President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the "Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act of 2022," a $25 million bill that will fund research to assess and monitor how to revive salt lakes located in the western U.S.

The move comes as drought conditions worsen and as toxic dust could potentially be left behind.

The bill would allow the U.S. Geological Survey to research preservation tactics for bodies of water including Utah's Great Salt Lake, California's Mono Lake, Oregon's Lake Albert, Salton Sea and other saline lakes.

The goal is to "establish a multiyear work and implementation plan to assess, monitor, and conserve saline lake ecosystems in the Great Basin and the migratory birds and other wildlife that depend on those ecosystems," according to the bill description.

Scientists will examine water quantity, water quality, water use, water demand, migratory bird and other wildlife populations, habitats, and ecology, along with the annual lifecycle needs of migratory birds. They will also go over environmental changes and climatic stressors.

The bill could lead to recommendations and a cost assessment for the implementation of the plan, according to its description.

Drought conditions are continuously rising across the West mainly due to industrial damage and the Colorado River water access decreasing from climate change.

In November, the Department of Interior also announced that it would spend $250 million to clean and restore Salton Sea, a saline lake located in Southern California, that is suffering from the drought crisis.

Experts have cited how the risk of a toxic dust being left behind by the dried-up salt lakes could destroy surrounding habitats for humans and animals.