SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 1240I(2) of the Food Security Act of 1985 
(16 U.S.C. 3839aa–21(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘enhance-
ments,’’ after ‘‘practices,’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B)(v), by inserting ‘‘cli-
mate change and’’ after ‘‘mitigate against,’’. 
SEC. 3. STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTS. 
(a) EVALUATION OF CONTRACT OFFERS.—Section 
1240K(b)(1)(A) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3839aa–23(b)(1)(A)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-
serting a semicolon; 
(2) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); 
and 
(3) by inserting after clause (ii) the following: 
‘‘(iii) other criteria consistent with an 
equal weighting of the factors described in 
clauses (i) and (ii), as determined by the 
Secretary, including criteria the Secretary 
determines are necessary to ensure that— 
‘‘(I) the program effectively tar-
gets improvements to soil health, in-
creases in carbon sequestration, and 
reductions in greenhouse gas emis-
sions; and 
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‘‘(II) other national, State, and 
local priority resource concerns are ef-
fectively addressed; and’’. 
(b) CONTRACT RENEWAL.—Section 1240K(e) of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–23(e)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(e) CONTRACT RENEWAL.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may provide 
the producer an opportunity to renew an existing 
contract in the first half of the fifth year of the con-
tract period if the producer— 
‘‘(A) demonstrates compliance with the 
terms of the existing contract; 
‘‘(B) agrees to adopt and continue to inte-
grate new or improved conservation activities 
across the agricultural operation, demonstrating 
continued improvement during the additional 5- 
year period, as determined by the Secretary; 
and 
‘‘(C) agrees, by the end of the contract pe-
riod, to meet the stewardship threshold of at 
least 1 additional priority resource concern on 
the agricultural operation, if applicable. 
‘‘(2) RANKING
AND
PAYMENTS.—In deter-
mining whether to renew an existing contract under 
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paragraph (1), and in calculating payments for such 
existing contract, the Secretary shall consider the 
full conservation benefits across the entire agricul-
tural operation on eligible land that is subject to 
such existing contract, including— 
‘‘(A) the number of priority resource con-
cerns for which the producer is expected to 
meet or exceed the stewardship threshold by the 
end of the contract period of the existing con-
tract; and 
‘‘(B) the active management and mainte-
nance of ongoing conservation activities, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(i) the conservation activities adopt-
ed during the contract period of the exist-
ing contract; and 
‘‘(ii) the new or improved conservation 
activities to be adopted if such existing 
contract is renewed. 
‘‘(3) PERENNIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.—The 
Secretary may automatically renew an existing con-
tract under paragraph (1) if— 
‘‘(A) the conditions under paragraph (1) 
are met; and 
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‘‘(B) the producer installed or improved a 
perennial production system, as such term is 
defined in section 1240L(d)(1), during the con-
tract period of the existing contract.’’. 
SEC. 4. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY. 
(a) CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP PAYMENTS.—Sec-
tion 1240L(c)(4) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3839aa–24(c)(4)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) adjust planned annual payments to 
account for inflation associated with planning, 
design, materials, installation, labor, manage-
ment, maintenance, or training incurred by the 
producer over the life of the contract.’’. 
(b) SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS
FOR RESOURCE- 
CONSERVING CROP ROTATIONS, PERENNIAL PRODUC-
TION
SYSTEMS, AND
ADVANCED
GRAZING
MANAGE-
MENT.—Section 1240L(d) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–24(d)) is amended— 
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(1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ‘‘, 
PERENNIAL
PRODUCTION
SYSTEMS’’ after ‘‘RE-
SOURCE-CONSERVING CROP ROTATIONS’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(D) PERENNIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM.— 
The term ‘perennial production system’ means 
a system of agricultural production that pro-
duces perennial species (including agroforestry 
products, perennial grains and oilseeds, peren-
nial forages, and other perennial crops, as de-
termined by the Secretary), including alley 
cropping, 
multifunctional 
riparian 
buffers, 
windbreaks, 
shelterbelts, 
forest 
farming, 
silvopasture, and other related practices, as de-
termined by the Secretary.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) 
the following: 
‘‘(C) a perennial production system.’’; and 
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(4) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or advanced 
grazing management’’ and inserting ‘‘, advanced 
grazing management, or a perennial production sys-
tem’’. 
(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGA-
TION BUNDLES.—Section 1240L of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–24) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(m) ESTABLISHMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITI-
GATION BUNDLES.— 
‘‘(1) CLIMATE
CHANGE
MITIGATION
BUNDLE 
DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘climate 
change mitigation bundle’ means a grouping of con-
servation activities, determined by the Secretary and 
based on the best available science, to achieve sub-
stantial progress, when carried out together, to-
ward— 
‘‘(A) providing a net reduction of green-
house gas emissions; or 
‘‘(B) increasing carbon sequestration and 
improving soil health. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—In entering into a con-
tract with a producer under the program, the Sec-
retary shall make available State- or region-specific 
climate change mitigation bundles to such a pro-
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ducer, including climate change mitigation bundles 
for cropland, pastureland, rangeland, and forest 
land. 
‘‘(3) FLEXIBILITY.—The Secretary shall, to the 
maximum extent practicable, design climate change 
mitigation bundles that allow a producer to select 
conservation activities that meet the requirements of 
paragraph (1)(A) in order to tailor a climate change 
mitigation bundle to the site-specific needs of such 
a producer. 
‘‘(4) MINIMUM BUNDLES OFFERED.—The Sec-
retary shall make available at least 1 climate change 
mitigation bundle for each of the following: 
‘‘(A) Perennial production systems, as de-
fined in subsection (d)(1). 
‘‘(B) Soil health management systems, as 
defined in such subsection. 
‘‘(C) Advanced grazing management, as 
defined in such subsection. 
‘‘(D) Specialty crops. 
‘‘(5) APPLICABILITY
TO
ORGANIC
PRODUC-
TION.—Climate change mitigation bundles made 
available under paragraph (2) shall be equally acces-
sible to organic and conventional producers, or sepa-
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rate additional bundles designed for organic pro-
ducers shall be offered. 
‘‘(6) PROMOTION.—Each year, to the greatest 
extent practicable, the Secretary shall conduct tar-
geted outreach and promotion regarding the avail-
ability of, and any changes to, climate change miti-
gation bundles to eligible producers.’’. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture 
makes available to producers the climate change 
mitigation bundles under section 1240L(m) of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–24) 
(as added by subsection (c)), the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Ag-
riculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a 
report on the activities carried out under such sec-
tion. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The Secretary shall include in 
the report under paragraph (1)— 
(A) a summary of feedback from producers 
that have adopted climate change mitigation 
bundles pursuant to section 1240L(m), regard-
ing— 
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(i) barriers to adoption of such bun-
dles; 
(ii) the makeup of such bundles; 
(iii) payment rates for such bundles; 
(iv) technical assistance relating to 
such bundles; and 
(v) other relevant information, as de-
termined by the Secretary; 
(B) data on such producers disaggregated 
by gender, race, age, and congressional district; 
(C) an assessment of barriers, as identified 
by the Secretary, to the adoption of climate 
change mitigation bundles by producers; 
(D) recommendations on steps to increase 
the adoption of climate change mitigation bun-
dles by producers, including recommendations 
for any statutory changes necessary to imple-
ment such steps; 
(E) average per acre estimates of green-
house gases mitigated and carbon sequestered 
for each climate change mitigation bundle of-
fered; and 
(F) a summary of the outreach and pro-
motional activities conducted by the Secretary 
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to promote the availability of climate change 
mitigation bundles. 
(3) CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION BUNDLE DE-
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘climate 
change mitigation bundle’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 1240L(m)(1) of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa–24) (as added 
by subsection (c)). 
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