ÌýPresident Barack Obama on October 28 signed into law $33.5 billion spending bill to fund government energy and water programs for the 2010 fiscal year.
The final piece of legislation includes $5.4 billion in funding for the Corps of Engineers, $43 million above FY 2009 and $320 million above the administration’s 2010 request. The agreement includes $2.4 billion, $198 million above 2009, to address more than $1 billion in the backlog of operations and maintenance for navigation infrastructure that is critical to the U.S. economy.
The bill also includes $2 billion for construction projects, $313 million above the request, and $160 million for investigations, $60 million above the request, "to plan and design America’s next generation of water resource infrastructure."
Finally, the bill provides $1.13 billion to the Interior Department, $67 million above the request and $12 million above 2009, to continue to support and improve the nation’s water infrastructure, including $1.1 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation for dams, canals, water treatment and conservation, and rural water projects.
The full text of the law can be accessed .
Further details are included in the
For more information, contact Marco Giamberardino at giamberm@agc.org
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