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Board Backs Contractor In Corps Cost Recovery Dispute

Jim_Parsons

January 18, 2018

A Denver contractor will not have to pay the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers savings from the use of an alternative construction method on a Texas bridge project, even though the agency did not formally approve the deviation from the contract specification.

Orleans Avenue Canal

New Orleans’ Permanent Storm Surge Protection

Autumn Cafiero Giusti

December 4, 2017

New pumps and gates are part of the project that will complete the city of New Orleans’ $14.6 billion hurricane-defense system.

wetlands

EPA-Corps Plan to Rescind Water Rule May Face Long Path

Jim_Parsons

July 12, 2017

The Trump administration has taken a significant step toward undoing a controversial 2015 rule that aimed to clarify the scope of federal authority over rivers, wetlands and other bodies of water.

Water Infrastructure

Appropriators Oppose Trump Budget Cut for Army Corps

Key senators criticize proposed $1-billion civil-works program reduction

Tom Ichniowski

June 29, 2017

House subcommittee clears bill with 2% increase over 2017 level.

Waterways Group Seeks Piece of Trump Infrastructure Plan

Tom Ichniowski

June 7, 2017

A waterways industry organization would like to see some of President Trump’s proposed $1-trillion, 10-year infrastructure investment plan go for replacing decades-old river locks, but the group, Waterways Council Inc. (WCI), strongly opposes another administration proposal, levying a new tax on barge companies.

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Federal Buildings

VA Aims to Unsnarl $1.4B in Delayed Projects

Veterans Affairs Dept. and Corps of Engineers plan awaits approval

Tom Ichniowski

June 5, 2017

The VA is also launching a study of what do do about more than 1,000 vacant or underused facilities.

Construction Funding

Trump Signs $1.2-Trillion Fiscal 2017 Spending Package

Measure includes small hikes for infrastructure accounts

Tom Ichniowski

May 5, 2017

Legislation increases highway, mass transit funding to FAST Act levels.

Sediment Basin Tide Gate removal project

Port Dredging

What Made the Savannah Harbor Upgrade So Complicated?

An environmental balancing act was needed to mitigate changes for deep-draught vessels

Jim_Parsons

May 4, 2017

The project’s intricacies represent a strategy developed over 17 years by the Corps of Engineers.

Corps Realigns Officers, Role Seen on Trump Wall

Debra K. Rubin

Tom Ichniowski

April 25, 2017

Maj. Gen. Michael C. Wehr on April 14 was named as the deputy chief of engineers and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Wehr

New Officers Named to Key Corps of Engineers Posts

Army picks new Corps deputy chief and head of military and international operations

Tom Ichniowski

April 18, 2017

Some Corps civil-works projects may be included in Trump's long-awaited, unfinished $1-trillion infrastructure plan.

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