S 2276
101th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural economics
Agricultural price supports
Environmental Protection
Reservoirs
Soil conservation
Water storage
Wetlands
Soil and Water Improvement and Maintenance Act of 1990
Introduced: March 9, 1990
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 9, 1990
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 9, 1990
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Soil and Water Improvement and Maintenance Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through crop year 1995.
Provides for the enrollment of: (1) environmentally sensitive lands; and (2) lands that border production fields and are near streams or rivers.
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to count as two acres for acreage base purposes each acre of land removed from production under an acreage reduction program and used for surface reservoirs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1