3.0.0 2718 2022-11-01T04:32:34Z 2022-11-01T04:32:34Z Senate S 2019-10-28 116 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Hearings by 2020-07-22T18:30:00Z Referred to 2019-10-28T20:50:47Z Western Water Security Act of 2020 116 4891 HR 2020-12-18 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 558. Related bill CRS Moving Forward Act 116 2 HR 2020-07-20 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS 2020-07-22 sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-375. Committee 2019-10-28 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2019-10-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM N H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2019-10-28 True Water Resources Development Agricultural conservation and pollution Agricultural practices and innovations Air quality Alternative and renewable resources Aquatic ecology Arizona Building construction Climate change and greenhouse gases Congressional oversight Dams and canals Endangered and threatened species Energy efficiency and conservation Environmental health Environmental technology Farmland Fishes Floods and storm protection Hawaii Hydrology and hydrography Infrastructure development Lakes and rivers Latin America Mexico Mining New Mexico Oil and gas Research administration and funding Rural conditions and development State and local government operations Texas Water quality Water resources funding Water storage Water use and supply Watersheds Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats Wildlife conservation and habitat protection Water Resources Development 00 2019-10-28 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-03T19:18:21Z Western Water Security Act of 2019

This bill addresses water management infrastructure and improvement, groundwater management, and water conservation and environmental restoration in certain western states.

Specifically, the bill increases the authorization of appropriations to fund research agreements between the Bureau of Reclamation and eligible entities for water management improvement. The bill expands eligibility for such agreements to include nonprofit conservation organizations.

The bill also reauthorizes through FY2024 a program through which Interior is authorized to assist eligible desalination projects. The bill lowers cost-sharing requirements under the program for rural desalination projects.

Further, the bill allows certain financial assistance made available under an existing drought relief program to be used to assist state and tribal governments in addressing drought-related impacts to water supplies or any other immediate water-related crises. The bill reauthorizes the program through FY2030.

Additionally, the bill increases the maximum federal share of costs for certain infrastructure improvements and activities for groundwater management that provide benefits to consumptive water users (i.e., users of water that is not returned to a stream, river, or water treatment plant) and nonconsumptive ecological or recreational values.

The bill also requires Reclamation to carry out a water acquisition program in specified river basins. Further, Interior must analyze the extent to which changes in water supply will affect native biodiversity and must produce strategies for sustaining native biodiversity during periods of drought.

]]> Western Water Security Act of 2019 Display Title Western Water Security Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Western Water Security Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for the conduct of certain water security measures in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2718is/xml/BILLS-116s2718is.xml 2020-07-22 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-375. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.