U.S. Reps. Dan Lipinski (IL-3) and Peter Roskam (IL-6) have succeeded in blocking an attempt to add language to the annual federal spending bill – known this year as the “cromnibus” – that would have crippled the economically vital Illinois waterways system and put our environment at risk. Some members of the House had been working on including construction authorization for physical barriers that would restrict barge traffic at the Brandon Road Lock & Dam near Joliet and along the Chicago Area Waterways System. If approved, this would have had a disastrous impact on the current and future potential of the area waterways system, which currently moves 100 million tons of goods worth nearly $28 billion each year, and would have undermined the environmental reviews contained in the bipartisan Water Resources Reform and Development Act signed into law this year. For more information, click on the link below.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:11:37 +0000
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