Water and Power Subcommittee to Receive Testimony on Pending Legislation

March 17, 2026
10:00 AM
366 Dirksen Senate Office Building

The hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:

LEGISLATION

S. 1034, A bill to establish the Southwestern Power Administration Fund, and for other purposes. (Moran). 

S. 1242, A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out watershed pilots, and for other purposes. (Wyden).

S. 2437/H.R. 3857, A bill to amend the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act to reauthorize the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program, and for other purposes. (Hickenlooper).

S. 2753, A bill to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern. (Risch).

S. 3409, A bill to reaffirm that the Bureau of Reclamation retains exclusive ownership, operational control, and financial responsibility for the Lower Yellowstone Fish Bypass Channel, ensuring long-term conservation of the endangered pallid sturgeon and other native aquatic species in the Yellowstone River while protecting the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project and District from undue financial and operational burdens, and for other purposes. (Daines).

S. 3500, A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to annually submit to Congress a report on the status of ongoing hydropower relicensing applications. (Cortez Masto).

S. 3518, A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to address certain alterations in, and the maintenance and repair of, project works, to provide for the licensing of micro hydrokinetic energy projects, and for other purposes. (Murkowski).

S. 3635, A bill to reauthorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000. (Daines). 

S. 3684, A bill to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to reauthorize water power research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities, and for other purposes. (Murkowski).

S. 3693, A bill to extend the authorization for a large-scale water recycling and reuse grant program. (Cortez Masto). 

S. 3723, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water from the Missouri River to the Western Dakota Regional Water System, and for other purposes. (Thune).

S. 3725, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to expand the capacity and reach of the Lewis and Clark Water System, Inc. (doing business as “Lewis & Clark Regional Water System”), in the States of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. (Thune). 

S. 3732, A bill to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to authorize assistance under the storage program, and for other purposes. (Gallego).

S. 3736, A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to the Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System service area in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and for other purposes. (Rounds). 

S. 3737, A bill to amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible entities for the conduct of innovative approaches to voluntary water partnership agreements among multiple water users and projects conducted by individual agricultural entities, and for other purposes. (Padilla). 

S. 3738, A bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the large-scale water recycling and reuse program, to establish a Water Conveyance Improvement Program, and for other purposes. (Padilla).

S. 3743, A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a feasibility study on a selective water withdrawal system at Glen Canyon Dam, and for other purposes. (Lee).

S. 3792, A bill to provide for the establishment of a Water Project Navigators Program, and for other purposes. (Hickenlooper).

S. 4040, A bill to amend Public Law 89-108 to modify the authorization of appropriations for State and Tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, and for other purposes. (Hoeven).

S. 4041, A bill to reauthorize the Cooperative Watershed Management Program, and for other purposes. (Daines). 

WITNESSES

 

Mr. David Palumbo

Deputy Commissioner of Operations

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

 

Mr. Terry Turpin

Director, Office of Energy Projects

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

The hearing will be webcast live on the Committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the hearing concludes. Witness testimony will be available on the website at the start of the hearing.