Washington, D.C. — Today, Representative Andrew Clyde (GA-09) released the following statement after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) confirmed efforts to rename Lake Lanier and Buford Dam are currently paused:

“Less than an hour after my phone call this afternoon with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the USACE announced that it has halted its severely misguided proposal to rename Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The USACE’s decision to pause its efforts is a tremendous victory for Northeast Georgians, as these renamings would have attempted to rewrite history, impose massive burdensome costs on our community, and create unnecessary mass confusion. I will continue to closely monitor the situation to ensure that USACE does not under any circumstances engage in any effort to rename Lake Lanier or Buford Dam in the future.”

According to Gene Pawlik, USACE Acting Chief of Public Affairs, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is “pausing any actions related to project renaming pending further guidance from the Department of the Army.”

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