Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act

Julia Brownley

Democrat · CA · Representative

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• Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6)Original· 2025-03-05
• Kathy Castor (D-FL-14)Original· 2025-03-05
• Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1)Original· 2025-03-05
• Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2)· 2025-04-01
• André Carson (D-IN-7)· 2025-08-29
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)· 2026-02-20
• Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7)· 2026-04-22

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

2025-03-28

Source: Congress.gov

Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act This bill requires the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to consider climate benefits in reviews or revisions of its conservation practice standards. Climate benefits include a reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, an increase in carbon sequestration, or mitigation against (or adaptation to) increased weather volatility. As background, NRCS administers most of the Department of Agriculture conservation programs, which assist producers and landowners who wish to practice conservation on agricultural lands. The NRCS conservation practice standards provide guidance and set out minimum quality criteria for implementing federally funded conservation practices.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1854 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1854 To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2025 Ms. Brownley (for herself, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Salinas, and Ms. Stansbury) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes. 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 ``Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act''. SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF CLIMATE BENEFITS IN CONSERVATION PRACTICE STANDARDS. Section 1242(h) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3842(h)) is amended-- (1) in paragraph (1)-- (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``1 year after the date of enactment of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018'' and inserting ``5 years after the date of enactment of the Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act''; (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a semicolon; (C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and (D) by adding at the end the following: ``(E) evaluate the climate benefits of the standards.''; (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ``conservation innovations and'' and inserting ``climate benefits, conservation innovations, and''; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ``(5) Climate benefit defined.--In this subsection, the term `climate benefit' means-- ``(A) a reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions; ``(B) an increase in carbon sequestration; or ``(C) mitigation against, or adaptation to, increased weather volatility.''. <all>

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