October 23, 2013

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) joined her colleagues to pass H.R. 3080 – voting to authorize a host of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activities including harbor maintenance, dredging, flood control, and other infrastructure construction and repair.

Although Congress usually votes for authorization every two years, it has been nearly six years since such a bill has become law. The bill includes a number of provisions to help facilitate work in the Great Lakes, including a provision that will allow the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to move forward with a project here in the district. The bill also has language that would direct the Army Corps of Engineers to look at the Great Lakes needs as a single, interdependent system to best allocate funds nationwide each year, thereby helping the region better compete for limited funds.