabled.
  I will not vote for a FARM bill that omits SNAP and threatens the 
lives of American families, children and seniors.
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 2642, 
the ``Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.'' 
Separating this bill from the nutrition provision, including SNAP, is a 
foolish and immoral decision. The process that House Republicans chose 
to bring this bill to the floor was egregious and a blatant violation 
of this body's policy of giving Members and the public 72 hours to read 
a bill. This bill denies Members the opportunity for robust debate and 
to consider reform of farm policies. Many new provisions were inserted 
in this bill late last night. Furthermore, passage of this bill would 
undermine our efforts to assist vulnerable Americans, risk severe cuts 
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(SNAP), and will allow outdated allotments and quotas under current 
farm policy to become permanent law.
  We are living at a time when low-income working families, senior 
citizens and disabled veterans are struggling to put food on their 
tables and children are attending school hungry--often leaving them 
unable to concentrate. Having a bitter partisan fight on the House 
floor opens the door to cuts to nutrition programs like the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Emergency Food 
Assistance Program (TEFAP), the Commodity Supplemental Food Program 
(CSFP) and Women, Infant and Children program (WIC), which will only 
dramatically increase hunger in our country and drive even more people 
to food banks. Until every American has access to a decent paying job, 
American families should have the ability to feed their families.
  Every major deficit reduction packaged signed into law over the last 
thirty years has always been negotiated according to the principle of 
not increasing poverty or inequality. That's why I will continue to 
fight against cuts to the SNAP program and misguided efforts aimed at 
breaking the urban-rural coalition that protected and strengthened this 
program throughout our history. This bill fails our children and the 
most vulnerable in our country. Investing in hunger relief is a 
fiscally sound decision. It is a cost-effective and an investment in 
our nation's future. I ask you to stand with me to protect the most 
vulnerable and our most vital safety net in fighting hunger in America. 
I encourage my colleagues to oppose the bill.
  Mr. NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, I stand here today with the Ranking Member in 
opposition to the split farm bill before us. Setting a closed rule on 
this midnight-hour, backroom deal is not the way the American people 
elected us to govern.
  I am privileged to sit on the Agriculture Committee. During the 
markup of the farm bill earlier this year, my colleagues and I 
discussed and debated and deliberated for ten hours on every provision 
of this bill.
  That bill included critical reform of the dairy program, 
reauthorization of the Rural Broadband program, as well as important 
provisions for organic producers, beginning farmers and ranchers, 
conservationists, and the forestry industry.
  We reached a bipartisan consensus and 36 of us--myself included--cast 
a vote in support of the legislation.
  Then, on the floor, the legislation was systematically dismantled, 
piece by piece, until it was barely recognizable as the same farm bill 
that came out of committee. It was no surprise that this bill failed.
  Rather than going back to committee to work on a better compromise, 
we are here voting on a more-than-600 page bill that only became 
available late last night.
  This bill is even worse than the one that failed, and now the process 
itself has been poisoned. The American people did not elect us to 
conduct their business behind closed doors at midnight.
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago 
Democrats and Republicans alike unilaterally rejected a bill that would 
have cut $20.5 billion from our Nation's most important anti-hunger 
program which touches nearly 1 out of 7 American's. Today, the 
Republican Majority in the House of Representatives is considering H.R. 
2642, a bill that is even more deeply flawed than before, which opts to 
leave out programs that will protect those who are most in need 
entirely.
  In these tough budgetary times, the Republican majority should not 
signal to their constituents that helping those most in need is no 
longer a priority. In addition to leaving behind those who are most in 
need, the bill being rushed to the floor today is under a closed rule, 
with an amendment that eliminates the 1949 permanent farm law and 
replaces it with the language of H.R. 2642. Additionally, this bill 
makes permanent deep cuts to conservation programs, weakens protections 
for our forests, wetlands and wildlife and guts regulation of 
pesticides.
  Congress first enacted the farm bill in response to the Great 
Depression in order to foster growth in our Nation's economy and to 
protect those who were most in need. Today, we are still recovering 
from what some economists call, ``the Great Recession.'' We find 
ourselves at a crossroads where we must decide how to manage our fiscal 
priorities while still protecting those who were hardest hit by the 
recent recession. President Eisenhower once said, ``Every gun that is 
made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the 
final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who 
are cold and are not clothed.''
  Mr. Speaker, historically funding for the Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program, constitutes about 80 percent of the funding in a 
Farm Bill. I have received letters from the two largest general farm 
organizations in the country which have voiced opposition to separating 
nutrition programs from the farm bill. Splitting this bill is a 
shortsighted strategy which undermines the long-standing bipartisan 
fashion in which urban and rural members unite to support this package.
  Mr. Speaker, considering the serious flaws of this bill, I would 
encourage all of my colleagues, both Democratic and Republican to vote 
against this unconscionable package.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the House 
Republican revised ``half-a-loaf'' farm bill.
  The bill before us should not be referred to as a farm bill. Farm 
bills have traditionally tried to address challenges facing all of 
American agriculture including nutrition and hunger issues.
  This legislation removes the Nutrition title from the farm bill, 
which includes the programs that help improve nutrition and fight 
hunger. Consequently, the bill before us is nothing more than an 
attempt by House Republicans to undermine the safety net provided to 
nutrition-short Americans struggling to put food on their table.
  It is unconscionable that Republican leadership has removed the 
Nutrition title from the farm bill and are using food as a political 
tool. Those political figures who extract food as a political weapon, 
are not only morally compromised but dangerously destructive.
  Despite what economists have been reporting, our economy is still in 
a recession for a significant number of Americans. We have a poverty 
crisis in this country. We have 12 million Americans unemployed or 
underemployed.
  In 2011, there were 46.2 million people in poverty. 16.1 million 
children are living in poverty. Children under the age of 18 have the 
highest poverty rate in the United States.
  More than 3.6 million seniors are living in poverty. Women over the 
age of 85 have the second highest poverty rate in our country.
  Families and individuals living in poverty often rely on the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help put food on 
the table.
  By removing SNAP from the farm bill, millions of Americans including 
many children and seniors will go hungry. This should not happen in the 
richest country on the planet.
  While SNAP is the largest portion of the Nutrition title, there are 
other programs in the Nutrition title that are vital in combating 
hunger that will essentially cease to exist as a result of House 
Republicans.
  I want to mention one of those programs, the Seniors Farmers Market 
Nutrition Program. This important program helps low-income seniors 
purchase fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruits and vegetables at 
farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture 
programs.
  There were nearly 5 million seniors in 2011 that were food insecure. 
That means 1 in 12 seniors had trouble putting food on their plates in 
the United States. I find that completely unacceptable. No senior 
citizen should have to worry where his or her next meal will come from!
  Given the damage that sequestration is doing to Meals on Wheels and 
other senior assistance programs, House Republicans should be ashamed 
for trying to take food away from our senior citizens.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in opposing the House 
Republican half-hearted farm bill.
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 
2642, the Federal-Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.
  I oppose this bill because it ignores the needs of working families. 
H.R. 2642 completely strips the nutrition titles out of the Farm Bill. 
Therefore, this is not a true Farm Bill. This would be the first time 
in decades that nutrition is not considered alongside agriculture, 
conservation, and trade issues.
  Chief among the nutrition programs that are eliminated from this bill 
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP is a 
critical program for Americans facing food insecurity. As of January 
2013, 3,159,000, or 16 percent of New York residents, and 47,772,000, 
or 15 percent of Americans, received SNAP benefits. According to the 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, approximately two-thirds of 
SNAP recipients are children, elderly, or disabled. Also, most SNAP 
families with children are working households. It is unconscionable 
that this body, which should be protecting vulnerable Americans, is 
instead attempting to ignore them.
  SNAP is an efficient and effective program. There is much talk by 
those critical of SNAP, accusing the program of waste, fraud, and 
abuse. This is wildly exaggerated--only 3 percent of SNAP benefits 
represent overpayments. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made 
improvements to its disbursements so that the families who truly need 
benefits get them. To reduce SNAP trafficking, which violates federal 
law, SNAP benefits are disbursed via an electronic debit card that 
recipients can use to purchase food only. Retailers or recipients who 
defraud the program by trading SNAP for money or misrepresenting their 
circumstances face strict criminal penalties. Additionally, 
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SNAP spending goes directly to families to buy food. Most of the rest 
goes toward administrative costs, including reviews to determine that 
applicants are eligible, monitoring of retailers that accept SNAP, and 
anti-fraud activities.
  This bill represents a failure to protect the vulnerable people of 
our country. I cannot support this bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 
XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 
5-minute votes on passage of the bill, if ordered, and approval of the 
Journal, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 198, 
noes 226, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 352]

                               AYES--198

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NOES--226

     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Bonner
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Broun (GA)
     Campbell
     Horsford
     Hunter
     McCarthy (NY)
     Negrete McLeod
     Rogers (MI)
     Schweikert
     Shimkus
     Smith (WA)

                              {time}  1531

  Mrs. BLACKBURN changed her vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. PETERSON. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 216, 
nays 208, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 353]

                               YEAS--216

     Aderholt
     Alexander
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boehner
     Bonner
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Herrera Beutler
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Scalise
     Schock
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

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                               NAYS--208

     Amash
     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     DeSantis
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Duncan (TN)
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Franks (AZ)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gingrey (GA)
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Honda
     Hoyer
     Huelskamp
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Markey
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McClintock
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan (OH)
     Salmon
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sanford
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Broun (GA)
     Campbell
     Green, Gene
     Horsford
     Hunter
     McCarthy (NY)
     Negrete McLeod
     Rogers (MI)
     Schweikert
     Shimkus
     Smith (WA)

                              {time}  1539

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 353, had I been 
present, I would have voted ``no.''


                          Personal Explanation

  Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, on consideration H.R. 2609, I am not 
recorded because I was absent due to medically mandated recovery. Had I 
been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on final passage of the bill 
rollcall No. 345, ``aye'' on the Titus Amendment of the bill (rollcall 
No. 337), and ``aye'' on the Heck Amendment to the bill (rollcall No. 
337), and ``aye'' on the Heck Amendment to the bill (rollcall No. 325).
  On rollcall No. 353 on final passage H.R. 2642, I am not recorded 
because I was absent due to medically mandated recovery. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``nay'' on final passage of this bill.

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