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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5770 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5770

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four

                                 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''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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