A bill to amend the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to improve the farmland protection program.
Farmland Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 with respect to the farmland protection program to: (1) specify that the program shall be a matching grant program carried out through eligible entities such as State and local government, Indian tribes, and nonprofit conservation organizations which do not operate farmland protection programs; (2) eliminate acreage limits; and (3) increase the existing funding cap, revising it from a total program to a fiscal year cap.
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2591)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
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