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Testifying before a key Senate committee, a top Arkansas port official credited $2.5 billion in capital investments and 5,000-plus jobs to one federal agency that Congress has not reauthorized since 2004. Bryan Day, executive director of the Little Rock Port Authority, said the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has provided $13 million to his port over the past 20 years. Sharing several EDA success stories, Day specifically credited one $1.5-million grant in 2005 with helping to attract new industry to the inland river system. He said one user of the warehouses the grant helped to build transports approximately 32,000 tons of wire rod from Japan annually. |