H.R. 5770 · 118th Congress
Water Monitoring and Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act
Law · 118-174 · Dec 23, 2024Key: what the circles and colors mean
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- House Introduced Sep 27, 2023
- House Passed Jul 8, 2024
- Senate Passed Dec 18, 2024
- President To the President Dec 23, 2024
- President Signed Dec 23, 2024
- Law Dec 23, 2024
Water Monitoring and Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act
What it does: CRS summary · Public Law · Dec 23, 2024
Water Monitoring and Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act
This act reauthorizes through FY2028 the following initiatives of the United States Geological Survey (USGS): (1) Federal Priority Streamgage program (previously known as the National Streamflow Information Program); (2) groundwater monitoring program, including the National Groundwater Monitoring Network; and (3) grants for water estimation, measurement, and monitoring technologies and methodologies.
The act also modifies the Federal Priority Streamgage program, which measures and tracks the amount of water in nationally significant watersheds and provides information about those watersheds and their conditions, such as floods and droughts. Currently, the USGS must ensure that all streamgages are equipped with water-quality sensors. The act requires that those sensors are precipitation water-quality sensors. The act also requires each streamgage site to conform with the federal needs established through regular solicitation and feedback, such as that documented in the report titled Re-prioritization of the U.S. Geological Survey Federal Priority streamgage program, 2022.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Water Monitoring and Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act
Also known as: Water Data Improvement Act
Latest action (Dec 23, 2024): Became Public Law No: 118-174.
Policy area: Water Resources Development · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 27, 2023
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- House Introduced Sep 27, 2023
- House Passed Jul 8, 2024
- Senate Passed Dec 18, 2024
- President To the President Dec 23, 2024
- President Signed Dec 23, 2024
- Law Dec 23, 2024
No recorded floor vote found.