A new Water Resources Development Act reported to be agreed upon by negotiators in Washington includes funding for improvements to Oklahoma’s McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
POLITICO reported the measure is being teed up enabling the House to vote on it this week and advance it through the Senate as part of a year-end package.
The section that included the Oklahoma improvements did not indicate a breakdown of spending and what kind of projects would be involved.
POLITICO indicated the measure is far less “sweeping” than the House and Senate had originally hoped.
The measure, S. 1811, is described as a traditional WRDA bill that focuses on just Army Corps of Engineers projects rather than wrapping in drinking water and clean water measures as the bills have done since 2014. It would authorize 46 new water resource projects, ranging from port and harbor projects in Alaska to ecosystem restoration on California’s the Yuba River, as well as modifications to eight existing projects.
Source: POLITICO