3.0.0 2807 2023-08-17T13:45:22Z 2023-08-17T13:45:22Z Senate S 2021-09-22 117 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-09-22T21:33:13Z Watershed Results Act 117 3539 S 2022-05-25 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Related bill CRS 2021-09-22 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2021-09-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N Public Lands and Natural Resources Congressional oversight Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Government studies and investigations Performance measurement Wages and earnings Water resources funding Water use and supply Watersheds Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2021-09-22 Introduced in Senate 2022-03-29T23:59:43Z Watershed Results Act

This bill provides funding for the Department of the Interior, in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency, to establish a total of not less than two and not more than five watershed pilot programs that use pay-for-performance contracts.

Interior shall designate a management team for each watershed pilot. The management team for the applicable watershed pilot shall develop and implement a five-year plan for carrying out that pilot.

Interior and the management team for each watershed pilot shall use advance watershed analytics throughout the planning, implementation, measuring, and monitoring of projects within the pilot. Such analytics must be conducted to identify quantifiable outcomes, costs, feasibility, and impacts of the projects before making funding available for the pilot.

Interior and the management team for a watershed pilot shall set and publish minimum per-unit outcome prices. The participating federal department or agency shall enter into a pay-for-performance contract to achieve outcome-based goals described in the plan developed for the pilot.

Interior shall submit specified annual and five-year reports to Congress.

]]> Watershed Results Act Display Title Watershed Results Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the heads of relevant Federal agencies, to carry out watershed pilots, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Watershed Results Act Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2807is/xml/BILLS-117s2807is.xml 2021-09-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. 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.