harbor dredging: issues and historical funding (june 14, 2019) (2019 dredging crs report

The Water Resources Development Act of 1983 (H.R. Neither chamber bothered to attempt a bill during the first two years of the Reagan Administration due to White House opposition and the prevailing mood. 4788, 96 th Congress) passed the House but never made it out of committee in the Senate. The Water Resources Development Act of 1979 (H.R. However, the rest of the process was still broken. 95-502), creating a new trust fund supported by a tax on the diesel fuel used to tow barges. He finally agreed with Congress on new user revenues for inland waterway projects in the Inland Waterways Act of 1978 ( P.L.

Carter blew much of his legislative momentum in his first year in office by starting a “water war” with Congress by trying to halt dozens of Corps and Bureau of Reclamation projects.

Presidents Carter and Reagan disagreed on many things, but they shared a deep suspicion that many Corps of Engineers water projects were wasteful and that the Corps itself was too focused on pleasing Congress. (Some of this material appeared, in earlier form, in the Septemissue of Transportation Weekly.) The water wars.

Harbor dredging: issues and historical funding (june 14, 2019) (2019 dredging crs report