USDA will invest up to $103 million in post-disaster recovery and the rehabilitation of aging dams in 19 States. The funding will improve critical Infrastructure and is aimed at improving public safety. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will invest the funding in Emergency Watershed Protection Program assistance to aid recovery projects addressing damage caused by floods, hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters. Since 2009, USDA has invested more than $647 million to help local governments restore watersheds.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently shortened its list of U.S. states under avian influenza-related restrictions to just one. The agency announced cross-border travelers may again bring raw poultry meat, eggs and live birds into Canada from North Dakota and Missouri. Indiana remains under limits imposed in January after highly pathogenic avian flu turned up at a 43,000-bird turkey farm.

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