Chairman Oberstar Sets Date for WRDA Consideration
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2010 on Thursday, July 29th. According to committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-MN), the committee has withdrawn all Republican project requests in light of a letter pulling all such requests from House Republican leadership.
The Water Resources Coalition, of which ACWA is a member, has submitted priorities to Chairman Oberstar with hopes that the Committee will take into consideration the measures when working through WRDA 2010. The priorities submitted are:
- Creation of a National Levee Safety Program;
- Return of "trust" into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund;
- Creation and funding for a program to rehabilitate the nation's aging dams;
- Limit liability for levee design and construction;
- Increase and facilitate support for greater state, tribal, and local water resources planning;
- Expand the Regional Sediment Management program authority;
- Increase funding for beach nourishment; and
- Prepare water resources projects for climate change.
