Construction is scheduled to begin next year.
The project is authorized by Congress at the 65 percent federal funding level, and Saxton will press for appropriations at the 65 percent funding. The federal government told New Jersey that if we went though this eight-year process, it would help us by paying for 65 percent of the cost if our state paid 35 percent. It's unfair that the federal government is breaking it's word. It's my intention to move the LBI project ahead with the previously agreed-upon federal funding. Saxton said the Office of Secretary of the Army, which overseas the Army Corps of Engineers, made the funding proposal in its required submissions to the administration's Office of Management and Budget.