Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024

Current understanding

Public Law 118-272 (Thomas R. Carper WRDA 2024) directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve engagement with nonfederal partners, publish clearer project information, raise the cap on individual feasibility-report costs to $5 million, minimize real-property interests taken for civil-works projects, and establish an implementation team covering this and prior WRDA cycles. It continues the biennial WRDA pattern of procedural and project-authorization reforms for Corps civil-works practice rather than introducing a new policy regime.

Evidence log

• 2026-07-15 — Water Resources Development Act of 2026: cross-connection with water-resources-development-act-2026: S4949 is the routine cyclical successor to the Thomas R. Carper WRDA of 2024, continuing the biennial USACE navigation/ports authorization pattern. (novelty: 2)

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