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H.R. 3168 · 119th Congress

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025

Introduced May 1, 2025Policy area: Emergency Management

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: In committee

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.

Summary

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the activities of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). It also expands certain USGS activities under NEHRP relating to earthquake warnings and mapping and expands other NEHRP activities.

NEHRP is a coordinated earthquake hazards reduction program administered by four federal agencies: the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USGS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the National Science Foundation. Under NEHRP, USGS is responsible for monitoring and early warnings (including operating the Advanced National Seismic System, a nationwide network of seismic stations), hazard assessments and mapping, and research regarding earthquakes. The bill reauthorizes such USGS activities through FY2030.

  • Additionally, the bill requires USGS to
  • coordinate with the Federal Communications Commission to ensure alerts and early warnings are broadcast as rapidly as possible for maximum warning time,
  • expand the early warning system to additional high-risk areas,
  • issue forecasts for aftershocks following significant earthquakes, and
  • include tsunamis and other hazards associated with earthquakes in seismic hazard maps.

Also, NEHRP activities to develop building codes and standards must include recovery objectives addressing post-earthquake occupancy and functionality of infrastructure.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. House

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  2. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  3. House

    Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-438, Part I.

  4. House

    Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.

  5. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  6. House

    Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged

  7. House

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  8. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

  9. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

  10. House

    Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  11. Introduced in House