Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to enhance the long-term protection of watersheds, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025
This bill amends the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program to allow the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide for certain restoration activities. The EWP 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.
Under the bill, USDA may allow restoration above pre-disaster conditions if that restoration is in the best interest of the long-term health and protection of the watershed.
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- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
- AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION ACTION, INC.
- AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION ACTION, INC.
- AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION ACTION, INC.
- AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION ACTION, INC.
- AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION ACTION, INC.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Interior, Dept of (DOI)
- U.S. Forest Service
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5280: Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5280/
"H.R. 5280: Protecting Farmers from Natural Disasters Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5280/.
H.R. 5280, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5280/.
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