AWRC Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Reauthorizes and updates the water resources research and technology institutes program through fiscal year 2029 and directs more funding toward interstate water-problem research.
Who Benefits and How
Water resources research institutes and related researchers could receive continued federal support and clearer priority for interstate water-problem research.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal funding resources would continue to support the program and program administrators would need to implement the updated allocation rules.
Key Provisions
- Reauthorizes appropriations for the institutes program for fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
- Updates research priorities and directs 20 percent of annual funds toward interstate water-problem research.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Reauthorizes and updates the water resources research and technology institutes program through fiscal year 2029 and directs more funding toward interstate water-problem research.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Reauthorizes and updates the water resources research and technology institutes program through fiscal year 2029 and directs more funding toward interstate water-problem research.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Water resources research institutes and related researchers receiving continued federal support
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal funding resources and administrators implementing the updated institute funding rules
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Boozman (for himself, Mr. Kelly, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. Shaheen, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
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Water resources research institutes and related researchers receiving continued federal support
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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