HR 2375
107th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural education
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural runoff
Agricultural subsidies
Air pollution control
Ammonia
Animals
Antibiotics
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Biological diversity conservation
Birds
California
Child nutrition
Commerce
Working Lands Stewardship Act of 2001
Introduced: June 28, 2001
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 9, 2001
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Jul 9, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
Jun 28, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jun 28, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Working Lands Stewardship Act of 2001 - Amends specified agricultural Acts to: (1) revise and increase funding for the farmland protection program; (2) provide market development grants and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers who forgo development of certain lands; (3) expand State marketing programs, including set-asides for development of local and regional markets and research; (4) increase funding for farmer-to-consumer marketing assistance; (5) provide for a program to promote the purchase of locally grown produce; (6) increase funding for programs for socially disadvantaged farmers; (7) extend and increase funding for the environmental quality incentives program, including set-asides for livestock, pesticide reduction, and water conservation; (8) provide watershed quality incentive contracts; (9) provide loans for manure reuse activities and facilities; (10) extend and increase funding for the wildlife habitat incentives program, including set-asides for imperiled native species, and acquisition of easements and water rights; (11) extend and increase acreage for the wetlands reserve program; (12) establish a wetlands reserve enhancement program; (13) extend and increase funding for the conservation reserve program, including an acreage set-aside for environmentally-sensitive lands and buffer strips, and enrollment of grasslands and rangelands; (14) authorize incentive payments for private grazing land conservation; (15) establish a grassland reserve program; (16) expand the National Organic Program to include organic farming transition assistance; (17) establish an organic certification reimbursement program; (18) extend and increase funding for the forest stewardship program, including set-asides for new land management practices, and watershed forestry initiative activities; (19) authorize appropriations for urban and community forestry activities; (20) provide funding for specified conservation technical assistance and administration and outreach, including establishment of training centers in specified cities; and (21) establish a demonstration program to promote ecosystem- and watershed-based conservation.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Committees of jurisdiction
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