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Union Calendar No. 468 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5770 

[Report No. 118–566] 

To reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey water data 

enhancement programs. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 

Mr. NEGUSE (for himself and Mr. CISCOMANI) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

JUNE 27, 2024 

Additional sponsor: Ms. Titus 

JUNE 27, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on September 27, 2023] 


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A BILL 

To reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey water 

data enhancement programs. 


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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 (WATER) Data Improve6 ment Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. WATER DATA ENHANCEMENT BY UNITED STATES 

8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 

9 Section 9507 of the Omnibus Public Land Manage10 ment Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10367) is amended— 

11 (1) in subsection (a)— 

12 (A) by striking the heading and inserting 

13 ‘‘FEDERAL PRIORITY STREAMGAGE PROGRAM’’; 

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

15 streamflow information program, as reviewed by 

16 the National Research Council in 2004’’ and in17 serting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage program’’; 

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

19 streamflow information program’’ each place it 

20 appears and inserting ‘‘Federal priority 

21 streamgage program’’; 

22 (D) in paragraph (4)— 

23 (i) in subparagraph (A)— 

24 (I) by striking ‘‘2009’’ and insert25 ing ‘‘2023’’; and 


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

2 ‘‘precipitation’’ before ‘‘water-quality 

3 sensors’’; and 

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

5 ‘‘National Streamflow Information Pro6 gram as reviewed by the National Research 

7 Council.’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal needs es8 tablished through regular solicitation of 

9 feedback, such as that documented in the re10 port titled ‘Re-prioritization of the U.S. Ge11 ological Survey Federal Priority streamgage 

12 program, 2022’ (Open-file Report 2023- 

13 1032).’’; 

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

15 streamgaging network’’ each place it appears 

16 and inserting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage net17 work’’; and 

18 (F) in paragraph (6)— 

19 (i) in subparagraph (A)— 

20 (I) by striking ‘‘national 

21 streamflow information program’’ and 

22 inserting ‘‘Federal priority streamgage 

23 program’’; and 

24 (II) by striking ‘‘2023’’ and in25 serting ‘‘2028’’; and 


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

2 ‘‘2019’’ and inserting ‘‘2028’’; 

3 (2) in subsection (b)— 

4 (A) in paragraph (2)— 

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

6 ‘‘and Tribes’’ after ‘‘agencies’’ and 

7 (ii) in subparagraph (C)— 

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

9 after ‘‘within a State’’; and 

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

11 ‘‘water resource agency’’; 

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

13 Tribe’’ after ‘‘a State’’; and 

14 (C) in paragraph (7)— 

15 (i) by striking ‘‘such sums as are nec16 essary’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,000,000 per fiscal 

17 year’’; and 

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

19 and inserting ‘‘2023 through 2028’’; 

20 (3) by striking subsection (c); 

21 (4) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 

22 (c); and 

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

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

25 ‘‘2028’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 468 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5770 

[Report No. 118–566] 

A BILL 

To reauthorize certain United States Geological 

Survey water data enhancement programs. 

JUNE 27, 2024 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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