This bill amends two existing programs that manage watershed and flood issues on agricultural land. It lets the Secretary of Agriculture carry out emergency watershed restoration measures that give more protection than needed for an immediate problem if those measures help the long-term health of the watershed and are cost-effective. The bill also requires the Secretary to deliver a national agriculture flood vulnerability report within 2 years. That report must study flood risk on farm and ranch lands and include: economic loss estimates for crops and livestock under different flood recurrence scenarios; analysis of downstream effects of watershed mitigation; review of Federal and State flood data for riverine, coastal, storm surge, extreme precipitation, and flash flooding; and a description of current producer conservation practices with recommendations for more actions. Finally, the bill amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act by changing language about project content so that every project (except rehabilitation projects under section 14) must meet a stated requirement, and it replaces a numeric figure of "65 percent" with "90 percent" in section 14(b)(2).
No publicly available information on specific costs or appropriations is included in the bill text. The bill would require the Department of Agriculture to prepare a national study and authorizes different levels of restoration work, which could result in spending, but the text does not specify funding amounts or sources.
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