On February 17th, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act", more commonly known as the stimulus package.  As part of the stimulus package, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was directly appropriated $4.6 billion for its Civil Works Program. The $4.6 billion includes $2 billion for construction projects and $2.075 billion for operations and maintenance of existing projects.
 
You can visit the Corps' website dedicated to providing information regarding stimulus spending at http://www.usace.army.mil/recovery/.  Per the website, "the Corps has identified many potential Civil Works projects that meet the criteria of the legislation for funding. Selected projects will be geographically distributed across the United States and across Corps programs to provide the nation with inland and coastal navigation, environmental, flood risk management, hydropower, recreation, and more."
 
Release of the final list of projects to receive funding through the stimulus package has been delayed repeatedly.  The initial projected date for projects to be named and funding to be released was early March, but this has been pushed back several weeks.  Though proposed lists of Corps projects have been submitted by the agency to OMB, information is still being refined.  It is now hoped that funding information will be released by late next week.
 
By clicking on the "Agency Plans and Reports" tab of the Corps' stimulus webpage, you can see the Excel spreadsheets the Corps will eventually populate with information regarding stimulus spending by the agency.  For a general description of the criteria the Corps is using to select projects, please note the following guidance that we have posted to PNWA's website: Corps stimulus project funding criteria.

PNWA staff contact: Kristin Meira