Supporting biennial Water Resources Development Acts (WRDA), legislation authorizing Corps of Engineers’ work on locks and dams, dredging and other water resources projects critical to the nation.

Maintaining water resources bills on an every two-year cycle is important to waterways modernization continuity. Congress ended with a "WIIN" in WRDA 2016. In 2018, Congress passed America’s Water Infrastructure Act, which included the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018. We now look ahead to a WRDA bill in 2020.

Support for WRDA

• 78 Members of the House of Representatives Sign "Dear Colleague" Letter to Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Leadership (April 1, 2020) 
• American Soybean Association (August 5, 2019) 

• • House Letter Signed by 75 Org anizations Opposing P3 Tolling Proposal (April 6, 2016)
  • Senate Letter Signed by 75 Organizations Opposing P3 Tolling Propos al (April 6, 2016)
  • WRDA 2016 “Dear Colleague” Letter Urging Change to Major Reh ab Threshold (February 26, 2016)

WRDA policies are critical to our nation’s inland waterways, which provide and sustain more than a half-million jobs, support exports, and protect the environment. The waterways help relieve traffic congestion, and are the safest, most energy-efficient mode of surface transportation. Waterways are vital to our agriculture, manufacturing and energy sectors. Before passage of the 2016 bill, the 2014 Water Resources Reform Development Act (WRRDA) was signed into law after a seven-year delay. WRDA/WRRDA bills have strong bi-partisan support in Congress to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform various water-related, water resources projects within their Civil Works mission.

• • Inland Waterways Users Board Advice and Recommendations to Congress on the FY 2020 President’s Budg et (May 19, 2019)

    Inland Waterways Users Board Advice and Recommendations to Congress on the FY 2019 President’s Budget (April 13, 2018)

Letters of Support: Navigation & Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP)

• House of Representatives letter signed by 41 Members from 10 states sent to Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) R.D. J ames urging PED funding for NESP in the Corps’ FY2019 Work Plan and to complete a NESP economic update the Corps’ FY2018 Work Plan (September 27, 2018)
• Senate “Dear Colleague” letter signed by 10 Senators from seven states sent to OMB Director Mulvaney requesting PED funding for NESP in FY 2019 (December 22, 20 17)
• House “Dear Colleague” letter signed by 40 House Me mbers sent to OMB Director Mulvaney requesting PED funding for NESP in FY 2019 (November 29, 2017)

Background

• • 2019 Navigation & Ecosystem Sustainability Program Fact Sheet
    2018 NES P Fact Sheet
  • 2017 Infrastructure Report Card by the American Society of Civil Engineers
    Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap
  • The Capital Development Plan
    Inland Marine Transportation Systems (IMTS) Capital Projects B usiness Model