A bill to require installation of a network of soil moisture and snowpack monitoring in the Upper Missouri River Basin and to establish a pilot program for the acquisition and use of data generated by that network, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · August 5, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text: CR S4942-4943)
Missouri River Basin Drought and Snowpack Monitoring Act
This bill requires the Army Corps of Engineers to continue installing stations to monitor soil moisture and plains snowpack in the Upper Missouri River Basin. The bill also requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a pilot program to use the data from such stations for various programs, such as the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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