HR7872-118

Passed House

To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain requirements applicable to salinity control units, and for other purposes.

118th Congress Introduced Dec 4, 2024

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain requirements applicable to salinity control units, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Energy, Agriculture.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HA69D30F9552D4D55A3743D4EC0B7E82C: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act.
  • Section HC046664619A945718C0F25A661E5A179: 2. Salinity control units Section 205 of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43 U.S.C. 1595) is amended— by striking the section designation and all...
  • Section H0A55FBCA5DFF4B36A49E3DF5E6CE519F: 205. Salinity control units; authority and functions of the Secretary of the Interior The Secretary

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain requirements applicable to salinity control units, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Energy, Agriculture

Primary Purpose

This bill, To amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to modify certain requirements applicable to salinity control units, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Energy Agriculture

Whole bill

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: enr

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: enr

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

Passed House
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 4, 2024

Received

Dec 4, 2024 (inferred)

Passed House (inferred from eh version)

Apr 5, 2024

Mr. Curtis (for himself, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Ciscomani, Ms. Stansbury, …

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Water Resource Management
3 mentions across 3 clauses
+3 positive

Entities operating salinity control units (various sections 202(a)(1-6) and 202(c)), Entities operating salinity control units authorized by section 202

Agriculture
2 mentions across 2 clauses
+2 positive

Entities implementing on-farm measures authorized by section 202(c), Recipients of on-farm measures authorized by section 202(c)

Environment
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Fish and Wildlife agencies/organizations involved in replacement measures

1/3
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Energy Agriculture
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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