Trump Budget Would Zero Out Funding For Puget Sound Recovery, Again

Parliamentarians representing Puget Sound are overturning the 2019 budget of the Trump regime, but there are also reasons to use all federal funds to purify and restore the iconic ecosystem.

This proposal reduces all funds for funds for recovery of the Pacific salmon through the Environmental Protection Agency's Puget Sound Geography Plan, and the National Estuary Program and the National Maritime Air Management Fishery. The government says it wants the local government to take responsibility and continue working

Sheida Sahandy, the executive director of the state's Puget Sound Partnership, said total resources exceeded $ 30 million and is in charge of cleaning coordination. As these funds accomplish their work using funds from other state and regional sources, she says production cuts will be 'hearing impaired'.

She said: "We are in a crisis situation, for example Orca," he said, referring to the decrease in the number of killer whales in the southern part, it reached the lowest level in 30 years . Only 76 people stayed in the wild

"I am worried that the impending extinction and the halting of efforts at this point basically gave up on preserving them," Sahandy said, adding that killer whale is the most important example It was.

Last year, the president's budget suggested about the same reduction. Congress finally postponed and restored all 28 million dollars of the Puget Sound regional plan in the 2018 budget.

However, Sahandy said again there are many publicity. Washington State is far from the Parliament and she said that it is necessary for many good fellow parliamentarians to remind them why their support is important.

"We need to go out to make people aware that it is a treasure of the country.To keep our region healthy, prosperize all these resources and keep it vibrant We will provide us with the necessary investment. "" Continue to put pressure on "

She said a delegation of about 60 local leaders including tribal representatives is planning to send another person to DC to participate in the "Mountain Phuket Gulf Day Day" event in May It was.

Democratic parliamentary members Denny Heck and Derek Kilmer call themselves a Puget Sound Recovery core group and urge other legislators to resume funds.

They say that healthy Puget Sound supports bidirectional support as it supports a powerful and critical maritime economy generating annual $ 30 billion. They calculated that $ 1 for EPA spent on Puget Sound's recovery work will be used for matching funds from other government agencies and nonprofit organizations for $ 24.

Degradation of health condition of Puget Sound poses a threat to human health and safety and the entire ecosystem. Since 2017, the White House budget proposed the cancellation of major funds for the recovery of puget sound, including the national estuary (NEP) which is the basis for recovery. Federal funds are small but very important investment systems that use federal funds. In the NEP program, you earn $ 24 for local, state, or tribal investments every $ 1 expended.

This proposal reduces all funds for funds for recovery of the Pacific salmon through the Environmental Protection Agency's Puget Sound Geography Plan, and the National Estuary Program and the National Maritime Air Management Fishery. The government said he hoped to take responsibility to local governments and continue to resume their work. "We need to go out to make people aware that it is a treasure of the country.To keep our region healthy, prosperize all these resources and keep it vibrant We will provide us with the necessary investment. "" Continue to put pressure on "

A similar criticism has been made against the government's proposal to abolish EPA's funds to purify the symbolic waterways from Chesapeake Bay to Puget Sound. Washington representative Derek Kilmer said, "We can not do EPA's work on restoring Puget Sound." He said that the area contains a legendary waterway. Every dollar you invested you can get $ 24 economic activity. Cleanup Mr. Calvert said he would work on collecting agent funds from EPA's popular Energy Star program. Mr. Trump will revoke plans to save about $ 34 billion in energy costs for consumers and businesses by helping taxpayers cost $ 50 million and identify energy efficient equipment and equipment in 2015 We propose that.