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Also tagged in: Agricultural conservation, Agriculture, Animals, Budgets, Dams, Ecosystem management, Environmental protection, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Fishery management, Habitat conservation, Infrastructure, Irrigation, Landowners, Natural resources, Nonprofit organizations, Riparian ecology, Shore protection, Social services, Soil erosion, Stream conservation, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Wildlife conservation
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4169) Bill TextA bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide incentives to landowners to protect and improve streams and riparian habitat. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish within the Natural Resources Conservation Service a stream habitat improvement program to provide cost-share payments to landowners for stream habitat improvement projects; and (2) provide a higher payment share to a landowner who carries out a project in partnership with a nonprofit organization. Gives priority for projects that: (1) remove a small dam or in-stream structure; (2) improve fish passage; (3) protect streamside areas; (4) improve water flow; or (5) improve in-stream flow quality or temperature regimes. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a higher payment share to a landowner who carries out a priority project.
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Also tagged in: Agricultural conservation, Agriculture, Animals, Budgets, Dams, Ecosystem management, Environmental protection, Federal aid to water pollution control, Federal aid to water resources development, Fishery management, Habitat conservation, Infrastructure, Irrigation, Landowners, Natural resources, Nonprofit organizations, Riparian ecology, Shore protection, Social services, Soil erosion, Stream conservation, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Wildlife conservation
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4169) Bill TextA bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide incentives to landowners to protect and improve streams and riparian habitat. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish within the Natural Resources Conservation Service a stream habitat improvement program to provide cost-share payments to landowners for stream habitat improvement projects; and (2) provide a higher payment share to a landowner who carries out a project in partnership with a nonprofit organization. Gives priority for projects that: (1) remove a small dam or in-stream structure; (2) improve fish passage; (3) protect streamside areas; (4) improve water flow; or (5) improve in-stream flow quality or temperature regimes. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a higher payment share to a landowner who carries out a priority project.
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