FOOD SECURITY ACT

Amendments

Agriculture: encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm and ranch land to voluntarily make their land available for access by the public under programs administered by States (H.R. 3482), H12312 [21NO]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm and ranch land to voluntarily make their land available for access by the public under programs administered by States (see S. 1840), S14271 [7NO] (see H.R. 3482), H11133 [7NO]

———strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits (see S. 667), S3993 [19MR]

Conservation Reserve Program: suspend requirement to reduce rental payments for harvesting of forage or grazing on land in response to a drought or other emergency (see S. 124), S132 [9JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: ensure availability of funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs (see H.R. 1907), H3634 [1MY]

———improve enrollment of cropland into the conservation reserve program through the farmable wetlands program (see S. 1877), S15061 [18NO]

———prohibit use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the Conservation Reserve Program (see S. 1766), S12969 [21OC]

Letters

Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act: David J. Frederickson, National Farmers Union, S14273 [7NO]

———several organizations, S14273 [7NO]

Memorandums

Wetlands Reserve Program and Farmland Protection Program Technical Assistance Funding: Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO, S12972-S12975 [21OC], S14131-S14134 [6NO]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm and ranch land to voluntarily make their land available for access by the public under programs administered by States (S. 1840), S14271-S14274 [7NO]

———strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits (S. 667), S4017, S4018 [19MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: prohibit use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the Conservation Reserve Program, S14126, S14127, S14131-S14139 [6NO]

———prohibit use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the Conservation Reserve Program (S. 1766), S12971-S12976 [21OC]

Summaries

Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act (S. 1840), S14274 [7NO]

Texts of

S. 667, strengthen payment limitations for commodity payments and benefits under Food Security Act, S4017 [19MR]

S. 1766, prohibit use of certain conservation funding to provide technical assistance under the Conservation Reserve Program, S12975 [21OC]

S. 1840, Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act, S14273 [7NO]