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FY ‘06 Funding:
America's Lock & Dam Modernization
FY 2006 FY 2006 FY 2006
President's House Efficient Funding
Budget Request Mark Up Level
Construction
Robert C. Byrd L/D
Ohio River, OH/WV $914,000 $914,000 $3,000,000
Chickamauga L/D, TN 0 10,000,000 10,000,000
Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, LA 0 9,038,000 19,000,000
Kentucky Lock Addition
Tennessee River, KY 0 21,750,000 40,350,000
Marmet L&D
Kanawha River, WV 68,830,000 68,830,000 73,500,000
McAlpine L&D
Ohio River, IN/KY 70,000,000 70,000,000 70,000,000
Locks & Dams 2, 3, & 4
Monongahela River, PA 50,800,000 50,800,000 63,500,000
J. T. Myers L/D
Ohio River, IN/KY 0 700,000 5,000,000
Olmsted L&D
Ohio River, IL/KY 90,000,000 90,000,000 110,000,000
Winfield L&D
Kanawha River, WV 2,400,000 - 0 - 2,400,000
Major Rehabilitation
Emsworth Dam, Ohio River, PA 15,000,000 15,000,000 15,000,000
L&D 11 Upper Miss., IA& WI 7,580,000 7,202,000 10,900,000
L&D 19 Upper Miss., IA 17,502,000 17,502,000 17,502,000
L&D 24 Upper Miss., IL& MO 4,300,000 4,300,000 4,300,000
Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) announced that it is very pleased by the action of the House Appropriations
Committee, which overwhelmingly approved spending $365.3 million in fiscal year 2006 to complete critical
Inland Waterway Trust Fund financed lock and dam projects on the Nation's inland waterways system. The Com- mittee action further underscores and improves upon President Bush's highest ever FY 2006 budget request for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil
Works program. In their actions, both the Administration and the Committee have demonstrated an increasing under- standing of the many benefits of the
Nation's inland waterways system and the goal of keeping the Nation econom- ically strong and competitive. "We particularly applaud the com- mitment of Energy & Water Develop- ment Subcommittee Chairman Hobson,
Ranking Minority Member Visclosky and their Subcommittee colleagues to the efficient funding and completion of lock and dam projects from which the entire Nation will benefit," said R. Barry
Palmer, WCI President. "The overrid- ing mission of Waterways Council is to advocate for the modernization of prior- ity lock and dam projects and to urge funding at the highest levels possible to see those projects completed," he con- tinued. Waterways carriers, shippers, port authorities and companies which use the nation's waterways to transport essential bulk commodities such as coal, grain, petroleum and chemicals valued at more than $31 billion annually rely upon a well-maintained and modern national system of ports and waterways.
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Circle 230 on Reader Service Card $365 Million for
Critical Lock and
Dam Projects
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