Allows farmers to receive advance payments of up to 75 percent for replacement or rehabilitation work and up to 50 percent for repairs under the emergency conservation program, and expands eligible wildfire damage to fires caused by the federal government when natural spread causes the damage.

• Lets producers choose up to 75 percent of the fair market value of replacement or rehabilitation work, and up to 50 percent for repairs, paid before the work is done.
• Counts wildfires not caused naturally, including those caused by the Federal Government, as eligible when natural causes spread the fire and cause the damage.
• Lets owners of nonindustrial private forest land receive up to 75 percent of emergency restoration costs in advance, with unspent funds returned within a reasonable timeframe after 180 days.

• Agriculture Committee (House)
• Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee

Agriculture and Food