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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-676
RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NA-
TIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS AND THEIR COM-
MITMENT TO OUR LANDS
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H. Res. 641]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
resolution (H. Res. 641) recognizing and celebrating the 75th anni-
versary of the National Association of Conservation Districts and
their commitment to our lands, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the resolution be agreed to.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H. Res. 641 is to recognize and celebrate the 75th
anniversary of the National Association of Conservation Districts
and their commitment to our lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Conservation districts are local units of government established
by state laws to coordinate conservation, land and water resource
protection, and natural resource management activities on public
and private lands. Conservation districts originated in the 1930s
with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's recommendation that
all states adopt the Standard State Soil Conservation Districts Act
to improve soil and water conservation. North Carolina's Brown
Creek Soil and Water Conservation District was the first district,
established in 1937.1 There are now 2,959 conservation districts in
the United States.2
The National Association of Conservation Districts is a nonprofit
organization representing all conservation districts in the U.S. and
has existed since 1946. H. Res. 641 is a resolution that recognizes
'National Association of Conservation Districts. NACD History. https://www.nacdnet.org/
about-nacd/nacd-history/.
2National Association of Conservation Districts. NACD About. https://www.nacdnet.org/about-
nacd/about-districts/.
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