{"id":4956,"date":"2023-12-14T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:38:53","slug":"aapa-works-on-new-bill-to-unlock-funding-for-inspections-facilities-at-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/aapa-works-on-new-bill-to-unlock-funding-for-inspections-facilities-at-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPA Works on New Bill to Unlock Funding for Inspections Facilities at Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/01\/GovRel_thumb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/01\/GovRel_thumb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4957\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Legislation developed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aapa-ports.org\/advocating\/PRdetail.aspx?itemnumber=22971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AAPA to address overreach<\/a>&nbsp;from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at port facilities was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in November. Congresswomen Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) are the lead sponsors of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/laurellee.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/laurellee.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/cbp-space-act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBP SPACE Act<\/a>. The legislation provides CBP and its facilities with the resources it needs by setting up a sustainable funding mechanism via existing user fees it already collects. Further, it better defines the relationship between ports and CBP in the customs and inspections process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue has been an area of uncertainty at America\u2019s seaports for several years. AAPA\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/meeting\/house\/114331\/witnesses\/HHRG-117-HM11-Wstate-ConnorC-20220119.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">raised this issue publicly<\/a>\u00a0before a Congressional hearing of the U.S. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations in January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation developed by\u00a0AAPA to address overreach\u00a0from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at port facilities was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1068,1281],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-aapa-government-relations","tag-port-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}