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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-827
TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFER ASSESSMENT PROGRAM ACT
DECEMBER 10, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5874]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5874) to amend the United States-Mexico Transboundary
Aquifer Assessment Act to reauthorize the United States-Mexico
transboundary aquifer assessment program, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all that follows after the enacting clause and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program Act
or the TAAP Act.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFER ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.
(a) DESIGNATION OF PRIORITY TRANSBOUNDARY AQuIFERS.-Section 4(c)(2) of the
United States-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act (42 U.S.C. 1962 note;
Public Law 109-448) is amended by striking New Mexico or Texas and inserting
New Mexico, Texas, or Arizona (other than an aquifer underlying Arizona and So-
nora, Mexico, that is partially within the Yuma groundwater basin designated by
the order of the Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources dated June
21, 1984).
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-Section 8(a) of the United States-Mexico
Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act (42 U.S.C. 1962 note; Public Law 109-448)
is amended by striking fiscal years 2007 through 2016 and inserting fiscal years
2025 through 2032.
(c) SUNSET OF AUTHORITY.-Section 9 of the United States-Mexico Transboundary
Aquifer Assessment Act (42 U.S.C. 1962 note; Public Law 109-448) is amended by
striking enactment of this Act and inserting enactment of the Transboundary Aq-
uifer Assessment Program Act.
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