To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

This bill tells the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy to quickly make an agreement and plan about how a 2024 decision on operating Glen Canyon Dam affects the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund, electric power from the dam, and protected wildlife. They must work with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group. The plan has to cover routine costs to run and fix key equipment, the cost and reliability effects if the dam makes less hydropower, and what the decision means for threatened and endangered species in the river system . Background from Congress notes that the 2024 update focuses on stopping invasive smallmouth bass below the dam and using new science to time high-flow releases to protect the endangered humpback chub.

Key points

• Who: Bureau of Reclamation, Western Area Power Administration, and the Glen Canyon Dam work group; communities and utilities that depend on Glen Canyon Dam power; river wildlife such as the humpback chub.
• What changes: The agencies must create a plan to handle impacts on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund (including day‑to‑day operations and replacing critical equipment), weigh power losses and replacement costs and grid reliability, and identify effects on listed species.
• When: As soon as practical after the bill becomes law.
• Note: The bill does not change people’s rights under the Administrative Procedure Act.