[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 121 (Monday, September 25, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S10074]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Ms. SNOWE:
  S. 3934. A bill to terminate authorization for the project for 
navigation, Rockport Harbor, Maine; to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works.
  Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I am introducing a bill today for the Town 
of Rockport that would deauthorize a part of the Federal Navigation 
Channel in Rockport Harbor. The town, located on the active Mid-Coast 
of Maine, requested shortly after the Senate passed the Water Resources 
Development Act of 2006 that Congress decommission a 35-foot by 275-
foot area directly adjacent to the bulkhead at Marine Park. With this 
deauthorization, the Town will be able to install permanent pilings to 
secure a set of new municipal floats, which would replace the current 
temporary float system.
  It is my hope that this non-controversial provision will be included 
in the Water Resources Development Act of 2006 conference report rather 
than have the Town of Rockport have to wait possibly for years before 
another WRDA bill is considered. I urge my Senate conferees for the 
WRDA conference to include this language that was drafted by the New 
England Corps of Engineers who have no objection to the 
deauthorization.

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