Items Tagged with 'Senate Environment and Public Works'

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee focused on infrastructure funding for rural communities, and ways to improve Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act water infrastructure provisions.

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.

A shortage of skilled labor and material price escalation are felt in the agency's $92-billion program that includes civil works and military construction, and is "the largest we’ve ever seen,” a top official told a Senate committee.

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

Industry sees shortcomings in project review, Buy America provisions 

Bhatt, most recently a senior vice president with AECOM, previously led the Delaware and Colorado state transportation departments.

While highway funding and formula-distributed funds in the Infrastructure Act have gotten good reviews, Republicans find fault with how FHWA is carrying out discretionary programs.

 The committee cleared the new Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, on May 4, by a 20-0 vote.

The measure would authorize $24.6 billion in federal funds for 21 Army Corps of Engineers projects covering flood and hurricane protection, harbor dredging and other related efforts across the country.