The record

LegislationLegislation· May 2025
HR 1001 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Harriet M. Hageman (R)

To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

Requires the Interior and Energy departments to study how a 2024 Glen Canyon Dam decision affects the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.

Tradeoff

The bill mandates a study with no stated funding or implementation deadline beyond 'as soon as practicable.' It does not authorize money or change existing dam operations.

What's in it

See official bill text

No significant federal cost over 2025-2030; spending subject to would be negligible.

The $0 federal cost score means this bill requires only administrative work to coordinate between two federal agencies—the real-world impacts fall on water operations at Glen Canyon Dam and depend entirely on what the memorandum of understanding eventually decides.

H.R. 1001, an act to provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund · May 2025

Passed the House by on May 13, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Feb 5, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Natural Resources(Feb 5, 2025)

  3. House

    The Committee on Natural Resources voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Feb 12, 2025)

    Committee report H. Rept. 119-61.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (May 13, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Energy and Natural Resources(May 14, 2025)