Conservation Security Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a conservation security program to assist agricultural owners and operators promote conservation of soil, water, and related resources such as wildlife and wetlands.
Requires a participant to submit a resource security plan. Sets forth three tiers of resource security plan conservation practices, and bases a participant's annual payments upon implemented tiers.
Actions
May 15, 2001
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Apr 13, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.