Senators call for more harbor dredging

Infrastructure Development

Friday, August 17, 2012

A group of 25 U.S. senators are calling on the White House's Office of Management and Budget to increase spending for dredging harbors to their authorized dimensions. In a letter to Jeffrey Zients, the acting director of OMB, the senators said Section 1536 of the surface transportation reauthorization act “lays out a clear statement by Congress that ‘the Administration should request full use of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) for operating and maintaining the navigat...

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