{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mrvan-tours-federal-projects-michigan-city-portage-and-east-chicago-usace", "Rep. Mrvan Tours Federal Projects in Michigan City, Portage, and East Chicago with USACE", "2022-08-17", "2022", "2022-08", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "East Chicago, IN - Yesterday, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, joined Colonel Paul Culberson from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Paul Labovitz, Superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Park, Fernando Trevino, Executive Director of the East Chicago Waterway Management District, and Tim Frame, Harbormaster of the Michigan City Port Authority to tour $49,603,000 in federally funded projects across Northwest Indiana.\n\nRep. Mrvan toured the Michigan City Harbor, Indiana Shoreline and Mt. Baldy, Burns Waterway Small Boat Harbor, and Indiana Harbor and Confined Disposal Facility.\n\n\u201cI thank Colonel Culberson for the opportunity to tour federally funded projects at work across Northwest Indiana. I am grateful for the ability to bring our federal tax dollars back to our district to invest in our local infrastructure,\u201d said Rep. Mrvan. \u201cWhen we invest in our natural resources, we have the ability to create good-paying jobs and economic opportunities throughout our region.\u201d\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s visits to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District project sites highlight the importance of the partnerships between our federal and local sponsors, the Corps, and the continuing efforts of Rep. Frank Mrvan in ensuring that these projects and others like them, continue to contribute economically and provide jobs and recreation opportunities to the people he represents,\u201d said Col. Paul Culberson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.\n\n\u201cIndiana Dunes National Park appreciates the collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers in addressing a century-old challenge of a sand deficit along park beaches at Crescent Dune and Mt. Baldy west to the Town of Beverly Shores. Rep. Mrvan\u2019s focus on this issue has helped provide better beach recreation opportunities for our visitors. Beach nourishment works and other areas in the National Park can hopefully receive similar attention,\u201d said Superintendent Paul Labovitz, Indiana Dunes National Park.\n\n\u201cThe Army Corps of Engineers has been an excellent project partner in the construction and maintenance of the CDF. The District was happy to write a strong letter of support for the funding of the CDF expansion,\u201d said Fernando Trevino, Executive Director of the East Chicago Waterway Management District. \u201cThe CDF expansion project is important to our region\u2019s economic success supporting uninterrupted viability of steel and other industries located along Lake Michigan, which are an important part of the local, regional, national and international economies.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Michigan City Port Authority appreciates Rep. Mrvan\u2019s efforts to secure funding for the USACE structures in Michigan City,\u201d said Tim Frame, Michigan City Port Authority Harbormaster. \u201cThese projects help keep Trail Creek a viable Harbor for boating in Michigan City.\u201d\n\nFederally authorized projects under the jurisdiction of the USACE:\n\nMichigan City Harbor\n\nInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act \u2013 $7,000,000\n\nFunding will support repairs to the detached breakwater to include the east pier superstructure around the lighthouse.\n\n2023 Community Project Funding \u2013 $1,026,000\n\nFunding will support operations and maintenance at Michigan City Harbor will support economic development within the City of Michigan City driven by its proximity to Lake Michigan and the availability of the harbor.\n\n2022 Appropriations \u2013 $10,000\n\nFunding will support shoreline nourishment at Mt. Baldy.\n\nIndiana Harbor\n\n2023 Appropriations \u2013 $8,654,000\n\nFunding will support operations and maintenance activities in the federal harbor and as associated with the operations and maintenance of the Indiana Harbor CDF.\n\n2022 Appropriations \u2013 $8,196,000\n\nFunding will support operations and maintenance activities in the federal harbor and as associated with the operations and maintenance of the Indiana Harbor CDF.\n\n2022 Appropriations \u2013 Indiana Harbor CDF $18,395,000\n\nFunding will support the planned Phase II construction of the Indiana Harbor Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), which contains the backlog and annual maintenance navigational dredging.\n\nIndiana Shoreline\n\n2023 Community Project Funding \u2013 $2,700,000\n\nFunding will support the movement of sand along the shoreline at Indiana Dunes National Park (IDNP) has been interrupted by harbor structures causing accelerated erosion of the beach and dunes west of these structures.\n\n2022 Community Project Funding \u2013 $2,700,000\n\nFunding will support the movement of sand along the shoreline at Indiana Dunes National Park (IDNP) has been interrupted by the Michigan City harbor structures causing accelerated erosion of the beach and dunes west of these federal harbor structures.\n\nBurns Waterway Small Boat Harbor\n\n2023 Community Project Funding \u2013 $922,000\n\nFunding will support operations and maintenance at Burns Waterway Small Boat Harbor will support economic development within the City of Portage driven by its proximity to Lake Michigan and the availability of the harbor.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mrvan-tours-federal-projects-michigan-city-portage-and-east-chicago-usace"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7895358614623547, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}