To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture.

To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.

(a) Subsection (b) of section 1241 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841), as amended by section 2106 of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11; 117 Stat. 590), is amended--

(1) in paragraph (1), by striking `Effective beginning on the date of enactment of the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003, subject to paragraph (2)' and inserting `Effective as of February 20, 2003, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)'; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

`(3) FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM, GRASSLAND RESERVE PROGRAM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM- Effective as of February 20, 2003, with respect to the conservation programs specified in paragraphs (4) through (6) of subsection (a), the funds reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) for the provision of technical assistance shall be available only for the conservation program from which the funds were reserved and shall not be available for other conservation programs specified in subsection (a).'.