- Author
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
- Title
- High Performance Public Works: A New Federal Infrastructure Investment Strategy for America. A Conference Report.
- Coporate
- Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC
Advisory Commission in Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC
- Report
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SR 16
November 1993
65 p.
- Keywords
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facilities
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costs
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maintenance
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cost effectiveness
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regulations
- Identifiers
- infrastructure challenge; developing a federal infrastructure strategy; four-point strategy; action agenda; six task force reports
- Abstract
- The National Council on Public Works Improvement (NCPWI) reported to the President and the Congress in 1988 that "America's infrastructure is barely adequate to fulfill current requirements, and insufficient to meet the demands of future economic growth and development." Still today, the federal government has no coordinated public works strtegy to implement the improvements that NCPWI recommended. This report examines six key public works improvement topics: 1. Improving the quality of infrastructure investments; 2. Applying benefit-cost analysis to investment options; 3. Improving the maintenance of infrastructure; 4. Making federal regulation of the infrastructure more effective, efficient, and equitable; 5. Improving encironmental decisionmaking for public works; and 6. Improving the financing of infrastructure. For each topic, an interagency, intergovernmental consensus statement is presented.