The BUFFER Act (Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience Act) modifies the Conservation Reserve Program, a Department of Agriculture initiative that pays farmers to remove environmentally sensitive land from production and maintain it for conservation purposes. The bill clarifies which land can participate in this program by specifying that land subject to state, tribal, or local environmental or conservation requirements can be enrolled, unless those requirements were imposed through an administrative or court order. This change affects farmers and landowners who want to participate in the conservation program and face environmental regulations from their local jurisdictions. The bill does not specify new funding amounts or implementation timelines, instead amending existing language in the 1985 Food Security Act to remove barriers to enrollment eligibility.
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