DCA welcomes the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024

The Dredging Contractors of America announced today that the House and Senate have reached deal on the first set of appropriations bills including Energy & Water.

In their announcement, DCA showed support for the bipartisan bipartisan package of appropriations bills agreed to by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The package is known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.

“We understand that agreeing to move on important spending legislation takes time and an enormous amount of effort,” said William Doyle, Chief Executive Officer of the Dredging Contractors of America. “We want to thank House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (TX) and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT) and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Vice Chair Susan Collins (ME) for shepherding through the bicameral, bipartisan package of the first six fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills.”

Key points in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill include:

• $8.7 billion in total funding for the Corps of Engineers.
• $2.77 billion for the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to improve navigation through dredging ports, maintenance of waterways, and ensure goods and people can get to where they need to be. The bill also includes funding for critical inland waterways navigation projects, which transport important commodities like grain, iron, and petroleum.

The list of Community Project Funding requests included in the package is available here.