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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
NONDEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES
[CLERICS NOTE.-The subcommittee was unable to hold hearings
on nondepartmental witnesses. The statements and letters of those
submitting written testimony are as follows:]
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS-CIVIL
PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Madam Chair and members of the subcommittee: The American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) is pleased to provide this statement for the record on the pro-
posed budgets of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) for fiscal year 2013.
U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
The fiscal year 2013 budget provides $4.7 billion, a decrease of more than 5 per-
cent from the fiscal year 2012 enacted level of $5 billion. The President's budget for
fiscal year 2013 is inadequate to meet the needs of an aging waterways infrastruc-
ture and must be increased. The Congress must expand funding for fiscal year 2013.
The fiscal year 2013 budget plan released by the House Budget Committee last
week would further erode the Nation's ability to rebuild its aging water resources
infrastructure by reducing total outlays in fiscal year 2013 by $94 billion.
Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, the Congress has $1.047 trillion in new
discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2013, with $686 billion set aside for
security programs (defense, intelligence, and homeland security) and $361 billion for
all domestic discretionary spending.
ASCE recommends a minimum appropriation of $5.2 billion for USACE in fiscal
year 2013 to account for inflation and to halt the decline in budget authority to en-
sure safe infrastructure and a sound economy.
The administration proposal for fiscal year 2013 would reduce construction fund-
ing from $1.694 billion to $1.471 billion, a reduction of 13 percent. Operations and
maintenance funding would be down slightly from $2.412 billion to $2.398 billion.
The Mississippi River and Tributaries account would decline from $252 million to
$234 million or 7 percent. Investigations-the money used to complete project feasi-
bility studies-would go from $125 million to $102 million, a decline of 18 percent.
In all, the Civil Works program budget for fiscal year 2013 would be cut from $5.002
billion in fiscal year 2012 to $4.731 billion in fiscal year 2013, an overall reduction
of 5.4 percent.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina vividly demonstrated the perils of relying upon poorly
funded infrastructure to protect lives and property. An ASCE investigation (con-
ducted on behalf of USACE) reported in 2007 that chronic under funding was one
of the principal causes of the levee failures after Katrina.
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