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Creates a Chesapeake Bay States Partnership Initiative to fund and coordinate agricultural conservation in the Bay watershed, strengthens measurement/reporting and protects producer privacy, and updates conservation programs to broaden eligibility and streamline enrollment. It also establishes a turnkey riparian buffer pilot, authorizes new recurring workforce development funding for food and agricultural sciences, grants limited direct‑hire authority to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for technical staff, and transfers inspection responsibility for two invasive catfish species from USDA to FDA with deadlines for an MOU and final regulations.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Introduced March 11, 2025 by Christopher Van Hollen · Last progress March 11, 2025