Articles Tagged with ''WRDA''

Lawmakers are ramping up to authorize new water resources infrastructure investment bill for year already begun 

House passes key infrastructure measure on strong bipartisan 399-18 vote.

Senate bill approval sets up negotiations to reconcile differences with the House to develop final legislation.

WRDA bill authorizes $4.8 billion for Corps of Engineers projects.

Measure authorizes 12 Army Corps of Engineers construction projects totaling roughly $4.8 billion.

Measure authorizes $2.3B for eight new or modified Corps projects.

Lawmakers are moving ahead with plans for new legislation authorizing billions of dollars for flood protection, harbor dredging, river locks and dams, ecosystem restoration and other projects.

As the 117th Congress headed into its final days, infrastructure advocates scored another legislative victory with bipartisan congressional approval of a new Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, authorizing $37.8 in federal funds for 30 new or modified U.S. Army Corps of Engineers storm protection, harbor dredging and other civil-works projects.

Long-planned $878.5-million project at Howard A. Hanson Dam, which gained new federal funding, would open 100 miles of the upper Green River for salmon spawning and rearing.

Update: House passes WRDA-DOD package, sending it to Senate.