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EQIP Improvement Act of 2023

This bill amends the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to reduce and remove certain payment requirements. (EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns.)

Specifically, the bill

reduces the maximum payments available to a person or legal entity under EQIP to $150,000 per five-year period (from the current level of $450,000), thereby allowing for an increase in the overall number of participants in the program;
reduces federal cost sharing to 40% (from 75%) for the costs associated with planning, installation, or maintenance for specified conservation practices (e.g., access roads, dams, and waste storage facilities); and
removes a requirement that 50% of EQIP funding payments go to livestock production programs.

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
Mar. 06 2023	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
Mar. 06 2023	Introduced in Senate

Senate bill S658-118

EQIP Improvement Act of 2023

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