Delayed nine projects by over a year. The cherry creek bridge in monroe county, pennsylvania. This is an area thats flood prone, that was struck by Tropical Storm lee and hurricane irene in 2011, and the reconstruction for the damaged transportation infrastructure should have started pretty much right away, but fish and wildlife review delays alone cost us two years before construction could even begin. So senator ben nelson recognized this problem, a democrat from nebraska who served in this body recognized the problem and offered a bipartisan amendment for the last highway bill, map 21. What his amendment would have done, it would exempt roads and bridge repair projects from federal environmental permitting if the road and bridges were destroyed by a declared emergency such as superstorm sandy, for instance, and provided that the reconstruction would occur entirely within the footprint of the existing structure, the original footprint. Unfortunately, senator nelson never got his vote