Congress 107 - HR 1949 - Conservation Security Act of 2001

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Administrative remedies Agricultural conservation Agricultural education Agricultural innovations Agricultural labor Agricultural pollution Agricultural research Agricultural subsidies Agriculture and Food Air quality Animal germplasm resources Animals Biological diversity conservation Carbon cycle Climate change and greenhouse gases Congress Congressional reporting requirements Cropland conversion program Education Energy Energy conservation Environmental monitoring Environmental Protection Exotic plants Farm manure Fishery management Forest conservation Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Grassland ecology Grazing Habitat conservation Health Irrigation Labor and Employment Land use Law Legumes Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Mediation Occupational health and safety Pest control Pest management Pesticide pollution Pesticide residues Pesticides Plant germplasm resources Poor Private forests Protection of farm animals Public Lands and Natural Resources Range management Science, Technology, Communications Sediment control Social Welfare Soil conservation Soil erosion Technological innovations Trees Water conservation Water quality Water Resources Development Wetland conservation Wetland restoration

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Conservation Security Act of 2001 - 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.

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Jun 4, 2001

Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Jun 4, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
May 24, 2001

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E924-925)
May 22, 2001

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.
May 22, 2001

Introduced in House

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