SWINE Act
Latest action · Jun 26, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 25, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Swine Waste Infrastructure and Natural Environment Act or the SWINE Act
This bill establishes a program to certify environmentally sustainable swine waste disposal technologies and authorizes related tax credits and grants.
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must certify technologies that:
- eliminate animal discharge into surface waters and groundwater through direct discharge, seepage, or runoff;
- substantially eliminate atmospheric emissions of ammonia from swine waste;
- substantially eliminate the emission of odor from swine waste that is detectable beyond the boundaries of the parcel or tract of land on which the swine farm is located;
- substantially eliminate the release of disease-transmitting vectors and airborne pathogens from swine waste;
- substantially eliminate nutrient and heavy metal contamination of soil and groundwater from swine waste; and
- are cost-effective.
States may not issue permits, pursuant to any federal law, to a swine farm that is a concentrated animal feeding operation unless the farm disposes of swine waste using a certified technology.
The bill amends several agricultural laws to:
- require USDA to make competitive grants for activities to identify, evaluate, and demonstrate environmentally superior swine waste management technologies;
- permit the Pork Promotion Board to use its funding for activities related to the grants; and
- make the installation and maintenance of a certified technology on a swine farm eligible for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) the installation of a certified swine waste disposal technology, and (2) the disposal of swine waste using certified technology.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 26, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- Jun 12, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- May 25, 2017Introduced in House
- May 25, 2017Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural conservation and pollution
- Agricultural practices and innovations
- Agricultural research
- Agriculture and Food
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Environmental health
- Environmental technology
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Income tax credits
- Licensing and registrations
- Livestock
- Research administration and funding
- Solid waste and recycling
- Technology assessment
- Water quality
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 25, 2017Introduced in House
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