Improving Access to Farm Conservation Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5451
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2016-06-10
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Government information and archives
Latest action: action_date: 2016-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-06-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Improving Access to Farm Conservation Act of 2016</b></p> <p> 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 that receive $450,000 or less in USDA conservation assistance during the year or are Indian tribes from reporting requirements related to subawards, executive compensation, the Universal Identifier, and the System for Award Management. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5451 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 10, 2016 Ms. Kuster (for herself and Mr. Crawford ) 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Improving Access to Farm Conservation Act of 2016 . 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 new subsection: (m) Exemption from certain reporting requirements (1) In general 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. (2) Exempted producer defined In this subsection, the term exempted producer means— (A) a person or entity that receives in a fiscal year $450,000 or less under this title; or (B) an Indian tribe. .