servation purposes of such easements or other 
interests. 
‘‘(C) No Federal contingent right of en-
forcement or reversionary interest in a con-
servation easement or other purchase of an in-
terest in land shall be required. 
‘‘(e) INDIVIDUAL PURCHASES.—The Secretary may 
enter into agreements with eligible entities under which 
the Secretary shall provide matching funds for the purpose 
of purchasing conservation easements or other interests 
in eligible land on individual farm and ranch properties. 
The Secretary may agree to such terms as the Secretary 
considers appropriate to assure that the purpose of the 
program is carried out, except that subsection (d)(2)(C) 
shall apply to any easement held by a State or local agency 
or in which a qualified State or local entity will hold a 
contingent right of enforcement. 
‘‘(f) CONSERVATION PLAN.—Notwithstanding sub-
section (d)(2)(B), any highly erodible cropland for which 
a conservation easement or other interest in land is pur-
chased using funds made available under the program 
shall be subject to the requirements of a conservation plan, 
except that, for easements and other interests in land that 
are perpetual in duration, the Secretary may not require 
the conversion of the cropland to less intensive uses if, 
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under the conservation plan, soil erosion can be reduced 
to ‘T’ or below. 
‘‘(g) COST SHARING.— 
‘‘(1) MAXIMUM
COST
SHARE
USING
SECTION 
1241(D) FUNDS.—The share of the cost of purchasing 
a conservation easement or other interest in eligible 
land under the program using funds provided under 
section 1241(d) shall not exceed the greater of— 
‘‘(A) 50 percent of the appraised fair mar-
ket value of the conservation easement or other 
interest in eligible land; or 
‘‘(B) if a qualified conservation contribu-
tion, as defined by section 170(h) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986, of at least 25 per-
cent of the market value of the conservation 
easement or other interest in eligible land is 
made by the landowner in connection with the 
purchase of the easement or other interest in 
land, two-thirds of the actual cost of purchasing 
the conservation easement or other interest in 
land. 
‘‘(2) MAXIMUM
COST
SHARE
USING
OTHER 
FUNDS.—As part of the share of the cost of pur-
chasing a conservation easement or other interest in 
eligible land under the program using funds that are 
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not provided under section 1241(d), a qualified 
State or local agency or other eligible entity may in-
clude a qualified conservation contribution by the 
private landowner from which the eligible land is to 
be purchased of not more than 50 percent of the fair 
market value of the conservation easement or other 
interest in eligible land. 
‘‘(3) BIDDING DOWN.—If the Secretary deter-
mines that two or more applications under the pro-
gram for the purchase of a conservation easement or 
other interest in eligible land are comparable in 
achieving the purposes of the program, the Secretary 
shall not assign a higher priority to any one of those 
applications solely on the basis of lesser cost to the 
program.’’. 
(d) FUNDING
FOR FARMLAND PROTECTION PRO-
GRAM.—Paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of section 1241 
of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) The farmland protection program under 
subchapter B of chapter 2, using, to the maximum 
extent practicable, $300,000,000 in each of fiscal 
years 2008 through 2013.’’. 
(e) FARM VIABILITY PROGRAM.— 
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(1) PROGRAM
REQUIRED.—Subsection (a) of 
section 1238J of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3838j) is amended by striking ‘‘The Sec-
retary may’’ and inserting ‘‘Using amounts made 
available under subsection (b), the Secretary shall’’. 
(2) FUNDING.—Subsection (b) of such section 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) FUNDING.—In addition to other funds made 
available to carry out this subchapter for each of fiscal 
years 2008 through 2013, the Secretary shall use 
$50,000,000 of funds of the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion each fiscal year to make grants to eligible entities 
under subsection (a).’’. 
SEC. 113. HEALTHY FORESTS RESERVE PROGRAM. 
(a) 
METHODS
OF
ENROLLMENT.—Section 
502(f)(1)of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 
(16 U.S.C. 6572(f)(1)) is amended by striking subpara-
graph (C) and inserting the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) a permanent easement.’’. 
(b) FUNDING.—Section 508 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 
6578) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 508. FUNDING FOR HEALTHY FORESTS RESERVE 
PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) FUNDING SOURCE.—For each of fiscal years 
2008 through 2013, the Secretary shall use the funds, fa-
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