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On the recordApril 1, 2014
if we are able to either take the administration's proposal of a lockage fee or the fuel tax, the increase that the barge owners have said they would like to pay, if we had that extra $100 million, would that increase the chances that Chickamauga Lock could be restarted in 2015?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Lamar Alexander questions the impact of funding proposals on restarting the Chickamauga Lock.

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