To amend the wetlands reserve program of the Department of Agriculture to exclude from enrollment under the program land subject to a State or local set-back requirement unless the Secretary determines that enrollment of the land is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exclude from wetlands reserve program enrollment land subject to a state or local setback requirement unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such land's enrollment is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 2841 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2841

To amend the wetlands reserve program of the Department of Agriculture 
to exclude from enrollment under the program land subject to a State or 
    local set-back requirement unless the Secretary determines that 
  enrollment of the land is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 2007

  Mr. McHugh introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the wetlands reserve program of the Department of Agriculture 
to exclude from enrollment under the program land subject to a State or 
    local set-back requirement unless the Secretary determines that 
  enrollment of the land is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL CONDITION ON ENROLLMENT OF LAND IN WETLANDS 
              RESERVE PROGRAM.

    Section 1237(e) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3837(e)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (1);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) land otherwise eligible for enrollment under 
        subsection (c) or (d) if the land is subject to a State or 
        local set-back requirement unless the land is part of a larger 
        parcel to be enrolled in the program and the Secretary 
        determines that enrollment of the land subject to the set-back 
        requirement is essential to restore or preserve wetlands on the 
        larger parcel.''.
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