Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide cost-share payments to agricultural producers for water conservation projects on farms involving the construction, improvement, or maintenance of irrigation ponds and the implementation of other measures that improve groundwater and surface water conservation; and (2) administer such payments as part of the environmental quality incentives program.
Bases project priority on: (1) irrigation cost effectiveness (in cases of comparable project purposes); and (2) control of surface water runoff.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E905-906)
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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