President Donald Trump will visit the Lake Okeechobee area Friday to talk about progress on infrastructure projects on and near the lake, according to the White House.

Exactly where and when the president will appear has not been released, but the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a "VIP Movement Notification" for Friday at Canal Point on the southeastern shore of the lake in northwestern Palm Beach County.

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Trump is expected to talk about how his administration worked with Gov. Ron DeSantis, U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and other leaders in the state on:

Expediting completion of the long-delayed Herbert Hoover Dike rehabilitation project, originally slated for 2025 but now expected in 2022, to improve the integrity of the dike and help improve water management.

"The Herbert Hoover Dike project exemplifies the Trump Administration’s efforts to promote federal and state collaboration on infrastructure projects that benefit its surrounding communities, which is why it was prioritized in the president’s 2019 budget request," according to a White House statement.

Since 2001, the Corps has spent more than $950 million to rehabilitate the 143-mile Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake O and expects to spend nearly another $776 million before the project's completion.

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Clearing the Army Corps’ July 2018 Review Assessment report on the proposed EAA reservoir to curb harmful Lake O discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.

In October, Trump signed the federal Water Resources Development Act, a nationwide list of water projects that included the reservoir south of Lake O.

The law authorizes but doesn't allocate money for the feds to pay their half of the $1.6 billion reservoir and stormwater treatment area in the Everglades Agricultural Area.

The federal appropriation process could take a couple of years to get money rolling. A mechanism to pay the state share was included in the 2017 bill approved by the Florida Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Rick Scott.

The project has been "fast-tracked" by DeSantis, said South Florida Water Management District spokesman Randy Smith, and with "consistent funding," designing and building the 16,600-acre project will take less than 10 years.

The reservoir project is expected, when used in conjunction with other existing and planned projects, to reduce the number of damaging discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers by 63 percent.

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"President Trump is visiting Florida on Friday because he understands that these investments are vital to minimizing potential impacts, including harmful algae blooms, and improving water quality during rainy seasons in the years ahead," according to a White House statement.

Still, the recommended budget released March 13 by the Trump Administration has just $63 million for Everglades restoration, far less than the $200 million requested in February by Florida's congressional delegation and environmentalists.

This is the third year in a row the White House has released budget requests that "underfund" Everglades projects, U.S. Reps. Brian Mast and Francis Rooney, and Sens. Rubio and Scott said in a joint statement first released by Mast's office in March.

“It is incredibly short-sighted to continue to underfund a series of projects that are absolutely necessary to ensure the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of one of the most dynamic regions of our nation,” the statement said.

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The White House budget is only a recommendation; Congress holds responsibility for appropriating federal funding for projects.

In contrast, Florida has steadily increased funding for Everglades projects each year. In January, DeSantis recommended the state should appropriate $360 million for Everglades restoration projects as part of his budget recommendations.

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TCPalm reporter Ali Schmitz contributed to this report.

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