Title: A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the environmental quality incentives program.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the Department of Agriculture Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). (EQIP provides financial and technical assistance for agricultural producers and land owners to implement certain conservation practices.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2611 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2611

  To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the environmental 
                      quality incentives program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 22, 2018

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the environmental 
                      quality incentives program.

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

SECTION 1. REPEAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the Food 
Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839aa et seq.) is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 1211(a)(3) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
        U.S.C. 3811(a)(3)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (A);
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) 
                as subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``any other provision of''.
            (2) Section 1221(b)(3) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
        U.S.C. 3821(b)(3)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (A);
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) 
                as subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``any other provision of''.
            (3) Section 1235(f)(1)(D) of the Food Security Act of 1985 
        (16 U.S.C. 3835(f)(1)(D)) is amended by striking ``or the 
        environmental quality incentives program''.
            (4) Section 1241 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
        U.S.C. 3841) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
                        by striking ``(and fiscal year 2019 in the case 
                        of the program specified in paragraph (5))''; 
                        and
                            (ii) by striking paragraph (5);
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``(and fiscal 
                year 2019 in the case of the program specified in 
                subsection (a)(5))'';
                    (C) in subsection (h)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), in the matter 
                        preceding subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``funds'' and 
                                inserting ``acres''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``to carry out the 
                                environmental quality incentives 
                                program and the acres made available 
                                for each of such fiscal years'';
                            (ii) by striking paragraph (2); and
                            (iii) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 
                        (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; 
                        and
                    (D) in subsection (i)--
                            (i) by striking paragraph (2); and
                            (ii) by redesignating paragraphs (3) 
                        through (6) as paragraphs (2) through (5), 
                        respectively.
            (5) Section 1244 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
        U.S.C. 3844) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1)(B), by adding ``and'' 
                        at the end;
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting a period; and
                            (iii) by striking paragraph (3); and
                    (B) in subsection (l), by striking ``D and the 
                environmental quality incentives program under chapter 
                4 of subtitle''.
            (6) Section 1271A(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
        U.S.C. 3871a(1)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively.
            (7) Section 344(f)(8) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
        1938 (7 U.S.C. 1344(f)(8)) is amended in the proviso of the 
        first sentence by striking ``Act, the environmental quality 
        incentives program established under chapter 4 of subtitle D of 
        title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985,'' and inserting 
        ``Act''.
            (8) Section 377 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 
        (7 U.S.C. 1377) is amended in the first proviso by striking 
        ``Act or the environmental quality incentives program 
        established under chapter 4 of subtitle D of title XII of the 
        Food Security Act of 1985):'' and inserting ``Act):''.
            (9) The last proviso of the matter under the heading 
        ``conservation reserve program'' under the heading ``Soil Bank 
        Programs'' of title I of the Department of Agriculture and Farm 
        Credit Administration Appropriation Act, 1959 (7 U.S.C. 1831a), 
        is amended by striking ``(1) payments'' and all that follows 
        through ``or (2)''.
            (10) Section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
        Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) is amended by striking 
        paragraph (1).
            (11) Section 1271(c)(3)(C) of the Food, Agriculture, 
        Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 2106a(c)(3)(C)) 
        is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``section, the'' and inserting 
                ``section and the''; and
                    (B) by striking ``(16 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.)'' and 
                all that follows through ``or other'' and inserting 
                ``(16 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.) or any other applicable''.
            (12) Section 304 of the Lake Champlain Special Designation 
        Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1270 note; Public Law 101-596) is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking subsection (a);
                    (B) by redesignating subsections (b) through (d) as 
                subsections (a) through (c), respectively; and
                    (C) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)--
                            (i) by striking ``(1) There'' in paragraph 
                        (1) and all that follows through ``(2) There'' 
                        in paragraph (2) and inserting ``There''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``(b) and (c)'' and 
                        inserting ``(a) and (b)''.
            (13) Section 202 of the Colorado River Basin Salinity 
        Control Act (43 U.S.C. 1592) is amended by striking subsection 
        (c).
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