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B-331602 1 (2019-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeakh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cKO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 B-331602 November 26, 2019 The Honorable Pat Roberts Chairman The Honorable Debbie Stabenow Ranking Member Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate The Honorable Collin C. Peterson Chairman The Honorable K. Michael Conaway Ranking Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Subject: Department of Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation: Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Interim Rule Pursuant to section 801 (a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) entitled Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Interim Rule (RIN: 0578-AA67). We received the rule on November 12, 2019. It was published in the Federal Register as an interim rule on November 12, 2019. 84 Fed. Reg. 60883. The effective date of the rule is November 12, 2019. The interim rule with request for comment amends the existing regulation for CSP to incorporate programmatic changes as authorized by amendments in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Pub. L. No. 115-334, 132 Stat. 4490 (2018) (2018 Farm Bill). Among other things, this rule (1) defines new terms and adjusts existing terms, such as expanding the definition of conservation activities and defining the term comprehensive conservation plan; (2) revises the CSP ranking criteria and requires that both new contracts and contract renewals be ranked based on those criteria; (3) provides opportunity for participants to renew their contracts in the first half of the fifth year of the 5-year contract; (4) bases program allocations on funds rather than acres and eliminates the requirement the program be administered at $18 per acre average nationally; and (5) incentivizes certain activities, including authorizing payment for cover crop activities at not less than 125 percent of the annual payment amount and authorizing a supplemental payment for advanced grazing management or resource-conserving crop rotations at not less than 150 percent of the annual payment amount. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) requires a 60-day delay in the effective date of a major rule from the date of publication in the Federal Register or receipt of the rule by Congress, whichever is later. 5 U.S.C. § 801(a)(3)(A). The 60-day delay in effective date can be waived, however, if the agency finds that delay is impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest, and the agency incorporates a statement of the findings and its reasons in the rule

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