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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1670 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1670

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

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2023

  Mr. Curtis (for himself and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the following 
        bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL

 
   To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 with respect to pre-
  agreement 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 2023'' or the ``MATCH Act of 2023''.

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) Pre-Agreement Costs.--
            ``(1) Sponsor.--For purposes of this subsection, the term 
        `sponsor' means a State or local government, or an Indian Tribe 
        (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 
        Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)).
            ``(2) Pre-agreement 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 pursuant to 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 pursuant to this section.
            ``(3) Agreement contribution.--If the Secretary and the 
        sponsor enter into an agreement pursuant to this section, the 
        Secretary shall consider any applicable pre-agreement costs 
        incurred by a sponsor for undertaking emergency watershed 
        protection measures identified pursuant to paragraph (2) as 
        meeting part of the sponsor's contribution towards the project 
        costs.
            ``(4) Assumption of risk.--Nothing in this subsection 
        requires the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a 
        sponsor, and a sponsor undertaking emergency watershed 
        protection measures prior to entering into an agreement with 
        the Secretary pursuant to this section shall assume the risk of 
        incurring any costs of undertaking such measures.''.
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