S. 4846
TAAP Act
Summary:
• Reauthorizes the United States-Mexico transboundary aquifer assessment program by extending its funding authorization from fiscal years 2007–2016 to fiscal years 2026–2036
• Expands the program's geographic scope to include Arizona as a priority state, alongside the existing states of New Mexico and Texas, with a specific exclusion for aquifers underlying Arizona and Sonora, Mexico that are partially within the Yuma groundwater basin
• Updates the program's sunset provision to reference the new "Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program Act" rather than the original enacting legislation
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• Expands the program's geographic scope to include Arizona as a priority state, alongside the existing states of New Mexico and Texas, with a specific exclusion for aquifers underlying Arizona and Sonora, Mexico that are partially within the Yuma groundwater basin
• Updates the program's sunset provision to reference the new "Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program Act" rather than the original enacting legislation
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