On the recordAugust 5, 2020
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4444 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Missouri River Basin Drought and Snowpack Monitoring Act''. SEC. 2. SOIL MOISTURE AND SNOWPACK MONITORING. (a) Installation of Network.-- (1) In general.--In accordance with the activities required under section 4003(a) of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (128 Stat. 1311; 130 Stat. 1677), and to support the goals of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-25; 131 Stat. 91) and the National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-423; 132 Stat. 5454), the Secretary of the Army (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary''), in coordination with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (referred to in this section as the ``Administrator''), the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Director of the United States Geological Survey, and the Commissioner of Reclamation, shall continue installation of a network of soil moisture and plains snowpack monitoring stations and modification of existing stations in the Upper Missouri River Basin.…





