EQIP Improvement Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced
Summary
Tightens cost-sharing and lowers payment caps for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). This bill would set explicit percentage caps for different practice elements, steer more EQIP dollars toward wildlife habitat, and require annual, practice- and State-level reports to Congress.
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- Producers would face an element-based cost-share system that caps many cost payments at 75% and can cover income forgone at 100% for specified elements.
- It lowers the program's annual payment limit from $450,000 to $150,000, reducing the maximum a single operation can receive.
- EQIP funding is reallocated to emphasize wildlife habitat, and the Secretary would report yearly on obligations by practice category, State, fiscal year, and producer operation size.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Lower EQIP annual payment cap
If enacted, the bill would lower the EQIP annual payment cap to $150,000 per person or operation. It would replace the current $450,000 cap in law. Producers who now receive more than $150,000 a year from EQIP would see their maximum annual payments limited and could lose up to $300,000 per year.
Limits on EQIP practice payments
If enacted, the bill would limit EQIP payments for conservation practices by setting percentage caps. Most eligible planning, design, materials, equipment, installation, labor, management, maintenance, or training costs would be paid at no more than 75%. A listed set of practices (for example, access roads, ponds, dams, irrigation pipelines, land clearing, and waste facilities) would be paid at no more than 40%. Payments could cover 100% of income foregone. For multi-part practices, each element would follow its own percentage cap.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
UT • R
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 2/25/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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