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Carper Highlights Improvements for USACE Project Partnership Agreements

Press Release

Date: Nov. 29, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Government Budget and Spending Environment

"Since 2012, the Corps has dramatically changed the project agreement process, developing templates, streamlining requirements to provide consistency and fair treatment to stakeholders. Having said that, not every Corps project is the same. Stakeholders have raised with us … that these agreements need to be made more flexible and that many of the requirements are cumbersome.

Ultimately, it's our job in Congress to ensure that federal investments are protected. At the same time, we must also ensure that non-federal stakeholders can support the projects and … are not made to assume an unreasonable amount of risk.

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How do you strike the balance between moving quickly and moving deliberately to advance large-scale coastal restoration and protection projects?

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