Payments
Title II — Conservation › Subtitle A — Conservation Reserve Program
Read this section in the full bill →
This section appears in one version only, so there is nothing to compare yet.
(a) Cost sharing payments Section 1234(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(b)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)— (A) by striking establishing water and inserting the following: “establishing— (A) water; (B) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting; and; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (B) grazing infrastructure and water infrastructure under each contract, for all practices, if grazing is included in the conservation plan and addresses a resource concern.; and (2) in paragraph (2), by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following: (B) Management payments The Secretary shall make cost sharing payments to an owner or operator under this subchapter for any management activity described in section 1232(a)(5), except for those management activities relating to haying or grazing.. (b) Annual rental payments Section 1234(d)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(d)(1)) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (C) as clauses (i) through (iii), respectively, and indenting appropriately; (2) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so redesignated), by striking the Secretary shall consider— and inserting the following: “the Secretary— (A) shall determine for a tract of land a rental rate based on the 3 predominant soils of cropland on that tract, and apply that rental rate to any land within that tract that is enrolled in the conservation reserve under this subchapter; (B) subject to subparagraph (A), shall consider—; (3) in subparagraph (B)(iii) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting; and; and (4) by adding at the end the following: (C) notwithstanding clauses (i) through (iii) of subparagraph (B), shall not apply an adjustment based on the rate of inflation to any payment, overall rental payment, or other payment that an owner or operator receives under this subchapter.. (c) Payment limitation for rental payments Section 1234(g)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3834(g)(1)) is amended by striking $50,000 and inserting $125,000.