Title: Sustainable Agri­cul­ture Research Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Sustainable Agriculture Research Act
This bill revises the goals of the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA).
Specifically, the bill expands the goals to require AGARDA to enhance the role of agriculture in innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United States through the development of agricultural technologies that address (1) the impact of extreme weather on crop production, (2) the expansion of the potential for long-term carbon storage through agriculture, (3) increased economic and practical feasibility for renewable and sustainable energy on farms and in the agriculture industry, and (4) increased adoption of voluntary conservation practices that sequester carbon and build on-farm climate resilience.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4134 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4134

 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to provide for an additional goal of the Agriculture 
  Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA) to enhance the 
      role of agriculture in innovative sustainability solutions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2019

 Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to provide for an additional goal of the Agriculture 
  Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA) to enhance the 
      role of agriculture in innovative sustainability solutions.

    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 ``Sustainable Agriculture Research 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL GOAL OF AGARDA TO ENHANCE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN 
              INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS.

    Section 1473H(b)(2) of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3319k(b)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
                    ``(D) to enhance the role of agriculture in 
                innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United 
                States through the development of agricultural 
                technologies that address--
                            ``(i) the impact of extreme weather on crop 
                        production;
                            ``(ii) the expansion of the potential for 
                        long-term carbon storage through agriculture;
                            ``(iii) increased economic and practical 
                        feasibility for renewable and sustainable 
                        energy on farms and in the agriculture 
                        industry; and
                            ``(iv) increased adoption of voluntary 
                        conservation practices that sequester carbon 
                        and build on-farm climate resilience; and''.
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