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Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to remove barriers to agricultural producers in accessing funds to carry out emergency measures under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This act revises the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) and the Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP) to expand eligibility for payments to agricultural producers and owners of forest land impacted by natural disasters. The act also provides additional options to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments before carrying out emergency measures.

The act expands advance ECP payments to include the replacement, repair, or restoration of farmland or conservation structures requiring an immediate response. Producers may receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for 75% of the cost of the replacement and 50% of the cost of the repair or restoration. Current law limits advance payments to 25% of the cost of the repair or replacement of fencing.

Under EFRP, the act allows owners of nonindustrial private forest land impacted by a natural disaster to receive an advance on cost-sharing payments for up to 75% of the cost of the emergency measures. Currently, advance payments are not available under the program.

ECP and EFRP recipients must use the funds within 180 days after the funds are disbursed. This provides additional time to ECP recipients who currently must use the funds within 60 days.

The act 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.

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Timeline

  1. House floor actionsSent to Archivist of the United States unsigned.
  2. Library of CongressBecame Public Law No: 119-102.
  3. Became Law
  4. House floor actionsPresented to President.
  5. House floor actionsMr. Lucas moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  6. Floor Vote
  7. SenateSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent.
  8. Library of CongressPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  9. House floor actionsReceived in the House.
  10. Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
  11. SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
  12. Introduced
  13. Committee

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