Emergency Watershed Protection Program
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2023-03-09 — MATCH Act of 2023: The MATCH Act of 2023, introduced legislation, would allow state, local, and tribal governments to count emergency cleanup and watershed protection expenses incurred before formal USDA approval toward required local cost-share contributions, potentially reducing additional matching expenditures for disaster recovery projects. (novelty: 2)
- 2021-04-14 — MATCH Act of 2021: The MATCH Act of 2021, introduced legislation, would allow state, local, and tribal governments to begin approved emergency watershed protection cleanup before executing formal USDA agreements and count those pre-agreement expenses toward required project cost-shares. (novelty: 2)