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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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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 Improve-
ment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. WATER DATA ENHANCEMENT BY UNITED STATES 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
Section 9507 of the Omnibus Public Land Manage-
ment 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 in-
serting ‘‘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 insert-
ing ‘‘2023’’; and 
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(II) in clause (ii), by inserting 
‘‘precipitation’’ before ‘‘water-quality 
sensors’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘National Streamflow Information Pro-
gram as reviewed by the National Research 
Council.’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal needs es-
tablished through regular solicitation of 
feedback, such as that documented in the re-
port titled ‘Re-prioritization of the U.S. Ge-
ological 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 net-
work’’; 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 in-
serting ‘‘2028’’; and 
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(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 nec-
essary’’ 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’’. 
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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 Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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