Title: FARM Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Fair Agricultural Reporting Method Act or the FARM Act
This bill amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to exempt air emissions from animal waste at a farm from specified release notification requirements, recordkeeping requirements, and associated penalties.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2421 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2421

 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
   Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice 
 requirements and penalties for releases of hazardous substances from 
                         animal waste at farms.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 13, 2018

Mrs. Fischer (for herself, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Rounds, Mr. 
   Roberts, Ms. Heitkamp, Mr. Coons, Mr. Carper, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. 
   Isakson, Mr. Warner, Mrs. Ernst, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
 Manchin, Mr. Moran, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Wicker, Ms. Smith, Mr. Hoeven, 
  Mr. Casey, and Mr. Bennet) introduced the following bill; which was 
  read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public 
                                 Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
   Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice 
 requirements and penalties for releases of hazardous substances from 
                         animal waste at farms.

    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 ``Fair Agricultural Reporting Method 
Act'' or the ``FARM Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN NOTICE REQUIREMENTS AND PENALTIES.

    Section 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9603) is amended by 
striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
    ``(e) Applicability to Registered Pesticide Products and Air 
Emissions From Animal Waste at Farms.--
            ``(1) In general.--This section shall not apply to--
                    ``(A) the application of a pesticide product 
                registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
                and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.) or the 
                handling and storage of such a pesticide product by an 
                agricultural producer; or
                    ``(B) air emissions from animal waste (including 
                decomposing animal waste) at a farm.
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Animal waste.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The term `animal waste' 
                        means feces, urine, or other excrement, 
                        digestive emission, urea, or similar substances 
                        emitted by animals (including any form of 
                        livestock, poultry, or fish).
                            ``(ii) Inclusions.--The term `animal waste' 
                        includes animal waste that is mixed or 
                        commingled with bedding, compost, feed, soil, 
                        or any other material typically found with such 
                        waste.
                    ``(B) Farm.--The term `farm' means a site or area 
                (including associated structures) that--
                            ``(i) is used for--
                                    ``(I) the production of a crop; or
                                    ``(II) the raising or selling of 
                                animals (including any form of 
                                livestock, poultry, or fish); and
                            ``(ii) under normal conditions, produces 
                        during a farm year any agricultural products 
                        with a total value equal to not less than 
                        $1,000.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION.

    Nothing in this Act or an amendment made by this Act affects, or 
supersedes or modifies the responsibility or authority of any Federal 
official or employee to comply with or enforce, any requirement under 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), other than the hazardous 
substance notification requirements under section 103 of that Act (42 
U.S.C. 9603) with respect to air emissions from animal waste at farms.
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