US Congress House Bill 4342 (Prior Session Legislation)

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March 30 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Waterways Are Vital for the Economy, Energy, Efficiency, and Environment Act of 2012 or WAVE4 Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to require certain delivery process reforms for qualifying construction and major rehabilitation projects for navigation infrastructure of inland and intracoastal waterways. Directs the Secretary, working in conjunction with the Inland Waterways Users Board, to submit to Congress a 20-year program for making capital investments on inland and intracoastal waterways. Authorizes such program to be based on the 20-year capital investment strategy contained in the Inland Marine Transportation System (IMTS) Capital Projects Business Model, Final Report published on April 13, 2010, as approved by the Board. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit expenditures from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund to 50% of the total cost of the construction or rehabilitation project. Prohibits expenditures from the Fund for: (1) construction or rehabilitation of dams, or (2) rehabilitation expenditures equal to or exceeding $100 million.

Waterways Are Vital for the Economy, Energy, Efficiency, and Environment Act of 2012

Rep Whitfield, Ed	Rep Aderholt, Robert B.	Rep Bachus, Spencer	Rep Biggert, Judy
Rep Bonner, Jo	Rep Boswell, Leonard L.	Rep Carnahan, Russ	Rep Cohen, Steve
Rep Costello, Jerry F.	Rep Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"	Rep Cummings, Elijah E.	Rep Duncan, John J., Jr.
Rep Holden, Tim	Rep Hultgren, Randy	Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr.	Rep Johnson, Bill
Rep Johnson, Timothy V.	Rep Kind, Ron	Rep Kinzinger, Adam	Rep Lipinski, Daniel
Rep Loebsack, David	Rep Olson, Pete	Rep Roe, David P.	Rep Rogers, Mike D.
Rep Roskam, Peter J.	Rep Sewell, Terri A.	Rep Shimkus, John

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2012-03-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
2012-03-29	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2012-03-29	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2012-03-29	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN04342:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4342ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4342ih.pdf