S 1538 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act

Introduced Oct 11, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Jeff Bingaman D-NM

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 11, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedOct 11, 2001
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

High Plains Groundwater Resource Conservation Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture in FY 2002 through 2011 to provide cost-share payments, incentive payments, and technical assistance to eligible producers (persons who are engaged in livestock or agricultural production) who enter into contracts with the Secretary through a High Plains Aquifer Groundwater Conservation Incentives Program.

Requires the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance, including modeling and engineering design to States, tribes, and counties, conservation districts, and other political subdivisions recognized under State law for the development of groundwater conservation plans within the High Plains.

Requires the creation of a certification process for such plans developed under this program or developed independently by such entities. Provides that, to be certified, a plan must achieve significant per acre savings of groundwater from the Aquifer and must meet the criteria specified by this Act.

Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make available specified amounts in FY 2002 through 2011 to carry out such Program.

Requires that lands eligible for the Environmental Conservation Acreage Reserve Program which would result in significant per acre savings of groundwater resources of the Aquifer if removed from agriculture production be awarded 90 Program bid points, to be designated as groundwater conservation points, in addition to any other ratings such lands may receive.

Cosponsors 3

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 11, 2001 to Oct 24, 2001, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-OKJames M. InhofeOriginalOct 11, 2001
R-NMPete V. DomeniciOriginalOct 11, 2001
R-KSSam BrownbackOct 24, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 11, 2001Introduced in Senate
  2. Oct 11, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
  3. Oct 11, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10649)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.

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