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This is a federal spending bill for energy and water programs for fiscal year 2026. It pays for Army Corps of Engineers civil works, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy, and independent agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It also sets rules for how this money can be used.
Key points:
Amends section 225(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (33 U.S.C. 2328(c)(2)(A)(ii)) by replacing the phrase describing where user fees may be collected to broaden the locations covered.
Amends section 1602(g)(1) of the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act by striking $50,000,000 and inserting $177,500,000
Amends Section 4(a)(2)(F)(i) of the Water Desalination Act of 1996 by striking $30,000,000 and inserting $106,500,000
Amends section 9504(e) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 by striking $920,000,000 and inserting a replacement amount (text in bill appears garbled for the inserted amount)
Applies section 301 of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 by substituting $120,000,000 for $130,000,000
Strikes the phrase 'at recreation site at which the fee is collected' and inserts 'at any recreation site or facility that is located at the civil works project at which the fee is collected', thereby altering the locus where fees may be charged/handled under the challenge cost-sharing program.
Amends section 9504(e) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 by striking '$920,000,000' and inserting a replacement amount (replacement amount in text is not parsable).
Introduced July 21, 2025 by Chuck Fleischmann · Last progress September 8, 2025
Received in the Senate.
To complete a reach-scale assessment of Whiskey Creek, which has been identified as having the highest potential for fish passage connecting the Yakima River and the Naneum and Wilson Creek watersheds, as part of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan.
$725 million for Everglades Restoration Plan
To fund construction of additional water storage and a fish passage facility at Howard A. Hanson Dam, Washington.
This funding would support the Corps' work at Montgomery Locks and Dam, a critical piece of the inland waterways system that facilitates the movement of commodities along the Ohio River.
To improve lock condition and capacity at three lock and dam sites on the Ohio River.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 156.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
