PUBLIC WORKS

Amendments

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize (S. 782), S3525, S3528, S3553, S3556, S3558, S3559, S3562, S3564, S3565, S3566 [7JN], S3595, S3598, S3621, S3622, S3623, S3625, S3626, S3627, S3628 [8JN], S3655, S3656, S3657, S3659, S3660, S3661, S3662, S3663, S3665, S3695, S3697, S3698, S3699, S3701, S3702, S3703, S3704 [9JN], S3735, S3736, S3737 [13JN], S3784, S3785 [14JN], S3842, S3844, S3845, S3846, S3847 [15JN], S3871, S3898, S3899, S3901 [16JN], S3933, S3935, S3936 [20JN], S3977 [21JN]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2354), S7140 [3NO], S7386, S7387 [10NO], S7396, S7416, S7417 [14NO], S7434, S7456, S7457, S7513, S7570, S7571, S7572, S7573, S7574, S7577, S7578, S7580, S7581, S7582, S7583 [15NO], S7621, S7622, S7623, S7624, S7625, S7626 [16NO], S7717, S7719, S7723, S7727, S7764, S7770 [17NO], S7873 [18NO], S8074 [30NO], S8157 [1DE], H4676 [6JY], H4752, H4753 [7JY], H4795 [8JY], H4799, H4800, H4801, H4802, H4803, H4804, H4805, H4806, H4807, H4809, H4810, H4812, H4815, H4816, H4818, H4819, H4821, H4834, H4835, H4836, H4837, H4838, H4839, H4840, H4841, H4843, H4844, H4845, H4846, H4847, H4848, H4852, H4853, H4854 [11JY], H4946, H4947 [12JY], H4995, H4997, H4998, H4999, H5001, H5003, H5005, H5006, H5008, H5009, H5010, H5014, H5020 [13JY], H5051, H5053, H5054, H5055, H5056, H5058, H5059, H5060, H5061, H5062, H5063, H5064, H5065, H5066, H5067, H5068, H5069, H5070, H5071, H5073, H5074, H5075, H5076, H5077, H5078, H5088 [14JY], H5091, H5092 [15JY]

Bills and resolutions

American Infrastructure Financing Authority: establish (see S. 652), S1827 [17MR]

American Infrastructure Investment Fund: establish (see S. 936), S2839 [10MY]

California: facilitate certain activities, alleviate extra regulatory burdens, and reduce costs related to carrying out projects of the Central Valley Project (see H.R. 1604), H2911 [15AP]

———provide congressional direction for Endangered Species Act implementation relative to operation of Central Valley Project and California State Water Project, and water relief (see H.R. 1251), H2106 [30MR]

Corps of Engineers: allow certain entities to use a portion of recreational user fees for administrative expenses and toward recreational facilities or natural resource management (see H.R. 3223), H6976 [14OC]

———allow receipt and expenditure of non-Federal amounts to carry out certain studies in the same manner that non-Federal amounts may be used to carry out construction activities (see S. 1163), S3682 [9JN]

———allow use of certain amounts to carry out harbor deepening projects (see S. 793), S2387 [12AP]

———conduct levee system evaluations and certifications on receipt of requests from non-Federal interests (see S. 806), S2446 [13AP] (see H.R. 1157), H1982 [17MR]

———modify criteria used to dredge small ports (see S. 1927), S8067 [30NO]

———modify the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program (see H.R. 1652), H2913 [15AP]

———provide that funds made available for certain Missouri River fish and wildlife purposes be used for reconstruction of flood control structures (see H.R. 3719), H9926 [16DE]

———reform water resources project funding process through improved prioritization for such projects and Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund administration reforms (see S. 573), S1600 [14MR]

———revise Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding (see S. 1795), S7127 [3NO] (see H.R. 2942), H6231 [15SE]

———revise Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to reprioritize certain authorized purposes (see H.R. 2993), H6342 [21SE]

———study feasibility of the hydrological separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins (see S. 471), S1218 [3MR] (see H.R. 892), H1573 [3MR]

———take into account all available hydrologic data in conducting Missouri River basin operations (see S. 1377), S4640 [18JY] (see H.R. 2579), H5149 [18JY]

Dept. of Agriculture: allow Rural Utilities Service to finance natural gas infrastructure in rural communities (see S. 1754, 1757), S6872 [20OC]

Dept. of the Interior: allow storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the Norman Project in Oklahoma (see S. 802), S2446 [13AP] (see H.R. 3263), H7133 [26OC]

———clarify jurisdiction relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir (see S. 201), S272 [26JA] (see H.R. 489), H508 [26JA]

———conduct offshore oil and gas leasing and deposit use revenues of such activity into the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund (see H.R. 2983), H6341 [21SE]

Dept. of Transportation: establish a pilot program to increase accountability with respect to outcomes of transportation investments (see S. 1968), S8461 [8DE]

———reauthorize and modify the Surface Transportation Project Delivery Pilot Program (see H.R. 2160), H4185 [14JN]

———require that broadband conduit be installed as part of certain highway construction projects (see H.R. 1695), H2998 [3MY]

———require that broadband conduits be installed as part of certain highway construction projects (see S. 1939), S8148 [1DE]

———secure public investments in transportation infrastructure (see S. 1230), S3891 [16JN] (see H.R. 2350), H4573 [24JN]

District of Columbia: deauthorize a portion of Potomac River, Washington Channel navigation project (see H.R. 723), H922 [15FE]

Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System: authorize construction (see S. 419), S976 [28FE]

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize (see S. 782), S2348 [8AP]

———terminate (see S. 1869), S7452 [15NO] (see H.R. 3090), H6551 [4OC]

Economy: strengthen competitiveness (see S. 1), S121 [25JA]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (see H.R. 2354), H4573 [24JN]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), consideration (see H. Res. 337), H4670 [6JY]

EPA: provide grants to eligible State consortia to establish and carry out municipal sustainability certification programs (see S. 1516), S5386 [7SE] (see H.R. 3424), H7626 [15NO]

———rescind funding for Flathead County, MT, Water and Sewer District water treatment improvements and apply funds to deficit reduction (see S. 515), S1406 [8MR]

———rescind funding for Kalispell, MT, water treatment improvements and apply funds to deficit reduction (see S. 469), S1218 [3MR]

FEMA: postpone updating flood insurance rate maps of areas protected by levees in the process of being constructed or rehabilitated (see S. 2025), S8734 [16DE]

———suspend flood insurance rate map updates in geographic areas in which certain levees are being repaired (see H.R. 898), H1573 [3MR]

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund: ensure that annual expenditures to pay for operation and maintenance costs are allocated equitably among eligible harbor projects (see H.R. 3648), H8880 [13DE]

International Boundary and Water Commission: reimburse State and local governments in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas for expenses incurred in designing, constructing, and rehabilitating water projects (see H.R. 947), H1618 [8MR]

Iron and steel industry: ensure that transportation and infrastructure projects using Federal financial assistance are constructed with steel, iron, and manufactured goods produced in the U.S. (see S. 2028), S8775 [17DE] (see H.R. 3533), H8074 [1DE]

———require certain Federal agencies to use iron and steel produced in the U.S. in carrying out projects for the construction, alteration, or repair of a public building or public work (see H.R. 1703), H2999 [3MY]

Lower Merced River: clarify definition of flood control operations for the purposes of the operation and maintenance of a certain project (see H.R. 869), H1523 [2MR]

Motor vehicles: permit as part of certain highway projects the installation of charging infrastructure for plug-in electric drive vehicles (see S. 1797), S7127 [3NO]

National Public Works Week: designate (see S. Res. 177), S2839 [10MY]

Power resources: protect the bulk-power system and electric infrastructure critical to the defense and well-being of the U.S. against natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse threats and vulnerabilities (see H.R. 668), H723 [11FE]

———protect the bulk-power system and electric infrastructure critical to the defense of the U.S. from cybersecurity and other threats and vulnerabilities (see S. 1342), S4485 [11JY]

Roads and highways: exempt any road, highway, or bridge damaged by a natural disaster from duplicative environmental reviews if they are reconstructed in the same location (see S. 1389), S4721 [20JY] (see H.R. 3347), H7330 [3NO]

———extend authority of Federal-aid highway programs (see S. 1525), S5458 [8SE]

———preserve and renew Federal-aid highways to reduce long-term costs, improve safety, and improve the condition of Federal-aid highways (see S. 1193), S3773 [14JN]

San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund: extend authorization period for certain uses of funds (see H.R. 3132), H6672 [6OC]

San Joaquin River: address certain water-related concerns (see H.R. 1837), H3218 [11MY]

Stillwater, MN: authorize a replacement for the lift bridge with necessary taxpayer protection measures to promote fiscal responsibility (see H.R. 3434), H7713 [16NO]

Taxation: create jobs through infrastructure investment (see H.R. 992), H1722 [10MR]

———provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the furnishing of water and sewage facilities (see S. 939), S2839 [10MY] (see H.R. 1802), H3159 [10MY]

Territories: provide for participation in Federal-aid highway discretionary programs (see H.R. 2734), H5883 [1AU]

Transportation: advance use of cleaner construction equipment on Federal-aid highway and public transportation construction projects to improve air quality near construction sites (see S. 972), S2928 [12MY] (see H.R. 3122), H6671 [6OC]

———allow States to contribute funds to agencies participating in environmental review processes relative to transportation planning and delivery projects in that State (see H.R. 551), H550 [8FE]

———empower States with authority for most taxing and spending for highway and mass transit programs (see S. 1164), S3682 [9JN] (see H.R. 3264), H7133 [26OC]

———encourage use of advanced technologies for transportation projects receiving Federal funding (see H.R. 2089), H3985 [2JN]

———encourage use of private-public partnerships to invest in infrastructure projects (see S. 1300), S4226 [29JN] (see H.R. 2971), H6271 [20SE]

———improve accountability and transparency in infrastructure spending by requiring life-cycle cost analysis of major projects, use of design standards, and alternate bidding procedures (see S. 615), S1826 [17MR] (see H.R. 2602), H5285 [20JY]

———improve investment in national transportation infrastructure (see S. 942), S2839 [10MY]

———increase certain infrastructure finance provisions (see H.R. 341), H354 [19JA]

———modify deadline for filing a claim seeking judicial review of a permit, license, or approval issued by a Federal agency for a highway or public transportation capital project (see H.R. 1952), H3342 [23MY]

———revise certain infrastructure finance provisions (see H.R. 1123), H1905 [16MR]

Unemployment: provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job training, public works, and economic development programs (see H.R. 2537), H5085 [14JY]

Veterans: provide employment opportunities for veterans in transportation construction projects (see H.R. 3473), H7889 [18NO]

Water: assist municipalities experiencing significant hardships raising revenue to finance projects and activities for construction of wastewater treatment works (see H.R. 1189), H1984 [17MR]

———encourage efficiency (see H.R. 1967), H3409 [24MY]

———require use of American iron, steel, and manufactured goods in the construction, alteration, and repair of public water systems and treatment works (see H.R. 1684), H2998 [3MY]

Cloture motions

Economic Development Administration: reauthorize (S. 782), S3662 [9JN], S3754 [14JN], S3873 [16JN], S3963 [21JN]

———reauthorize (S. 782), motion to proceed, S3492 [6JN]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2354), motion to proceed, S7183 [8NO], S7347 [10NO]

Letters

Bureau of Reclamation water projects funding: G. Wade Miller, WateReuse Association, H975 [16FE]

———Timothy Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies, H975 [16FE]

Economic Development Revitalization Act: Stephen Jordan, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center, S3876 [16JN]

Motions

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2354), S7183 [8NO], S7434 [15NO], H5104, H5105 [15JY]

Remarks in House

Bureau of Reclamation: allow the Central Valley Project to facilitate certain water transfers, H331 [19JA]

———Lewis and Clark Rural Water System funding, H7336 [4NO]

———water projects funding, H970, H972, H975 [16FE]

California: provide congressional direction for Endangered Species Act implementation relative to operation of Central Valley Project and California State Water Project, and water relief (H.R. 1251), H2050 [30MR]

Corps of Engineers: allow public-private competition for certain programs, projects, or activities, H4810, H4811 [11JY]

———Lower Mississippi River infrastructure and levee system funding, H4866 [12JY]

———modify the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program (H.R. 1652), E756 [15AP]

———revise Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Master Water Control Manual to ensure greater storage capacity to prevent serious downstream flooding (H.R. 2942), H6224 [15SE], H7059 [25OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: Watershed Rehabilitation Program funding, H4202, H4203 [15JN]

Dept. of Energy: electric grid cybersecurity defense funding, H5105 [15JY]

Dept. of the Interior: clarify jurisdiction relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir (H.R. 489), H6473-H6475 [3OC]

———conduct offshore oil and gas leasing and deposit use revenues of such activity into the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund (H.R. 2983), H7046 [25OC]

District of Columbia: deauthorize a portion of Potomac River, Washington Channel navigation project (H.R. 723), E231 [15FE]

Economic Development Administration: terminate (H.R. 3090), H6515 [4OC]

Energy and water development: across-the-board funding reduction, H5070, H5071 [14JY]

———limit application of Davis-Bacon Act relative to funding of projects or programs, H5055, H5056 [14JY], E1340 [15JY]

———making appropriations, H9892 [16DE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), H4776-H4786 [8JY], H4798, H4799-H4822, H4831-H4849 [11JY], H4877-H4887 [12JY], H4995-H5016 [13JY], H5033-H5080 [14JY], H5091-H5106 [15JY], E1281, E1284, E1286, E1287 [11JY], E1292, E1293, E1301, E1302 [12JY], E1308 [13JY], E1320, E1324, E1326, E1327, E1328, E1329, E1330 [14JY], E1331, E1334, E1335, E1337, E1338, E1339, E1340, E1341, E1342 [15JY], E1348 [18JY], E1353 [19JY], E1375 [21JY], E1401 [25JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), consideration (H. Res. 337), H4762-H4765 [8JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), motion to recommit, H5105 [15JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), unanimous-consent agreement, H5050 [14JY]

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund: ensure that annual expenditures to pay for operation and maintenance costs are allocated equitably among eligible harbor projects (H.R. 3648), E2243 [13DE]

Indian Health Service: Sanitation Facilities Construction Program funding through reductions in BLM oil and gas and grazing management programs funding, H5443-H5445 [25JY]

Sacramento, CA: anniversary of Sacramento Municipal Utility District, E1993 [3NO]

San Joaquin River: address certain water-related concerns, H5593 [27JY]

———restoration program funding, H5064, H5065 [14JY]

Taxation: create jobs through infrastructure investment, H6347 [22SE]

———create jobs through infrastructure investment (H.R. 992), H1857 [16MR]

———encourage investments in infrastructure, H425 [24JA], H3259 [12MY], H4195 [15JN], H4337 [21JN], H4377 [22JN]

Territories: provide for participation in Federal-aid highway discretionary programs (H.R. 2734), E1465 [1AU]

Transportation: improve investment in national transportation infrastructure, H5956-H5958 [7SE], H6084, H6085 [12SE], H6130-H6133 [13SE], H7114 [26OC]

Water: require use of American iron, steel, and manufactured goods in the construction, alteration, and repair of public water systems and treatment works (H.R. 1684), H5282 [20JY], H7240 [2NO], H7920 [29NO]

Remarks in Senate

American Infrastructure Financing Authority: establish, S7053 [2NO], S7101 [3NO]

Corps of Engineers: allow use of certain amounts to carry out harbor deepening projects (S. 793), S2493, S2494 [14AP]

Dept. of the Interior: allow storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the Norman Project in Oklahoma (S. 802), S2448 [13AP]

———clarify jurisdiction relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir (H.R. 489), S6692 [18OC]

———clarify jurisdiction relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir (S. 201), S282 [26JA]

Disasters: exempt any levee, lock, or dam damaged by a natural disaster from duplicative environmental reviews if they are reconstructed in the same location, S7601 [16NO]

Economic Development Administration: across-the-board funding reduction, S3604 [8JN]

———clarify communities eligible for reduced local cost share for projects include areas affected by military base closures and realignment, S3765 [14JN]

———disaster relief grants funding, S6752 [19OC], S6843 [20OC]

———eliminate, S3636 [9JN]

———reauthorize (S. 782), S3524-S3535 [7JN], S3571-S3575, S3579-S3601, S3603-S3607 [8JN], S3631, S3632, S3635-S3663, S3665-S3667 [9JN], S3709-S3713, S3716, S3719-S3721, S3723-S3726, S3738-S3740 [13JN], S3743, S3746-S3748, S3752-S3754, S3765 [14JN], S3805, S3847, S3848 [15JN], S3852-S3881 [16JN], S3905 [20JN], S3939, S3962-S3966 [21JN], S3981, S3985-S3987 [22JN], S4039 [23JN]

———reauthorize (S. 782), motion to proceed, S3492 [6JN], S3513, S3515-S3524 [7JN]

———reauthorize (S. 782), unanimous-consent agreement, S3524 [7JN], S3883 [16JN], S3936 [20JN]

———reauthorize (S. 782), unanimous-consent request, S3806 [15JN]

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2354), S7395-S7412 [14NO], S7432-S7435, S7442 [15NO], S7587, S7596-S7598, S7600-S7604 [16NO], S7684, S7695 [17NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), motion to proceed, S7346 [10NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), unanimous-consent agreement, S7183 [8NO]

———making appropriations (H.R. 2354), unanimous-consent request, S7433 [15NO]

National Public Works Week: designate (S. Res. 177), S3000 [16MY]

Roads and highways: exempt any road, highway, or bridge damaged by a natural disaster from duplicative environmental reviews if they are reconstructed in the same location, S6704 [19OC]

———preserve and renew Federal-aid highways to reduce long-term costs, improve safety, and improve the condition of Federal-aid highways (S. 1193), S3776 [14JN]

Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users: reauthorize, S6825 [20OC]

Transportation: encourage use of private-public partnerships to invest in infrastructure projects (S. 1300), S4281 [30JN]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 2354, Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 337) (H. Rept. 112-135), H4670 [6JY]

Dept. of the Interior Clarification of Jurisdiction Relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 489) (H. Rept. 112-160), H5284 [20JY]

Dept. of the Interior Jurisdiction Clarification Relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 201) (S. Rept. 112-48), S5338 [6SE]

Economic Development Revitalization Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 782) (S. Rept. 112-15), S2580 [2MY]

Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H. 2354) (H. Rept. 112-118), H4573 [24JN]

———Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (H.R. 2354) (S. Rept. 112-75), S5386 [7SE]

Federal-Aid Highway Programs Authority Extension: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1525), S5458 [8SE]

Grid Cyber Security Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 1342) (S. Rept. 112-34), S4485 [11JY]

Rulings of the Chair

Energy and water development: making appropriations (H.R. 2354), S7432 [15NO], H4801, H4807, H4810, H4816, H4817, H4848 [11JY], H5006 [13JY], H5053, H5062, H5077 [14JY]

Tables

Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 2055): energy and water development, H9831-H9834 [16DE]

Energy and water development appropriations (H.R. 2354), H4777-H4783 [8JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 337, consideration of H.R. 2354, energy and water development appropriations, H4762 [8JY]

H.R. 489, Dept. of the Interior clarification of jurisdiction relative to C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, H6473 [3OC]

S. 1, American Competitiveness Act, S128 [25JA]

S. 782, Economic Development Revitalization Act, S3525-S3527 [7JN]

S. 806, Rural Community Flood Protection Act, S2448 [13AP]

S. 1193, Federal-Aid Highway Preservation and Renewal Program Act, S3777-S3779 [14JN]

S. 1230, Protecting Taxpayers in Transportation Asset Transfers Act, S3896 [16JN]

S. Res. 177, National Public Works Week, S2848 [10MY], S3000 [16MY]