Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to undertake emergency measures for run-off retardation and soil-erosion prevention, in cooperation with landowners and land users, as he deems necessary to safeguard lives and property from floods, drought, and the products of erosion on any watershed whenever fire or any other natural occurrence has caused a sudden impairment of such watershed. Authorizes the United States Treasury to establish an emergency fund to carry out such emergency activities. Authorizes such appropriations as Congress determines necessary for such a fund.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 95-372.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 95-372.
Call of calendar in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
Measure passed Senate, amended.
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
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