As of a few years ago, my ports were receiving nearly nothing back until, working together with then-Ranking Member DeFazio, we were successful in enacting language in WRRDA 2014 that required the Army Corps of Engineers to allocate at least 10 percent of harbor maintenance funds to all donor ports for expanded uses, or funds to continue to use their ports.
Napolitano discusses past efforts to secure funding for donor ports.
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