S. 1107 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the Senate, Mar 25, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summarySpeeds up emergency watershed cleanup projects
Right now, when states, local governments, or tribes need to protect their communities from floods, droughts, fires, or other natural disasters affecting water resources, they have to wait for approval from the USDA before they can start cleanup work. This bill lets them start certain emergency protection measures right away and then count what they spent as their share of the project cost once they get official approval from the USDA.
How it affects you
State and local governments, as well as tribes, can now tackle urgent watershed emergencies faster without waiting for federal paperwork to begin. This could mean quicker protection for communities facing floods, drought, or wildfire damage, since local leaders won't have to delay starting critical cleanup work while seeking USDA approval.
Read the official summary (Introduced in Senate, Mar 25, 2025)
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.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionS. 1107
A BILL
MATCH Act of 2025
Sponsor: Sen. John R. Curtis (R-UT) · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Agriculture and Food · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Mar 25, 2025: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.”