118th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes.
February 1, 2023
Ms. Brownley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act”.
SEC. 2. Consideration of climate benefits in conservation practice standards.
Section 1242(h) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3842(h)) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking “1 year after the date of enactment of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018” and inserting “5 years after the date of enactment of the Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act”;
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking “; and” and inserting a semicolon;
(C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
“(E) evaluate the climate benefits of the standards.”;
(2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking “conservation innovations and” and inserting “climate benefits, conservation innovations, and”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(5) CLIMATE BENEFIT DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘climate benefit’ means—
“(A) a reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions;
“(B) an increase in carbon sequestration; or
“(C) mitigation against, or adaptation to, increased weather volatility.”.