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.
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.
Geothermal Energy Advancement Act
The bill seeks to speed and stabilize geothermal development on public lands—benefiting energy providers and nearby communities—while imposing federal costs, risking diversion of agency attention from other land uses, creating operational strains, and limiting some employee protections.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs a GAO study to streamline cross-boundary wildfire mitigation funding and authorities to improve access and efficiency, but it risks delaying on-the-ground work, adding administrative burdens, and diverting oversight resources.
FIRE Act
The bill makes it easier for states to carry out prescribed burns and increases EPA petition transparency, but risks weakening enforcement and ignoring emissions that could harm local air quality while adding complexity that may slow regulatory decisions.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
The bill speeds and clarifies approvals to accelerate rural broadband and cell deployment and improve oversight, but raises risks to environmental review, public input, and agency resources that could lead to legal and land‑management tradeoffs.
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill channels federal grants to encourage reshoring and expand manufacturing capacity and training — potentially creating local jobs and skills — but increases federal spending and risks favoring certain firms or producing low-quality jobs if strong conditions are not attached.
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.
ASCEND Act
The bill makes NASA a larger buyer and distributor of commercial Earth imagery—improving agency operations, research access, and U.S. vendor demand—while creating tradeoffs around privacy, ongoing taxpayer costs, vendor-imposed access limits, and potential constraints on foreign data sources.
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.
