{"id":520,"date":"2014-04-11T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.20.69.208\/wordpress1\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:24:48","slug":"fy-15-senate-energy-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterways.org\/wordpress2\/fy-15-senate-energy-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"NWC Letter: FY15 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This letter was sent April 11, 2014:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Dear Chairman Feinstein and Ranking Member Alexander:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On behalf of the members of the National Waterways Conference, Inc., I am writing to\u00a0express our concerns about the Administration\u2019s FY15 budget for the U.S. Army Corps\u00a0of Engineers\u2019 Civil Works program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As this committee well knows, reliable, well-maintained water resources infrastructure is\u00a0fundamental to America\u2019s economic and environmental well-being, and is essential to\u00a0maintaining our nation\u2019s competitive position within the global economy. Our water\u00a0resources infrastructure provides life-saving flood control, needed water supplies, shore\u00a0protection, water-based recreation, environmental restoration, and hydropower\u00a0production. Moreover, waterways transportation is the safest, most energy-efficient and\u00a0environmentally sound mode of transportation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The President\u2019s budget for fiscal year 2015 would fund the Civil Works program at a\u00a0level nearly $1 billion less than the Congress appropriated for the current fiscal year.\u00a0This request, contrary to the priorities set forth by the Congress in the Consolidated\u00a0Appropriations Act, 2014, fails to recognize the critical role of our nation\u2019s water\u00a0resources infrastructure to a robust economy, job creation, public safety and\u00a0environmental well-being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waterways.org\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FY-15-Senate-Energy-and-Water.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the entire letter<\/a>\u00a0(PDF &#8211; 53kb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter was sent April 11, 2014: Dear Chairman Feinstein  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congressional-actions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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