US HB3979

Secretary of Agriculture must publish information within 180 days on cost savings, energy savings, water conservation, and carbon emissions reductions from energy-efficient pumping systems on farms

USDA must develop a user-friendly online pre-assessment tool allowing farmers to evaluate their pumping system efficiency and estimate potential savings by inputting pump type, flow, pressure, and speed data

Secretary must establish an education process for USDA energy auditors on pumping system efficiency, potentially using existing training programs

Amends the Conservation Stewardship Program under the Food Security Act of 1985 to explicitly include energy-efficient pumping systems as eligible activities

Congressional findings cite over 600,000 agricultural pumping systems in the U.S., with potential savings of 22 billion kilowatt hours annually, $1.8 billion in farmer energy costs, and elimination of 8.3 million metric tons of carbon emissions