S2701-119

In Committee

Headwaters Protection Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Sep 3, 2025

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, Headwaters Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Government Operations, Healthcare.

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 S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Headwaters Protection Act of 2025.
  • Section id1646615B74E244DF8F5DCB2C50E24978: 2. Water Source Protection Program reauthorization and improvements Section 303 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6542) is amended— in...
  • Section id46DC3F8C7B4E4F738DFF21B95FC84A62: 3. Watershed condition framework improvements Section 304 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6543) is amended— in subsection (a)— in...
  • Section id2d595069f6d7498bbcda424ddfdb4716: 4. Effect Nothing in this Act or an amendment made by this Act— supersedes or in any manner affects or conflicts with State water law, Federal water law,...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Headwaters Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Government Operations, Healthcare

Primary Purpose

This bill, Headwaters Protection Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Government Operations Healthcare

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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federal implementing agencies: ,
environmental regulators and natural-resource users: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Sep 3, 2025

Mr. Bennet (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Risch, …

Sep 3, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, …

Sep 3, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Government Operations Healthcare
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ The Secretary identified in the operative section

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"adjacent land" §id1646615B74E244DF8F5DCB2C50E24978

non-Federal land, including State, local, and private land, that is adjacent to, and within the same watershed as, National Forest System land on which a watershed protection and restoration project is carried out under this section

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