Title: Improving Access to Farm Conservation Act of 2017
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Improving Access to Farm Conservation Act of 2017
This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt certain recipients of Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation assistance from specified reporting requirements. The bill exempts producers or landowners eligible to participate in any USDA conservation program from reporting requirements related to subawards, executive compensation, the Universal Identifier, and the System for Award Management.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1163 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1163

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt certain recipients of 
    Department of Agriculture conservation assistance from certain 
            reporting requirements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2017

    Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire (for herself, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. 
   Abraham) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight 
 and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to exempt certain recipients of 
    Department of Agriculture conservation assistance from certain 
            reporting requirements, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Access to Farm 
Conservation Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN RECIPIENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
              CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE FROM CERTAIN REPORTING 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 1244 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Exemption From Certain Reporting Requirements.--
            ``(1) Definition of exempted producer.--In this subsection, 
        the term `exempted producer' means a producer or landowner 
        eligible to participate in any conservation program 
        administered by the Secretary.
            ``(2) Exemption.--Notwithstanding the Federal Funding 
        Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-
        282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), the requirements of parts 25 and 170 
        of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations (and any successor 
        regulations), shall not apply with respect to assistance 
        received by an exempted producer from the Secretary, acting 
        through the Natural Resources Conservation Service.''.
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