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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2913 
To amend the administrative requirements for conservation programs adminis-
tered by the Department of Agriculture to ensure a greater emphasis 
on increasing habitat for native and managed pollinators and establishing 
cropping systems, integrated pest management regimes, and other prac-
tices to protect native and managed pollinators, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2007 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, and Mr. KUHL of 
New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the administrative requirements for conservation 
programs administered by the Department of Agriculture 
to ensure a greater emphasis on increasing habitat for 
native and managed pollinators and establishing cropping 
systems, integrated pest management regimes, and other 
practices to protect native and managed pollinators, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pollinator Habitat 
Protection Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. GIVING POLLINATOR HABITAT AND PROTECTION A 
PRIORITY IN CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. 
(a) ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENT 
FOR CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.—Section 1244 of the 
Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) NATIVE AND MANAGED POLLINATORS.—In car-
rying out any conservation program administered by the 
Secretary, except the farmland protection program, the 
Secretary shall establish a priority and provide incentives 
for— 
‘‘(1) increasing habitat for native and managed 
pollinators, especially native habitat; and 
‘‘(2) establishing cropping systems, integrated 
pest management regimes, and other practices to 
protect native and managed pollinators.’’. 
(b) DESIGNATION OF POLLINATOR PROTECTION AS 
NATIONAL PRIORITY RESOURCE CONCERN.—Since in-
creasing awareness about the importance of pollinator pro-
tection to agricultural producers and ecosystem health is 
a necessary step in facilitating pollinator stewardship, pro-
tection, and habitat conservation, it is the sense of Con-
gress that the Secretary of Agriculture should designate 
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pollinator protection as a ‘‘national priority resource con-
cern’’ for conservation programs administered by the De-
partment of Agriculture. 
(c) AWARENESS AND USE OF POLLINATOR-FRIEND-
LY NATIVE PLANTS.—Since one of the obstacles for pro-
tecting and strengthening pollinator habitat is a chronic 
shortage of native plants, including seed and nursery stock 
for native plants, it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture should continue 
efforts to make nurseries and land managers aware 
of pollinator-friendly native plants; and 
(2) Plant Materials Centers of the Department 
of Agriculture should emphasize pollinator-beneficial 
native plantings for native and managed pollinator 
habitat. 
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