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Dec. 22, 2011
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski announced Monday that $51.7 million for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects throughout Maryland has been secured in the fiscal year 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill.
With a vote of 70–30, the bill was passed by the full Senate as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The House also approved the act with a vote of 296–121.
The spending bill includes funding for the following U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects:
• $1.9 million for the operation and maintenance of Jennings Randolph Lake in Garrett County, which provides flood control and recreation to western Maryland and water quality and water supply for Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.
• $18.3 million for the C&D Canal for annual maintenance dredging of its shipping channels, which serves as a shortcut for vessels traveling between Baltimore and points north.
• $11.8 million for the continuation of the Poplar Island environmental restoration project, which is taking clean dredged materials from the shipping lanes leading to the Port of Baltimore and using it to stabilize the shoreline, create habitat areas, and restore the wetlands of one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most valuable island ecosystems.
• $2.45 million for the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration program to continue efforts to increase the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay by restoring oyster habitat, creating new reefs, and planting disease-free oysters on the reefs.
• $700,000 million for Assateague Island in Worcester County for restoration efforts that will protect the northern end of the island and its fragile habitat.
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