Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 1/25/2024
Actions
- 2024-01-25Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
- 2024-01-25Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
- 2023-12-12Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- 2023-12-12Introduced in House
- 2023-12-12Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-12-12 (00)
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2023
This bill revises the Emergency Conservation Program and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program to provide agricultural producers and owners of nonindustrial private forest land impacted by natural disasters the option to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures.
The bill also expands eligibility for payments under the programs to include emergency measures to address damages caused by (1) a wildfire that is not caused naturally if the damage is caused by the spread of the wildfire due to natural causes, and (2) a wildfire that is caused by the federal government.
Subjects
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Farmland
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Natural disasters
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