BUFFALO, NY -- The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2023 released today includes more than $6.6 billion in discretionary funding for the Civil Works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with just over $141 million set aside for Buffalo District projects.
Of great significance for the region is an additional $600,000 for the Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study, a new start project that includes the three Great Lakes districts: Buffalo, Chicago, and Detroit. The goal is to create a plan identifying vulnerable coastal areas and recommending actions to bolster the coastal resources’ ability to withstand, recover from and adapt to future hydrologic uncertainty with respect to built and natural coastal environments. Recent high-water events across the Great Lakes brought about the study’s need.
The Civil Works budget funds $45 million the Operation and Maintenance Program, which includes the maintenance of federal shipping channels and navigation structures within the Buffalo District’s area of responsibility including the Black Rock Lock, and operation and maintenance of the Mount Morris Dam. These structures are part of the Great Lakes Navigation System, which provides significant economic benefit to the Nation, in addition to added shoreline protection and flood reduction benefits to areas behind the structures.
Included in the President’s Budget is $96.6 million in funding for projects within the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program. The FUSRAP program was initiated in 1974 to identify, investigate and clean up or control sites that were part of the Nation's early atomic energy and weapons program. Activities at the sites that are eligible for FUSRAP were conducted by the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), both predecessors of the Department of Energy (DOE).
The FY23 funding will be distributed among the projects as follows:
| FUSRAP |
|
| Luckey Site, Ohio |
$ 41,000,000 |
| Joslyn Manufacturing, IN |
$3,000,000 |
| Guterl Steel, NY |
$1,000,000 |
| Niagara Falls Storage Site (NFSS), NY |
$41,600,000 |
| Seaway Site, NY |
$1,500,000 |
| Tonawanda Landfill, NY |
$500,000 |
| Harshaw Chemical Company, Ohio |
$10,000,000 |
| Superior Steel Site, PA |
$500,000 |
| New York |
|
| Barcelona Harbor, NY |
$19,000 |
| Black Rock Channel & Tonawanda Harbor, NY |
$2,277,000 |
| Buffalo River, NY |
$2,711,000 |
| Cape Vincent Harbor, NY |
$3,000 |
| Cattaraugus Creek Harbor, NY |
$3,000 |
| Dunkirk Harbor, NY |
$3,000 |
| Great Sodus Bay, NY |
$7,000 |
| Mt. Morris Dam, NY |
$4,334,000 |
| Oak Orchard, NY |
$5,000 |
| Ogdensburg Harbor, NY |
$1,000 |
| Olcott Harbor, NY |
$8,000 |
| Oswego Harbor, NY |
$5,971,000 |
| Port Ontario Harbor, NY |
$5,000 |
| Rochester Harbor, NY |
$10,000 |
| Sturgeon Point Harbor, NY |
$4,000 |
| Wilson Harbor, NY |
$8,000 |
| Ohio |
|
| Ashtabula Harbor, OH |
$2,293,000 |
| Cleveland Harbor, OH |
$10,908,000 |
| Conneaut Harbor, OH |
$2,020,000 |
| Fairport Harbor, OH |
$2,346,000 |
| Huron Harbor, OH |
$1,509,000 |
| Lorrain Harbor, OH |
$966,000 |
| Port Clinton Harbor, OH |
$1,010,000 |
| Put-in-Bay, OH |
$2,000 |
| Rocky River, OH |
$2,000 |
| Sandusky Harbor, OH |
$1,007,000 |
| Toledo Harbor, OH |
$6,588,000 |
| Toussaint River, OH |
$5,000 |
| Vermilion Harbor, OH |
$1,007,000 |
| Pennsylvania |
|
| Erie Harbor, PA |
$13,000 |
Projects not funded through the President’s Budget have the potential for funding through the FY22 Workplan and Infrastructure Investments and Job Act. FY22 Workplan projects and their funding amounts are scheduled to be released in early summer 2022.
For more information on the President’s FY 2023 Budget, please visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/.
The FY 2023 Civil Works budget press book is also available at: http://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/CivilWorks/Budget.aspx, under the heading Program Budget: Press Books.
The Buffalo District delivers world class engineering solutions to the Great Lakes region, the Army and the Nation in order to ensure national security, environmental sustainability, water resource management, and emergency assistance during peace and war.