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Rural Input Cost Relief and Supply Resilience Act

Status: HopperSession: September 2026 Senate SessionIssue: Inflation

Summary

This bill aims to lower rural food, fuel, and farm input costs by boosting domestic fertilizer production, improving freight infrastructure, and funding storage and processing facilities in underserved farm regions. It also temporarily streamlines duplicative permitting, reviews costly regulatory fees, and requires quarterly reports on price and supply chain impacts.

Full text

To reduce inflationary pressure in rural communities, this bill directs the Department of Agriculture and Department of Transportation to expand domestic fertilizer production capacity, improve rail and highway freight access for farm inputs and harvested commodities, and prioritize grants and loans for storage, processing, and distribution infrastructure in underserved agricultural regions; temporarily streamlines duplicative federal permitting for fertilizer, fuel, and farm supply projects consistent with environmental law; requires a review and suspension of unnecessary regulatory fees that materially increase food, fuel, and input costs; and mandates quarterly reporting to Congress on price impacts, supply chain performance, and benefits to producers and consumers.

Sponsor

Tom GarrettRepublican Party

Cosponsors

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