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B-331756 1 (2020-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeape0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cIAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 B-331756 January 23, 2020 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: Environmental Quality Incentives Program 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 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (RIN: 0578-AA68). We received the rule on January 10, 2020. It was published in the Federal Register as an interim rule on December 17, 2019. 84 Fed. Reg. 69272. The effective date of the rule is December 17, 2019. The interim rule makes changes to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to conform to changes made by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the Act). Pub. L. No. 115-334, 132 Stat. 4490 (2018). The Act made several changes to EQIP as described in the rule. For instance, the Act makes a state, irrigation district, groundwater management district, acequia, land grant-mercedes, or similar entity eligible for EQIP payments. The Act also requires targeting of at least 10 percent of EQIP funds to wildlife conservation practices, reduces EQIP funds targeted for livestock to 50 percent, and creates various incentives to address resource concerns in identified watersheds and other high priority areas. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) requires a 60-day delay in the effective date of a major rule from the 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. § 80(a)(3)(A). The 60-day delay in effective date can be waived, however, if the agency finds for good cause 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 issued. 5 U.S.C. § 808(2). CCC determined due to the nature of the rule, the mandatory requirements of the Act, and the need to implement the regulations expeditiously to provide assistance to producers, the 60-day delay is contrary to the public interest. CCC made the rule effective upon publication in the Federal Register.

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