A bill to amend the Water Bank Act for the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust payment rates with respect to initial conservation agreements and to designate certain areas as wetlands, and for other purposes.
Amends the Water Bank Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to reexamine payment rates under wetland conservation agreements at the beginning of the fifth year of any ten-year initial or renewal period and to make needed annual adjustments in such rates.
Expands the scope of the types of wetlands covered by such Act.
Provides that annual adjustments in water bank contract payments are available only as provided in advance by appropriation acts.
Increases, beginning in fiscal year 1981, the amount of authorized program funding and limits the amount which may be expended in any one state.
Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H. R. 2043 passed in lieu.
Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
Measure considered in House.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended.
Measure passed House, amended.
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged in Senate.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 837.
Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 837.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendment.
House agreed to Senate amendment.
Enacted as Public Law 96-182
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Measure enrolled in House.
Measure enrolled in Senate.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public Law 96-182.
Public Law 96-182.