The president’s budget for fiscal 2017 includes roughly $123.8 million in gross discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District.
Along with an updated total of $128.1 million included in the recently released USACE work plan for fiscal 2016, this funding allows Philadelphia District to continue to maintain and improve water resources infrastructure.
Amounts in the fiscal 2017 president’s budget remain proposed subject to the enactment of the FY 2017 Energy & Water Development Appropriations Act; while the USACE work plan shows how funds already appropriated under the FY 2016 version of the same bill will be spent.
Looking at the fiscal 2016 and 2017 amounts together, approximately $250 million over two fiscal years, more than half is related to Delaware River navigation:
Other projects accounting for a major share of the total include the following: