Articles Tagged with ''Corps of Engineers''

House bill includes amendment providing $170 million to fix Flint, Mich., drinking water system.

As Congress hurries to its preelection recess, the list of major bills the House and Senate must pass before leaving may only include one item: legislation to keep federal agencies operating past September.

On Aug. 9, Sen. Joe Negron (R), president-designate of Florida’s state senate, unveiled a plan to purchase land south of Lake Okeechobee for a 60,000-acre reservoir to store 120 billion gallons of polluted lake water, which currently is discharged to tide when the lake rises to a level that threatens the dike that encloses it.

Shuster fends off proposed amendments dealing with drinking-water and wastewater programs.