FLARE Act

Bill: 116-hr-4205
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Curtis, John R. [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2019-08-23
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance

State and local finance

Watersheds
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-08-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Funding Local Assistance and Recovery Efforts Act or the</b> <b>FLARE Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to make retroactive payments to states and local governments under the emergency watershed protection program for work that is done after a project is approved, but before funds are dispersed.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4205 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 23, 2019 Mr. Curtis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To require the Secretary of Agriculture to reimburse sponsors for certain costs of emergency water protection measures, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Funding Local Assistance and Recovery Efforts Act or the FLARE Act . 2. Emergency watershed protection reimbursement In carrying out the Emergency Watershed Protection Program under part 624 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), the Secretary of Agriculture shall make payments for activities specified in an agreement between the Secretary and a sponsor and undertaken by the sponsor during the period between the signing of the agreement and the release of funds pursuant to the agreement.