Janelle Bynum will let the Secretary of Agriculture waive local match requirements for certain wildfire recovery grants.

An amendment to provide authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the local match for the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program for low-capacity rural communities recovering from wildfires;

Bynum proposed giving USDA waiver authority for local matching funds in the Emergency Watershed Protection Program.

Bynum Introduces Amendments to Protect Americans from the Harmful Republican Farm Bill | Representative Janelle Bynum
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