Pilot program includes $378 million for Mobile harbor, south Louisiana projects.

Plan's centerpiece is $810-billion highway-transit reauthorization, not fully funded.

But Speaker Pelosi, other key legislators decline to say how plan will be paid for or when it might move in the House.

Flooding on the Mississippi River and its tributaries throughout Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and nine other states caused an estimated $6.2 billion in damage in 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its annual National Climate Report, released Jan. 15.

Construction groups praise the rule but environmental organizations strongly oppose it, with lawsuits expected.

Spellmon now is deputy commanding general overseeing Corps civil works and emergency-response activities.