Farm BIll kills CSP, reworks SNAP to fund other parts.

House Republicans are relying on elimination of the Conservation Stewardship Program and tightened eligibility rules and work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to fund other priorities in the new farm bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office.  Eliminating CSP would save $12.6 billion over 10 years, of which $7.7 billion would go toward expanding the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, according to the analysis released late Friday by the CBO."We just think that EQIP is more efficient and a better use of the money," Conaway said.Another $2.2 billion was put into the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, and $1.3 billion was added to the Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Some $795 million was removed from the conservation title and moved to other areas of the bill. But the biggest shifts in farm bill spending are in the nutrition title, and they are a result of the effort to push able-bodied SNAP recipients into work and to tighten eligibility rules.Under the bill, able-bodied adults under 60, including parents whose children are over 6 years old,  would be required to work or be in approved training programs at least 20 hours a weeks. That change, which is expected to reduce SNAP enrollment by 1.1 million people, would save $9.2 billion over the decade, according to CBO.