A bill to provide for monitoring of soil moisture in drought-prone areas, to provide information thereon and accelerate financial and technical assistance to lessen impact of drought on farming and ranching operations.
Drought Disaster Warning and Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Soil Conservation Service, to monitor soil moisture, rural water supplies, and other drought-related indicators in drought-prone areas in order to provide information for making decisions about early actions to be taken by Federal, State, and local governments and landowners or land users to minimize the effects of drought.
Directs the Secretary to accelerate financial and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers and to develop and help implement additional conservation techniques or activities that will lessen the impact of a drought on their operations.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
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