Huffman Announces Over $8 Million Headed to North Coast for Port Infrastructure Improvements
Press release from the Office of Congressman Huffman:
[Friday], Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) shared the news that The U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration awarded $8,016,566.00 in funds to two projects off the North Coast of California through the department’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PDIP). The awards will provide funds for port maintenance and improvements in Eureka and Crescent City. Rep. Huffman helped secure these funds for his district through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
“Communities up and down the coast of California rely on ports and harbors that fuel the economy, but crumbling infrastructure has strained operations and disrupted the global supply chain,” said Rep. Huffman. “Thanks to the investments secured by Democratic colleagues and I in the latest government funding bill, we are seeing major investments in our ports and harbors – all working to address repair and maintenance backlogs, reduce congestion and emissions near ports, and drive electrification and other low-carbon technologies. I’m glad to see our advocacy pay off and have this funding go to such important ports in my district so they can continue serving our region for years to come.”
Project Details:
- $650,000.00 for the city of Eureka’s Fishermen’s Terminal dock to replace approximately 40 failing or missing fender pilings on a quay used by commercial fishermen in Humboldt Bay. The Project includes removal of the existing pilings and the purchase and installation of replacement pilings, pile caps, and rub rails.
- $7,366,566.00 for the city of Crescent City, CA for the construction of a new seawall, the repair and renovation of a seafood packing and truck loading area, the replacement of cargo handling equipment that is currently atop the existing seawall, and the installation of EV infrastructure to power the cold storage trailers used to move seafood products to market.
“Commercial fishermen and the City of Eureka owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Maritime Administration for approving the City’s Port Infrastructure Development Program grant submittal for the repairs at Eureka Fishermen’s Terminal dock. The planning, building and funding of Fishermen’s Terminal was an eighteen-year cooperative effort between Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing Association and the City of Eureka. Like other shoreside infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks and utilities, Eureka Fishermen’s Terminal, continues to be a vital piece of waterfront infrastructure serving the West Coast fishing fleet and the economic interests of the Eureka community. This grant allocation will allow for the Terminal to continue to serve the commercial fisherman of the North Coast and the greater Eureka community,” said Miles Slattery, Eureka City Manager.
“Commercial fishing ports in California are struggling to make ends meet. As a consequence, major infrastructure repair is often deferred indefinitely,” said Crescent City Harbor Commission President Rick Sheperd. “Fortunately, our federal partners at FEMA have recognized the dire need of the Crescent City Harbor and have funded a new sea wall to protect our harbor. The commercial fishermen of Crescent City would like to thank Congressmen Huffman for helping our harbor secure the 7.366 million dollar grant that will help the success of the commercial fishing industry in Crescent City, a fleet that is the largest shrimp producer in California, and which produces over 50% of the Dungeness crab caught in California.”
The Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) is a discretionary grant program administered by the U.S. Maritime Administration. Funds for the PIDP are awarded on a competitive basis to projects that improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port. In FY2022, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) appropriated $450 million to the PIDP. An additional $234 million was made available to the program under FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Therefore, a total of $684,310,000 of funding was available to make awards under the FY 2022 PIDP grant program.
[Friday], Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) shared the news that The U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration awarded $8,016,566.00 in funds to two projects off the North Coast of California through the department’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PDIP). The awards will provide funds for port maintenance and improvements in Eureka and Crescent City. Rep. Huffman helped secure these funds for his district through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the FY2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
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Why does a lawyer from Marin County represent Humboldt and Del Norte counties? Answer, the democrats gerrymandered the far nor cal counties to increase their power by lumping us in with Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties rather than logically keeping us merged with far NorCal inland counties. In essence, they took away our rural voice which is now represented by some far left lawyer who votes with Nancy of Pacific Heights.
Have you looked at how Humboldt votes in National and State elections? Here’s our most recent election for President.
Remove ‘Cal-Poly’ Humboldt and see how Humboldt County votes.
Cal Poly didn’t exist til this last year. And I doubt Republicans or Humboldt State students voted in Estelle Fennel, Madrone, or Natalie Arroyo.
You mean despite all that coverage you gave to alternate candidates? Or coverage of negatives from Huffman? Shocked, I say, shocked.
Oh, my lord, am I responsible for the voting of folks in Humboldt County since back when Ronnie was president? That’s the last time I’m aware of that Humboldt voted Republican–of course I’m pretty old and I forget stuff sometimes. As far as I remember I give Huffman the exact same amount of coverage that I would give a Republican in his office—basically post his press releases. Douglas Brower, a tough challenger to Huffman with his 7% of the vote, contacted me exactly 0 times asking for my attention. I don’t get enough sleep as it is so I’m pretty unlikely to go looking for challengers who don’t at least make the effort of sending me one press release.
But you have the power of the letter at your fingertips. You could be his or his successor’s spokesperson and write a letter to the editor that unfortunately must include your name, which you have proved reluctant to provide in the past. Nonetheless, send me press releases. Send me a reason to cover a non liberal story–when an anti abortion group protested and sent us an invite we showed up with our cameras and livestreamed the thing. I’ll do the same for any reasonable story. (And no I don’t post everything Huffman sends me.)
Unfortunately what I want is for journalists to make an effort to get more than one supplied side of a story. Whether it is volunteered or not. Whether or not their readers want to only hear from one side. Whether you feel sleep deprived or not. Because reading only opinion pieces disguised as news sows doubt about whether the facts are being reported at all and leaves lots of space for misinformation and partisanship.
Even the fact that this is touted by Huffman as Huffman “helps secure” funding is only news in the sense of knowing some of the details of what utter misery the government is capable of generating. The public does not owe any government agency any amount “gratitude” for spending public money. It’s the public’s money, taken from them, some of which is returned after at least 40% has been skimmed of the top in salaries, benefits, lobbying and stock dividends. It is not “gratitude” that the Eureka city manager feels but relief that they didn’t take everything. Which is the other side of what government does. Spends money to improve what is unproductive after having regulated it into productivity failure in the first place.
I am always amused by the local tax carpers. All the taxes collected in Humboldt isn’t enough to keep the streets paved. Had a local friend who told me he read that half the checks written by the county were for welfare. What he didn’t know was that 80% of those funds come from the state or feds. The taxes we pay in rural California don’t begin to cover the money the system spends on us. By the way the worst thing that has happened to rural representation in this state is term limits.
I totally agree with the term limit issue. But I think you are wrong about the other things. Paving local streets is petty much done with local taxes. However paving federal highways and state routes are funded by those respective government. because, while used extensively by locals, they provide everyone in the nation with access. And, when originally made, allowed resource extraction to leave the county to the benefit of the nation. They took the timber, minerals and water to send to place a where others derived the benefit. So that seems appropriate they pay for it.
By “welfare”, if you mean food stamps, SSI and Medical, most of that funding is federal with an addition by the State. But then those governments own a whole lot of the land here, from national forests, parks and BLM land and lease a lot of it to get income and restrict development that could provide income for most locals. Places down south and out east werevdeveloped before government was eager to own land that was not to be developed and is so restrictive about housing and industry. They are rich, we are poor. But we are poor at government’s desire. Take a look at fisheries- the touted reason for the 7 million dollar infrastructure. Is it likely that commercial fisheries will ever pay for that? I don’t know about Crescent City but here there are lot more former commercial fishermen than current ones.
every dollar that comes over the docks gets turned over 6 times in the economy. this is per the application form for federal grants for marine projects.
This is chump change, especially since most of it will be siphoned off and never reach the infrastructure. We are giving billions to Ukraine for their infrastructure and 99.9% of that is unaccounted for because it is being laundered by the neo nazis. How about we keep our tax money in America instead of using it to bury Biden’s crime dealings
The more we help Ukraine bleed and embarrass Putin the better the future of free countries. By the way how do you launder military hardware ? You seem to be buying Putin’s line of B.S. comrade.
If it was truly about bettering the future of free countries, then why the disgraceful withdrawal of Afghanistan? Why didn’t we shop the 80 billion worth military hardware over to Ukraine, instead of surrendering it to the taliban ?
Because the Afghan withdrawal happened almost a year before the Ukraine invasion? Presuming of course what was left behind would even be useful in Ukraine.
No mention of the actual fisheries. How are they doing ( we know not great ) and how will they be doing once we have offshore wind, an industrial fish farm, high speed cable, don’t forget the military testing and refuse. Short term solutions to long term problems.
Wild caught fish populations are more and more unreliable. Alaska has shut down the Snow and King crab fishery this year due to a crash in numbers. Changes in sea temps will have far more effect than wind or fish farms.
They should invest 20 million in building a actual ‘prototype’ of the off shore wind farm, and installing it. That includes installing the shore power cables and infrastructure.
California is investing a massive amount of money and er… ‘expectations’ about the offshore power grid. That is despite not having even a single wind generator installed here.
Go figure.
That would be a sensible thing. But selling leases is more profitable than developing test structures to see how it works. Especially since, unlike private companies funded by the government, the government can’t declare bankruptcy to get off the hook for failures. Not that they won’t get sued to fix it anyway.