As we send this message, it’s after Midnight ET and the FY18 Corps Work Plan has not been posted. Our sources reported Tuesday afternoon that it was being worked on with plans to go well into the evening at the Assistant Secretary’s office. We think they were having a tussle with the folks at the…
WRDA The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman, Bill Shuster (PA), has introduced a WRDA 2018 (props for having no silly name). It’s text can be found here: HR 8 Among the provisions that may be of interest to WaterLog subscribers are these: A produce that would automatically appropriate all Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund revenues…
Expect the Draft House Water Resources Development Act (whatever it’s name may be) to be introduced tomorrow, Friday the 18th with action by the full committee next Wednesday. We hope you watched ASA R.D. James WRDA testimony today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. It was enlightening for what he said about his…
Please read this if you follow the Corps’ Budget for Coastal Risk Management Projects and Studies While we wait a few more days before we get the Corps issues a Work Plan for FY18, the House Appropriations Committee will act Wednesday morning (watch here), on its recommendations for the Corps budget for FY19. Click here…
A Senate committee will be holding its second hearing on a key water resources bill on May 17th. Assistant Secretary of the Army, R.D. James will be providing the Administration’s views about the bill. You can watch the hearing here. My colleague Dan Ginolfi has prepared this analysis of some of the bill’s key provisions.…
The House Energy & Water Appropriations Committee meets at 5:30 pm ET today to act on its version of the Corps’ funding bill for FY19. You can find the text of the draft bill and watch the “markup” meeting here. Note: I taught government at the high school and undergrad college levels before I came…
Lots of May water resources activity in Congress! The Water Resources Development Act of 2018 is about to get legislative legs. This is the legislation that authorizes (but doesn’t provide funding for) new Corps projects and studies and also will likely contain new policy initiatives. Senate WRDA: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has…
While we (patiently?) wait for the Corps to release its FY18 Work Plan, a House Appropriations subcommittee has announced that it will vote on a Corps budget for FY19 on May 7th 4. You can get more information, including a link to watch the “markup” or business meeting here: https://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=395272 Our sources tell us the…
One Federal Decision: The White House has announced that it has come up with a way to shorten the time it takes for environmental permit reviews. Saying “No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay,” the President is quoted as declaring, “While protecting the environment, we will build…
A month ago, I bemoaned March as the month of now Federal holidays. But at its very end, it gave us Passover and the start of the baseball season. Then came Easter as we embarked on April and out came some flowers, still not any more sure than humans whether Spring had arrived here in…
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