The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2018 (FY18) includes more than $5.002 billion in discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE, (see release at: Corps of Engineers, Headquarters Website – www.usace.army.mil) with more than $49.658 million for Buffalo District projects.
The Civil Works budget funds the Operation and Maintenance Program, which includes the maintenance of federal shipping channels and navigation structures within the Buffalo District’s area of responsibility, and operation and maintenance of the Black Rock Lock and Mount Morris Dam. Also included in the President’s Budget is funding for the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP).
The FY18 funding will be distributed among the operation and maintenance projects as follows:
Project
|
Funding
|
|
|
New York
|
Black Rock Channel
|
$1,834,000
|
Buffalo Harbor
|
$2,500,000
|
Mount Morris Dam
|
$3,892,000
|
Inspection of Completed Works
|
$395,000
|
Project Conditions Surveys
|
$410,000
|
Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters
|
$610,000
|
|
|
Ohio
|
Cleveland Harbor
|
$6,200,000
|
Conneaut Harbor
|
$2,800,000
|
Fairport Harbor
|
$1,150,000
|
Sandusky Harbor
|
$1,650,000
|
Toledo Harbor
|
$6,102,000
|
Inspection of Completed Works
|
$225,000
|
Project Conditions Surveys
|
$305,000
|
Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters
|
$255,000
|
Pennsylvania
|
Inspection of Completed Works
|
$5,000
|
Project Conditions Surveys
|
$70,000
|
Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters
|
$105,000
|
The FY18 funding will be distributed among the Buffalo District FUSRAP projects as follows:
Project
|
Funding
|
|
|
New York
|
Guterl Specialty Steel
|
$500,000
|
Niagara Falls Storage Site
|
$2,600,000
|
Seaway Industrial Park
|
$300,000
|
Tonawanda Landfill
|
$250,000
|
|
|
Ohio
|
Harshaw Chemical Company
|
$500,000
|
Luckey Site
|
$16,000,000
|
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
Superior Steel Site
|
$1,000,000
|
The Fiscal Year 2018 Civil Works Budget of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Press Book dated MAY 2017 located at http://www.usace.army.mil/Portals/2/docs/civilworks/budget/FY18_Army_CW_Budget_Pressbook_25_MAY_17.pdf?ver=2017-05-25-142611-277
For more information go to the 2018 budget related link:
Corps of Engineers, HQ Website – http://www.usace.army.mil
White House Website – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget
Release no. 17-011