Senate panel authorizes 22 water projects.

Reports that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on April 30, 1992 approved a biennial authorization bill (unnumbered) for nearly two dozen US Army Corps of Engineers water projects stretching from Florida to Alaska. The bill would authorize 22 projects to improve commercial navigation, dredge waterways and provide flood control. Approved amendments of Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and George J. Mitchell (D-Maine); Details.