[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5770 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5770


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 9, 2024

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
   To reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey water data 
                         enhancement programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Water Monitoring and Tracking 
Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. WATER DATA ENHANCEMENT BY UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

    Section 9507 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (42 
U.S.C. 10367) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking the heading and inserting ``Federal 
                Priority Streamgage Program'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``national 
                streamflow information program, as reviewed by the 
                National Research Council in 2004'' and inserting 
                ``Federal priority streamgage program'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``national 
                streamflow information program'' each place it appears 
                and inserting ``Federal priority streamgage program'';
                    (D) in paragraph (4)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``2009'' and 
                                inserting ``2023''; and
                                    (II) in clause (ii), by inserting 
                                ``precipitation'' before ``water-
                                quality sensors''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                        ``National Streamflow Information Program as 
                        reviewed by the National Research Council.'' 
                        and inserting ``Federal needs established 
                        through regular solicitation of feedback, such 
                        as that documented in the report titled `Re-
                        prioritization of the U.S. Geological Survey 
                        Federal Priority streamgage program, 2022' 
                        (Open-file Report 2023-1032).'';
                    (E) in paragraph (5), by striking ``national 
                streamgaging network'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``Federal priority streamgage network''; and
                    (F) in paragraph (6)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A)--
                                    (I) by striking ``national 
                                streamflow information program'' and 
                                inserting ``Federal priority streamgage 
                                program''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``2023'' and 
                                inserting ``2028''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
                        ``2019'' and inserting ``2028'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``and 
                        Tribes'' after ``agencies'' and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``or Tribal 
                                lands'' after ``within a State''; and
                                    (II) by inserting ``or Tribe'' 
                                after ``water resource agency'';
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by inserting ``, a Tribe'' 
                after ``a State''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (7)--
                            (i) by striking ``such sums as are 
                        necessary'' and inserting ``$4,000,000 per 
                        fiscal year''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``2009 through 2023'' and 
                        inserting ``2023 through 2028'';
            (3) by striking subsection (c);
            (4) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c); and
            (5) in subsection (c)(4) (as so redesignated by this 
        subsection), by striking ``2019'' and inserting ``2028''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 8, 2024.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.