A bill to amend the Farmland Protection Act to improve the adminstration of such Act, and for other purposes.
Farmland Protection Policy Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Farmland Protection Policy Act to direct the Department of Agriculture and other Federal agencies to ensure that U.S. farmland shall not be unnecessarily converted to nonagricultural uses.
Requires any unit of the Federal Government to hold public hearings and report to the Secretary of Agriculture before making any farmland conversions.
Makes the existing one-time congressional report an annual requirement.
Repeals the prohibition on legal actions against Federal activities affecting farmland.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
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