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Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
Summary
- Amends the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program to emphasize integrated snowpack measurement and modeling technologies including airborne laser altimetry, imaging spectroscopy, and physics-based snowpack modeling.
- Includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Natural Resources Conservation Service as federal agencies involved in the program.
- Refocuses program activities on improving snow and water supply forecasting results, real-time data integration, and applications in river basins to support interstate water management decisions.
- Directs the program to build partners' capacity to implement and adapt to new measurement and forecast capabilities.
- Changes program authorization from $15 million in aggregate for fiscal years 2022-2026 to $3 million annually for fiscal years 2027-2031.
- Removes a previous reporting requirement and modifies evaluation criteria to assess applications, outcomes, and data resources used.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Hurd, Jeff [R-CO-3] (R-CO)
2 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Jeff Hurd’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP $99,650
- RDV CORPORATION $23,100
- SHAW CONSTRUCTION $18,600
- HASELDEN CONSTRUCTION $16,500
- WHEELER TRIGG O'DONNELL LLP $15,575
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Actions (20)
- Jun 10, 2026 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. · senate
- Mar 17, 2026 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. · senate
- Dec 11, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · senate
- Dec 10, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
- Dec 10, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. · house
- Dec 10, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Dec 10, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5136) · house
- Dec 9, 2025 At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Hurd (CO) objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn. · house
- Dec 9, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3857. · house
- Dec 9, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5077-5078; text: CR H5078) · house
- Dec 9, 2025 Mr. Hurd (CO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
- Sep 15, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 249. · house
- Sep 15, 2025 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-293. · house
- Jul 23, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent. · house
- Jul 23, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
- Jul 23, 2025 Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged · house
- Jun 24, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
- Jun 23, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. · house
- Jun 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Jun 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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Committee action
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Meetings where this bill was on the agenda
- Business meeting to consider S.140, to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, S.332, to require a study on Holocaust education efforts of States, local educational agencies, and public elementary and secondary schools, S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado, S.764, to provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, recreation management areas, and conservation areas in the State of Colorado, S.789, to require reports on critical mineral and rare earth element resources around the world and a strategy for the development of advanced mining, refining, separation, and processing technologies, S.791, to establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the State of Maryland as an affiliated area of the National Park System, S.888, to designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, to withdraw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, S.945, to amend the Smith River National Recreation Area Act to include certain additions to the Smith River National Recreation Area, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain wild rivers in the State of Oregon, S.1088 and H.R.2290, bills to provide that the memorial to commemorate the sacrifice and service of the women who worked on the home front to support the efforts of the United States military during World War II may be located on the National Mall, S.1288, to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to designate as a component of the National Heritage Area System the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area in the State of New York, S.1341, to amend the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add certain land to the Sarvis Creek Wilderness, S.1349, to withdraw the National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the National Wildlife Refuge System land in Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko and White Pine Counties, Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing laws, S.1413, to authorize additional funding for the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act, S.1476, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, S.1737, to designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers, S.1870, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, S.2437 and H.R.3857, bills to amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act, S.2753, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern, S.3500 and H.R.3657, bills to amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to annually submit to Congress a report on the status of ongoing hydropower relicensing applications, S.3518, to amend the Federal Power Act to address certain alterations in, and the maintenance and repair of, project works, to provide for the licensing of micro hydrokinetic energy projects, S.3526, to provide for the protection of and investment in certain Federal land in the State of California, S.3693, to extend the authorization for a large-scale water recycling and reuse grant program, S.3723, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water from the Missouri River to the Western Dakota Regional Water System, S.3732, to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to authorize assistance under the storage program, S.3736, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System service area in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, S.3743, to direct the Secretary of
- Hearings to examine S.1034, to establish the Southwestern Power Administration Fund, S.1242, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out watershed pilots, S.2437 and H.R.3857, bills to amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act, S.2753, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern, S.3409, to reaffirm that the Bureau of Reclamation retains exclusive ownership, operational control, and financial responsibility for the Lower Yellowstone Fish Bypass Channel, ensuring long-term conservation of the endangered pallid sturgeon and other native aquatic species in the Yellowstone River while protecting the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project and District from undue financial and operational burdens, S.3500, to amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to annually submit to Congress a report on the status of ongoing hydropower relicensing applications, S.3518, to amend the Federal Power Act to address certain alterations in, and the maintenance and repair of, project works, to provide for the licensing of micro hydrokinetic energy projects, S.3635, to reauthorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000, S.3684, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to reauthorize water power research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities, S.3693, to extend the authorization for a large-scale water recycling and reuse grant program, S.3723, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water from the Missouri River to the Western Dakota Regional Water System, S.3725, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to expand the capacity and reach of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Inc. (doing business as "Lewis & Clark Regional Water System"), in the States of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, S.3732, to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to authorize assistance under the storage program, S.3736, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System service area in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, S.3737, to amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible entities for the conduct of innovative approaches to voluntary water partnership agreements among multiple water users and projects conducted by individual agricultural entities, S.3738, to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the large-scale water recycling and reuse program, to establish a Water Conveyance Improvement Program, S.3743, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a feasibility study on a selective water withdrawal system at Glen Canyon Dam, S.3792, to provide for the establishment of a Water Project Navigators Program, S.4040, to amend Public Law 89-108 to modify the authorization of appropriations for State and Tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, and S.4041, to reauthorize the Cooperative Watershed Management Program.
Full text
AN ACT
To amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. SNOW WATER SUPPLY FORECASTING PROGRAM.
The Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act (43 U.S.C. 1477) is amended—
(1) in subsection (c)(2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking “culminating in the report required under subsection (d)(3)” and inserting “with an emphasis on deployment of technologies that provide integration of snowpack measuring and modeling”; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking “after submitting the report required by subsection (d)(3),”;
(2) in subsection (d)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the heading, by adding “with integrated modeling” after “data”;
(ii) by striking “emerging technologies for snowpack measurement, such as” and inserting “technologies that provide complete integration of accurate, timely, and spatially complete snowpack measurements and models, including the integration of”; and
(iii) by striking subparagraphs (A) through
(C) and inserting the following:
“(A) airborne laser altimetry;
“(B) imaging spectroscopy;
“(C) integrated physics-based snowpack and hydrologic modeling; and
“(D) other technologies that the Secretary determines are likely to provide more accurate or timely snowpack measurement data commensurate with operational water management needs.”;
(B) in paragraph (2) by inserting “, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Natural Resources Conservation Service,” after “other Federal agencies”; and
(C) by striking paragraph (3);
(3) in subsection (e)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking “After submitting the report required under subsection (d)(3), the” and inserting “The”; and
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
“(2) Focus.—The program shall focus on activities that will maintain, establish, expand, or advance snowpack measurement and integrated modeling, with an emphasis on—
“(A) enhancing activities to achieve improved snow and water supply forecasting results that are more responsive to changing weather and watershed conditions;
“(B) real-time integration of activities described in this section with water supply forecasts;
“(C) activities in river basins where activities described in this section can produce snow and water supply data to inform water management decisions, including interstate water management decisions; and
“(D) building program partners’ capacity to implement and adapt to the new measurement and forecast capabilities enabled under this program.”;
(4) in subsection (f)—
(A) by striking “of this Act” and inserting “of the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025”;
(B) in paragraph (1)—
(i) by striking “and sub-basins”;
(ii) by striking “technologies” and inserting “and integrated modeling technologies”; and
(iii) by striking “technology used” and inserting “application, outcome, and data resources used”; and
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking “or sub-basin”; and
(5) in subsection (g), by striking “$15,000,000, in the aggregate, for fiscal years 2022 through 2026” and inserting “$3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031”.
Passed the House of Representatives December 10, 2025.
Attest:
Clerk. 119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3857
AN ACT
To amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act.
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