Expand western water storage; reinstate Trump water-delivery memorandum
Mandate directs Bureau of Reclamation actions under a Trump EO lineage: more storage via dam manual updates and real-time ops, consolidate federal water working groups, implement forecast/snow observation actions, clarify WIFIA consistency, and reinstate the 2018 Presidential Memorandum on western water supply/delivery.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 16 (Interior) — Western Water Issues: develop additional storage capacity; consolidate federal water working groups; implement Federal Action Plan forecast/snow systems; clarify WIFIA consistency with Federal Credit Reform Act; reinstate Presidential Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West.
Undo plan
1) Expand storage and forecasting with tribal/environmental flow safeguards.
2) Reinstate useful multi-agency coordination without gutting ESA water protections.
3) Use WIFIA for locally led projects with credit-reform discipline.
4) Publish basin-level climate-risk water plans.
5) Verify: reservoir reliability metrics; ecological flow compliance.