The FM Diversion Board of Authority hosted a special meeting Wednesday, Oct. 17, when
Major General Scott Spellmon, Deputy Commanding General for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited.
Spellmon noted the Corps received a record-level of appropriation from Congress for the 2018 year. The funding is used to help communities recover from natural disasters, and build projects that protect citizens from disasters like fires, floods and hurricanes.
"That's an incredible amount of trust that the nation and Congress has put in our agency. We
recognize that first we have to deliver and we have to deliver faster for communities like yours and others like it across the nation," he said.
"We certainly recognize the importance of this particular project and what it means to this community," he said. "We all saw what happened here back in 2009. We recognize the importance of this."
Sen. John Hoeven, also attended to update the board about the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) and the Fiscal Year 2019 Energy and Water funding bill. Both were recently approved by Congress and sent to the President for signature.
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