Will Mandates In Federal Principles & Guidelines Tip The Balance To The Environment In Funding Water Resource Projects?

This edition of the Path Forward presents information on the direction of federal funding of major water resource projects. It attempts to envision potential outcomes of the ongoing revision to the federal Principles and Guidelines and the focus of this administration to modernize the analysis of project impacts.

Seeking Federal Support to Water Resources Projects

States and local agencies have traditionally turned to the Federal Government to help fund, design and construct our nations major water resources projects. For the past 28 years, the federal governments four major water resource development agencies: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, have been required to determine if a project seeking federal assistance is, in fact, in our nations interest and therefore worthy of funding.

The determination must be made that the proposed project meets specific "Federal Interest" criteria before Congress will authorize or appropriate money for it. The guidance used to determine "Federal Interest" is codified in a document known as the Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies. Read More....

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