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Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act

What this bill does

  • Farmers using acequia irrigation systems become eligible for disaster assistance for drought, flood, and other natural disasters.
  • Agricultural producers in acequia communities are affected, primarily in the Southwest.
  • USDA must allow acequia maintenance on federal land without permits and report on acequia-dependent farmers to Congress.

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    How would allowing acequia maintenance on federal land without permits affect conservation efforts and water management on public lands?

  2. 02

    Which agricultural producers outside acequia communities might feel disadvantaged by disaster assistance eligibility limited to acequia users?

  3. 03

    What data should the USDA report about acequia-dependent farmers to help Congress evaluate whether this assistance reaches the most vulnerable producers?

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Sponsor · D-NM

Ben Ray Luján

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-23 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

  2. 2025-01-23 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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