Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill improves water-supply forecasting for states, utilities, and rural communities by funding advanced measurements and modeling, but does so with modest, time-limited federal dollars that are smaller than prior authorizations and increase Secretary discretion, raising scale and transparency concerns.
To reauthorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000.
The bill's amendment could either improve water infrastructure and clarify project authority for Fort Peck Reservation residents or, if it narrows funding or authority, lead to reduced services and project delays for the same community.
Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
The bill transfers local control and permanent public access to Crystal Reservoir—bringing tailored water management and environmental protections—while shifting long-term expenses, legal risks, and planning uncertainty onto the City and local taxpayers, limiting certain commercial uses.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill facilitates regional water infrastructure and utility maintenance while adding conservation acreage, but accelerates approvals and relaxes controls over federal land materials in ways that could harm public lands and reduce federal revenue/oversight.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.
The bill provides predictable, targeted federal funding and stronger regional data-sharing and governance for ocean observations—improving science and coastal coordination—while adding modest federal spending and imposing additional administrative and transitional burdens on agencies and projects.
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and secures non‑Federal conservation funds and improves transparency for the Lower Colorado River program, but it limits flexible access to investment earnings and creates investment/timing risks that could shift costs to taxpayers or delay spending.
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 tightens and clarifies Digital Coast training and program language to improve technical uptake and reduce legal ambiguity, but it narrows training scope and could constrain program flexibility, risking loss of interdisciplinary capacity and possibly program services.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill prioritizes faster domestic critical-mineral production, data, and permitting to boost jobs and supply-chain resilience, but it does so in ways that increase local environmental and health risks, reduce community input, and raise potential taxpayer liabilities.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
The bill improves the feasibility of completing the Arkansas Valley Conduit and lowers local annual payment burdens through federal support and flexible repayment, but it shifts substantial upfront and long-term costs and risks onto local governments and utilities while reducing near-term federal receipts.
Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act
The bill secures tribal land recognition and near-term flood protections for Osceola Camp—improving safety and tribal control—but creates modest government administrative work, taxpayer costs, and risks that protections or environmental reviews could be limited or rushed if funding and implementation details are unresolved.
National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens forecasting, data, partnership, and funding for flood, drought, and landslide preparedness—improving public safety and water management—but does so with targeted appropriations and administrative constraints that may shift resources, limit flexibility, and create ongoing budget demands.
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 aims to clarify and potentially extend USGS authority and funding for Great Lakes monitoring—improving regional data and decisionmaking—but risks higher federal costs, transitional uncertainty for partners, and potential weakening of monitoring depending on the final statutory language.
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 trades broader federal water-quality oversight and more stringent, flexible environmental review for faster permitting, lower compliance costs, and greater state and project‑proponent certainty — benefiting developers and some regulated entities while increasing pollution, legal limits on challenges, and potential costs and risks for downstream communities and taxpayers.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025
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.
Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025
The bill secures military training lands and clears up acreage records through 2051—supporting defense readiness and administrative clarity—but it locks those lands out of other public or private uses for decades, limiting local development and taxing options.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
The bill would make marine and fishing access data more standardized and widely available—greatly improving safety, planning, and interagency coordination—while raising costs, privacy/cultural-site risks, and some regulatory uncertainty for fishers and local communities unless safeguards and limits are carefully implemented.
Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions Review Act
The bill increases federal review and transparency of river basin commissions—improving coordination and public accountability—while creating administrative costs and the risk that oversight will shift burdens to states/localities or produce rushed recommendations.
Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act of 2025
The bill improves fishery management and local fishing economies by funding and standardizing hatchery mass‑marking and data-sharing, but it increases federal/state costs, concentrates authority, creates operational and data‑governance burdens for Tribal and state partners, and carries ecological risks to wild fish if not carefully managed.
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill provides federally standardized, regularly updated sinkhole-risk mapping that improves planning, preparedness, and scientific understanding—but shifts potential financial and regulatory costs onto homeowners, under-resourced localities, and federal taxpayers.
Bolts Ditch Act
The bill gives local water authorities clearer legal authority to maintain Bolts Ditch—potentially improving responsiveness and infrastructure management for local residents—while shifting costs and coordination responsibilities onto local governments and ratepayers without providing new funding.
To amend Public Law 99-338 with respect to Kaweah Project permits.
The bill trades increased administrative flexibility and broader operator eligibility for longer fixed renewal periods that could limit renegotiation opportunities and create 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 makes it easier to bring non‑Federal money to border water projects and increases transparency, speeding infrastructure delivery and public‑health benefits, but it limits some partners and reimbursements and adds administrative requirements that may constrain or slow participation by certain local or private contributors.
To amend the Aquifer Recharge Flexibility Act to clarify a provision relating to conveyances for aquifer recharge purposes.
The bill makes it quicker and clearer for holders of existing federal rights-of-way to implement aquifer recharge projects, but it stops short of authorizing new infrastructure and retains BLM oversight and compliance costs, leaving communities that need new construction still facing separate approvals, uncertainty, and added expense.
