S.Amdt. 3674

SA 3674. Mrs. BRITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1067. MODIFICATION OF OPERATIONS OF NATIONAL WATER
CENTER.

Section 301 of the Coordinated Ocean Observations and
Research Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 10371) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1)(A)--
(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting ``,
within the Office of Water Prediction of the National Weather
Service,'' after ``shall establish'';
(ii) in clause (i), by striking ``and'' after the
semicolon;
(iii) in clause (ii), by striking the period and inserting
``; and''; and
(iv) by adding at the end the following new clause:
``(iii) to lead the transition of water research by the
Federal Government, including model development, into
operations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and the National Weather Service.'';
(B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
``(F) Serving as the primary center within the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for research,
development, collaboration, and coordination of the water
research and water forecast activities of the Administration
and other centers and networks of the Federal Government,
including those of the Department of Agriculture, the Army
Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the United
States Geological Survey, and the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
``(G) Integrating and promoting consistency among national
and regional hydrological forecast operations and service
delivery.''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Incorporation into unified forecast system.--The
Under Secretary shall use the Weather and Climate Operational
Supercomputing System, or any successor system, to support
the development and implementation of advanced water
resources modeling capabilities under paragraph (2)(B) and
shall incorporate those modeling capabilities into the
unified forecast system.'';
(2) by striking subsection (b);
(3) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b);
(4) by inserting after subsection (b), as redesignated by
paragraph (3), the following:
``(c) Organization and Administration.--The Under
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office of Water
Prediction of the National Weather Service, shall--
``(1) supervise and oversee the administration, management,
and operations of each River Forecast Center of the National
Weather Service and coordinate those operations with the
National Water Center; and
``(2) administer the duties and activities of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration related to the
Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in
Hydrology, or any successor entity, and coordinate the
activities of the Institute with the National Water
Center.''; and
(5) in subsection (d)(4) by inserting before the period the
following: ``and each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030''.
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