S 658
118th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Congressional oversight
Land use and conservation
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
EQIP Improvement Act of 2023
Introduced: March 6, 2023
Introduced by:
Booker, Cory A.
Democratic
· New Jersey
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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 6, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Mar 6, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
EQIP Improvement Act of 2023
This bill amends the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to reduce and remove certain payment requirements. (EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns.)
Specifically, the bill
- reduces the maximum payments available to a person or legal entity under EQIP to $150,000 per five-year period (from the current level of $450,000), thereby allowing for an increase in the overall number of participants in the program;
- reduces federal cost sharing to 40% (from 75%) for the costs associated with planning, installation, or maintenance for specified conservation practices (e.g., access roads, dams, and waste storage facilities); and
- removes a requirement that 50% of EQIP funding payments go to livestock production programs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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