3.0.0 5610 2026-02-17T15:00:52Z 2026-02-17T15:00:52Z House H HR 2025-09-26 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5610 <pre>[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 158 (Friday, September 26, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. TAYLOR:H.R. 5610.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution[Page H4503]</pre> hsag00 Agriculture Committee House Standing Referred To 2025-09-26T14:01:15Z 2025-09-26 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsag00 Agriculture Committee 2025-09-26 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2025-09-26 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress T000490 Rep. Taylor, David J. [R-OH-2] David Taylor R OH J. 2 N Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-11-25T16:14:48Z

00 2025-09-26 Introduced in House 2026-02-17T14:59:20Z <p><strong>Improving Drought Monitoring Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires increased interagency cooperation in drought monitoring and response activities and reauthorizes the Improvements to the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) program through FY2030.&nbsp;</p><p>Specifically, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) must establish an interagency working group&nbsp;to improve the availability of consistent, accurate, and reliable data for use in producing the&nbsp;USDM. (The USDM uses multiple indicators and indexes together with expert opinions and stakeholder information to estimate the intensity and effects of ongoing drought conditions across the United&nbsp;States. Using this data, the USDM map shows the location and intensity of drought across the United States.)</p><p>The interagency working group must submit a report to Congress and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior that contains recommendations for changes in policies, regulations, guidance documents, or existing law related to USDM data. USDA, in coordination with the Departments of Commerce and the Interior, must incorporate, to the extent practicable, the recommendations of the working group to improve USDM&nbsp;data.</p><p>The bill also reauthorizes through FY2030 the Improvements to the USDM program, which requires USDA to coordinate with the National Drought Mitigation Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enhance the collection of data to improve the accuracy of the USDM.</p><p>Further, the Farm Service Agency and the Forest Service must enter into a memorandum of understanding to better align their drought response activities.</p>

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