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Pacific Northwest Waterways Association

Susan Monteverde

Vice President of Government Relations American Association of Port Authorities smonteverde@aapa-ports.org

March 13, 2017

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Seaports Deliver Prosperity

For American workers, consumers and communities seaports deliver vital goods and services to consumers, ship U.S. exports, create jobs and support local and national economic growth.

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2 0 1 6 Federal Program s and Ports

• DOT -$160.4 million first-

year FASTLANE Grants to seaports – Freight Focused

• DOT -$61.8 million seaport

TIGER funds

• FEMA -$27.3 million in

port security grants given to AAPA members seaports

• EPA - $11.5 million of the

$26.5 million Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grants for 12 seaport projects

• Corps of Engineers
• Increased HMT Funds
• First payments - $25 million

for Donor and Energy Transfer Ports

• WRDA-passed

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CONGRESS PASSES W I I N

• Returns to a two-year schedule
• Reauthorizes several seaport deepening projects
• Modernizes cost-share for deepening
• HMT
• Stabilizes HMT Spending, Ensuring Continued Progress Towards Full Use
• Permanent full-use taken out
• Extends the HMT Donor and Energy Transfer program
• Makes technical revisions and streamlining provisions

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AAPA’s Focus On the New Adm inistration/ Congress

• TRADE
• INFRASTRUCTURE
• TAX REFORM
• SANCTUARY CITIES
• ENVIRONMENT

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President – Elect Trum p’s 1 0 0 Day Pledge

• Regulatory Reform
• Withdrawal from Trade Agreements
• NAFTA
• Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Label China a currency manipulator – duties could raise up to 45%
• Identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American

workers

• Lift restrictions on energy production – more exports
• Cancel U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix

America’s water and environmental infrastructure

• Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities

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Early Action By President Trum p

• Freeze on Federal Hiring –

CBP exempt

• Withdrawal from TPP
• Expedited environmental

review for priority infrastructure projects

• Ban on discretionary

funding to sanctuary jurisdictions

• Review of Waters of the

U.S. rule

• 2 Regulatory reform and

regulatory reduction EO

• Appointments of DHS,

DOT, Commerce, EPA and DOE Secretaries

• No nominees for Corps,

MARAD or USTR

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Trade

• Withdrawal from Trade Agreements
• Trans Pacific Partnership
• NAFTA – Canada and Mexico
• T-TIP with EU
• Increasing Tariffs on Imports
• Border Adjustment Tax
• Stricter trade enforcement
• China currency manipulator
• Promoting Manufacturing
• Buy America
• Penalize and punish U.S. manufacturers who move jobs out of the U.S.
• Reorganization of Department of Commerce
• Eliminate International Trade Administration

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W hat is the TPP?

• The Trans-Pacific

Partnership (TPP) writes the rules for global trade— rules that will help increase Made-in-America exports, grow the American economy, support well- paying American jobs, and strengthen the American middle class. (source USTR)

• Australia
• Canada
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Peru
• United States
• Vietnam
• Chile
• Brunei
• Singapore
• New Zealand

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$ 1 Trillion for I nfrastructure Over 1 0 years

• Encouraging P3’s a

priority – tax incentives

• Highway, bridges and

airports often a priority

• Need to start in 90 days
• Focus on jobs and

geographic diversity

• Need to highlight port

needs

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I nfrastructure – and Seaports

• Can P3 W ork For Seaports?
• Waterside – Modernize and

fully maintain federal navigation channels

• Construction
• HMT full Use
• Landside – Eliminate

Bottlenecks and Expand Capacity

• Increase multi-modal

funding

• Enhance the environment

and build resilience

• DERA
• NOAA
• Secure America ports and

borders

• Cyber
• Port Security Grants

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Port I nfrastructure Needs

Landside Need

• $29 billion need

identified in AAPA Report State of Freight including nearly $2 billion in TIGER needs

• DERA
• Port Security Grants

Waterside

• Use $9 billion in the

HMTF to address backlog

• Fulling use HMT revenues

(current target for FY 2017 only 71%)

• Fully Fund authorized

construction projects - $3.1B – at current funding level it would take 20 years to complete.

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STATE OF FREIGHT II/ AAPA and AASHTO REPORT

29 States 6202 Projects $258,698,283,920

• Rail - 10 states provided freight rail needs at $5.9 billion for 270 projects.
• Distribution - Four states provided distribution project needs at

$581,620,200 for 25 projects. An additional 6 states provided 27 projects with no cost estimates, bringing the total project number up to 57 for 10 states.

• Inland Waterway - 13 states submitted a total of 365 inland waterway

surface transportation projects. Seven states submitted 298 projects with projected costs totaling $13 billion.

• Highway – 3,152 totaling $96 billion from 12 states were reported and eight

states submitted projects with no cost estimates attached to them.

• Undefined- Three states submitted projects without breaking projects out

into modes and costs for a total of 747 projects and $147 billion.

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Sanctuary Cities Executive Order

• Could impact public infrastructure funds as ports are state or

local entities

• DOT – FAST Lane, TIGER
• DHS – Port Security grants
• EPA – DERA port emissions grants
• EDA – Economic Development Grants
• MARAD
• Any new Infrastructure funding program
• State FAST Act and Corps most Corps programs not impacted.
• AAPA letter to the Attorney General - Port grants should be

exempt as we must comply with federal security laws

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Tax Reform

• A mechanism to address the problems with the

HMT

• Make HMT spending mandatory
• Determine a formula for spending
• Provide permanent HMT funding for donor and energy transfer

ports

• Provide a mechanism to allow more funding for maintenance needs
• Offset needed - $20 billion

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AAPA FY 2 0 1 7 Appropriations Priorities

• Waterside
• HMT
• Construction
• Landside
• TIGER
• FAST Lane
• Environment
• DERA Grants
• Security
• Port Security Grants
• CBP Staffing
• Trade

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FY 2 0 1 7 Energy and W ater Recom m endations

Above the President’s Budget Request

• $381.3 million additional Operations and Maintenance

account funding included in the House bill

• $325.25 million additional Construction funding included in

the House bill

• $50 million Donor and Energy Transfer Port funding in the

Senate bill and

• $15 million additional Investigations funding in the Senate

bill

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OTHER FY 2 0 1 7 Recom m endations

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• TIGER – Support the Senate number of $525 million versus House

$450 million

• DERA – Support House number of $100 million versus Senate $25

million

• Port Security Grant – Both House and Senate are $100 Million
• CBP – Support 500 new maritime officers – not in either bill

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Environm ent and the Trum p Budget EPA Budget

• Proposed 25% cut
• DERA Grants
• EPA Port’s Program
• Community Outreach
• Focus on core requirements

Other Environmental Programs

• Executive Order on

Environmental Streamlining

• CEQ in Charge
• All Climate Change

Programs Cut

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Security

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• Port Security Grants
• 40% cut proposed in Trump budget
• CBP Staffing
• Over 500 short in the maritime environment
• Shifting the cost to the private sector
• Trump priority is the border with Mexico.

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Exciting Tim e to be in W ashington!

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