Mitigating Drought

 Mitigation Tools for States

 Agricultural Industry

Specific actions taken by states:

Impact assessment actions

• Assess severity/cost of impacts
• Collect and evaluate impact data
• Report, maintain data and records
• Analyze/assess needs
• Identify sources of assistance
• Recommend response levels and activities
• Make projections for several scenarios
• Survey and monitor animal health and care
• Estimate costs of activities
• Keep inventory of programs and responsibilities
• Improve assessment of impacts

Response programs

• Emergency funding (loans, grants, credits, etc.)
• Technical assistance/program coordination
• Recommend response levels/activities to minimize impacts
• Assist livestock owners/feed distribution
• Construct wells/transport water to farmers and ranchers
• Community coordination/education
• Disease/pest/predator control
• Determine needs/aid in rehabilitation
• Hay bank/hotline
• Irrigation reduction/alteration
• Production adjustment programs/crop rotation
• Forest resource evaluation
• Data collecting/analysis
• Develop supplemental natural resources employment opportunities
• Develop support services hotline
• Emergency control guidelines for wildlife species on crop or range land
• Emergency food stamp allotments
• Fire control
• Increase storage of surface waters/rehabilitate reservoirs
• Program to apply livestock sale income to next year’s income tax
• Use reclaimed water for irrigation
• Water supply safety test
• Drought property tax programs for farmers
• Emergency irrigation permits

Mitigation programs

• Provide insurance against unavoidable loss
• Encourage alternate water supplies/delivery
• Funds for improved water use efficiency
• Volunteer irrigation water scheduling program
• Evaluate need for irrigation, including supplemental
• Program for grazing strategies/range land management
• Provide technical assistance
• Research to minimize impacts
• Computer information networks
• Coordinate preparedness activities
• Develop fire and insect programs
• Develop irrigation district drought plans
• Draft policy to modify irrigation districts
• Education for riparian streambank protection
• Evaluate riparian land regarding water rights

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