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House bill would create $10,000 cost-share pilot to help ranchers and landowners after localized disasters
Summary
Rep. Jane Weber introduced House Bill 830, a pilot emergency quick-response cost-share proposal that would provide up to $10,000 per eligible private landowner after a localized natural-weather event, with a 25 percent landowner match and conservation-district administration.
Representative Jane Weber, sponsor of House Bill 830, told the House Local Government Committee the bill creates an emergency quick-response assistance pilot to help Montana ranchers, farmers and private landowners recover faster after localized natural events such as windstorms, microbursts, floods and wildfire damage. "This is the emergency quick response assistance bill and it's a cost share program to help Montana ranchers farmers and land owners get back to work quickly after a localized natural weather event," Weber said.
Under the proposal Weber described, the program would be activated after county commissioners adopt an emergency resolution for the affected area; landowners outside municipalities would be eligible; conservation districts would administer the cost-share agreements and contracts; and the cost-share would be $10,000 per…
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