H.R. 5316 · 114th Congress
Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act
Key: what the circles and colors mean
Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:
Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.
Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.
Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 114th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.
D
HuffmanSponsorNo cosponsors.
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to owners or operators of qualified public lands, universities, nongovernmental organizations, or Indian tribes for projects for sequestering carbon through:
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · May 24, 2016
Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to owners or operators of qualified public lands, universities, nongovernmental organizations, or Indian tribes for projects for sequestering carbon through:
- grazing practices,
- restoring degraded qualified public lands,
- application of compost on qualified public lands, or
- using biochar (carbonized biomass) as an amendment on qualified public lands.
Interior shall establish a science advisory board to furnish analysis and recommendations regarding:
- the selection of such eligible entities and activities to receive grants based on the best available science, and
- appropriate monitoring requirements to quantify project performance and communicate results.
Interior shall make grants, through a challenge competition, to eligible entities for projects to carry out innovative approaches to eligible activities.
Interior:
- may furnish technical assistance for eligible activities, and
- shall expand outreach and education respecting carbon sequestration and best practices related to those activities.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act
Latest action (Jun 1, 2016): Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources · Origin: House · Introduced: May 24, 2016
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.