{"id":134583,"date":"2026-09-24T05:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/09\/24\/fort-peck-rural-water-system-bill-passes-congress\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-09-24T05:09:01","modified_gmt":"2029-03-12T05:09:01","slug":"fort-peck-rural-water-system-bill-passes-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/09\/24\/fort-peck-rural-water-system-bill-passes-congress\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Fort Peck Rural Water  System Bill Passes Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 7250, Congressman Troy Downing\u2019s  legislation to extend authorization for the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System through 2028. The bill now heads to the president\u2019s desk, allowing  critical water infrastructure  projects across northeastern Montana to continue moving forward. H.R. 7250 amends the existing  authorization by extending its expiration from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134765,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134583\/revisions\/134765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134583"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=134583"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=134583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}