Federal construction programs have taken a hit totaling several billion dollars under mandatory spending cuts that took effect March 1. Among the construction accounts absorbing the biggest reductions in the budget “sequester” are Dept. of Energy environmental cleanup at former nuclear weapons plants, Environmental Protection Agency water infrastructure and military construction.
Cuts to major construction programs will amount to more than $4 billion, according to an initial ENR review of a March 1 Office of Management and Budget report to Congress on the sequester.