Western South Dakota Water Supply Project Feasibility Study Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9834.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5831):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study for constructing a project to supply water from the Missouri River to the Western Dakota Regional Water System.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗

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  267 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9834, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9834

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c433ed8d0cbbb7862999c8404ea25374ca2a5fa8ea70764ed004f20c996625cc

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 9834, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.