Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill extends and clarifies federal water and coastal programs to provide multi‑year stability, improved monitoring, funding flexibility, and oversight—at the cost of higher potential federal spending, added burdens on small/local recipients, eligibility limits tied to national‑security concerns, and possible administrative disruptions.
Amend the Digital Coast Act to improve the acquisition, integration, and accessibility of data of the Digital Coast program and to extend the program.
The bill aims to strengthen coastal data, mapping, and authorities to improve planning and hazard preparedness for communities and infrastructure, but it risks short-term legal ambiguity and added costs or operational strain—especially if funding does not keep pace with any expanded responsibilities.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill improves regional water delivery and utility operations and expands protected lands, but it shifts some costs to taxpayers and raises environmental risks near the newly expanded conservation area unless mitigation and disposal siting are carefully managed.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill speeds and prioritizes domestic critical‑mineral production, data, and permitting to strengthen supply chains and create jobs, but does so at the cost of increased environmental and public‑health risks, reduced local control, potential taxpayer liabilities, and diverted agency resources.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases near‑term transparency, targeted funding, and program guidance to accelerate infrastructure, safety, and tribal priorities, but does so by imposing tighter congressional controls, administrative procedures, and policy restrictions that reduce agency flexibility, create legal and budgetary uncertainty, and may delay environmental, scientific, or programmatic actions.
Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act
The bill secures tribal recognition, clearer boundaries, and near-term flood protections for Osceola Camp—benefiting tribal members and nearby residents and likely reducing future disaster costs—while creating the possibility of new access/use restrictions, administrative costs, and funding or timing pressures that could shift burdens onto local governments, taxpayers, and users.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal earthquake resilience by expanding scope, clarifying roles, improving early warning, and providing multi‑year support, but many new expectations hinge on future appropriations and will raise costs and administrative burdens for governments and property owners.
National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves monitoring, forecasting, and targeted grant support for atmospheric-river, extreme-precipitation, landslide, flood and drought risks—helping emergency responders, water managers, tribes, and communities—but relies on limited appropriations, may shift costs or responsibilities across agencies and localities, and creates implementation, equity, privacy, and regulatory trade-offs.
MAPWaters Act of 2025
The bill creates standardized, publicly accessible geospatial data and clearer roles to improve safety, coordination, and conservation communication for waterways, but does so with new costs, reporting and implementation burdens, potential constraints on state flexibility and access, and risks to sensitive sites and data privacy.
Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act
The bill improves Great Lakes monitoring, research, and data use to protect water quality and public health, but it increases federal spending and could shift costs or create delays for state and local governments if funding and implementation rules remain unclear.
Mining Regulatory Clarity Act
The bill makes it easier for miners to consolidate and operate multiple mill sites and creates a fee-funded cleanup account, improving remediation funding and operational flexibility, at the cost of increased local environmental risks and reduced appropriations oversight.
PERMIT Act
The bill prioritizes faster, cheaper permitting and greater regulatory certainty for farmers, developers, and state agencies, but does so by narrowing federal oversight and public review in ways that raise substantial risks to water quality, public health, ecosystem protections, and potential costs to local communities and taxpayers.
Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funds and legal certainty to several tribal water projects—improving infrastructure and reducing local financial burdens—while increasing federal outlays and slightly reducing Treasury receipts and introducing modest administrative and budgetary risks.
Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025
The bill expands the Crow Tribe's authority and funding flexibility to develop reservation water infrastructure and strengthens tribal ownership, but leaves funding timing uncertain and places long-term operation and replacement cost risks squarely on the Tribe.
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
Dalles Watershed Development Act
The bill lets a city obtain ~150 acres of National Forest land at minimal upfront cost to secure municipal water infrastructure and protect public use, but it does so by transferring federal public land without sale proceeds and with limited federal protections — trading federal asset and conservation value (and potential local legal/fiscal risks) for local infrastructure gains.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
The bill expands tribal landholdings and legal certainty for the Lower Elwha Klallam and S'Klallam tribes and clarifies management and boundary issues, while trading off potential gaming revenue, some public access changes, and reduced federal valuation transparency.
Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 20 through September 27, 2025, as "National Estuaries Week".
This resolution highlights and legitimizes the economic, safety, and environmental value of estuaries—helping build support and coordination for protection and restoration—while offering no direct funding and creating potential regulatory expectations and competition for limited resources that could raise costs for some businesses and leave some communities feeling disadvantaged.
Water Resources Technical Assistance Review Act
The bill makes EPA water‑assistance information and program coordination clearer and holds the agency to GAO recommendations—helping communities access funds and adopt cost‑effective technologies—while imposing reporting burdens, potential additional costs, and some privacy/reputational risks for small communities.
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal monitoring, funding, and equity‑focused support to detect and respond to harmful algal blooms—improving public health protections for coastal, freshwater, and vulnerable communities—but does so with modest, time‑limited funds and new federal requirements that may strain local capacity, shift existing NOAA grant priorities, and alter how resources are allocated between national and local events.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions Review Act
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill makes sinkhole risk information widely available and keeps it updated—improving planning and scientific understanding—but creates potential economic burdens for property owners and depends on congressional funding and adequate data/resources to be effective.
To amend Public Law 99-338 with respect to Kaweah Project permits.
The bill trades greater contract/permit stability and flexibility for utilities and broader contracting options against reduced periodic competition and some short-term uncertainty for current operators.
Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act
The bill extends and clarifies federal authority and support for Colorado River Basin conservation—helping communities and water managers reduce shortages and coordinate projects—while raising modest fiscal costs and risking changes to participation/allocation rules and short-term legal uncertainty for some jurisdictions.
To authorize the International Boundary and Water Commission to accept funds for activities relating to wastewater treatment and flood control works, and for other purposes.
The bill expands local and non‑Federal access to stable, transparent funding for water and flood infrastructure projects but imposes reimbursement caps and foreign‑entity exclusions that may limit funding options for large projects.
To amend the Aquifer Recharge Flexibility Act to clarify a provision relating to conveyances for aquifer recharge purposes.
The bill speeds and clarifies use of federal rights-of-way for aquifer recharge—giving state, local, and tribal actors quicker, more predictable access—while reducing some federal environmental review and oversight protections and leaving potential infrastructure approval delays and legal risks in place.
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025
The bill would clarify and accelerate state-led and community-driven mine cleanup—improving water quality and coordination—but does so by shifting substantial financial and legal responsibility to States, imposing technical and procedural barriers on small community actors, and includes a sunset that creates significant future uncertainty.
To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
The bill creates a coordinated, transparent planning process to assess and address hydropower and species impacts from the 2024 Record of Decision—improving reliability planning and conservation information—while risking delayed mitigation, potential reductions in hydropower output, and higher costs for taxpayers or ratepayers.
