CRP Flexibility Act

Bill: 117-hr-4710
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-07-27
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2021-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>CRP Flexibility Act</strong></p> <p>This bill modifies the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to permit emergency haying during the primary nesting season to respond to drought or other emergencies. (Under current law, emergency haying is only permitted outside of the primary nesting season.) </p> <p>Under CRP, the Department of Agriculture provides annual payments to agricultural producers to take highly erodible and environmentally sensitive land out of production and install resource-conserving practices. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4710 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 27, 2021 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Ms. Craig , Mr. Emmer , Mrs. Fischbach , Mr. Hagedorn , Mr. Stauber , and Mr. Armstrong ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To require the Secretary of Agriculture to allow emergency haying under the conservation reserve program during the primary nesting season.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the CRP Flexibility Act . 2. Emergency haying during the primary nesting season Section 1233(b)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3833(b)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting subject to subclauses (I) and (III) of clause (i), and subclauses (I) and (II) of clause (ii), of subparagraph (B), before are subject to ; and (2) in subparagraph (B)(i)— (A) by redesignating subclauses (I) through (VI) as subclauses (II) through (VII), respectively; (B) by inserting before subclause (II) (as so redesignated) the following: (I) emergency haying in response to a localized or regional drought, flooding, wildfire, or other emergency, on all practices, during or outside the primary nesting season, when— (aa) the county is designated as D2 (severe drought) or greater according to the United States Drought Monitor; (bb) there is at least a 40 percent loss in forage production in the county; or (cc) the Secretary, in coordination with the State technical committee, determines that the program can assist in the response to a natural disaster event without permanent damage to the established cover; ; (C) in subclause (II) (as so redesignated), in the matter preceding item (aa), by striking emergency haying, emergency grazing, or other emergency use and inserting emergency grazing or other emergency use ; and (D) in subclause (IV) (as so redesignated), by striking outside the primary nesting season and inserting during or outside the primary nesting season .