HR 5781 119th Congress House Agriculture and Food

MATCH Act of 2025

Introduced: October 17, 2025 Introduced by: Neguse, Joe Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov

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Dec 2, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Oct 17, 2025

Introduced in House

Oct 17, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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Making Access To Cleanup Happen Act of 2025 or the MATCH Act of 2025

This bill modifies the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to allow sponsors (i.e., states, local governments, and Indian tribes) to undertake certain emergency watershed protection measures prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA and count the costs as part of the sponsor's share of the project cost once an agreement with USDA is in place.

As background, USDA's EWP Program offers assistance to sponsors to carry out projects that help safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.

This bill requires USDA to identify a list of emergency watershed protection measures that a sponsor may incur costs for prior to entering into a project agreement with USDA under the EWP Program. USDA must develop a procedure, to be implemented at the state level, through which these entities may request additional emergency watershed protection measures. The cost of undertaking these additional measures may be incurred by a sponsor prior to entering into an agreement with USDA.

Further, USDA must consider pre-agreement costs incurred by a sponsor for undertaking the emergency watershed protection measures as meeting part of a sponsor's contribution towards the project costs.

What's happening now December 2, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Related & companion bills 2

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Committees of jurisdiction 2

Agriculture Committee
House of Representatives
Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Agriculture Committee

Lobbying activity 1

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC
for KLA CORPORATION · California · 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026

Cosponsors 3

Scholten, Hillary J.

Michigan · Apr 30, 2026

Garamendi, John

California · Oct 17, 2025

Maloy, Celeste

Utah · Oct 17, 2025

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