Chuck Schumer: “There are currently three major federally authorized and sponsored navigation projects under construction in the Port of…”

“There are currently three major federally authorized and sponsored navigation projects under construction in the Port of New York and New Jersey and a fourth in the preconstruction, engineering, and design phase. The projects that would deepen the Arthur Kill Channel to 41 feet, the Kill van Kull Channel to 45 feet, the Port Jersey and New York Harbor channels to 41 feet, are being built. An overarching project called the New York-New Jersey Harbor Navigation project which would take these channels to 50-feet depths is in PED. These projects are staggered in this fashion only because of the order in which they were authorized. I would ask my colleague from New Jersey if there is any other reason for this segmentation.”