{"id":3666,"date":"2022-04-28T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:03:13","slug":"aapa-requesting-750-million-congressional-pidp-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/aapa-requesting-750-million-congressional-pidp-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPA Requesting $750 Million Congressional PIDP Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/PortsUnitedinfrastructure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/04\/PortsUnitedinfrastructure.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3667\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress authorized an annual $750 million for Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) spending, but in FY 2022, Congress appropriated only $234 million. This amount is separate from the $450 million the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will provide to PIDP each year through 2026. This year, Congressional Ports Caucus Co-Chairs, Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) and Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) authored a &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Chair David Price (D-NC) and Ranking Member Mario D\u00edaz-Balart (R-FL) requesting PIDP receive a $750 million appropriation in FY 2023. AAPA encouraged corporate members to share the letter with local representatives and sent a final reminder ahead of this week&#8217;s April 27 deadline. As a decision is underway, AAPA is continuing to surveil movement on this funding authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress authorized an annual $750 million for Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) spending, but in FY 2022, Congress appropriated only $234 million. This amount is separate from the $450 million the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will provide to PIDP each year through 2026. This year, Congressional Ports Caucus Co-Chairs, Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}