AAPA Calls for Full Use of HMT Funding for Port Maintenance
The American Association of Port Authorities and 100 other ports, labor unions and shippers’ associations called on Congress to adopt long-term funding legislation that would guarantee full use of Harbor Maintenance Tax funds for port maintenance. In a letter to…
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congressional leadership dated June 26, AAPA said legislators should “enact a comprehensive solution to fix the HMT for good.” An agreement reached by AAPA in 2018 “after years of debate” offers a comprehensive plan that would provide for “full spending of prior year Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund revenues according to a framework that ports agreed would be fair and equitable,” the letter said. “It makes maintenance the highest priority, provides protections to address small port and regional port needs, provides increasing equity to large HMT donors and acknowledges Congress’s priority to provide support to energy transfer ports,” AAPA said.