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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee unanimously approved St. Petersburg’s request for action on July 22, the penultimate step before Congress passes the Water Resources Development Act of 2026 later this year. The city was the only Florida municipality explicitly authorized in the bill for a USACE canal dredging study, though three received similar authorizations. Public Works Administrator Claude Tankersley estimated studying the roughly 30 miles of canals will take 3-to-5 years to identify which could benefit from dredging for flood mitigation. Sediment accumulation worsened after the 2024 hurricanes, and tidal flooding days rose from 3 in 2005 to 21 in 2024, forecast to reach 70 by 2033.