President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes tens of billions of dollars for federal construction and infrastructure programs, supplementing the big gains provided in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

但是，在3月28日发送给国会的5.85亿美元提案中，一些线条项目将从2022年的级别增加，例如新的运输开始，而另一些则将被削减，例如美国陆军工程兵团的公民工程。

预算的发布仅是在国会山关于2023财年支出的几个月审查和辩论。国会在10月1日开始新的财政年度之前未能批准12项个人拨款法案并不奇怪。

实际上，直到今年3月15日，在当前财政年度开始的五个月以上，直到今年3月15日才结束。

The new budget and appropriations season comes during a midterm election year, at a time when partisan fights will heat up. That could make a deal on fiscal 2023 spending even harder to achieve.

Charles Seville, Americas sovereign co-head for Fitch, a credit-rating firm, said in a statement that “many of the policy measures included in the budget remain unlikely to be passed.”

The reason, Seville said, is that that although the deficit and debt outlook has improved due to a fairly strong GDP growth over the past year, “in some respects … economic forecasts finalized in November and used as the basis for the budget (a longer lag than in the last two years) look too benign.”

Highway, Transit Proposals Track IIJA Levels

Steve Hall, American Council of Engineering Cos. senior vice president for advocacy, said in an interview, "Certainly, big picture, I think the administration is putting a lot more emphasis in this budget on programs to deal with the supply chain issues....and transit."

Hall adds, "It fully funds the IIJA programs, and in some cases even goes beyond that."

对于建筑计划，拜登的提议显示出不同的结果。在美国运输部，副秘书Polly Trottenberg在预算日简报中说，1,050亿美元的预算请求“将使DOT能够满足我们最关键的运输资产的长期维护和现代化需求……”[查看USDOT FY 2023预算摘要簿这里）

The infrastructure law's $37 billion for DOT would augment that spending. DOT has already allocated some of its 2023 money among the states, with more money to be released this year.

在1005亿美元的预算请求中，关键的高速公路义务上限将定为588亿美元，法律授权的水平和2022年增长2％。

Federal Transit Administration formula grants would edge up 1% in the budget, to $13.6 billion, the amount the IIJA authorized for 2023.

对于运输机构的资本改善赠款，拜登蓝图要求从2022年增加27％的增长，至28.5亿美元。赠款基金新运输开始。

In the briefing, FTA Administrator Nuria Fernandez highlighted a recommended $100-million CIG allotment for the New Jersey-New York Hudson Tunnels project, part of the multi-project Gateway Program of passenger rail improvements in the area. It would be the first federal funding for that portion of the $12-billion Gateway Program.

Fernandez noted that FTA was proposing the $100-million grant even though the agency and state and local officials had not yet signed a full-funding grant agreement. Such agreements are multi-year FTA funding pledges for projects. She said that the funding recommendation is “an affirmation [to project sponsors] that they’re on the right track.”

Corps of Engineers

根据预算要求，工程师军团民事工程计划的酌处资金将下降20％，至66亿美元，包括港口维护和内陆水道信托基金的拨款和分配。[查看美国陆军工程兵团2023预算摘要这里。]。

Of the $6.6 billion, $3 billion would go for commercial-navigation projects—such as river locks and dams—$1.5 billion would go for flood and damage reduction, and $624 million for aquatic ecosystem restoration.

Large allocations to individual projects include $172 million to complete the American River, Natomas Basin project near Sacramento, Calif., and $157 million to dredge the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and barge lanes in Texas.

Although some of the Corps' civil works accounts would decline from 2021 appropriations levels, Congress has had a history of rejecting proposals to cut the civil works budget from presidential administrations of both parties.

而且，军团没有任何工作，部分原因是它在新的基础设施法中所占的份额。一月份，军团宣布了计划在2022财年IIJA资金上花费超过100新利18备用网址亿美元的项目。

但是军团指挥官兼陆军工程师少将在一份简报中指出，除了常规的民用工程拨款外，军团在军事建设和其他任务方面还有很多工作。

拼写说：“我不知道军团所看到的投资水平在其历史上较高。”他补充说：“我们的目标是尽快将这些项目纳入地面。”新利18备用网址

GSA, VA建筑物

在联邦建筑计划中，通用服务管理局的联邦建筑物建设和收购帐户将获得4.08亿美元，比2022年增长36％。到目前为止，GSA列表中最大的项目是3.8亿美元，用于恢复为国土安全校园的资金恢复资金。华盛顿特区的圣伊丽莎白网站[查看GSA联邦建筑基金2023年预算摘要这里。]。

GSA的联邦建筑物维修和更改帐户将获得17.5亿美元，其中包括波士顿的约翰·莫克利联邦法院大楼的1.15亿美元。

在退伍军人事务部，主要项目的建设帐户将下降10％，至14亿美元。新利18备用网址其中，最大的单一分配将为德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的新医疗保健中心的5.5亿美元。VA的主要项目是价值超新利18备用网址过2000万美元的项目。

[查看VA的2023财年施工预算摘要，远程资本计划这里。]。

EPA水基础设施

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, the primary federal funding mechanisms for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects, did not fare as well.

《基础设施法》授权了SRFS的历史资金水平，在未来五年内为117亿美元，但2023财年请求与2022财年和2021财年制定的金额一致。

The law included language that made clear that the amounts appropriated under the law were to be in addition to dollars from the annual budgetary process, says Kristina Surfus, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies managing director of government affairs. So, Surfus says, the fact that the 2023 budget request did not match the significantly higher amounts suggested in the IIJA is a “missed opportunity.”

She adds, "We want to make sure IIJA is in fact a supplement to continued growth in federal support for water investment. That means annual spending is increasing in line with what we saw authorized under IIJA.”

ACEC's Hall notes, "Sometimes past administrations will not give [the SRF category] the attention and support that it really needs, and Congress will go back and backfill."

他补充道,“这还有待观察whether it happens this time or Congress just keeps the numbers lined up with what's in the [IIJA] law."

在另一个EPA类别中，超级基金清理的资金请求也下降到2023财年的11.5亿美元，比为2022财年制定的12.3亿美元，远低于IIJA所投资的35亿美元。

Clean Energy

拟议的预算为美国的能源计划增长了大幅增长，旨在证明各种脱碳和可再生技术的可行性。总体而言，预算要求DOE清洁能源研究，开发和演示需要92亿美元。

其中大部分将用于DOE的高级研究和项目机构 - 能源（ARPA-E），以及根据基础设施法创建的清洁能源示新利18备用网址范办公室。

The budget request calls for $700 million for ARPA-E, a 56% increase over 2022. The administration is also requesting $112 million for clean-energy demonstration projects, $277 million forlarge-scale碳捕获试点项目，区域清洁液枢纽1.14亿美新利18备用网址元，用于储能演示试点计划的5700万美元。

The budget also includes $20 million for a new solar manufacturing accelerator program to help create a more robust domestic supply of equipment and materials to help meet the Biden administration’s solar deployment goals.

可持续能源委员会主席丽莎·雅各布森（Lisa Jacobson）表示，该联盟的成员对预算提案在清洁能源技术和能源效率计划中的提升感到满意。雅各布森说：“如果颁布，该预算信号以及目前正在国会正在考虑的立法提案将大大加快全国清洁能源和能源效率解决方案的部署。”

美国能源协会代理执行董事希拉·霍利斯（Sheila Hollis）指出，能源部门正处于向较低排放的转变中，但是这种转型需要持续的资金和成功的项目部署才能成为现实。她说：“从长远来看，必须有一项承诺，因为投资是如此之大，因此能够实现这些目标。”

一位行业消息人士称，未来几年的联邦预算将填补IIJA停止的位置，每年根据基础设施法中概述的授权金额分配额外的资金。

“This is just the beginning,” the source said, noting that momentum for large projects or programs like CCUS plants or hydrogen hubs will grow over time. “Things will not start to pick up definitively until you hit the end of year two, year three. That’s the lag time, and how long it takes for this kind of money for these big [projects] to really start to have an impact because so much planning is required.”

Funding for DOE defense environmental cleanups saw a modest uptick, from $6.7 billion enacted in the omnibus, to $6.91 billion for fiscal 2023.

霍尔在谈到预算的发布时说：“这是一个过程的第一步。现在，我们必须经过拨款并在这一年的战斗中进行战斗。”目的是避免在2021年和2022年初提出的拨款辩论，其中包括多项停止支出措施。

他说：“今年这将是一个挑战，显然是选举年。”但是霍尔说，一项全年拨款措施“如果国会选择清理甲板，则在年底之前肯定是可行的，以便新的国会可以重新开始。”

故事在2010年3月29日更新，并带有ACEC评论，链接到个人部门和代理预算摘要文件。]