新水资源立法计划正在众议院提前发展，委员会批准了一项授权250亿美元的法案，以帮助为20个新的或改装的工程兵团项目提供洪水和飓风保护，疏ed，生态系统修复和其他建筑工作新利18备用网址。

众议院运输和基础设施委员会于5月18日通过声音投票批准了《新水资源发展法》或WRDA。

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The next step would be a House floor vote. Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said at the end of the panel's lengthy voting session that the measure is expected to go to the floor in June.

In the Senate, the Environment and Public Works Committee on May 4 unanimously approved its version of a 2022 WRDA. It, too, awaits floor action.

The Senate panel’s bill is slightly larger than the House committee’s version, authorizing federal funds for 21 new or modified Corps construction projects.

Its policy provisions include a change in the funding shares for river locks and dams projects. It would increase the general fund's share of such projects to 75%, from the present 65%, and reduce the share from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund to 25%. The provision also would make that funding change permanent.

That inland waterways funding shift was not included in the House committee leaders' version, as introduced.

Defazio在他的开幕词中说：“该法案是以两党的方式制定的，双方的意见和想法。”他补充说：“包括项目和新利18备用网址政策规定不仅反映了委员会的成员，而且反映了整个众议院的成员。”

DeFazio said that in addition to the new construction authorizations, the WRDA bill includes 72 new Corps feasibility studies and it directs the Corps to complete 15 ongoing studies.

Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, the committee’s top Republican, in his opening statement, noted the importance of infrastructure for ports and inland waterways.

Graves added, "With our current supply chain crisis, supporting water infrastructure is even more critical than ever."

In a May 17 statement, Graves said, “This common-sense bill takes a big step forward in making flood control and navigation the top priorities in managing our rivers.”

Megaprojects Included

The largest project authorization in the House and Senate bills is $19.2 billion for a major hurricane and flood protection plan in coastal Texas.

Other major project allocations in both bills include $1.5 billion in federal funds for a hurricane and storm protection project in the Florida Keys and $1 billion for a storm protection project in Louisiana's Barataria Basin.

The list of projects could well grow as the Corps finishes work on reports recommending authorizations for additional projects. The Army's Chief of Engineers would have to sign off on those "chief's reports" before submitting them to Congress to be included in the 2022 WRDA.

法律和游说公司琼斯·沃克（Jones Walker LLP）的特别顾问约翰·道尔（John Doyle）说：“至少仍然有可能（如果不是可能性的话），随着数周和几个月的流逝，将会增加更多的项目。”新利18备用网址

建筑行业团体还支持新的WRDA。

Michele Stanley, National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association vice president of governmental and regulatory affairs, said in astatement该法案“对资金提供了两年的确定性，使生产商可以提供这些项目中的关键建筑材料。”新利18备用网址

Year-End Target for Passage

两个会议厅的议员们都希望在今年年底之前看到国会完成WRDA措施的工作。

That would continue the recent practice of approving WRDA bills on a biennial schedule. WRDAs have been enacted every other year since 2014.

This year’s congressional session will be shortened by the November elections and the pre-election break for candidates to campaign. That could squeeze the time available to finish a WRDA measure before the elections.

但是最近的众议院和参议院的行动as positive steps. Doyle, a former senior Army civil works official, said in an interview with ENR, “It’s always possible that problems could arise to delay things, but it certainly strikes me as increasing the likelihood and the ability of Congress to finish their work on this legislation before taking off to try and extend their contracts with the American people in November.”

本文的文本于2022年5月18日更新，以反映众议院委员会的投票和小组标记会议的陈述。