3.0.0 2215 2025-08-05T13:03:36Z 2025-08-05T13:03:36Z Senate S S 2025-07-09 119 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-07-09T14:22:45Z 2025-07-09 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2025-07-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2025-07-09 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-07-29T22:24:34Z

00 2025-07-09 Introduced in Senate 2025-08-05T13:03:01Z <p><strong>Restoring America’s Floodplains Act</strong></p><p>This bill allows&nbsp;the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide for certain floodplain easement restoration and management activities&nbsp;under the Emergency Watershed Protection&nbsp;Program.&nbsp;This program offers technical and financial assistance, including the purchase of floodplain easements, to safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.</p><p>Under the bill, USDA may provide financial and technical assistance to restore the adapted vegetative cover and the hydrologic functions and values of wetlands on these purchased floodplain easements. USDA also has the sole discretion to enter into compatible-use agreements with landowners, and agreements with government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, to address the maintenance and management of the vegetative cover and wetlands restoration measures for these floodplain easements.</p>

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