On March 16, a coalition of water managers, utilities, states, local governments, and water associations–including WSWC, and the Interstate Council on Water Policy (ICWP)–sent a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, requesting adequate funding of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Federal Priority Streamgage (FPS) Network and the Cooperative Matching Funds (CMF) Program. Specifically the organizations requested: (1) $34M for the FPS Network, a “modest increase to account for inflation and rising operation and maintenance costs;” and (2) $33M for the CMF Program, to “sustain cost-shared streamgages and partnerships with more than 1,500 state, tribal, regional and local partners nationwide.”
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