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Subcommittee moves maintenance‑dredging fund administration from port authority to VMRC to speed smaller waterway projects

2133534 · January 20, 2025
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Summary

House Bill 1834 would transfer administration of a state fund for small‑scale maintenance dredging from the Port Authority to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC); the subcommittee reported the bill 10‑0.

Delegate Bloxham told the subcommittee that when the maintenance dredging fund was created the Port Authority was assigned administration responsibility, but smaller, locally important maintenance dredging projects have not been able to use the fund efficiently…

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