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