{"id":10108,"date":"2016-08-23T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/08\/23\/deadline-looms-for-us-port-funding\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:28:00","slug":"deadline-looms-for-us-port-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/deadline-looms-for-us-port-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline looms for US port funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This also applies to port authorities which are aiming to see a change to the final WRDA legislation in relation to the Harbour Maintenance Tax.<\/p>\n<p>JOC.com reported that the \u2018controversial\u2019 provision to the legislation would stop non-port-related bodies from tapping money out of the trust fund and mean lots more investment into the country\u2019s maritime gateway for dredging and jetty maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have requested a time to debate the WRDA bill when they return in September, but time will be rare due to an upcoming election in November.<\/p>\n<p>If Congress fails to act on the legislation in this session, or authorise any new money under a Water Resources Development Act, all projects may have to wait until next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US port projects are running out of time to gain the federal money they need as Congress adjourned for summer recess without authorising any new investments in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}