FUTURE Western Water Infrastructure and Drought Resiliency Act

Bill: 117-hr-3404
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

Furthering Underutilized Technologies and Unleashing Responsible Expenditures for Western Water Infrastructure and Drought Resiliency Act or the FUTURE Western Water Infrastructure and Drought Resiliency Act

 
This bill addresses water-related resources and infrastructure.
 
Among other provisions, the bill
 
 
reauthorizes through FY2026 the California Bay-Delta program, the Water Availability and Use Science Program, and a water desalination program; 
 
reauthorizes through FY2028 the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation program; 
 
creates various grants for water projects and expands the allowable uses of grants for water recycling and reuse projects; 
 
establishes a funding source for certain water resources development projects in western states;
 
expands the tax exclusion for energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities to include certain subsidies for water conservation or efficiency measures and stormwater management measures; 
 
establishes prizes for water technology applications; 
 
requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to use specified funds for water control manual updates for forecast-informed water operations projects; and 
 
allows certain funding to be used for the remediation of land formerly used to cultivate marijuana. 
 
 
The Department of the Interior must, within 10 years, make certain streamgages operational. (Streamgages are fixed structures at streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs that measure water level and related streamflow.) 
 
The bill establishes programs related to ecosystem protection and restoration, including programs to (1) incentivize farmers to keep fields flooded during appropriate periods for waterbird habitat creation and maintenance, and (2) prepare drought plans to sustain critically important fisheries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in House