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HR 605 · in committee · significant

Headwaters Protection Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill extends and expands a Forest Service program that protects and restores watersheds on federal and adjacent lands through FY2033.
  • Water utilities, agricultural irrigation groups, and local governments can participate in watershed protection projects in their regions.
  • The bill reduces the cost share required from non-federal participants and requires watershed health assessments on National Forests.

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  1. 01

    How would reducing the cost share for local water utilities and agricultural groups affect the ability of smaller communities to participate in watershed protection projects?

  2. 02

    What specific watershed health metrics would the Forest Service assess, and how might those assessments influence which regions receive protection funding?

  3. 03

    If non-federal participants pay less, where would the additional federal funding for this program expansion through 2033 come from in the budget?

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Sponsor · D-CA-21

Jim Costa

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Introduced 2025-02-28

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-28 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

  2. 2025-01-22 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-01-22 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-01-22 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-01-22 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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