IIB 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5770 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 9, 2024 

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

Resources 

AN ACT 

To reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey water 

data enhancement programs. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improve4 ment Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. WATER DATA ENHANCEMENT BY UNITED STATES 

6 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

7 Section 9507 of the Omnibus Public Land Manage8 ment Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10367) is amended— 

9 (1) in subsection (a)— 

10 (A) by striking the heading and inserting 

11 ‘‘FEDERAL PRIORITY STREAMGAGE PROGRAM’’; 

12 (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘national 

13 streamflow information program, as reviewed by 

14 the National Research Council in 2004’’ and in15 serting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage program’’; 

16 (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘national 

17 streamflow information program’’ each place it 

18 appears and inserting ‘‘Federal priority 

19 streamgage program’’; 

20 (D) in paragraph (4)— 

21 (i) in subparagraph (A)— 

22 (I) by striking ‘‘2009’’ and in23 serting ‘‘2023’’; and 

24 (II) in clause (ii), by inserting 

25 ‘‘precipitation’’ before ‘‘water-quality 

26 sensors’’; and 


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1 (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

2 ‘‘National Streamflow Information Pro3 gram as reviewed by the National Research 

4 Council.’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal needs es5 tablished through regular solicitation of 

6 feedback, such as that documented in the 

7 report titled ‘Re-prioritization of the U.S. 

8 Geological Survey Federal Priority 

9 streamgage program, 2022’ (Open-file Re10 port 2023-1032).’’; 

11 (E) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘national 

12 streamgaging network’’ each place it appears 

13 and inserting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage net14 work’’; and 

15 (F) in paragraph (6)— 

16 (i) in subparagraph (A)— 

17 (I) by striking ‘‘national 

18 streamflow information program’’ and 

19 inserting ‘‘Federal priority 

20 streamgage program’’; and 

21 (II) by striking ‘‘2023’’ and in22 serting ‘‘2028’’; and 

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

24 ‘‘2019’’ and inserting ‘‘2028’’; 

25 (2) in subsection (b)— 


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1 (A) in paragraph (2)— 

2 (i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 

3 ‘‘and Tribes’’ after ‘‘agencies’’ and 

4 (ii) in subparagraph (C)— 

5 (I) by inserting ‘‘or Tribal lands’’ 

6 after ‘‘within a State’’; and 

7 (II) by inserting ‘‘or Tribe’’ after 

8 ‘‘water resource agency’’; 

9 (B) in paragraph (6), by inserting ‘‘, a 

10 Tribe’’ after ‘‘a State’’; and 

11 (C) in paragraph (7)— 

12 (i) by striking ‘‘such sums as are nec13 essary’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,000,000 per fis14 cal year’’; and 

15 (ii) by striking ‘‘2009 through 2023’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘2023 through 2028’’; 

17 (3) by striking subsection (c); 

18 (4) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub19 section (c); and 


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1 (5) in subsection (c)(4) (as so redesignated by 

2 this subsection), by striking ‘‘2019’’ and inserting 

3 ‘‘2028’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 8, 2024. 

Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 

Clerk. 


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