Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was today elected chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment for the 111th Congress, by unanimous consent of the entire Transportation and Infrastructure Democratic caucus.  She also held the position in the 110th Congress.

“I am very pleased to serve as chair of the Water Resources and Environment subcommittee for a second term,” Congresswoman Johnson said.  “In the coming Congress, we plan to reintroduce and pass bills to bolster wastewater infrastructure, improve water quality and reexamine federal participation in the area of water resources planning.  I look forward to working on these issues with the Obama administration.”

The jurisdiction of the Water Resources and Environment subcommittee includes the civil works programs of the Army Corps of Engineers, including projects for flood control, navigation, water supply, hydroelectric power, environmental restoration, shoreline protection, and recreation; inland, coastal, and ocean water pollution control, including the Clean Water Act, Oil Pollution Act, and Ocean Dumping Act; wetlands protection and enhancement; Superfund hazardous substances program; Tennessee Valley Authority; Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; and certain “small watershed” projects of the National Resources Conservation Service.

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U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and a senior member of the Science Committee. She represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which, includes Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, Oak Lawn, Old East Dallas, Pleasant Grove, & South Oak Cliff; all of Balch Springs, DeSoto, Hutchins, Lancaster & Wilmer and parts of Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Ferris, Glenn Heights and Ovilla.