Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act
This bill requires the Natural Resources Conservation Service within the Department of Agriculture to consider climate benefits, such as reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, in reviews or revisions of its conservation practice standards. (These standards provide guidance and set out minimum quality criteria for implementing federally funded conservation practices.)
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the 
  national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration 
               climate benefits, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Climate Agricultural Conservation 
Practices Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF CLIMATE BENEFITS IN CONSERVATION PRACTICE 
              STANDARDS.

    Section 1242(h) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3842(h)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``1 year after 
                the date of enactment of the Agriculture Improvement 
                Act of 2018'' and inserting ``5 years after the date of 
                enactment of the Climate Agricultural Conservation 
                Practices Act'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (C) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) evaluate the climate benefits of the 
                standards.'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ``conservation 
        innovations and'' and inserting ``climate benefits, 
        conservation innovations, and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Climate benefit defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term `climate benefit' means--
                    ``(A) a reduction in agricultural greenhouse gas 
                emissions;
                    ``(B) an increase in carbon sequestration; or
                    ``(C) mitigation against, or adaptation to, 
                increased weather volatility.''.
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Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act
To require the Natural Resources Conservation Service to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration climate benefits, and for other purposes.
Climate Agricultural Conservation Practices Act
Rep. Brownley, Julia