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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4245 

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize 

certain United States Geological Survey water data enhancement programs, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 2, 2024 

Ms. LUMMIS (for herself, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, and Mr. WYDEN) introduced 

the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 

2009 to reauthorize certain United States Geological 

Survey water data enhancement programs, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Water Monitoring and 

5 Tracking Essential Resources Data Improvement Act’’ or 

6 the ‘‘WATER Data Improvement Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. WATER DATA ENHANCEMENT BY UNITED STATES 

2 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

3 (a) FEDERAL PRIORITY STREAMGAGE PROGRAM.— 

4 Section 9507(a) of the Omnibus Public Land Management 

5 Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10367(a)) is amended— 

6 (1) by striking the subsection heading and in7 serting ‘‘FEDERAL PRIORITY STREAMGAGE PRO8 GRAM’’; 

9 (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘national 

10 streamflow information program, as reviewed by the 

11 National Research Council in 2004’’ and inserting 

12 ‘‘Federal priority streamgage program’’; 

13 (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘national 

14 streamflow information program’’ each place it ap15 pears and inserting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage 

16 program’’; 

17 (4) in paragraph (4)— 

18 (A) in subparagraph (A)— 

19 (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 

20 by striking ‘‘the date of enactment of this 

21 Act’’ and inserting ‘‘March 30, 2023’’; 

22 (ii) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘national 

23 streamflow information program’’ and in24 serting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage pro25 gram’’; and 


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1 (iii) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘pre2 cipitation’’ before ‘‘water-quality sensors’’; 

3 and 

4 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘Na5 tional Streamflow Information Program plan as 

6 reviewed by the National Research Council’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘Federal needs established 

8 through regular solicitation of feedback, such as 

9 the feedback documented in the report entitled 

10 ‘Re-prioritization of the U.S. Geological Survey 

11 Federal Priority streamgage program, 2022’ 

12 (Open-file Report 2023–1032)’’; 

13 (5) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘national 

14 streamgaging network’’ each place it appears and in15 serting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage network’’; and 

16 (6) in paragraph (6)— 

17 (A) in subparagraph (A)— 

18 (i) by striking ‘‘national streamflow 

19 information program’’ and inserting ‘‘Fed20 eral priority streamgage program’’; and 

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘2023’’ and inserting 

22 ‘‘2028’’; and 

23 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

24 ‘‘2019’’ and inserting ‘‘2028’’. 


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1 (b) NATIONAL GROUNDWATER RESOURCES MONI2 TORING.—Section 9507(b) of the Omnibus Public Land 

3 Management Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10367(b)) is amend4 ed— 

5 (1) in paragraph (2)— 

6 (A) in subparagraph (B), in the matter 

7 preceding clause (i), by inserting ‘‘, Indian 

8 Tribes,’’ before ‘‘and State’’; and 

9 (B) in subparagraph (C)— 

10 (i) by inserting ‘‘or on Tribal land’’ 

11 after ‘‘within a State’’; and 

12 (ii) by inserting ‘‘or Indian Tribe’’ 

13 after ‘‘water resource agency’’; 

14 (2) in paragraph (6), by inserting ‘‘or an In15 dian Tribe’’ after ‘‘or local governmental entity’’; 

16 and 

17 (3) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘are author18 ized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 

19 to carry out this subsection for the period of fiscal 

20 years 2009 through 2023’’ and inserting ‘‘is author21 ized to be appropriated $4,000,000 to carry out this 

22 subsection for each of fiscal years 2023 through 

23 2028’’. 


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1 (c) REPEAL OF BRACKISH GROUNDWATER ASSESS2 MENT.—Section 9507 of the Omnibus Public Land Man3 agement Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10367) is amended— 

4 (1) by striking subsection (c); and 

5 (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub6 section (c). 

7 (d) IMPROVED WATER ESTIMATION, MEASUREMENT, 

8 AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES.—Section 9507 of the 

9 Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (42 

10 U.S.C. 10367) is amended, in subsection (c)(4) (as redes11 ignated by subsection (c)(2)), by striking ‘‘2019’’ and in12 serting ‘‘2028’’. 

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