Legislation
NWC News Alert (Dec. 7, 2022): WRDA 2022 on deck TODAY
Legislative Update: Courtesy of National Waterways Conference Dec. 7, 2022 You will never guess what was unveiled today on the U.S. House of Representatives Rule’s Committee website—compromise language for the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)! As expected, the language will be in National Defense Authorization Act, an annual authorization bill for defense-related programs and…
Read MoreNWC Federal Spotlight (July 8, 2022): USACE/WRDA/UNIFIED AGENDA and more
NWC Federal Spotlight July 8, 2022 CONGRESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT OVERVIEW. Congress is currently out this week for their July 4 recess. Both chambers are scheduled to return next week for several weeks before they leave for August recess, coming back in September for several weeks, before leaving in October for the campaign trail. All said and…
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Permitting Action Plan to Accelerate and Deliver Infrastructure Projects On Time, On Task, and On Budget
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Permitting Action Plan to Accelerate and Deliver Infrastructure Projects on Time, On Task, and On Budget MAY 11, 2022 | Whitehouse STATEMENTS AND RELEASES The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is making a once-in-a-generation investment in America’s infrastructure and competitiveness that will create good-paying union jobs, grow our economy, invest in communities, combat…
Read MoreProposals by Non-Federal Interests, for Feasibility Studies, Proposed Modifications to Authorized Water Resources Development Projects and Feasibility Studies, and Proposed Modifications to Environmental Infrastructure Programs for Inclusion in the Annual Report to Congress on Future Water Resources Development
Proposals by Non-Federal Interests, for Feasibility Studies, Proposed Modifications to Authorized Water Resources Development Projects and Feasibility Studies, and Proposed Modifications to Environmental Infrastructure Programs for Inclusion in the Annual Report to Congress on Future Water Resources Development U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. Notice. Section 7001 of the Water Resources Reform and Development…
Read MoreSenator Wicker Inquires on DOT Data Sharing Initiative for Freight Transportation
Wicker Inquires on DOT Data Sharing Initiative for Freight Transportation April 20, 2022 | U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today sent a letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg seeking information about the Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW)…
Read MoreDOT Lays Out Actions to Strengthen Supply Chains and Revitalize the Economy
DOT Lays Out Actions to Strengthen Supply Chains and Revitalize the Economy Thursday, February 24, 2022 (full link below) Today, on the one-year anniversary of President’s Executive Order on Supply Chains, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is publishing a report that lays out vulnerabilities in our freight and logistics supply chain and clear-cut actions…
Read MorePresident Biden and U.S. Department of Transportation Announce Historic New Funding to Strengthen Port Infrastructure and Supply Chain Resiliency
President Biden and U.S. Department of Transportation Announce Historic New Funding to Strengthen Port Infrastructure and Supply Chain Resiliency Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Thanks to President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) Grants receives $450 million, its largest investment ever WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced…
Read MoreAdministration releases guidebook on the bipartisan infrastructure package
Courtesy of National Waterways Conference In November 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58) which provides funding for 250 federal programs in more than a dozen federal agencies. Since its passage, NWC members and others had questions about when various grant programs would be implemented. Recently, the…
Read MoreAdministration Provides Infrastructure Law Guidebook
February 4, 2022 | Waterways Journal Washington, D.C.—The Biden administration released its first edition of a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law guidebook to provide a “one-stop shop” to help local and state governments and tribes access the more than 375 programs in the trillion-dollar law. “Our primary goal with this is to help our partners across the…
Read MoreUSACE Releases Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Spend Plan
January 19, 2022: Courtesy of National Waterways Conference and Waterways Council Inc. USACE releases IIJA (infrastructure) work spend plan In November 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which provided $17 billion in funding to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) civil works projects. USACE had 60 days to…
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