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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2235 

To amend the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to revise the Resource 

Conservation and Development Program of the Department of Agriculture to require a planning process under the program that is locally 

led, to guarantee funds for the program for fiscal years 2008 through 

2012, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 9, 2007 

Mr. SPACE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Agriculture 

A BILL 

To amend the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to revise 

the Resource Conservation and Development Program 

of the Department of Agriculture to require a planning 

process under the program that is locally led, to guarantee funds for the program for fiscal years 2008 

through 2012, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Resource Conservation 

5 and Community Development Enhancement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT 

2 PROGRAM. 

3 (a) LOCALLY LED PLANNING PROCESS.—Section 

4 1528 of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 

5 3451) is amended— 

6 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘planning 

7 process’’ in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) 

8 and inserting ‘‘locally led planning process’’; and 

9 (2) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘council’’ and 

10 inserting ‘‘locally led council’’. 

11 (b) AUTHORIZED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Section 

12 1528(13) of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 

13 U.S.C. 3451(13)) is amended by striking subparagraphs 

14 (C) and (D) and inserting the following new subpara15 graphs: 

16 ‘‘(C) providing assistance for the imple17 mentation of area plans and projects; and 

18 ‘‘(D) providing services which bring to 

19 bear the resources of Department of Agri20 culture programs in a local community, as de21 fined in the locally led planning process.’’. 

22 (c) IMPROVED PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSIST23 ANCE.—Section 1531 of the Agriculture and Food Act of 

24 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3454) is amended— 

25 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 

26 ‘‘In carrying’’; and 


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1 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub2 section: 

3 ‘‘(b) COORDINATOR AND PROGRAM ASSISTANT.—To 

4 improve the provision of technical assistance to councils 

5 under this subtitle, the Secretary shall designate for each 

6 council— 

7 ‘‘(1) an individual, to be known as the ‘Coordi8 nator’, who shall be directly responsible for the pro9 vision of technical assistance to the council; and 

10 ‘‘(2) an individual, to be known as the ‘program 

11 assistant’, who shall assist in providing technical as12 sistance to the council.’’. 

13 (d) PROGRAM EVALUATION.—Section 1534 of the 

14 Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3457) is 

15 repealed. 

16 (e) FUNDING.—Section 1537 of the Agriculture and 

17 Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3460) is amended to read 

18 as follows: 

19 ‘‘SEC. 1537. FUNDING. 

20 ‘‘(a) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The Secretary shall 

21 use $82,200,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit 

22 Corporation to carry out this subtitle for each of the fiscal 

23 year 2008 through 2012. Such funds shall remain avail24 able to carry out this subtitle until expended. 


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1 ‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON LOANS.—The Secretary shall 

2 not use more than $15,000,000 of any funds made avail3 able for a fiscal year to make loans under this subtitle.’’. 

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