The
President’s Budget for fiscal year 2017 (FY17) includes more than $4.620 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 $37 million for
Buffalo District projects.
The
Civil Works budget funds the operation and maintenance program, which includes
the maintenance of federal shipping channels within the Buffalo District’s area
of responsibility, maintenance of federal navigation structures, operation and
maintenance of the Black Rock Lock, and operation and maintenance of Mount
Morris Dam. Also included in the
President’s Budget is money for the Formerly Utilized Remedial Action Program
(FUSRAP).
The
FY17 funding will be distributed among the operation and maintenance projects
as follows:
|
Project
|
Funding
|
|
|
|
|
New York
|
|
Black
Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor
|
$1,785,000
|
|
Buffalo
Harbor
|
$2,650,000
|
|
Mount
Morris Dam
|
$3,575,000
|
|
Inspection
of Completed Works
|
$395,000
|
|
Project
Conditions Surveys
|
$395,000
|
|
Surveillance
of Northern Boundary Waters
|
$610,000
|
|
|
|
|
Ohio
|
|
Ashtabula
Harbor
|
$2,315,000
|
|
Cleveland
Harbor
|
$5,855,000
|
|
Fairport
Harbor
|
$1,700,000
|
|
Sandusky
Harbor
|
$1,618,000
|
|
Toledo
Harbor
|
$5,905,000
|
|
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
FY17 funding will be distributed among the Buffalo District FUSRAP projects as
follows:
|
Project
|
Funding
|
|
|
|
|
New York
|
|
Guterl
Specialty Steel
|
$400,000
|
|
Niagara
Falls Storage Site
|
$3,600,000
|
|
Seaway
Industrial Park
|
$400,000
|
|
Tonawanda
Landfill
|
$400,000
|
|
|
|
|
Ohio
|
|
Harshaw
Chemical Company
|
$500,000
|
|
Luckey
Site
|
$3,650,000
|
|
|
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
|
Superior
Steel Site
|
$800,000
|
The
FY17 Civil Works budget press book is available on the Corps headquarters
Website at: http://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/Budget.aspx, under the
heading Program Budget: Press Books.
For
more information go to the 2017 budget related link:
Corps
of Engineers, HQ Website – http://www.usace.army.mil
White
House Website – http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget
Release no. 16-002