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or referenced, such amendment, repeal, or reference shall
be considered to be made to that section or other provision
of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16
U.S.C. 590a et seq.).
SEC. 3. FINDINGS.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) agricultural land users are required to de-
velop and implement an increasing number of plans
that have conservation and environmental benefits as
a primary purpose;
(2) within the Department of Agriculture, there
are as many as fifteen programs that provide for the
development of such plans, and currently some agri-
cultural land users may have six different conserva-
tion and environmentally-related plans in effect with
regard to their land;
(3) future legislation may mandate additional
requirements for agricultural land users;
(4) most plans are single purpose in nature,
and requirements imposed by one plan may conflict
with the purposes, objectives, or requirements of
another plan;
(5) the complexity of the planning process is
such that it is difficult for many agricultural land
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users to coordinate the various requirements into
their individual farming or ranching operations;
(6) there is a need to approach conservation
and environmental problems on agricultural land on
a more rational basis in order to promote practical
and economically feasible site-specific resource meas-
ures that take into consideration the economic vital-
ity of agricultural land units involved; and
(7) to ensure consistency, all pertinent con-
servation and environmental requirements on agri-
cultural land should be coordinated, through a single
agency of the Government, into one integrated re-
source management plan for the land unit.
SEC. 4. PURPOSE.
(a) It is the purpose of this Act to—
(1) assist agricultural land users in meeting
conservation and environmental requirements on
such lands, while maintaining viable farming or
ranching operations;
(2) provide that a single Federal agency, the
Soil Conservation Service, be responsible for working
with other governmental agencies and agricultural
land users in the development and implementation of
integrated resource management plans for agricul-
tural lands;
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(3) provide a more efficient and effective meth-
od to coordinate Federal, State, and local conserva-
tion and environmental requirements with respect to
individual land units;
(4) help ensure that a site-specific approach en-
compassing all resources will be used in an inter-
related manner when developing and implementing
plans on agricultural land for conservation and envi-
ronmental purposes; and
(5) help ensure that a balance is maintained
among productivity, efficient management of re-
sources, and environmental quality with respect to
the agricultural land unit.
SEC. 5. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
The Act is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new section:
‘‘SEC. 
18. 
COMPREHENSIVE 
RESOURCE 
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section—
‘‘(1) AGRICULTURAL LAND.—The term ‘agricul-
tural land’ means crop land, pastureland, native pas-
ture, rangeland, orchards, vineyards, and any other
land used to produce or support the production of
an annual or perennial crop of a commodity, aqua-
culture product, nursery product, or livestock. The
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term ‘agricultural land’ shall not include Federal
lands subject to the Forest and Rangeland Renew-
able Resources Planning Act of 1974 or the Na-
tional Forest Management Act of 1976.
‘‘(2) AGRICULTURAL
LAND
USER.—The term
‘agricultural land user’ means any landowner, lease-
holder, tenant, sharecropper, or other person re-
quired to meet conservation and environmental re-
quirements on agricultural land.
‘‘(3) STATE.—Notwithstanding section 17(a),
the term ‘State’ means any State of the United
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Amer-
ican Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands.
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—Within one hundred and
eighty days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Ag-
riculture, acting through the Soil Conservation Service,
shall issue regulations establishing a program to develop
site-specific integrated resource management plans for ag-
ricultural land.
‘‘(c) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of other law—
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‘‘(1) the regulations issued under this section
shall establish procedures under which all plans re-
quired by the agencies of the Department of Agri-
culture pursuant to any provision of law or regula-
tion with respect to soil, water, and other resource
conservation and environmental concerns on agricul-
tural land are to be integrated into a single com-
prehensive site-specific plan for the land involved;
‘‘(2) the regulations shall provide that, with re-
spect to any such single comprehensive site-specific
plan developed under paragraph (1), the Soil Con-
servation Service shall be responsible for, among
other things, determining compliance with the terms
of the plan and any permit, exemption, and waiver
issued in connection therewith;
‘‘(3) the procedures shall ensure that, on or
after January 1, 1996, a single comprehensive site-
specific plan shall be in place with respect to any ag-
ricultural land for which more than one plan is re-
quired by agencies of the Department of Agriculture;
‘‘(4) during the period of January 1, 1994,
through December 31, 1994, the Soil Conservation
Service shall give priority to developing (A) single
comprehensive plans that are requested by agricul-
tural land users and (B) single comprehensive plans
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that are targeted to specific watersheds or other
areas or regions determined by the Soil Conservation
Service to be environmentally sensitive, taking into
consideration the lands described in section 1238C
of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C.
3838C);
‘‘(5) the regulations shall provide that all re-
quests for cost-sharing or other assistance available
under any program or activity of the Department of
Agriculture with respect to a conservation practice
on agricultural land for which a single comprehen-
sive plan is in effect, and all requests for permits,
exemptions, or waivers under such programs or ac-
tivities with respect to such land, shall be made
through and approved by the Soil Conservation Serv-
ice;
‘‘(6)(A) the head of each agency or entity of the
Government, other than the agencies of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, may enter into agreements with
the Secretary of Agriculture under which any con-
servation and environmental requirements with re-
spect to agricultural land under any program or ac-
tivity of such agency will be incorporated into the
single comprehensive plan developed by the Soil Con-
servation Service for the land involved;
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‘‘(B) agreements entered into under subpara-
graph (A) may provide for the manner in which
cost-share or other assistance available from the
other agency with respect to a conservation practice
on agricultural land for which a single comprehen-
sive plan has been developed will be coordinated with
any cost-share or other assistance available from the
Department of Agriculture;
‘‘(C) agreements entered into under subpara-
graph (A) may provide for the delegation to the Soil
Conservation Service of the responsibility for (i) re-
ceiving, processing, and approving requests for cost-
sharing or other assistance, permits, exemptions, or
waivers under such program or activity and (ii) per-
forming any other responsibilities and functions in
connection with such program or activity;
‘‘(D) agreements entered into under subpara-
graph (A) shall provide for the reimbursement to the
Secretary of Agriculture, on an annual basis, of such
sums as are necessary to cover the costs of the Soil
Conservation Service of performing any function of
activity delegated to it under the agreement, and
any funds reimbursed under this section shall re-
main available to the Soil Conservation Service until
expended.