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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 904 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To improve disaster assistance programs of the Department of Agriculture, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH6, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. T |
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| 10 | 10 | | HUNE(for himself and Mr. LUJA´N) 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 improve disaster assistance programs of the Department |
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| 15 | 15 | | of Agriculture, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Livestock Disaster As-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | sistance Improvement Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IMPROVE-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | MENTS. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) A |
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| 24 | 24 | | DDITIONALREQUIREMENTS.—Title IV of the 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 is amended by inserting 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | after section 402B (16 U.S.C. 2202b) the following: 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘SEC. 402C. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EMERGENCY 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | CONSERVATION PROGRAM. 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(a) E |
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| 33 | 33 | | LIGIBILITY OFFEDERAL, STATE, ANDLOCAL 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | L |
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| 35 | 35 | | ANDUSERS.— 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 37 | 37 | | N GENERAL.—An agricultural producer 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | eligible to receive payments under sections 401 and 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 402 includes a person that— 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(A) holds a permit from the Federal Gov-8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ernment to conduct agricultural production or 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | grazing on Federal land; or 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(B) leases land from a State or unit of 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | local government to conduct agricultural pro-12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | duction or grazing on that land. 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 47 | 47 | | FFECT.—Nothing in this subsection au-14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | thorizes the Secretary to make a payment under sec-15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tion 401 or 402 to a State or unit of local govern-16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ment. 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(b) P |
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| 52 | 52 | | ERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.—Emergency 18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | measures eligible for payments under sections 401 and 19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | 402 include— 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(1) new permanent measures, including per-21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | manent water wells and pipelines; and 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(2) replacement or restoration of existing 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | emergency measures with permanent measures, in-24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | cluding permanent water wells and pipelines. 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ‘‘(c) S |
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| 61 | 61 | | TREAMLININGAPPLICATIONPROCESS.— 26 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(1) WAIVER OF PUBLIC COMMENT .—During a 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | drought emergency, as determined by the Secretary, 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the 30-day public comment period required under 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) shall be waived with respect to 5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | an application to carry out emergency measures 6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | under section 401 or 402 on land administered by 7 |
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| 72 | 72 | | the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-8 |
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| 73 | 73 | | rector of the Bureau of Land Management (referred 9 |
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| 74 | 74 | | to in this subsection as the ‘Secretary of the Inte-10 |
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| 75 | 75 | | rior’). 11 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(2) A |
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| 77 | 77 | | CCEPTANCE OF NRCS REVIEWS .—With 12 |
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| 78 | 78 | | respect to an application to carry out emergency 13 |
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| 79 | 79 | | measures under section 401 or 402 on land adminis-14 |
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| 80 | 80 | | tered by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary 15 |
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| 81 | 81 | | of the Interior may accept— 16 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(A) during a drought emergency, as de-17 |
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| 83 | 83 | | termined by the Secretary, an archeological re-18 |
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| 84 | 84 | | view conducted by the Secretary, acting through 19 |
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| 85 | 85 | | the Chief of the Natural Resources Conserva-20 |
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| 86 | 86 | | tion Service, for purposes of an archeological 21 |
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| 87 | 87 | | review required to be conducted; 22 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ‘‘(B) an environmental review under the 23 |
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| 89 | 89 | | National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 24 |
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| 90 | 90 | | U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) conducted by the Sec-25 |
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| 94 | 94 | | retary, acting through the Chief of the Natural 1 |
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| 95 | 95 | | Resources Conservation Service, for purposes of 2 |
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| 96 | 96 | | such an environmental review required to be 3 |
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| 97 | 97 | | conducted; and 4 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘(C) a review under the Endangered Spe-5 |
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| 99 | 99 | | cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) con-6 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ducted by the Secretary, acting through the 7 |
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| 101 | 101 | | Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation 8 |
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| 102 | 102 | | Service, for purposes of such a review required 9 |
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| 103 | 103 | | to be conducted.’’. 10 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (b) E |
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| 105 | 105 | | MERGENCY FORESTRESTORATION PRO-11 |
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| 106 | 106 | | GRAM.—Section 407 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 12 |
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| 107 | 107 | | 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2206) is amended— 13 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 14 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 15 |
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| 110 | 110 | | through (3) as paragraphs (3) through (5), re-16 |
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| 111 | 111 | | spectively; 17 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (B) by inserting before paragraph (3) (as 18 |
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| 113 | 113 | | so redesignated) the following: 19 |
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| 114 | 114 | | ‘‘(1) E |
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| 115 | 115 | | LIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-20 |
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| 116 | 116 | | tity’ means— 21 |
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| 117 | 117 | | ‘‘(A) with respect to nonindustrial private 22 |
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| 118 | 118 | | forest land, an owner of the nonindustrial pri-23 |
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| 119 | 119 | | vate forest land; 24 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(B) with respect to Federal land, a per-1 |
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| 124 | 124 | | son that holds a permit from the Federal Gov-2 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ernment to conduct agricultural production or 3 |
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| 126 | 126 | | grazing on the Federal land; and 4 |
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| 127 | 127 | | ‘‘(C) with respect to land owned by a State 5 |
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| 128 | 128 | | or a unit of local government, a person that 6 |
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| 129 | 129 | | leases land from the State or unit of local gov-7 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ernment to conduct agricultural production or 8 |
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| 131 | 131 | | grazing on that land. 9 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 133 | 133 | | LIGIBLE LAND.—The term ‘eligible land’ 10 |
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| 134 | 134 | | means— 11 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ‘‘(A) nonindustrial private forest land; 12 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(B) Federal land; and 13 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ‘‘(C) land owned by a State or unit of local 14 |
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| 138 | 138 | | government.’’; and 15 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (C) in paragraph (3) (as so redesig-16 |
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| 140 | 140 | | nated)— 17 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (i) in subparagraph (A)— 18 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (I) in the matter preceding clause 19 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (i), by striking ‘‘nonindustrial private 20 |
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| 144 | 144 | | forest land’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible 21 |
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| 145 | 145 | | land’’; and 22 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (II) by redesignating clauses (i) 23 |
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| 147 | 147 | | and (ii) as subclauses (I) and (II), re-24 |
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| 151 | 151 | | spectively, and indenting appro-1 |
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| 152 | 152 | | priately; 2 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 3 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respec-4 |
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| 155 | 155 | | tively, and indenting appropriately; 5 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (iii) in the matter preceding clause (i) 6 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (as so redesignated), by striking ‘‘The 7 |
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| 158 | 158 | | term’’ and inserting the following: 8 |
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| 159 | 159 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 160 | 160 | | N GENERAL.—The term’’; and 9 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (iv) by adding at the end the fol-10 |
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| 162 | 162 | | lowing: 11 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(B) I |
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| 164 | 164 | | NCLUSIONS.—The term ‘emergency 12 |
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| 165 | 165 | | measures’ includes— 13 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ‘‘(i) new permanent measures de-14 |
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| 167 | 167 | | scribed in subparagraph (A), including per-15 |
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| 168 | 168 | | manent water wells and pipelines; and 16 |
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| 169 | 169 | | ‘‘(ii) replacement or restoration of ex-17 |
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| 170 | 170 | | isting emergency measures with permanent 18 |
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| 171 | 171 | | measures described in subparagraph (A), 19 |
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| 172 | 172 | | including permanent water wells and pipe-20 |
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| 173 | 173 | | lines.’’; 21 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (2) in subsection (b)— 22 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (A) by striking ‘‘an owner of nonindustrial 23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | private forest land who’’ and inserting ‘‘an eli-24 |
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| 177 | 177 | | gible entity that’’; and 25 |
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| 181 | 181 | | (B) by striking ‘‘restore the land’’ and in-1 |
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| 182 | 182 | | serting ‘‘restore eligible land’’; 2 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (3) in subsection (c)— 3 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (A) by striking ‘‘owner must’’ and insert-4 |
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| 185 | 185 | | ing ‘‘eligible entity shall’’; and 5 |
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| 186 | 186 | | (B) by striking ‘‘nonindustrial private for-6 |
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| 187 | 187 | | est land’’ and inserting ‘‘eligible land’’; 7 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘an owner of 8 |
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| 189 | 189 | | nonindustrial private forest land’’ and inserting ‘‘an 9 |
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| 190 | 190 | | eligible entity’’; 10 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (5) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-11 |
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| 192 | 192 | | section (g); and 12 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (6) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-13 |
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| 194 | 194 | | lowing: 14 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(e) S |
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| 196 | 196 | | TREAMLININGAPPLICATIONPROCESS.— 15 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ‘‘(1) W |
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| 198 | 198 | | AIVER OF PUBLIC COMMENT .—During a 16 |
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| 199 | 199 | | drought emergency, as determined by the Secretary, 17 |
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| 200 | 200 | | the 30-day public comment period required under 18 |
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| 201 | 201 | | the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 19 |
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| 202 | 202 | | U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) shall be waived with respect to 20 |
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| 203 | 203 | | an application to carry out emergency measures 21 |
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| 204 | 204 | | under this section on land administered by the Sec-22 |
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| 205 | 205 | | retary of the Interior, acting through the Director of 23 |
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| 206 | 206 | | the Bureau of Land Management (referred to in this 24 |
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| 207 | 207 | | subsection as the ‘Secretary of the Interior’). 25 |
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| 211 | 211 | | ‘‘(2) ACCEPTANCE OF NRCS REVIEWS .—With 1 |
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| 212 | 212 | | respect to an application to carry out emergency 2 |
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| 213 | 213 | | measures under this section on land administered by 3 |
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| 214 | 214 | | the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the 4 |
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| 215 | 215 | | Interior may accept— 5 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ‘‘(A) during a drought emergency, as de-6 |
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| 217 | 217 | | termined by the Secretary, an archeological re-7 |
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| 218 | 218 | | view conducted by the Secretary, acting through 8 |
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| 219 | 219 | | the Chief of the Natural Resources Conserva-9 |
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| 220 | 220 | | tion Service, for purposes of an archeological 10 |
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| 221 | 221 | | review required to be conducted; 11 |
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| 222 | 222 | | ‘‘(B) an environmental review under the 12 |
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| 223 | 223 | | National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 13 |
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| 224 | 224 | | U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) conducted by the Sec-14 |
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| 225 | 225 | | retary, acting through the Chief of the Natural 15 |
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| 226 | 226 | | Resources Conservation Service, for purposes of 16 |
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| 227 | 227 | | such an environmental review required to be 17 |
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| 228 | 228 | | conducted; and 18 |
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| 229 | 229 | | ‘‘(C) a review under the Endangered Spe-19 |
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| 230 | 230 | | cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) con-20 |
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| 231 | 231 | | ducted by the Secretary, acting through the 21 |
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| 232 | 232 | | Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation 22 |
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| 233 | 233 | | Service, for purposes of such a review required 23 |
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| 234 | 234 | | to be conducted. 24 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ‘‘(f) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section authorizes the 1 |
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| 239 | 239 | | Secretary to make a payment under this section to a State 2 |
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| 240 | 240 | | or unit of local government.’’. 3 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (c) C |
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| 242 | 242 | | LERICALIMPROVEMENTS.— 4 |
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| 243 | 243 | | (1) R |
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| 244 | 244 | | EPEAL.—Section 406 of the Agricultural 5 |
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| 245 | 245 | | Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 note; Public 6 |
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| 246 | 246 | | Law 95–334) is repealed. 7 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (2) H |
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| 248 | 248 | | EADING FORMAT CORRECTIONS .— 8 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (A) Section 402 of the Agricultural Credit 9 |
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| 250 | 250 | | Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2202) is amended— 10 |
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| 251 | 251 | | (i) by striking the section designation 11 |
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| 252 | 252 | | and all that follows through ‘‘authorized’’ 12 |
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| 253 | 253 | | and inserting the following: 13 |
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| 254 | 254 | | ‘‘SEC. 402. WATER CONSERVATION AND WATER ENHANCING 14 |
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| 255 | 255 | | MEASURES DURING SEVERE DROUGHT. 15 |
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| 256 | 256 | | ‘‘The Secretary is authorized’’; and 16 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘during’’ and all that 17 |
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| 258 | 258 | | follows through ‘‘of’’ and inserting ‘‘during 18 |
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| 259 | 259 | | a period of’’. 19 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (B) Section 403 of the Agricultural Credit 20 |
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| 261 | 261 | | Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) is amended by 21 |
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| 262 | 262 | | striking the section designation and all that fol-22 |
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| 263 | 263 | | lows through ‘‘authorized’’ in subsection (a) 23 |
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| 264 | 264 | | and inserting the following: 24 |
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| 268 | 268 | | ‘‘SEC. 403. EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROGRAM. 1 |
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| 269 | 269 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 270 | 270 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized’’. 2 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (C) Section 405 of the Agricultural Credit 3 |
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| 272 | 272 | | Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2205) is amended by 4 |
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| 273 | 273 | | striking the section designation and all that fol-5 |
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| 274 | 274 | | lows through ‘‘authorized’’ and inserting the 6 |
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| 275 | 275 | | following: 7 |
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| 276 | 276 | | ‘‘SEC. 405. REGULATIONS. 8 |
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| 277 | 277 | | ‘‘The Secretary is authorized’’. 9 |
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| 278 | 278 | | (3) R |
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| 279 | 279 | | EORDERING.—Title IV of the Agricultural 10 |
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| 280 | 280 | | Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.) is 11 |
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| 281 | 281 | | amended— 12 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (A) by redesignating sections 402C (as 13 |
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| 283 | 283 | | added by subsection (a)), 403, 404, 405, and 14 |
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| 284 | 284 | | 407 (as amended by subsection (b)) as sections 15 |
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| 285 | 285 | | 403, 405, 407, 408, and 406, respectively, and 16 |
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| 286 | 286 | | moving the sections so as to appear in numer-17 |
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| 287 | 287 | | ical order; 18 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (B) in section 402B (16 U.S.C. 2202b), by 19 |
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| 289 | 289 | | striking the section designation and heading 20 |
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| 290 | 290 | | and all that follows through ‘‘maximum’’ and 21 |
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| 291 | 291 | | inserting the following: 22 |
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| 292 | 292 | | ‘‘(d) M |
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| 293 | 293 | | AXIMUMPAYMENT.—The maximum’’; and 23 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (C) by moving that subsection (d) (as so 24 |
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| 295 | 295 | | redesignated) so as to appear after subsection 25 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (c) of section 402A (16 U.S.C. 2202a). 26 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (4) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS .—Section 402A of 1 |
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| 301 | 301 | | the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2 |
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| 302 | 302 | | 2202a) (as amended by paragraph (3)(C)) is amend-3 |
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| 303 | 303 | | ed— 4 |
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| 304 | 304 | | (A) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘2279)’’ 5 |
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| 305 | 305 | | and inserting ‘‘2279))’’; 6 |
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| 306 | 306 | | (B) in subsection (c), in the subsection 7 |
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| 307 | 307 | | heading, by striking ‘‘L |
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| 308 | 308 | | IMITATION’’ and insert-8 |
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| 309 | 309 | | ing ‘‘T |
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| 310 | 310 | | OTALPAYMENT FORSINGLEEVENT’’; 9 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (C) by striking the section designation and 10 |
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| 312 | 312 | | heading and inserting the following: 11 |
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| 313 | 313 | | ‘‘SEC. 404. COST-SHARE REQUIREMENT; MAXIMUM PAY-12 |
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| 314 | 314 | | MENT.’’ 13 |
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| 315 | 315 | | ; and 14 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (D) by moving that section 404 (as so re-15 |
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| 317 | 317 | | designated) so as to appear after section 403 16 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (as redesignated by paragraph (3)(A)). 17 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (5) C |
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| 320 | 320 | | ONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 18 |
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| 321 | 321 | | 1241(f)(9)(B) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 19 |
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| 322 | 322 | | U.S.C. 3841(f)(9)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘403’’ 20 |
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| 323 | 323 | | and inserting ‘‘405’’. 21 |
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| 324 | 324 | | SEC. 3. LIVESTOCK FORAGE DISASTER PROGRAM. 22 |
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| 325 | 325 | | Section 1501(c)(3)(D)(ii)(I) of the Agricultural Act 23 |
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| 326 | 326 | | of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(c)(3)(D)(ii)(I)) is amended— 24 |
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| 330 | 330 | | (1) by striking ‘‘at least 8 consecutive’’ and in-1 |
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| 331 | 331 | | serting the following: ‘‘not less than— 2 |
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| 332 | 332 | | ‘‘(aa) 4 consecutive weeks 3 |
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| 333 | 333 | | during the normal grazing period 4 |
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| 334 | 334 | | for the county, as determined by 5 |
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| 335 | 335 | | the Secretary, shall be eligible to 6 |
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| 336 | 336 | | receive assistance under this 7 |
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| 337 | 337 | | paragraph in an amount equal to 8 |
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| 338 | 338 | | 1 monthly payment using the 9 |
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| 339 | 339 | | monthly payment rate deter-10 |
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| 340 | 340 | | mined under subparagraph (B); 11 |
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| 341 | 341 | | or 12 |
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| 342 | 342 | | ‘‘(bb) 8 consecutive’’; and 13 |
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| 343 | 343 | | (2) in item (bb) (as so designated), by striking 14 |
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| 344 | 344 | | ‘‘1 monthly payment’’ and inserting ‘‘2 monthly pay-15 |
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| 345 | 345 | | ments’’. 16 |
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| 346 | 346 | | SEC. 4. EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR LIVESTOCK, HONEY 17 |
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| 347 | 347 | | BEES, AND FARM-RAISED FISH. 18 |
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| 348 | 348 | | (a) I |
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| 349 | 349 | | NGENERAL.—Section 1501(d) of the Agricul-19 |
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| 350 | 350 | | tural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9081(d)) is amended— 20 |
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| 351 | 351 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘drought,’’ 21 |
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| 352 | 352 | | after ‘‘adverse weather,’’; 22 |
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| 353 | 353 | | (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘to reduce 23 |
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| 354 | 354 | | losses’’ and all that follows through the period at the 24 |
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| 355 | 355 | | end and inserting ‘‘to reduce losses caused by feed 25 |
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| 360 | 360 | | for feed, water, livestock, and honey bees), disease, 2 |
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| 361 | 361 | | adverse weather, drought, or other factors, as deter-3 |
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| 362 | 362 | | mined by the Secretary, including inspections of cat-4 |
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| 363 | 363 | | tle tick fever.’’; 5 |
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| 364 | 364 | | (3) in paragraph (4)— 6 |
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| 365 | 365 | | (A) by striking ‘‘In the case’’ and inserting 7 |
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| 366 | 366 | | the following: 8 |
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| 367 | 367 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 368 | 368 | | N GENERAL.—In the case’’; and 9 |
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| 369 | 369 | | (B) by adding at the end the following: 10 |
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| 370 | 370 | | ‘‘(B) R |
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| 371 | 371 | | EQUIREMENTS FOR HONEY BEES .— 11 |
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| 372 | 372 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 373 | 373 | | N GENERAL.—In the case of eli-12 |
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| 374 | 374 | | gible producers of honey bees, the payment 13 |
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| 375 | 375 | | rate under subparagraph (A) shall incor-14 |
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| 376 | 376 | | porate per-hive and per-colony rates of 15 |
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| 377 | 377 | | loss, subject to clause (ii). 16 |
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| 378 | 378 | | ‘‘(ii) D |
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| 379 | 379 | | ETERMINATION OF COLONY 17 |
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| 380 | 380 | | LOSSES.— 18 |
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| 381 | 381 | | ‘‘(I) I |
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| 382 | 382 | | N GENERAL.—For purposes 19 |
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| 383 | 383 | | of clause (i), in determining honeybee 20 |
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| 384 | 384 | | colony losses eligible for assistance 21 |
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| 385 | 385 | | under this subsection, the Secretary 22 |
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| 386 | 386 | | shall— 23 |
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| 390 | 390 | | ‘‘(aa) review the normal 1 |
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| 391 | 391 | | mortality rate used for the cal-2 |
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| 392 | 392 | | culation of that assistance; and 3 |
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| 393 | 393 | | ‘‘(bb) adjust the normal 4 |
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| 394 | 394 | | mortality rate described in item 5 |
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| 395 | 395 | | (aa) as necessary to exclude 6 |
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| 396 | 396 | | losses caused by colony collapse 7 |
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| 397 | 397 | | disorder, as determined by the 8 |
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| 398 | 398 | | Secretary. 9 |
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| 399 | 399 | | ‘‘(II) I |
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| 400 | 400 | | NSUFFICIENT DATA .—In 10 |
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| 401 | 401 | | the absence of sufficient data to es-11 |
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| 402 | 402 | | tablish the adjusted mortality rate de-12 |
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| 403 | 403 | | scribed in subclause (I)(bb), the Sec-13 |
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| 404 | 404 | | retary shall use the normal mortality 14 |
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| 405 | 405 | | rate for honey bees applied for the 15 |
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| 406 | 406 | | first fiscal year for which emergency 16 |
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| 407 | 407 | | relief was provided to eligible pro-17 |
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| 408 | 408 | | ducers of honey bees under section 18 |
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| 409 | 409 | | 531(e) of the Federal Crop Insurance 19 |
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| 410 | 410 | | Act (7 U.S.C. 1531(e)).’’; and 20 |
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| 411 | 411 | | (4) by adding at the end the following: 21 |
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| 412 | 412 | | ‘‘(5) D |
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| 413 | 413 | | OCUMENTATION.— 22 |
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| 414 | 414 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 415 | 415 | | N GENERAL.—Any requirements for 23 |
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| 416 | 416 | | the submission of documentation by an eligible 24 |
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| 420 | 420 | | producer to receive a payment under this sub-1 |
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| 421 | 421 | | section shall be consistent nationwide. 2 |
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| 422 | 422 | | ‘‘(B) P |
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| 423 | 423 | | RODUCERS OF HONEY BEES .—The 3 |
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| 424 | 424 | | Secretary, in consultation with eligible pro-4 |
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| 425 | 425 | | ducers of honey bees, shall establish a standard, 5 |
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| 426 | 426 | | for purposes of this subsection, for— 6 |
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| 427 | 427 | | ‘‘(i) collecting data; and 7 |
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| 428 | 428 | | ‘‘(ii) setting an annual rate for replac-8 |
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| 429 | 429 | | ing colonies and hives of honey bees.’’. 9 |
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| 430 | 430 | | (b) A |
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| 431 | 431 | | PPLICABILITY TO PRODUCERS OF HONEY 10 |
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| 432 | 432 | | B |
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| 433 | 433 | | EES.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall apply the 11 |
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| 434 | 434 | | amendments made by subsection (a) to producers of honey 12 |
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| 435 | 435 | | bees such that there is no limit on the size of a beekeeping 13 |
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| 436 | 436 | | operation with respect to those amendments. 14 |
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| 437 | 437 | | SEC. 5. DROUGHT MONITOR INTERAGENCY WORKING 15 |
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| 438 | 438 | | GROUP. 16 |
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| 439 | 439 | | (a) I |
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| 440 | 440 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 17 |
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| 441 | 441 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 18 |
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| 442 | 442 | | shall establish an interagency working group (referred to 19 |
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| 443 | 443 | | in this section as the ‘‘working group’’) to improve the 20 |
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| 444 | 444 | | availability of consistent, accurate, and reliable data for 21 |
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| 445 | 445 | | use in producing the United States Drought Monitor in 22 |
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| 446 | 446 | | accordance with section 12512 of the Agriculture Improve-23 |
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| 447 | 447 | | ment Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 5856). 24 |
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| 451 | 451 | | (b) MEMBERSHIP.—The working group shall consist 1 |
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| 452 | 452 | | of not fewer than— 2 |
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| 453 | 453 | | (1) 3 representatives from the Department of 3 |
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| 454 | 454 | | Agriculture, including 1 representative from each 4 |
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| 455 | 455 | | of— 5 |
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| 456 | 456 | | (A) the Office of the Chief Economist, who 6 |
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| 457 | 457 | | shall serve as the Chair of the working group; 7 |
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| 458 | 458 | | (B) the Forest Service; and 8 |
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| 459 | 459 | | (C) the Farm Service Agency; 9 |
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| 460 | 460 | | (2) 4 representatives from the National Oceanic 10 |
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| 461 | 461 | | and Atmospheric Administration, including 1 rep-11 |
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| 462 | 462 | | resentative from each of— 12 |
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| 463 | 463 | | (A) the Climate Prediction Center; 13 |
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| 464 | 464 | | (B) the National Centers for Environ-14 |
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| 465 | 465 | | mental Information; 15 |
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| 466 | 466 | | (C) the National Integrated Drought In-16 |
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| 467 | 467 | | formation System; and 17 |
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| 468 | 468 | | (D) the National Mesonet Program; 18 |
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| 469 | 469 | | (3) 1 representative from the National Drought 19 |
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| 470 | 470 | | Mitigation Center; 20 |
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| 471 | 471 | | (4) 1 representative from the Department of 21 |
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| 472 | 472 | | the Interior; 22 |
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| 473 | 473 | | (5) 1 representative from the Cooperative Insti-23 |
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| 474 | 474 | | tute for Research to Operations in Hydrology of the 24 |
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| 475 | 475 | | University of Alabama; and 25 |
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| 479 | 479 | | (6) 3 representatives from mesonet programs in 1 |
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| 480 | 480 | | States— 2 |
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| 481 | 481 | | (A) that have experienced severe drought, 3 |
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| 482 | 482 | | as determined by the United States Drought 4 |
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| 483 | 483 | | Monitor, in not less than 5 calendar years dur-5 |
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| 484 | 484 | | ing the period of calendar years 2012 through 6 |
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| 485 | 485 | | 2023; and 7 |
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| 486 | 486 | | (B) more than 50 percent of the land area 8 |
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| 487 | 487 | | of which is designated by the Economic Re-9 |
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| 488 | 488 | | search Service as a Level 1 frontier and remote 10 |
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| 489 | 489 | | area. 11 |
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| 490 | 490 | | (c) D |
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| 491 | 491 | | UTIES.—The working group shall— 12 |
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| 492 | 492 | | (1) develop a means for the inclusion of addi-13 |
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| 493 | 493 | | tional in-situ data into the process of developing the 14 |
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| 494 | 494 | | United States Drought Monitor, including— 15 |
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| 495 | 495 | | (A) determining minimum requirements 16 |
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| 496 | 496 | | for data to be included in the United States 17 |
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| 497 | 497 | | Drought Monitor; 18 |
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| 498 | 498 | | (B) identifying data available from other 19 |
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| 499 | 499 | | government agencies, including through portals 20 |
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| 500 | 500 | | managed by the National Oceanic and Atmos-21 |
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| 501 | 501 | | pheric Administration; and 22 |
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| 502 | 502 | | (C) identifying gaps in coverage and deter-23 |
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| 503 | 503 | | mining solutions to address those gaps; 24 |
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| 508 | 508 | | the use of existing data, including— 2 |
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| 509 | 509 | | (A) identifying Federal datasets that would 3 |
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| 510 | 510 | | be of immediate use in developing the United 4 |
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| 511 | 511 | | States Drought Monitor where access is re-5 |
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| 512 | 512 | | stricted to some or all authors of the United 6 |
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| 513 | 513 | | States Drought Monitor; and 7 |
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| 514 | 514 | | (B) developing proposed accommodations, 8 |
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| 515 | 515 | | modifications to contractual agreements, or up-9 |
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| 516 | 516 | | dates to interagency memoranda of under-10 |
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| 517 | 517 | | standing to allow for incorporation of datasets 11 |
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| 518 | 518 | | identified under subparagraph (A); 12 |
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| 519 | 519 | | (3) develop an open and transparent method-13 |
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| 520 | 520 | | ology for vetting data products developed using re-14 |
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| 521 | 521 | | mote sensing or modeling; 15 |
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| 522 | 522 | | (4) if determined appropriate by the working 16 |
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| 523 | 523 | | group, develop a methodology for inclusion of data 17 |
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| 524 | 524 | | that may otherwise be excluded from the United 18 |
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| 525 | 525 | | States Drought Monitor due to shorter periods of 19 |
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| 526 | 526 | | record; and 20 |
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| 527 | 527 | | (5) identify and address any other issues relat-21 |
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| 528 | 528 | | ing to data availability and quality, as determined 22 |
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| 529 | 529 | | appropriate by the Chair of the working group. 23 |
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| 530 | 530 | | (d) R |
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| 532 | 532 | | of enactment of this Act, the working group shall submit 25 |
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| 537 | 537 | | cies, regulations, guidance documents, or existing law to 2 |
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| 538 | 538 | | meet the objectives described in subsection (c) to— 3 |
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| 539 | 539 | | (1) the Secretary of Agriculture; 4 |
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| 540 | 540 | | (2) the Secretary of Commerce; 5 |
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| 541 | 541 | | (3) the Secretary of the Interior; 6 |
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| 542 | 542 | | (4) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 7 |
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| 543 | 543 | | and Forestry of the Senate; 8 |
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| 544 | 544 | | (5) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 9 |
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| 545 | 545 | | Transportation of the Senate; 10 |
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| 546 | 546 | | (6) the Committee on Agriculture of the House 11 |
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| 547 | 547 | | of Representatives; and 12 |
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| 548 | 548 | | (7) the Committee on Science, Space, and 13 |
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| 549 | 549 | | Technology of the House of Representatives. 14 |
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| 550 | 550 | | (e) A |
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| 551 | 551 | | CTION BYSECRETARY.—Not later than 180 15 |
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| 552 | 552 | | days after the date of submission of the report under sub-16 |
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| 553 | 553 | | section (d), the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination 17 |
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| 554 | 554 | | with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the 18 |
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| 555 | 555 | | Interior, shall incorporate, to the extent practicable, the 19 |
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| 556 | 556 | | recommendations of the working group to improve the 20 |
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| 557 | 557 | | United States Drought Monitor in accordance with section 21 |
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| 558 | 558 | | 12512 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 22 |
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| 559 | 559 | | U.S.C. 5856). 23 |
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| 564 | 564 | | nate on the date that is 90 days after the date on which 2 |
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| 565 | 565 | | the report is submitted under subsection (d). 3 |
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| 566 | 566 | | SEC. 6. ALIGNMENT OF FARM SERVICE AGENCY AND FOR-4 |
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| 567 | 567 | | EST SERVICE DROUGHT RESPONSE. 5 |
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| 568 | 568 | | (a) I |
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| 569 | 569 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 6 |
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| 570 | 570 | | date of submission of the report under section 5(d), the 7 |
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| 571 | 571 | | Administrator of the Farm Service Agency and the Chief 8 |
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| 572 | 572 | | of the Forest Service shall enter into a memorandum of 9 |
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| 573 | 573 | | understanding to better align drought response activities 10 |
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| 574 | 574 | | of the Farm Service Agency and the Forest Service (re-11 |
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| 575 | 575 | | ferred to in this section as the ‘‘agencies’’). 12 |
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| 577 | 577 | | ONTENTS.—The memorandum of understanding 13 |
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| 578 | 578 | | entered into under subsection (a) shall include— 14 |
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| 579 | 579 | | (1) a commitment to better align practices of 15 |
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| 580 | 580 | | the agencies with respect to determining the severity 16 |
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| 581 | 581 | | of regional drought conditions; 17 |
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| 582 | 582 | | (2) a strategy for amending those determina-18 |
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| 583 | 583 | | tions to ensure consistent policy with respect to 19 |
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| 584 | 584 | | drought response in cases where the agencies are 20 |
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| 585 | 585 | | making inconsistent determinations within the same 21 |
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| 586 | 586 | | spatial scale; 22 |
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| 587 | 587 | | (3) an agreement to utilize, to the extent prac-23 |
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| 588 | 588 | | ticable, the United States Drought Monitor in mak-24 |
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| 594 | 594 | | tion to grazing permittees, operators, and other 2 |
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| 595 | 595 | | stakeholders affected by determinations relating to 3 |
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| 596 | 596 | | drought. 4 |
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