Robert Smith: “However, such a ``cap'' would clearly appear to impose new duties and new determinations on the Secretary of Agriculture…”

“However, such a ``cap'' would clearly appear to impose new duties and new determinations on the Secretary of Agriculture based on what would have to be reductions in an anticipated 19 million acre enrollment (out of over 25 million acres of bids submitted) contemplated in the USDA-CRP No. 15 sign-up that was completed March 28, 1997. Moreover, it would tend to have an adverse effect on the USDA-CRP No. 14 sign-up authorized by the Secretary September 13, 1996, and that is a continuing sign-up designated to enroll wildlife habitat, waterways, filter strips, and so on, to be enrolled in a special CRP program for environmental related practices. It is submitted that the thrust and the express wording of the provision is clearly legislation appearing in an appropriations bill. The provision on page 3, lines 1 through 9, also contains legislative language directing the Secretary to include ``rangeland'' in enrolling marginal pasturelands in the Conservation Reserve Program.”