摘要: |
After years of authorization and studies but no funding to speak of, the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program is taking off, thanks to a big shot of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Congress formally authorized NESP in 2007, but its history stretches all the way back to Corps studies in 1989 and 1990 to address and evaluate ongoing problems to navigation, the congestion at the busiest locks, growing usage and an aging system. The Corps issued a feasibility report in 2004 that identified improvement projects, which Congress authorized. |