[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5468]
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  SA 3674. Mrs. BRITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1067. MODIFICATION OF OPERATIONS OF NATIONAL WATER 
                   CENTER.

       Section 301 of the Coordinated Ocean Observations and 
     Research Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 10371) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(A)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting ``, 
     within the Office of Water Prediction of the National Weather 
     Service,'' after ``shall establish'';
       (ii) in clause (i), by striking ``and'' after the 
     semicolon;
       (iii) in clause (ii), by striking the period and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (iv) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii) to lead the transition of water research by the 
     Federal Government, including model development, into 
     operations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
     Administration and the National Weather Service.'';
       (B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(F) Serving as the primary center within the National 
     Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for research, 
     development, collaboration, and coordination of the water 
     research and water forecast activities of the Administration 
     and other centers and networks of the Federal Government, 
     including those of the Department of Agriculture, the Army 
     Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the United 
     States Geological Survey, and the Federal Emergency 
     Management Agency.
       ``(G) Integrating and promoting consistency among national 
     and regional hydrological forecast operations and service 
     delivery.''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Incorporation into unified forecast system.--The 
     Under Secretary shall use the Weather and Climate Operational 
     Supercomputing System, or any successor system, to support 
     the development and implementation of advanced water 
     resources modeling capabilities under paragraph (2)(B) and 
     shall incorporate those modeling capabilities into the 
     unified forecast system.'';
       (2) by striking subsection (b);
       (3) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b);
       (4) by inserting after subsection (b), as redesignated by 
     paragraph (3), the following:
       ``(c) Organization and Administration.--The Under 
     Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office of Water 
     Prediction of the National Weather Service, shall--
       ``(1) supervise and oversee the administration, management, 
     and operations of each River Forecast Center of the National 
     Weather Service and coordinate those operations with the 
     National Water Center; and
       ``(2) administer the duties and activities of the National 
     Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration related to the 
     Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in 
     Hydrology, or any successor entity, and coordinate the 
     activities of the Institute with the National Water 
     Center.''; and
       (5) in subsection (d)(4) by inserting before the period the 
     following: ``and each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030''.
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