Senate Committee Asked Adam Tell How He Would Manage Army Corps Civil Works, Permitting and Resilience

Adam Tell, President Trump’s nominee to be assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that, if confirmed, he would prioritize permitting clarity, project delivery, coordination with stakeholders and resilience to extreme weather.

Tell said the Corps’ historical navigation mission has expanded to include flood control and environmental restoration, and he emphasized coordination across federal agencies to ensure consistency in water resources projects. He told the committee he had worked on disaster recovery and Congressional appropriations roles and cited experience in Mississippi’s Hurricane Katrina recovery and in Senate appropriations work.

Senators pressed Tell on several recurring civil-works…