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US HB3329

Bill

Status

Introduced

5/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Don Beyer

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Origin

House of Representatives

119th Congress

AI Summary

  • Secretary of Agriculture must identify habitat connectivity areas within 1 year of enactment, in collaboration with the Directors of the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and develop maps of these areas

  • Within 3 years of establishing designation criteria, the Secretary must formally designate qualifying habitat connectivity areas as "American wildlife corridors" to encourage long-term maintenance and conservation

  • Designation criteria require using best-available science to determine if areas support wildlife persistence, resilience, and movement; benefit multiple species; or benefit threatened/endangered species under the Endangered Species Act

  • Secretary may give priority enrollment in USDA conservation programs for lands within designated corridors and may terminate or modify existing contracts if producers agree and land will be enrolled in agricultural conservation easement or healthy forests reserve programs

  • Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend privacy protections to program participants and provide regulatory certainty for producers implementing conservation measures within American wildlife corridors

Legislative Description

Wildlife Corridors and USDA Conservation Programs Act of 2025

Environmental protection

Last Action

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

5/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Agriculture5/13/2025

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