Jan. 19, 2018 — On Jan. 18, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment held a hearing on “America’s Water Resources Infrastructure: Approaches to Enhanced Project Delivery.”
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The hearing featured testimony from Major General Donald E. Jackson, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Mr. James C. Dalton, Director of Civil Works, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Mr. Mike Inamine, Executive Director, Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency; Ms. Leah F. Pilconis, Senior Counsel, Environmental Law and Policy ,the Associated General Contractors of America; Ms. Jill Jamieson, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle; and Nicole T. Carter, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service. As with recent Senate hearings, this House hearing focused primarily on constructing a biennial WRDA bill. Democrats and Republicans don’t all agree on what should be in the bill, but both sides of the aisle made it clear during the hearing that there is an unacceptable backlog of construction projects at the Army Corps of Engineers, the main federal agency that builds and manages navigation and flood control infrastructure that is not acceptable. (Bloomberg BNA, 1/18/18) Click Here to read Subcommittee Chair Garrett Graves’ statement. To watch the archived webcast, Click Here. |
