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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 637, S. 2437.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 2437) to amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting
Program Authorization Act to reauthorize the Snow Water
Supply Forecasting Program, and for other purposes.
which had been reported from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Snow Water Supply
Forecasting Program Reauthorization Act of 2026”.
SEC. 2. SNOW WATER SUPPLY FORECASTING PROGRAM.
The Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act
(43 U.S.C. 1477) is amended—
(1) in subsection (c)(2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A)—
(i) by striking “develop” and inserting “continue
developing”; and
(ii) by striking “culminating in the report required under
subsection (d)(3)” and inserting “with an emphasis on
development and deployment of more accurate, timely, and
cost-effective snow monitoring technologies and water supply
forecasting, including technologies that integrate snowpack
measuring and modeling”; and
(B) in subparagraph (B)—
(i) by striking “after submitting the report required by
subsection (d)(3),”; and
(ii) by inserting “and to improve water supply
forecasting” after “watersheds”;
(2) in subsection (d)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting “and water
supply forecasting” after “data”;
(ii) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking
“emerging technologies for snowpack measurement, such as”
and inserting “technologies for snowpack measurements and
methods to forecast water supply, including”;
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking “and” at the end;
and
(iv) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the
following:
“(C) imaging spectroscopy;
“(D) machine learning;
“(E) snowpack and hydrologic modeling; and
“(F) other technologies that the Secretary determines are
likely to provide more accurate or timely snowpack
measurement data or analytical methods utilizing snowpack
data that can improve water supply forecasting to inform
water management and reservoir operations.”;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking “emerging technologies
for snowpack measurement” and inserting “technologies for
snowpack measurement and models, including the Department of
Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration”; and
(C) by striking paragraph (3);
(3) in subsection (e)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) by striking “After submitting the report required
under subsection (d)(3), the” and inserting “The”; and
(ii) by striking “in particular watersheds” and inserting
“and water supply forecasts in particular watersheds and to
explore new statistical, machine learning, or physical models
to generate improved water supply forecasts utilizing
snowpack data”; and
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
“(2) Focus.—The program shall focus on activities that
will maintain, establish, expand, or advance snowpack
measurement and modeling projected water supply, with an
emphasis on—
“(A) enhancing activities to achieve improved snow and
water supply forecasting results that are more responsive to
changing weather and watershed conditions;
“(B) activities in river basins where activities described
in this section relating to snowpack measurement and water
supply forecasting can inform water management decisions or
models at a multi-water user, multi-basin, or multi-State
scale, including interstate water management decisions; and
“(C) building the capacity of program partners to
implement and adapt to the new measurement and forecasting
capabilities enabled under the program.”;
(4) in subsection (f)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking
“this Act” and inserting “the Snow Water Supply
Forecasting Program Reauthorization Act of 2026”;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking “or sub-basin”;
(C) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
(D) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
“(1) a list of basins for which snowpack measurement and
integrated modeling technologies are being used under the
program, including a description of each application,
outcome, and data resource used;
“(2) an assessment of which technologies best inform water
supply forecasting for multiple water districts, communities,
or States;
“(3) an assessment of forecasts generated using new
technologies authorized under this Act compared against water
supply forecast benchmarks from the Department of Agriculture
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;
and”; and
(5) in subsection (g), by striking “$15,000,000, in the
aggregate, for fiscal years 2022 through 2026” and inserting
“$3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031”.
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee- reported substitute amendment be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (S. 2437), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed.