Official Summaries

Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act of 2025 or the MATCH Act of 2025

This bill modifies the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to allow sponsors (i.e., states, local governments, and Indian tribes) to undertake certain emergency watershed protection measures prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA and count the costs as part of the sponsor's share of the project cost once an agreement with USDA is in place.

As background, USDA's EWP Program offers assistance to sponsors to carry out projects that help safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.

This bill requires USDA to identify a list of emergency watershed protection measures that a sponsor may incur costs for prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA under the EWP Program. USDA must develop a procedure, to be implemented at the state level, through which these entities may request additional emergency watershed protection measures. The cost of undertaking these additional measures may be incurred by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with USDA.

Further, USDA must consider pre-agreement costs incurred by a sponsor for undertaking the emergency watershed protection measures as meeting part of a sponsor's contribution towards the project costs.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1107 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1107

     To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 with respect to 
preagreement costs of emergency watershed protection measures, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2025

Mr. Curtis (for himself and Mr. Bennet) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act 
of 2025'' or the ``MATCH Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROGRAM.

    Section 403 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Preagreement Costs.--
            ``(1) Definition of sponsor.--In this subsection, the term 
        `sponsor' means--
                    ``(A) a State or local government; and
                    ``(B) an Indian Tribe (as defined in section 4 of 
                the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
                Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)).
            ``(2) Preagreement project costs.--Not later than 180 days 
        after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary 
        shall--
                    ``(A) identify a list of emergency watershed 
                protection measures the cost of which may be incurred 
                by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with 
                the Secretary under this section; and
                    ``(B) develop a procedure, including appropriate 
                deadlines, to be implemented at the State level, 
                through which a sponsor may request, for a specified 
                natural disaster, additional emergency watershed 
                protection measures the cost of which may be incurred 
                by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with 
                the Secretary under this section.
            ``(3) Agreement contribution.--If the Secretary and a 
        sponsor enter into an agreement under this section, the 
        Secretary shall consider any applicable preagreement costs 
        incurred by the sponsor for undertaking emergency watershed 
        protection measures identified under paragraph (2) as meeting 
        part of the contribution of the sponsor toward the cost of the 
        project.
            ``(4) Assumption of risk.--A sponsor that undertakes 
        emergency watershed protection measures prior to entering into 
        an agreement with the Secretary under this section shall assume 
        the risk of incurring any cost of undertaking those measures.
            ``(5) Effect.--Nothing in this subsection requires the 
        Secretary to enter into an agreement with a sponsor.''.
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