DAMS Act

The Dam Assessment and Mitigation Support Act, or DAMS Act, seeks to enhance the National Dam Safety Program by extending financial support and standardizing dam identification processes. A primary provision of the bill is the reauthorization of appropriations for the rehabilitation of high hazard potential dams, extending this critical funding through fiscal year 2031 . The legislation also clarifies that states which do not employ their own risk-based priority system for identifying high hazard potential dams must utilize the federal priority system . Additionally, it makes a technical amendment to the National Dam Safety Program Act by striking a specific paragraph from section 8(e).