1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated January 6, 2017WRDA Legislation in the 114th Congress: Clean Water Act and Infrastructure Financing Provisions in S. 2848 and WIINMost provisions of Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bills typically relate to authorizing navigation, flood control, and oth
2、er projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) or more broadly to water resource infrastructure such as dams and levees. In the Senate in the 114th Congress, WRDA 2016 (S. 2848) would have authorized new Corps studies and projects. It also included a number of amendments to the Clean Water
3、Act (CWA; 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.). Title VII of S. 2848 would have authorized and revised several existing CWA provisions and added CWA provisions to address management, treatment, and financing of water quality infrastructure. It also included provisions concerning water infrastructure financing mo
4、re broadly, beyond the CWA. Similar provisions were not included in the House version of WRDA 2016, H.R. 5303. As described below, water resources legislation enacted in December 2016, the Water Infrastructure and Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN, P.L. 114-322), includes only a few of the CWA a
