Section 1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wildlife Corridors and USDA Conservation Programs Act of 2025’’.

Section 2. Habitat Connectivity Area Designation

(a) Definitions.

• (1) American Wildlife Corridor.—The term “American wildlife corridor” means a habitat connectivity area, including any adjacent lands to such habitat connectivity area that is designated under subsection (c)(2).
• (2) Directors.—The term “Directors” means the Secretary of the Interior acting through—
• (A) the Director of the United States Geological Survey;
• (B) the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

(b) Habitat Connectivity.—The term “habitat connectivity” means the degree to which landscapes, waterscapes, and seascapes allow species to move freely, including during seasonal migration and in response to changing environmental conditions, and ecological processes to function unimpeded.

(c) Habitat Connectivity Area.—The term “habitat connectivity area” means an area of intact habitat or a distinct component of the landscape, waterscape, or seascape the designation of which, under subsection (c)(2), may provide habitat connectivity.

Section 2. Habitat Connectivity Area Designation

(a) Identification of Habitat Connectivity Areas.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and periodically thereafter, the Secretary, in collaboration with the Directors, shall identify habitat connectivity areas, including any lands adjacent to such identified habitat connectivity areas, that may improve habitat connectivity in such areas.

(b) Maps.

• Subject to section 1244(b) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844(b)), as amended by section 3 of this Act, and section 161914 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, upon identifying habitat connectivity areas under paragraph (1), the Secretary, in collaboration with the Directors, shall—
• develop maps of the identified habitat connectivity areas, including any adjacent lands described in paragraph (1); and
• expand and build upon any existing efforts by the Department of Agriculture in developing such maps.

(c) Report.

• Not later than 1 year after the date on which the Secretary identifies habitat connectivity areas, including any adjacent lands, under paragraph (1), and periodically thereafter upon any new identifications under such paragraph, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that—
• (A) includes a description of habitat connectivity areas identified under paragraph (1);
• (B) includes a review of any associated data or surveys relating to activities carried out under paragraph (1);
• (C) includes the maps developed under paragraph (2) in aggregate form; and
• (D) identifies gaps in information with respect to carrying out paragraphs (1) and (2), including—
• (i) information relating to whether or not land subject to such contract will be enrolled in—
• (I) the agricultural conservation easement program under subtitle H of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3865 et seq.); or
• (II) the healthy forests reserve program under title V of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6571 et seq.).

Section 3. Administrative Requirements

(a) Privacy of Personal Information Relating to Natural Resources Conservation Programs.

Section 1244(b)(1)(B)(i) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844(b)(1)(B)(i)) is amended by inserting “, including the Wildlife Corridors and USDA Conservation Programs Act of 2025” after “Farm Service Agency”.

(b) Regulatory Certainty.

• Section 1244(p) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844(p)) is amended—
• (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting “, or an American wildlife corridor (as such term is defined by section 2(a) of the Wildlife Corridors and USDA Conservation Programs Act of 2025),’’ after “wildlife resource concern,’’;
• (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting “, or an American wildlife corridor,” after “wildlife resource concern”.