Title: Port of Brunswick Navigation Channel Improvement Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Port of Brunswick Navigation Channel Improvement Act
This bill authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out the Brunswick Harbor Navigation Project in Brunswick, Georgia, in accordance with the plans for navigation channel modifications and improvements laid out in the report issued by the Chief of Engineers on March 11, 2022. The report recommends plans to widen the current authorized channel in three locations.


[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3883 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3883

To authorize the construction of the project for navigation, Brunswick 
                            Harbor, Georgia.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2022

  Mr. Ossoff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the construction of the project for navigation, Brunswick 
                            Harbor, Georgia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Port of Brunswick Navigation Channel 
Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Colonel's Island Terminal in Brunswick, Georgia, is 
        the largest dedicated roll-on/roll-off facility in the United 
        States and the second busiest in the United States;
            (2) the Port of Brunswick is a vital line to global markets 
        for automotive, heavy machinery, and other breakbulk shippers;
            (3) despite the challenges of the global pandemic, the 
        Colonel's Island Terminal moved 650,000 units of vehicles and 
        heavy machinery in 2021, an increase of 10 percent over the 
        previous year;
            (4) the facilities of the Port of Brunswick at Mayor's 
        Point and East River Terminal are key ports for critical 
        products, including forest materials and renewable fuels grown 
        in Georgia; and
            (5) the deepwater ports and inland barge terminals of 
        Georgia support more than 496,700 jobs throughout the State 
        annually and contribute $29,000,000,000 in income, 
        $6,100,000,000 in Federal revenue, and $3,400,000,000 in State 
        and local taxes to the economy of Georgia.

SEC. 3. BRUNSWICK HARBOR FEDERAL NAVIGATION CHANNEL, GEORGIA.

    The project for navigation, Brunswick Harbor, Georgia, is 
authorized to be carried out by the Secretary of the Army substantially 
in accordance with the plans, and subject to the conditions, described 
in the report of the Chief of Engineers dated March 11, 2022, at an 
estimated total cost of $14,369,000, with an estimated Federal cost of 
$10,774,500.
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