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handle is hein.crs/govcbzw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: &~ ~ riE SE .$rCh &~ ~ ~ Updated February 11, 2016 Army Corps of Engineers: FY2016 Appropriations The Energy and Water Development bill provides funding for the civil program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), an agency in the Department of Defense with both military and civilian responsibilities. Under its civil works program, the Corps plans, builds, operates, and maintains a wide range of water resources facilities. The Corps attracts congressional attention in part because its projects can have significant local and regional economic benefits and environmental effects, in addition to their water resource development purposes. Corps appropriations generally are authorized in water resources development acts. Most recently, Congress enacted a new water resources development act in June 2014, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (WRRDA 2014; P.L. 113- 121). In most years, the President's budget request for the Corps is below the agency's enacted appropriation. For FY2015, Congress appropriated $5.5 billion for the Corps, almost $1 billion more than the requested amount. The President's FY2016 request for the Corps was $4.7 billion, and the final FY2016 enacted appropriation was almost $6 billion. Recent trends in budgeted and enacted amounts are shown in Figure 1. Figure I. Requested and Appropriated Corps Funding, FY200 I -FY2016 Budget Authority (nominal $ in billions) $ 6 .0 .. ......... ............I............ ........... ............ ............ ......... (D (- mD (D (D (D (D (o (D O -1 '1-- -1 - t- Annual Appropriation \ Budget Request Source: Congressional Research Service, with data from the Army Corps of Engineers. Corp\s Reut ,S'kmmx-u- Corps funding typically is requested at the account level, with the two largest accounts being Operations and Maintenance and Construction. The Corps also sometimes depicts its request by business lines (e.g., navigation, flood control). Figure 2 shows recent Corps funding totals at the account level. Figure 2. Enacted Corps Funding by Account, FY2009- FY2016 I Budget Authority (nominal $ in billions) $5.0 POR~~~~~~~~ii ~~~~~~~iiiiiiiiii $ 4 .0 i~i~~i~ii .. .. .. ... . .... .... ... ...... ...... ......:iiiii :iiii iiiiii .......:iiii iiiiii iiiiii :::::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::: :::: .....::: ::::::: :::::: +::+++::++.:::++:::++110 +++:: ..... ...... ................... ...... ...... ... ..... ... ... ...... .. ......... ...... . .... .+: : : :+ : : : :. : ...... ..... ...... ........... ...... ...... ..... ...... ...... ...... ..... .. .. ...... i iiiiii iiiiiii iiiiii .....ii i .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . ..o. . . . . EXPENSES & ASA n REGULATORY \ FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES :2: FUSRAP MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBS. OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE K CONSTRUCTION U INVESTIGATIONS Source: Congressional Research Service, with data from the Army Corps of Engineers. E~w-'~k andc 'dd' S0m togrt$ Corps funding is part of the debate over congressionally directed spending, or earmarks. Unlike highways and municipal water infrastructure, federal funds for the Corps are not distributed to states or projects based on a formula or competitive grants. About 85% of appropriations for Corps civil works activities are for specific projects. In addition to specific projects identified for funding in the President's budget, historically Congress identified additional Corps projects to receive funding during the discretionary appropriations process. In the 112th Congress, site-specific project line items added by Congress (i.e., earmarks) became subject to House and Senate earmark moratorium policies. As a result, Congress generally has not added funding at the project level since that time. In lieu of traditional project-based increases, Congress has included additional funding for select categories of Corps projects within each account (e.g., additional funding for navigation work in the construction account) and provided direction and limitations on the use of these funds. As shown in Figure 3, Congress has increased funding for these projects in recent years, and most recently provided more than $1.3 billion for these projects in FY2016. The .O 'T w - - , gnom Nom , q > rq\\ 'S a X 11LULANJILiN,

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