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S 2169 118th Congress Senate Water Resources Development Congressional oversight Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Government studies and investigations Performance measurement Wages and earnings Water resources funding Water use and supply Watersheds

Watershed Results Act

Introduced: June 22, 2023 Introduced by: Wyden, Ron Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Nov 21, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 587.
Nov 21, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Nov 19, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jul 19, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-287.
Jun 22, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jun 22, 2023
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Watershed Results Act

This bill provides funding for the Department of the Interior to establish at least two and not more than five watershed pilot programs in certain states using pay-for-performance contracts. (Under the bill, a pay-for-performance contract is a contract to purchase successfully implemented outcomes at a negotiated per-unit price.)

Interior must designate a management team for each watershed pilot project. Each team must develop and implement a five-year plan for carrying out the applicable pilot.

Interior and the management team for each watershed pilot must use advance watershed analytics throughout the planning, implementation, measuring, and monitoring of projects within the pilot. This technical analysis must be conducted to identify quantifiable outcomes, costs, feasibility, and impacts of the projects before making funding available for a watershed pilot.

Further, Interior and the management team for a watershed pilot must set and publish minimum per-unit outcome prices. Interior must also enter into a pay-for-performance contract to achieve outcome-based goals described in the plan developed for the pilot.

Interior must submit specified annual and five-year reports to Congress.

Interior may approve the establishment of more than five projects if the congressional appropriations committees are notified. 

What's happening now November 21, 2024

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 587.

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