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Bill· HRH.R. 4342 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Declares that the domestic production of fruits and vegetables is a keystone of U.S. farm policy. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Congress on the domestic fruit and vegetable industry. Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to permit the investment of Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Fund reserve amounts.
Bill· SS. 2302 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Agricultural Conservation Reserve and Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP) through crop year 1995. Establishes ten-year minimum contracts for soil salinity or off-farm environmentally threatened land placed in the CRP. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to pay up to 75 percent of CRP wetlands restoration costs. Extends CRP tree acreage through crop year 1995. Directs the Secretary to offer a 15-year CRP contract for acreage devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, or windbreaks. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) offer owners the opportunity to convert CRP acreage planted to grass to hardwood trees; (2) pay up to 75 perent of conversion costs; and (3) permit alley cropping (and related rental reductions) on such converted land and on land on which the owner implements appropriate conservation measures. Authorizes a bid-back program to remove the least highly erodible cropland from the CRP. Provides for specified buffer strip CRP eligibility. Exempts CRP contracts from sequestration orders. Title II: Integrated Farm Plans - Directs the Secretary to establish a cost-sharing program to assist producers in establishing integrated farm plans. Authorizes FY 1992 through 2002 appropriations. Title III: Wetland Provisions - Directs the Secretary to determine the extent to which penalties for minor infractions of the wetland program have not been commensurate with the violation. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the production of native wetland crops under such program. Extends through the 1995 crop year and makes mandatory multiyear set-asides.
Bill· HRH.R. 4291 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit the importation of kiwifruit, nectarines, and plums that do not comply with marketing order grade, size, quality, and maturity requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 4293 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through crop year 1995. Makes converted wetlands and surrounding uplands eligible for the program.
Bill· HRH.R. 4288 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1990
Soybean Graduated Equity Loan Program Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make recourse loans available to soybean producers for each of the 1991 through 1995 soybean crops. Prescribes a general formula for the calculation of loan levels, dependent on applicable soybean-corn equity rates and soybean-cotton equity rates. Sets forth ceilings on the amount of soybeans of any crop that may be placed under loan, graduated from 75 percent down to 45 percent according to the size of the carryover of soybeans stocks at the end of each marketing year. Provides for loan terms and soybean program announcements. Sets the soybean marketing year to run from September 1 through August 31. Directs the Secretary, for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops, to permit producers on a farm to plant soybeans on up to a uniform maximum percentage (not less than 30 percent) of the combined wheat, feed grain, cotton, and rice acreage bases of the farm. Limits to program benefits under this Act alone any producers who make such plantings.
Bill· HRH.R. 4254 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990
Dairy Stabilization Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth 1991 through 1995 milk price support and adjustment levels.
Bill· SS. 2289 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize local commodity supplemental feeding programs to use up to 25 percent of the unused assistance available for women, infants, and children for the benefit of low-income elderly individuals.
Bill· SS. 2292 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Food Security Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Subtitle A: Milk Price Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the milk price support program for 1991 through 1995. Provides for adjustment of the support price based on expected milk surpluses. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for a reduction in the milk price received for all U.S.-produced milk marketed for commercial use as the sole means of achieving any reduction in budget outlays under the price support program. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous - Extends through 1995 the dairy indemnity program and the program for transfer of dairy products to the military and veterans hospitals. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to establish the wool and mohair price support program for the 1991 through 1995 marketing years. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to wheat. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to wheat. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title IV: Feed Grains - Establishes the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of corn and feed grains. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to feed grains. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to feed grains. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title V: Cotton - Subtitle A: Upland Cotton - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of upland cotton. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to upland cotton. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to upland cotton. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Subtitle B: Extra Long Staple Cotton - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of extra long staple cotton. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to extra long staple cotton. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to extra long staple cotton. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title VI: Rice - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of rice. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to rice. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to rice. Provides for acreage reduction, land diversion, and marketing certificate programs. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to establish the national poundage quota for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of peanuts. Provides for marketing penalties and the disposition of additional peanuts. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of peanuts. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of soybeans. Title IX: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Acreage Base and Yield System - Revises the program for the determination of crop acreage bases (featuring a new Normal Crop Acreage computation) and farm program payment yields. Subtitle B: Payment Limitations - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise and extend through 1995 provisions for payment limitations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to revise: (1) Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions; (2) the producer reserve program for wheat and feed grains; and (3) acreage limitation and set-aside programs to rename them acreage reduction programs. Subtitle D: Honey - Establishes a price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of honey. Subtitle E: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to various Acts. Subtitle F: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for the first nine titles of this Act. Title X: Conservation and Environment - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) extend the conservation reserve program through 1995 and include shelterbelts and windbreaks; (2) place in the reserve any land posing an on-farm or off-farm threat to water quality; (3) provide for protection of wetlands; (4) establish penalties for producers of price-supported non-basic agricultural commodities or beneficiaries of such price supports (sodbusters and swampbusters) who violate conservation requirements; (5) prohibit the use of certain loans to manipulate a wetland, especially to impair waterflow; and (6) provide tree planting incentives. Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to extend the Great Plains conservation program. Title XI: International Programs - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) continue the targeted export assistance program at the current authorization level; and (2) extend the short-term export credit and export enhancement programs through 1995. Extends through 1995: (1) the intermediate export credit program under the Food for Peace Act of 1966; and (2) the food security wheat reserve under the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980. Title XII: Crop Disaster Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the marketing quota program for rice beginning with the 1991 crop. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make disaster payments available to producers of crops previously covered by Federal crop insurance in counties where the average yield is less than 65 percent of the normal harvested yield. Limits payments to losses exceeding 40 percent of the normal harvested yield. Title XIII: Food and Consumer Services - Subtitle A: Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program - Extends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 through 1995. Subtitle B: Food Stamp Act of 1977 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) the authorization of retail food stores; (2) an alternative method of coupon issuance; (3) civil and criminal penalties, including computer fraud penalties; and (4) recipient disqualification. Revises provisions regarding: (1) child support enforcement and assistance to the homeless; and (2) demonstration waiver authority. Revises the household declaration procedure. Establishes a permanent authorization of appropriations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to reauthorize the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs through 1995. Requires commodity recipients on Indian reservations to furnish Social Security numbers. Provides for advance funding for State option contracts. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to repeal the requirement of an annual displacement report. Title XIV: Farm Credit - Subtitle A: Farmers Home Administration - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to limit direct Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) operating loans to seven years and to existing borrowers and beginning farmers. Revises provisions for direct and guaranteed farm ownership loans. Restricts eligibility for debt write-downs to loans made in 1987. Requires borrowers to deal in good faith with FmHA to receive buy-outs. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Credit Provisions - Revises provisions for: (1) limited resource interest rates; (2) disaster loans to entity applicants; (3) debt settlement; (4) certification of loan eligibility; (5) the deadline for the Secretary's approval or disapproval of community and business program applications; and (6) the leaseback or buyback of nonfarm collateral. Title XV: Science and Education - Subtitle A: Amendments to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to: (1) extend through 1995 the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board, and the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board; (2) revise the food and agricultural sciences education grant and fellowship program, including creation of National Food and Agricultural Sciences Teaching Awards; and (3) authorize appropriations. Declares the policy of the United States regarding water quality, food safety, and global change. Directs the Secretary to take an active research role in such areas, and to conduct comprehensive and integrated programs in environment and natural resources education. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to develop industrial products for agricultural materials. Establishes the National Agricultural Library. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends Federal law to revise: (1) the competitive, special, and facilities research grants program; and (2) the sustainable agricultural research and education program. Subtitle C: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this title. Title XVI: Marketing and Inspection - Subtitle A: Marketing Order Assessment Violations - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to subject handlers to specified administrative penalties for violating any provision of a handling order which calls for payment of a pro rata share of expenses. Subtitle B: Aflatoxin Testing - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to prohibit the export of any corn which has not been tested for aflatoxin. Subtitle C: Federal Milk Orders - Amends various specified Federal laws with respect to milk orders. Title XVII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Investment of Certain Fees - Amends various specified Federal laws with respect to the investment in public debt securities of certain collected fees. Subtitle B: Animal Health Protection - Animal Health Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit or restrict the importation or entry of any animal, article, or means of conveyance where necessary to prevent the introduction or dissemination of any communicable disease or pest of livestock or birds into or within the United States. Makes special conditions in the case of rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease. Authorizes the Secretary to make similar prohibitions or restrictions relating to the export or interstate transportation of such commodities. Provides for seizures, quarantines, disposals, and extraordinary emergencies. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out measures to detect, control, and eradicate any communicable animal disease or pest. Provides for cooperation with other Federal, State, local, and foreign agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe and collect fees for carrying out this Act. Provides for enforcement of its provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish technical and scientific review groups to advise on animal health and quarantine issues. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Plant Health Protection - Plant Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary to require issuance of a permit establishing conditions for transport into the United States of any plant, plant product, or article if necessary to prevent introduction of a plant pest. Prohibits the transportation of plant pests without a permit. Requires notification of the Secretary by the Secretary of the Treasury of the arrival and inspection before transport of any plant, plant product, or plant pest. Provides for restrictions on the movement of such commodities, remedial measures, disposals, and extraordinary emergencies. Provides for inspections, seizures, quarantines, and warrants. Provides for cooperation with other Federal, State, local, and foreign agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to provide phytosanitary certificates for the export of plants or plant products. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe and collect fees for services performed under this Act. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violation of this Act and provides for enforcement of its provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish technical and scientific review groups to advise on plant health and quarantine issues. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2284 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "light butter" and "reduced fat butter" as being a product with the same appearance as butter but with at least one-third fewer calories, made from milk or cream, with 52 percent milk fat, and meeting other requirements. Specifies optional ingredients.
Bill· SS. 2276 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Soil and Water Improvement and Maintenance Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through crop year 1995. Provides for the enrollment of: (1) environmentally sensitive lands; and (2) lands that border production fields and are near streams or rivers. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to count as two acres for acreage base purposes each acre of land removed from production under an acreage reduction program and used for surface reservoirs.
Bill· SS. 2272 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Foods for Special Dietary Use Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude foods for special dietary use from certain portions of the definition of the term drug. Prohibits the classification of such foods as drugs when offered or employed for specified purposes.
Bill· SS. 2266 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Agricultural Export Enhancement Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Export Market Research Loan Program, administered through the Foreign Agricultural Service, to make loans to eligible entities to perform research directed at expanding agricultural export markets. Requires the Secretary to establish the New Market Task Force to develop foreign market development strategy, coordinate and disseminate information, advise and educate such entities, concerning agricultural export markets and domestic trade programs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary for FY 1991 through 1995 to use a specified amount of funds, or commodities owned by, the Commodity Credit Corporation for targeted export activities designed to develop new foreign markets for agricultural products. Requires the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service to report to specified congressional committees: (1) any recommendations about proposed locations of New Agricultural Trade Offices and proposed fund uses; (2) estimated personnel and appropriations needs of such offices; and (3) an analysis of the Service's hiring ceiling. Requires the Secretary of State to permit the Agricultural Trade Offices to employ necessary personnel even if their employment exceeds embassy personnel limits. Requires the Secretary to establish a Processed Products Export Enhancement Program providing agricultural commodities acquired by the Corporation to U.S. exporters, users, and processors and foreign purchasers at no cost. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to extend the authority of the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund through October 1, 1995.
Bill· SS. 2259 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Agricultural Research and Extension Planning, Priority Setting, and Technology Assessment Act of 1990 - Title I: Priorities for Agricultural Research and Extension System - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to declare that the primary purpose of Federal involvement in both basic and applied agricultural research and extension activities shall be to: (1) enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of the food production and agricultural system of the United States; and (2) best ensure that it maximizes competitiveness and the social, environmental, human health, and food security interests of the United States. Sets forth specific emphases for agricultural research programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations interpreting and applying the purposes of this Act. Requires any proposal for a project that would be federally funded at $10,000 or more to identify both purposes and specified effects. Title II: Agricultural Research Planning and Priority-Setting Entities - Extends through FY 1995 and revises the membership and responsibilities of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board and the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Joint Council, to establish and oversee an Agricultural Science Technology Review Board which shall conduct technology assessment on research and extension projects to determine their effect on agriculture, the environment, and the social structure of urban and rural communities. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Clearinghouse on Agricultural Scientific Talent to collect and disseminate information on agricultural scientific expertise, research, and technology. Title III: Agricultural Research and Extension Funding Programs - Amends Federal law to revise the competitive grant program for high priority research. Authorizes appropriations, earmarking at least 30 percent for mission-linked applied research projects with a significant extension component. Declares the sense of the Congress: (1) that competitive grant programs should not be funded at the expense of programs; and (2) that such formula grant programs should be funded at a level that will maintain an effective infrastructure to conduct applied agricultural research and technology transfer programs.
Bill· SS. 2255 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that if the Secretary of Agriculture modifies an existing agricultural program: (1) the modification should be designed to have a positive or neutral effect on producer income; and (2) the Secretary should explain the modification's impact on production, marketing, and stock levels. Requires the Secretary to use existing programs to maintain 1990 wheat prices at projected levels.
Bill· SS. 2251 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990
Farm Flexibility Act of 1990 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of wheat recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $4.00 per bushel. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title II: Feed Grains - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of feed grains recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $2.75 per bushel. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title III: Cotton - Subtitle A: Upland Cotton - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of upland cotton recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of three of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), or 90 percent of the average of the five lowest-priced growths of certain European cotton; but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $0.729 per pound. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Requires the President to proclaim a special limited global import quota for upland cotton whenever the average price of Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth inch cotton in designated spot markets for a month exceeds 130 percent of the average price of the quality of cotton in those markets for the preceding 36 months. Subtitle B: Extra Long Staple Cotton - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of extra long staple cotton recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $0.981 per pound. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title IV: Rice - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of rice recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $10.71 per hundredweight. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title V: Oilseeds - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of: (1) soybeans loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop; and (2) sunflower seeds at such level as the Secretary determines, taking into account certain factors. Provides for: (1) deficiency payments for sunflowers; and (2) graduated payments for oilseeds generally (soybeans, sunflower seeds, flax, safflower, and rapeseed). Title VI: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Farm Acreage Bases and Nonprogram Crops - Requires the Secretary to establish a farm acreage base for each farm. Permits producers to plant and harvest nonprogram crops on a farm on acreage included in the farm acreage base if the producers forfeit program payments prorated according to a certain formula. Authorizes county committees to require planting and production histories from producers seeking to establish farm acreage bases. Permits committees to provide for establishment of bases in their counties if the bases cannot be established otherwise. Subtitle B: Diversion Payments - Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments if they will not undermine U.S. agricultural competitiveness or lead to lower world market shares of affected commodities. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the: (1) Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to payment limitation; and (2) Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to advance deficiency and diversion payments, Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions (establishing a minimum at the lower of 115 percent of the support price or of the loan repayment level), the producer reserve program for wheat and feed grains, and advance program announcement. Subtitle D: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Agricultural Act of 1949. Subtitle E: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this title. Title VII: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through 1997. Requires the Secretary to include in the reserve program: (1) land that is not highly erodible but nonetheless poses an on-farm or off-farm environmental threat; (2) wetlands; and (3) shelterbelts and windbreaks. Directs the Secretary to pay for 50 percent of the reasonable and necessary costs incurred by an owner who has contracted to maintain new hardwood tree plantings on conservation reserve land. Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on means of allowing cropland subject to expiring conservation reserve contracts to be used according to its highest sustainable use.
Bill· HRH.R. 4218 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990
Environmental Reserve Program Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to identify hydric soils and hydrophytic vegetation. Directs the Secretary, during the 1991 through 1995 crop period, to carry out an environmental reserve program to assist owners and operators of eligible lands in improving soil, water, and wildlife habitat resources. Provides for program cost-sharing and rental payments. Authorizes tree planting and low impact economic activities as program components. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4189 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to 1991 through 1995 acreage bases and program yields for wheat, feed grains, upland and extra long staple cotton, or rice to: (1) provide for (ten percent maximum) crop base adjustments (to be offset by equivalent downward adjustments of other crop acreage bases); (2) base a farm's crop acreage base on the three preceding crop years; (3) base a farm's payment yield on the five preceding crop years actual yields; and (4) eliminate cross and offset compliance requirements.
Bill· SS. 2234 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1990
Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1995.
Bill· HRH.R. 4156 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Boards - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Directs the Secretary to issue organic production and handling orders which shall: (1) establish the Initial Organic Delegate Body which shall elect the Initial National Organic Board and the Initial Organic Standards Board; and (2) provide for the election of the National Organic Assembly. Establishes: (1) an Initial National Organic Board; and (2) an Initial Organic Standards Board. Directs the National Organic Assembly to elect members to serve on the National Organic Board and the Organic Standards Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) two experimental agricultural product labels for Program use. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4161 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to recalculate advance deficiency payment refunds to be made by producers of the 1988 or 1989 feed barley crops. Directs the Secretary to allow similar payments owed by 1988 or 1989 wheat, feed grain, rice, or upland cotton producers to be made in interest- and penalty-free installments.
Bill· SS. 2188 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Rural Health and Safety Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for the establishment of: (1) individual and family health education programs with specified contents; (2) rural health leadership development education programs to assist rural communities in developing health care services and facilities and assist community leaders and public officials in understanding their roles and responsibilities; and (3) farm safety education programs to provide information and training to farm workers, timber harvesters, and farm families. Requires: (1) these grants to be coordinated with the State offices of rural health; (2) educational programs conducted with these grants to provide leadership within the State for the dissemination of rural health and safety information resources possessed by the Rural Information Center established at the National Agricultural Library; and (3) in States with land-grant colleges and universities that are eligible to receive funds under specified Acts, that such institutions mutually determine the type of health and safety education program needed in the State. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the funds to be distributed on a competitive or matching fund basis according to specified criteria.
Bill· HRH.R. 4110 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act - Title I: Reducing Childhood Hunger - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise and increase the excess shelter expense deduction for each fiscal year from FY 1991 through FY 1993. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the basic benefit level upwards by specified increments at the beginning of each fiscal year from FY 1991 through FY 1995 until it reaches 105 percent of the cost of the thrifty food plan. Directs the Secretary by regulation to provide for emergency allotments to eligible households to replace food lost in a disaster. Excludes from the computation of household income any State allowance (provided at least annually) for obtaining school clothes for children in school or child care. Provides for allotment increases to cover State or local sales taxes for participants in demonstration projects. Requires alternative systems for delivery or use of food stamp benefits to meet standards issued by the Secretary and, where household participation is not optional, to involve retail food stores serving minority populations, but only if necessary special equipment is operational at all registers. Provides food stamp coverage for prepared meals for homeless households. Permits State agencies to develop standard estimates of the shelter and related expenses which homeless households may reasonably be expected to incur in order to certify such households based on reported expenses not exceeding such an estimate. Title II: Promoting Self-Sufficiency - Excludes the first $50 a month received as child support from consideration as income in determining the food stamp allotments of households also receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits. Increases from $4,500 to $5,500 from January 1 through September 30, 1991, with annual cost-of-living adjustments to follow, the limit on the fair market value of vehicles that food stamp recipients may own. Directs the Secretary to conduct a sufficient number of demonstration projects to evaluate the effects of excluding from such vehicle calculation the value of: (1) any licensed vehicle used for certain income-producing, transportation, or shelter purposes; and (2) one licensed vehicle used for job-related or job-seeking purposes (including commuting), for pursuing education or training, or for securing food or food stamp benefits. Allows States to use their own agency-designed forms instead of forms approved by the Secretary. Directs State agencies to allow a household to select an adult parent of children in the household as its head where all adult household members agree to do so. Allows four States to give priority in the provision of services to voluntary participants (including both exempt and nonexempt), so long as performance standards are maintained. Authorizes an employment and training program to contain programs designed to increase the self-sufficiency of recipients through self-employment. Excludes from the computation of household financial resources any nonliquid resources necessary to allow the household to carry out an approved plan for self-sufficiency. Increases from $25 to $75 the limit for reimbursements to recipients for costs incurred in employment and training activities. Permits otherwise eligible persons who attend an institution of higher learning to receive food stamp benefits if he or she: (1) attends the institution as part of an employment and training program; or (2) is over 50, registered for employment, and subject to employment or training requirements. Revises the exclusion of educational expenses from the computation of household incomes. Excludes from the computation of household incomes housing assistance payments made to a third party on behalf of a household residing in transitional housing for the homeless. Title III: Simplifying Program Administration - Requires parents and children (regardless of age) who live together to apply for food stamps as a single household. Directs the Secretary to conduct five demonstration projects, in both rural and urban areas, under which households in which each member receives AFDC benefits shall receive monthly food stamp allotments following AFDC rules and procedures, without regard to the eligibility, benefit, and administrative rules of the food stamp program. Requires the Secretary to issue rules under which State agencies must develop standards for identifying (for exclusion as inaccessible resources) those kinds of resources the household is unlikely to sell for any significant return because its interest is so slight or the cost of selling would be so great. Provides that a food stamp office need not consider any resources that the AFDC or supplemental security income benefit programs have already determined to be exempt. Directs State agencies to require only one adult representative of a household to sign all declarations required in the application process on behalf of the household. Makes recipients of State or local general assistance programs categorically eligible for food stamps. Reduces from 30 to ten days the deadline for households convicted of food stamp fraud to decide how to repay their over issuances. Establishes a Commission on the Coordination of Family Support and Food Stamp Policies to report to the President and the Congress on AFDC and food stamp program policies, recommending how to eliminate barriers to participation in both programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Hunger in Rural America - Requires State agencies to designate rural project areas where low-income persons face substantial difficulties in getting transportation. Requires issuance of coupons by mail in such areas, except where households experience mail losses exceeding certain levels. Allows States to assist households with the food stamp application process. Directs the Secretary to exclude from financial resources the value of a vehicle a household depends upon to carry heating fuel or water for home use where it has no other access to fuel or water. Title V: Promoting Access for the Elderly and Disabled - Declares that State agencies, with respect to the excess medical deduction for the elderly and the disabled, shall not require further verification of a change in medical expenses if the change has been anticipated for the verification period. Requires annual adjustments to the value of the minimum food stamp benefit. Permits State agencies to establish a procedure allowing households whose regular food stamp benefits do not exceed $20 per month to receive up to $60 worth for intervals of up to three months. Requires that any applicant for or recipient of supplemental security income benefits be informed of the availability of food stamp benefits. Title VI: Program Administration by State Agencies - Prohibits the application of disallowances for erroneous issuances or similar actions to any State for a fiscal year before FY 1991. Directs the Secretary, by specified deadlines, to develop standards for initial approval of automated data processing and information retrieval systems for State agencies, as well as written procedures and standards for initial and continued approval reviews. Sets alternative deadlines for full operation of such systems, the later being September 30, 1993. Provides for waivers of ADC system requirements where their application would not significantly improve the efficiency of a State agency's administration. Title VII: Reauthorization of Programs - Reauthorizes through FY 1995: (1) the food stamp program; (2) the nutrition assistance program for Puerto Rico; (3) the temporary emergency food assistance program under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; (4) the soup kitchen and food bank programs under the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988; (5) the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs under the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973; (6) the distribution of surplus commodities to special nutrition projects under the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981; and (7) the nutrition education program under the Food Security Act of 1985. Title VIII - Amends the Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987 to require biennial reports to the Congress on food bank projects. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to establish a Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the Elderly. Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to set forth the National Gleaning Clearinghouse Act of 1990. Establishes a National Gleaning Clearinghouse to share information on available, unused food that could be distributed through the emergency feeding network. Title IX: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates of provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4114 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take into account the verified planting intentions of soybean producers in determining prevented planting credit. Requires verification in the form of documents of loan approval and receipt, a disaster credit application, or a forward contract.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 346 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Makes available from the contingency fund of the House of Representatives certain amounts for expenditures by the following House committees in the second session of the 101st Congress: Aging; Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; Children, Youth, and Families; District of Columbia; Education and Labor; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration, including the House Information Systems; Hunger; Intelligence; Interior and Insular Affairs; Judiciary; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Narcotics Abuse and Control; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Rules; Science, Space, and Technology; Small Business; Standards of Official Conduct; Veterans' Affairs; and Ways and Means. Limits the use of such funds to investigations and studies, including procurement of consultant services and specialized training for professional staff. Directs the Committee on House Administration, through the House Information Systems, to develop, operate, and improve computer and information services for the House of Representatives.
Law· HRH.R. 4099 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1990
Makes specified marketing quotas provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 inapplicable to the 1991 wheat crop.
Bill· HRH.R. 4077 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act with regard to Farmers Home Administration loans to repeal the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture sell inventory farmland to family farmers at a price reflective of the land's anticipated average income. Requires borrower good faith with regard to loan eligibility or farmland purchase. Authorizes the Secretary to consider all the assets of a borrower in calculating a restructured loan's value. Limits: (1) each borrower to one write-down; and (2) the total amount of any such write-down. Extends deadlines for loan service applications and application processing.
Bill· HRH.R. 4083 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Butter Competitiveness Act of 1990 - Allows, in the administration of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a product which is made from milk or cream and which contains 52 percent by weight milk fat to be called reduced fat butter.
Bill· HRH.R. 4068 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Advanced Rural Telecommunications and Economic Development Act of 1990 - States that a goal of the Federal Government is to make affordable advanced telecommunications services available to all rural residents by the year 2000. Subtitle A: Rural Education, Health Care, and Business Development - Rural Education, Health Care, and Business Partnership Act of 1990 - Chapter 1: Rural Economic Development and Education Partnership - Directs the Administrator of the Rural Development Administration to make grants to enable rural economic development and education partnerships among rural school districts, institutions of higher education, and regional educational laboratories to carry out rural economic and education projects such as adult literacy programs, training programs for displaced families, day care programs, entrepreneurial activities, and rural distance learning curricula using interactive computer technology. Requires State review panels to rank grant applications based on project feasibility, support of area plans, and duplication of existing services for submission by the State coordinator to the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to review such list and make grants to eligible projects and partnerships. Requires the Administrator to report to specified congressional committees if the Administrator intends to fund projects other than as recommended by the review panel. Requires the Administrator to monitor the use of such grants and to inform providers of educational services in rural areas about the grant program. Requires the Administrator to allot grant funds to States based on the nonurban population, school age population, and total area of each State relative to the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Health Care and Business Development - Requires any entity desiring aid under this chapter to submit an application to its State review panel. Outlines application requirements, including a detailed explanation of the proposed rural telecommunications system and a list of equipment that the applicant proposes to purchase or lease to implement the system. Requires State review panels to rank grant applications based on project feasibility, support for the area plan, and duplication of existing services for submission by the State coordinator to the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to target the benefits of aid under this chapter to the rural areas and applicants that demonstrate the greatest need. Requires the Administrator to report to specified congressional committees if the Administrator intends to fund projects other than as recommended by the review panel. Requires the Administrator to monitor the use of benefit grants. States that the purpose of this section is to provide loan guarantees with respect to loans made to rural providers of medical services in order to improve and increase the use of advanced telecommunications technologies among rural hospitals, rural health care professionals, and rural providers of medical services. Authorizes the Administrator to guarantee the timely repayment of loans made to any provider of medical services which: (1) provides such service in a rural area; and (2) is a hospital or health professional authorized to provide such services in that State. Outlines: (1) maximum loan guarantee amounts; (2) special rules; and (3) prohibitions with respect to the provision of such loan guarantees. Requires the Administrator to inform providers of medical services in rural areas of the availability of the program authorized by this chapter. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Administrator to make loans to one or more businesses and entrepreneurs in rural areas to fund facilities in which the recipients of such loans share telecommunications terminal equipment, computers, software, and computer hardware. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 3: General Provisions - Provides that this Subtitle shall not exempt grant or aid applicants from State or local telecommunications laws except to the extent of any inconsistencies. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Rural Telecommunications Provisions - Rural Telecommunications Act of 1990 - Directs the Administrator to: (1) request the review panel of each State to submit to the Rural Development Administration a report listing the rural areas that will have state-of-the-art telecommunications capability within two years and ranking the areas in the order in which the panel desires data processing firms to locate in such areas; and (2) provide a master list to Federal agencies considering relocating data processing operations. Requires any Federal agency which does not relocate its data processing operation to a rural area selected from such master list to report to specified congressional committees, the Administrator, and the General Services Administration on the reasons for such refusal. Requires the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development to make grants to eligible local governments for the development and installation of emergency public safety telephone answering systems. Limits individual and aggregate grant amounts. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of and evaluate: (1) the availability and effective use of the telephone communications infrastructure by small and large businesses in rural areas; and (2) the achievements and shortcomings of existing programs to improve the rural business environment through telecommunications. Authorizes the Secretary to recommend to the Congress such legislation as will promote rural economic development through advanced telecommunications technology.
Bill· HRH.R. 4094 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Acreage Base and Program Yield Flexibility Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to the 1991 through 1995 acreage base and program yield of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice to: (1) provide for upward crop base adjustments (to be offset by equivalent downward adjustments of other crop acreage bases); (2) permit producers to designate acreage as acreage for program crops in short supply; and (3) permit producers to grow canola or safflowers (in addition to soybeans or sunflowers) on program crop acreage. Bases farm payment yields on actual yields beginning with the 1991 crop year.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 341 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Authorizes amounts for expenses of investigations and studies by the House Committee on Agriculture in the second session of the 101st Congress.
Bill· SS. 2156 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Forestry Conservation and Promotion Act of 1990 - Title I: National Goals for Windbreaks, Shelterbelts, Wildlife Corridors, and Sustainable Agroforestry Systems - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish national goals for windbreaks, shelterbelts, wildlife corridors, and sustainable agroforestry systems. Title II: Coordination and Promotion of Forestry Conservation Programs - Directs the Secretary to establish within the Forest Service an Office of Forestry Conservation and Promotion. Directs such Office to: (1) be the primary coordinator of all Federal, State, local, and private tree planting and forestry conservation and promotion programs; (2) provide technical assistance to State and local programs; (3) establish State windbreak and shelterbelt planning committees; and (4) establish a National Clearinghouse on Forestry Conservation and Promotion. Establishes an Advisory Council on Forestry Conservation and Promotion. Title III: Agroforestry Research - Directs the Secretary to establish a Center for Semiarid Agroforestry Research, Development, and Demonstration at the Forest Service facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska. Title IV: Programs to Promote Tree Planting and Windbreak and Shelterbelt Establishment and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP). Establishes a minimum CRP tree acreage. Makes cropland devoted to shelterbelts, windbreaks, or wildlife corridors eligible for the CRP regardless of its soil erosion classification. Provides Federal cost sharing assistance to establish and maintain such areas. Provides for the inclusion in the CRP of uncropped wetlands, marginal pastureland, and grasslands planted to trees. Provides cost sharing adjustments for areas with less than 25 inches of annual precipitation. Subtitle B: Agricultural Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to establish a cost-sharing shelterbelt or windbreak program under the agricultural conservation program. Subtitle C: Great Plains Conservation Program - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to establish a cost-sharing shelterbelt or windbreak program under the Great Plains conservation program.
Bill· HRH.R. 4042 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Sugar Equity and Reform Act of 1990 - Title I: Sugar Price Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to support the price of each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of domestically grown sugarcane through six-month nonrecourse loans, with the loan rate for raw cane sugar at 95 percent of the rate announced for the preceding crop year. Requires the loan rate for sugar beets to be fair and reasonable in relation to the rate for sugarcane. Title II: Regulation of Sugar Imports - Prescribes policy for the regulation of sugar imports, including quotas and lowest tariff rates. Directs the Secretary to announce a market stabilization price and a threshold price for raw sugar no later than 30 days before the beginning of the October 1, 1991, sugar marketing year. Requires the President to maintain the market price for raw sugar at or near the market stabilization price through imposition of tariff rate import quotas on various sugar products. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal the mandate to operate the sugar program at no cost to the Government by preventing the accumulation of sugar acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through sugar loan forfeitures. Repeals the requirement that a sugar exporting country verify that it does not import Cuban sugar for reexport to the United States.
Bill· SS. 2147 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Agricultural Trade Promotion Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to declare that with respect to the Commodity Credit Corporation program for the development of foreign markets for U.S. agricultural products, the Secretary of Agriculture shall require the U.S. exporter, user, or processor, or foreign purchaser of such products to submit evidence of the sales contract for their purchase. Requires the Secretary to take the freight costs of such products into consideration when carrying out such program. Extends the program through FY 1995 and sets new funding levels. Extends the targeted export assistance program through FY 1995. Requires the Secretary or the Corporation to provide such assistance on a priority basis with respect to agricultural commodities that have received a favorable decision under the Trade Act of 1974 with regard to unfair foreign trade practices or products adversely affected by retaliatory actions related to a favorable decision. Sets forth additional considerations in the provision of export assistance, cash contribution requirements for recipients, and fund expenditure evaluation requirements. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the cooperator market development program of the Foreign Agricultural Service should be continued; (2) such program should be funded at a certain level through FY 1995; and (3) the Service should give high priority to market development in Eastern Europe. Sets forth: (1) factors the Corporation shall take into account in making short-term export credit guarantees; and (2) minimum guarantee levels through FY 1995. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to set forth eligibility criteria for short- or intermediate-term export credit guarantees. Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1995 the Secretary of Agriculture's mandate to purchase sunflower seed oil and cottonseed oil for export sales at competitive prices. Allows producers of wheat or feed grains, under certain circumstances, to repay price support loans at a lower loan rate or the prevailing world market price of such crops. Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to extend the Agricultural Export Credit Revolving Fund through FY 1995. Directs the Corporation to provide a program where commercial export credit guarantees are blended with direct credits from it to reduce the effective interest rate on export sales of U.S. agricultural commodities to emerging democratic nations. Authorizes funding for such program through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to establish a fellowship program for persons from middle-income countries and emerging democracies who specialize in agriculture for study in the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to make middle-income countries and emerging democracies eligible for assistance to help increase their food production under the farmer-to-farmer program. Declares it to be the policy of the United States: (1) to foster the export of agricultural commodities and their products; (2) not to restrict the export of such commodities except under compelling circumstances; (3) that any prohibition on the export of such commodities should be imposed only in time of a national emergency; and (4) that contracts for the export of such commodities entered into before imposition of such prohibition should not be abrogated.
Bill· SS. 2146 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make disaster assistance loans to small business concerns within drought disaster areas, without regard to whether such a concern's economic loss is directly related to agricultural production losses. Imposes a civil penalty for wrongful misapplication of loan proceeds.
Law· HRH.R. 4010 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1990
Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, independently or in cooperation with a foreign government or international entity, to produce and sell sterile screwworms for foreign use if U.S. livestock and related industries will not be adversely affected. Adds to existing law the title "Animal Disease Control Cooperation Act of 1947."
Bill· SS. 2108 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) a national organic production certification program; (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products; (3) a national list of approved and prohibited substances to be included in the organic production standards; and (4) a certifying agent accreditation program. Authorizes State organic certification programs. Sets forth: (1) prohibited crop production practices and materials; (2) animal production practices and materials; (3) processing and marketing requirements; and (4) violations of this Act and related penalties. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Boards - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Directs the Secretary to issue organic production and handling orders which shall: (1) establish the Initial Organic Delegate Body which shall elect the Initial National Organic Board and the Initial Organic Standards Board; and (2) provide for the election of the National Organic Assembly. Establishes: (1) an Initial National Organic Board; and (2) an Initial Organic Standards Board. Directs the National Organic Assembly to elect members to serve on the National Organic Board and the Organic Standards Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) two experimental agricultural product labels for Program use. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: National Laboratory Accreditation - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test for residues in agricultural products; and (2) establish minimum standards with regard to quality assurance, equipment, methodologies, and personnel. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2118 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to consider damaged crops and spring replacement crops as separate crops for disaster assistance purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 4007 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Food Stamp Trafficking Prevention and Penalty Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require retail and wholesale food concerns participating in the food stamp program to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with their Internal Revenue Service taxpayer identifying numbers. Makes it unlawful to launder funds obtained from food stamp coupon trafficking. Provides for civil and criminal forfeiture and property disposition for violating this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4004 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Bovine Growth Hormone Moratorium Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to prohibit the sale of milk produced by cows injected with bovine growth hormone. Requires a person who sells or injects bovine growth hormone to maintain records as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out a bovine growth hormone study.
Bill· HRH.R. 3989 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Target Price Adjustment Act of 1990 - Provides for 1991 through 1995 target price adjustments for crops of wheat, feed grains, and all other program crops to reflect farm production costs.
Bill· HRH.R. 3997 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
National Forest-Dependent Rural Communities Economic Diversification Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, upon a rural community's request, to establish a rural forestry and economic diversification action team to develop a plan to promote economic diversification and enhance local economies dependent upon national forest resources. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to economically disadvantaged rural communities for related purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 3973 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Makes farm operators with gross incomes or farm entities with gross receipts exceeding specified amounts ineligible for agricultural payments (except disaster assistance) under the Agricultural Act of 1949.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 474 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates March 20, 1990, as National Agriculture Day.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 333 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Authorizes amounts for expenses of investigations and studies by the House Committee on Agriculture in the second session of the 101st Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 3950 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Food and Agricultural Resources Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend milk price support and price reduction authorities through 1995. Extends authority through 1995 for: (1) the transfer of dairy products to the military and veterans' hospitals; and (2) the dairy indemnity program. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend wool price support authority through 1995. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend wheat loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title IV: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend feed grain loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title V: Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend cotton loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, land diversion, and skiprow authorities through 1995. Title VI: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 149 to extend rice loan rate, target price, disaster payment, acreage limitation, and land diversion authorities through 1995. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend through the 1995 peanut crop year authorities for suspension of marketing quotas and acreage allotments, national and farm poundage quotas, sale or transfer of farm poundage quotas, marketing penalties, and disposition of additional peanuts. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend peanut price support authority through 1995. Title VIII: Soybeans - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend soybean price support authority through 1995. Title IX: Sugar - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend sugar price support authority through 1995. Title X: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend agricultural payment limitation authority through 1995. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) deficiency and diversion payments; (2) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) sales price restrictions; (3) supplemental set-aside and acreage limitations; and (4) advance program announcements. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) disaster payments for peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, and sugarcane; (2) multiyear set-aside contracts; and (3) normal supply determinations. Amends the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980 to extend authority for the wheat reserve through 1995. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend authority for the National Agricultural Cost of Production Standards Review Board through 1995. Subtitle B: Uniform Base Acreage and Yield Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the acreage bases and program yields for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice. Subtitle C: Honey - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend honey price support authority through 1995. Title XI: Trade - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) local currency sales; (2) private enterprise promotion; and (3) sales and assistance agreements. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend authority for furnishing agricultural commodities to developing and friendly countries through 1995. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authorities through 1995 for: (1) the farmer-to-farmer program; (2) the food for progress program; (3) the targeted export assistance program; and (4) the short-term export credit program. Directs the CCC to provide commodity export enhancement assistance through FY 1995. Title XII: Conservation - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend authority for the conservation reserve program through 1995. Title XIII: Research - Amends Federal law to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for agricultural research facilities grants and competitive research grants. Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for grants to financially stressed farmers, dislocated farmers, and rural families. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) grants to support higher education in the food and agricultural sciences; (2) animal health and disease research; (3) animal health and disease national or regional research; (4) agricultural research; (5) extension education; (6) aquaculture; (7) rangeland research; and (8) dairy goat research. Authorizes expenditures for agricultural technology research through 1995. Extends authority through FY 1995 for supplemental and alternative crops research and pilot programs. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) grants to upgrade 1890 land-grant college extension facilities; (2) acquisition, construction, and repair of Federal agricultural research facilities; and (3) market expansion research. Title XIV: Food Stamp and Related Provisions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to allocate funds for employment training through 1995. Extends pilot project authority through 1995. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1995 for: (1) the food stamp program; and (2) block grants to Puerto Rico. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act to extend authorities for the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs through FY 1995. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend authority through 1995 for surplus commodities to nutrition projects program reprocessing agreements. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to reauthorize and extend the termination for such Act through FY 1995. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize appropriations for nutrition education through FY 1995.
Bill· SS. 2055 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend eligibility for reimbursement for meal supplements for children in afterschool care.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 465 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Designates chili as the official food of the United States.
Bill· SS. 2024 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Agriculture and Ground Water Policy Research and Education Coordination Act - Title I: Ground Water Policy - Sets forth the groundwater policy of the Department of Agriculture (the Department) with respect to agrichemicals. Establishes the Office of Ground Water Policy Coordination (the Office) in the Department. Establishes an interagency committee on groundwater policy in the Department. Requires the Director of the Office to establish technical advisory committees, as necessary. Requires the Director to formalize the existence of certain technical integration groups. Authorizes the Director to establish interagency technical support committees. Provides for the development and implementation of agricultural groundwater policy within the Department, including an agency-specific groundwater policy statement and implementation plan, a national agricultural groundwater plan, and an annual groundwater activities report. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Coordination with State Programs - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to require the establishment of State groundwater coordination committees (the committees) within the food and agricultural councils. Directs the Secretary to establish, through the Extension Service, a groundwater supply quality coordinator (the coordinator) in each State extension service. Directs each State committee and coordinator to work with Federal, State, and other appropriate entities to: (1) evaluate the State's groundwater plan's adequacy in addressing agricultural sources of nonpoint source pollutants; (2) review the relevance of certain water quality protection projects to groundwater protection programs; (3) assess the identification and mapping of hydrologic units; and (4) assess the adequacy of the State's programs for addressing agricultural sources of groundwater contamination. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Extension and Education - Subtitle A: Pesticide Education - Directs the Secretary to establish within the Extension Service a National Pesticide Education Program. Subtitle B: National Nutrient Management Education Program - Directs the Secretary to establish within the Extension Service a National Nutrient Management Education Program. Subtitle C: Household Chemicals, Pesticides, and Fertilizers - Directs the Secretary to establish within the Extension Service: (1) a National Education Program for the Management of Household Chemicals, Pesticides, and Fertilizers; and (2) a Household Chemicals, Pesticides, and Fertilizer Advisory Council. Subtitle D: National Water Quality Management Education Programs - Directs the Secretary to establish within the Extension Service a National Education Program for the Management of Water Resources which shall include: (1) well water testing; (2) water utilization; and (3) staff training. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Soil Conservation Service - Requires the Soil Conservation Service to protect and improve groundwater quality through specified activities. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Research of the Department of Agriculture - Directs the Secretary to conduct or assist research on specified topics relating to agriculture and groundwater. Requires each State coordinator to request appropriate representative Federal, State, and university scientists to work with the State committee and coordinator to establish a prioritized agriculture and groundwater research agenda for the State. Provides for coordination of such State agendas in establishing a prioritized research agenda for regional projects. Requires the Director to use regional reports in establishing a national agricultural groundwater plan, developing funding priorities in Department water quality research programs, and requesting certain research proposals. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: National Agricultural and Ground Water Clearinghouse - Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Agricultural Library (the Library) to establish at the Library a repository of reports developed under this Act. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Library and in consultation with the Tennessee Valley Authority, to establish at the Library a data base on State programs and State laws relating to groundwater quality and agriculture. Requires the Director of the Library to collaborate with the Director of the Office, State coordinators, and Federal and State departmental agency administrators to develop a standardized format for the entry and description of State programs, activities, and results. Requires the Director of the Office to report to the Congress on measures necessary to develop a national data base on agricultural practices and groundwater resources, to be located at the Library. Directs the Secretary, after the submission of such report, to initiate the development of such data base. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 240 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates the week of June 10 through June 16, 1990, as Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Week.