U.S. Senator Katie Britt Directly Secures Over $20.9 Million for Mobile, Baldwin Counties, Continues Leadership on Senate Appropriations Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), as a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, recently directly secured over $20.9 million for Mobile and Baldwin Counties through the passage of three Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills: the FY26 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Act, the FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, and the FY26 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies (EWD) Appropriations Act. 

“There are several critical Alabama Gulf priorities I was proud to champion and secure in the recent package of funding bills passed by Congress,” said Senator Britt. “From strengthening our inland waterway infrastructure and Mobile Harbor, to supporting our hardworking law enforcement, to providing funding for our incredible higher education institutions, to upgrading water infrastructure, this key funding reflects the promise I made to return your hard-earned taxpayer dollars home to Alabama as a member of the Appropriations Committee.”

A detailed breakdown of the Alabama priorities secured by Senator Britt can be found below:

• $1.97 million for the City of Bayou La Batre for wastewater system improvements.
• $5 million for the Town of Dauphin Island to use dredged material from the Mobile Ship Channel for protect and restore the West End of Dauphin Island.
• $3.254 million for Mobile Harbor for the creation of a beneficial use site.
• $750,000 for an environmental investigation of the Mobile Harbor Ship Channel.
• $1 million for the City of Fairhope for the deepening of Fly Creek.
• $1.066 million for additional maintenance dredging of the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway.
• $4 million for additional maintenance dredging of Mobile Harbor.
• $396,000 for the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department for a patrol and rescue boat.
• $2 million for the University of South Alabama to investigate solutions to expand and enhance the prediction of severe weather in southern Alabama. 
• $500,000 for Alabama Port Authority for a study to understand the source and context of dramatically increased sediment in recent years that has impacted the Port of Mobile. 
• $1 million for the Alabama Wildlife Federation for the restoration of oyster reefs in the Mobile Bay.

Senator Britt also supported over $250 million to advance economic development and infrastructure improvements across the state, including for the Southeastern Crescent Regional Commission. 

Senator Britt also directly supported a $5 million increase for the National Data Buoy System, $850,000 for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to continue work on improving shrimp fishing technologies, level funding for Sea Grant Aquaculture Research, and full funding for SEAMAP.

The FY26 EWD bill includes $5.025 million for the surveying and deepening of the Alabama River, of which the Alabama Gulf will get a portion. It also includes $2.9 million that will go towards deepening studies of the Tennessee-Tombigbee and Black Warrior River system, which will have impacts throughout the Gulf. $2.5 million will be used for small boat access dredging, including on the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway.

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