Lame-Duck Look Ahead: FY 2023 Appropriations
October 20, 2022
Lame Duck Look Ahead: FY 2023 Appropriations When Congress returns to Washington after the midterm elections, lawmakers will have a number of legislative items to tackle, including addressing Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 appropriations for federal agencies. While the House approved all 12 of their FY 23 appropriations bills and the Senate Appropriations Committee released all......
Lame-Duck Look Ahead: Energy Permitting Reform Bill
October 13, 2022
In early August, it was announced that Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) had reached a deal with Congressional leaders to take up energy infrastructure permitting reform legislation. This deal was made in exchange for his support of the climate change and clean energy reconciliation package known as the Inflation Reduction......
Senate Appropriations Committee Releases FY 2023 Spending Bills
August 03, 2022
Late last week, amid a flurry of pre-recess activity, the Senate Committee on Appropriations released all 12 of their Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 spending bills. The nearly $1.7 trillion appropriations package includes $653 billion in non-defense discretionary spending, marking a 10.1% increase over FY 2022 levels, and $850 billion in defense discretionary spending, an 8.7%......
Link to Post:https://infrastructurereportcard.org/congress-approves-chips-plus-science-bill/">Congress Approves Chips Plus Science BillCongress Approves Chips Plus Science Bill
July 28, 2022
Among the flurry of pre-August break activity, Congress approved The CHIPS and Science Act. Led by the Senate, which crafted and passed the bipartisan legislation, the bill injects tens of billions of dollars into the domestic production of semiconductor chips, as well as increases authorizations for a number of science and research programs, which ASCE......
July 21, 2022
On Tuesday, July 19, the New York section of ASCE unveiled its 2022 Report Card for New York’s Infrastructure. The report assigned a cumulative grade of ‘C’ from separate chapters addressing 11 categories, meaning New York’s infrastructure is in mediocre condition. Civil engineers graded aviation (C+), bridges (C-), dams (C), drinking water (C-), ports (C+),......
Link to Post:https://infrastructurereportcard.org/house-appropriations-approves-fy-23-bills/">House Appropriations Approves FY 23 BillsHouse Appropriations Approves FY 23 Bills
June 30, 2022
This week the House Appropriations Committee completed work on Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 appropriations. During the week, the full committee marked up the remaining six appropriations bills, including Energy and Water; Commerce Justice and Science; Interior and Environment; and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. Therefore, all 12 of the FY 23 bills now await consideration......
White House Announces National Building Code Initiative
June 02, 2022
The most reliable way to ensure the resiliency of our nation’s infrastructure and that we are truly building back better is the widespread adoption and enforcement of modern, up-to-date building codes. ASCE was pleased to see the White House recently announce the National Initiative to Advance Building Codes, an effort to help state and local......
ASCE Observes National Dam Safety Awareness Day
May 31, 2022
On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) observed “National Dam Safety Awareness Day”. Nationwide, more than 92,000 dams serve a variety of functions and provide numerous services including irrigation, water conservation, flood protection. Ensuring the safety and sustainability of the nation’s dams is a top infrastructure priority for ASCE, and......
Link to Post:https://infrastructurereportcard.org/movement-on-school-infrastructure-data-collection/">Movement on School Infrastructure Data CollectionMovement on School Infrastructure Data Collection
May 25, 2022
The Report Card on America’s Infrastructure’s chapter on schools opens with the statement that school facilities represent the second largest sector of public infrastructure spending, after highways, and yet there is no comprehensive national data on the condition of K-12 public school infrastructure. To develop the ASCE schools grade of a D+, engineers instead relied......
GAO Reports Highlights Opportunities For The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
May 11, 2022
Late last week, the General Accountability Office (GA0) issued a new report on the status of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). The report includes a number of recommendations focusing on the need for NEHRP to conduct a national assessment to identify progress and remaining gaps in earthquake resilience; develop strategies to better communicate......