Congress is taking steps to double-check massive projects planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham has more:
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Congress is taking steps to double-check massive projects planned by
the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham
has more:
Major legislation to fund the Army Corps of Engineers is making its way
through
Congress. A House committee has added a provision that would require
an independent
review of the Corp’s big projects. Erick Eckl is with the
environmental
group, American Rivers. His organization applauds the amendment…
“The independent peer review provision that is now moving through
Congress would
help ensure that members of Congress have more reliable and more
accurate information
available to them about these projects before they vote to give them
the green light and
the greenbacks to be built.”
The Corps of Engineers has been criticized after a whistle-blower
revealed that the Corps
inflated the economic benefits of some of its projects in order to
improve the odds of
getting funding from Congress.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.