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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1107 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 with respect to preagreement |
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| 6 | 6 | | costs of emergency watershed protection measures, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | URTIS(for himself and Mr. BENNET) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 11 | 11 | | was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, |
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| 12 | 12 | | and Forestry |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 with respect |
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| 15 | 15 | | to preagreement costs of emergency watershed protection |
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| 16 | 16 | | measures, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Making Access To 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Cleanup Happen Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘MATCH Act of 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | 2025’’. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •S 1107 IS |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROGRAM. 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (16 U.S.C. 2203) is amended by adding at the end the 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | following: 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(c) P |
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| 31 | 31 | | REAGREEMENT COSTS.— 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(1) D |
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| 33 | 33 | | EFINITION OF SPONSOR .—In this sub-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | section, the term ‘sponsor’ means— 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ‘‘(A) a State or local government; and 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(B) an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)). 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(2) P |
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| 40 | 40 | | REAGREEMENT PROJECT COSTS .—Not 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | this subsection, the Secretary shall— 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(A) identify a list of emergency watershed 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | protection measures the cost of which may be 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | incurred by a sponsor prior to entering into an 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | agreement with the Secretary under this sec-18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | tion; and 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(B) develop a procedure, including appro-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | priate deadlines, to be implemented at the State 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | level, through which a sponsor may request, for 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | a specified natural disaster, additional emer-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | gency watershed protection measures the cost of 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | which may be incurred by a sponsor prior to en-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 1107 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | tering into an agreement with the Secretary 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | under this section. 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(3) A |
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| 60 | 60 | | GREEMENT CONTRIBUTION .—If the Sec-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | retary and a sponsor enter into an agreement under 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | this section, the Secretary shall consider any appli-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | cable preagreement costs incurred by the sponsor for 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | undertaking emergency watershed protection meas-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ures identified under paragraph (2) as meeting part 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | of the contribution of the sponsor toward the cost of 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the project. 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(4) A |
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| 69 | 69 | | SSUMPTION OF RISK .—A sponsor that 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | undertakes emergency watershed protection meas-12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ures prior to entering into an agreement with the 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Secretary under this section shall assume the risk of 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | incurring any cost of undertaking those measures. 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(5) E |
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| 75 | 75 | | FFECT.—Nothing in this subsection re-16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | quires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | a sponsor.’’. 18 |
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