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U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS – NEW YORK DISTRICT26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NEW YORK, NY 10278-0090

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New York & New Jersey Harbo(50 ft Deepening) Navigation Projec

As of August 20

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DESCRIPTION (PROJECT AREA AND PURPOSE) The Port of New York and New Jersey is theargest port on the East Coast, providing morethan 230,000 direct and indirect jobs in portrelated activities and $20 billion in economicactivity to the States of New York and NewJersey. Through the Port’s three existingmajor container terminals waterborne cargomoves to all parts of the United States andthroughout the world. Two of the terminals areocated in New Jersey: Port Newark/PortElizabeth and the Port Jersey Global Marine

Terminal, and one is located in New York:New York Container Terminal in Staten Island.Another container terminal is also planned forthe South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. In 2008,these existing container terminals handledover 5.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units,estimated at a value in excess of $190 billion.The Port is well connected via rail, truck, andnland waterway routes to transport goods toarge segments of the northeast and mid-western states. The Port of New York and New Jersey receives containeships from the Far East as well as from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the Caribbean, Africa and the Persian Gulf.Current channels within the Harbor range in depths from 30 to 45 feet, which are inadequate to provide access to t

arge post-Panamax ships, which have drafts of 48 feet or more.

PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONSection 101(a)(2), Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-541)

AUTHORIZATION PROJECTThe project area is the Port of New York and New Jersey and the main channels that support the container ships.The authorized project provides 50 ft water access to the four container terminals by deepening the AmbroseChannel from deep water in the Atlantic Ocean to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to 53 feet below mean low water(mlw), and deepening the Anchorage Channel (from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to its confluence with the PortJersey Channel), the Kill Van Kull Channel, a portion of the Newark Bay Channel, the Arthur Kill Channel (from theKill Van Kull to the New York Container Terminal), the Port Jersey Channel and the Bay Ridge Channel to 50 feet

mlw (52 feet mlw in rock or otherwise hard material). The current estimate for the 50 ft project is $1.6 billion. Thebenefit-to-cost ratio is 5.7 to 1 based on annualized costs of $222,500,000 and annualized benefits of$1,257,600,000, which results in net excess benefits of $1,035,100,000 per year.

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STATUSThe project entails 18 dredging contracts and construction of four marsh restoration projects, in part to mitigateproject impacts. The two marsh restoration contracts (Woodbridge, NJ and Elders Point, Jamaica Bay, NY) wereconstructed as mitigation for the channel deepening and are complete. In 2009, the project was modified to incluthe restoration of an additional Jamaica Bay marsh island (Elders West) through the beneficial reuse of dredgedmaterial. Further marsh island restoration in Jamaica Bay is currently planned using suitable sandy material from aremaining deepening contract in Ambrose Channel. Elleven of the dredging contracts have been completed and twcontracts are underway. Three additional contracts are expected to be awarded in FY 2011. The project is onschedule for meeting the local partners’ request of having 50 ft access to the Newark Bay Terminals by 2012.

AUTHORIZED PROJECT COSTEstimated Federal Cost: $ 882,000.000Estimated Non-Federal Cost: $ 752,000.000Total Cost: $1,634,000,000

CONTACTMr. Bryce Wisemiller, Project Manager, Programs and Project Management Division, Harbor Programs BranchPhone: (917) 790-8307 E-mail: bryce.w.wisemiller@usace.army.mil FAX: (212) 264-2924.

CONGRESSIONAL INFORMATION

New Jersey New YorkSen. Robert Menendez Sen. Charles E. SchumerSen. Frank R. Lautenberg Sen. Kirsten GillibrandNJ-06 – Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. NY-08 – Rep. Jerrold NadlerNJ-11 – Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen NY-12 – Rep. Nydia M. VelazquezNJ-13 – Rep. Albio Sires NY-13 – Rep. Michael Grimm