As Congress returns to wrap up work for 2005, construction officials are watching the fate of several unfinished measures. They include a proposed shift of billions of dollars to rebuild the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast and an extension of the federal terrorism insurance program.
The White House proposed shifting $17.1 billion in approved but unspent Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to the Federal Highway Administration, Corps of Engineers and other agencies. Much of the money would go to repair roads and levees hit by Hurricane Katrina.