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Senate Bill 2798
118th Congress(2023-2024)
BUFFER Act
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Introduced in Senate on Sep 14, 2023
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S. 2798 (Introduced-in-Senate)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2798


To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to clarify land eligible for enrollment in the conservation reserve program.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

September 14, 2023

Mr. Welch (for himself and Mr. Sanders) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

A BILL

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to clarify land eligible for enrollment in the conservation reserve program.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience Act” or the “BUFFER Act”.

SEC. 2. Eligible land under the conservation reserve program.

Section 1231(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831(b)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (6)(B)(ii), by striking “or” at the end;

(2) in paragraph (7)(C), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(8) land that is otherwise eligible for enrollment and for which a Tribal, State, or other local law, ordinance, or other regulation requires any resource-conserving or environmental protection measure or practice, unless the requirement to implement such a measure or practice has been imposed by an administrative order or a court order, in which case that land shall not be eligible for enrollment.”.