Posted on August 2, 2021
Brad Pickel of AIWA has this update:
The amount of funding included in the House bill with comparison to the President’s budget is reflected below and also in the chart.
NJIWW:
Philadelphia District: FY22 President’s Budget – $ 985,000, House Bill same as President’s Budget
AIWW/IWW:
Norfolk District:
FY22 President’s Budget – ACC Canal- $ 3.015 million, DSC- 1.754 million, House Bill same as President’s Budget
Wilmington District:
FY22 President’s Budget – $ 5.95 million, House Bill same as President’s Budget
Charleston District:
FY22 President’s Budget – $ 4.315 million, House Bill same as President’s Budget
Savannah District:
FY22 President’s Budget – $ 3.739 million, House Bill same as President’s Budget
Jacksonville District:
FY22 President’s Budget – $4.38 million, House Bill- $6 million, an increase of $1.62 million over the President’s budget
Total for the AIWW/IWW – $23,153,000 in the President’s Budget
Total for the AIWW/IWW – $24,773,000 in the House Appropriations Bill Report
[For FY21, we received $6,254,00 total.]
In addition, the House included over $175 million in funding for the Additional Dredging Needs funding pots. We requested a total of $225 million in our bi-partisan delegation letter. These are additional funds that the waterways are eligible to compete for to increase our total amounts.
Navigation – $50.156M
Inland Waterways – $60 million
Small, Remote & Subsistence Navigation – $65 million
Next steps:
Now that the House has passed the bill, their work is done for a while. The Senate has yet to start publicly on their process. In regular order, the process in the Senate would mirror the House and go through the Senate appropriations subcommittee, appropriations committee, and then for a full vote of the Senate. Once it passed the Senate, they would need to reconcile the differences between the Senate and House Bill in a Conference Committee before creating a final bill for the House and Senate to vote on again. With the Senate focused on two infrastructure bills and the August recess nearing for Congress, we do not expect to see much progress on any regular appropriations bills in the Senate this month.
