[미국] 기반시설 재건설 계획 제안

National Press Club에서 발표된 새로운 보고서는 미국 기반시설의 실패 위기를 해결하기 위해 연방 정부와 산업, 다른 이해당사자가 같이 협력해야한다는 새로운 혁신적이 방법을 서술했다.
이 보고서는 기업, 전문단체, 싱크 탱크, 재정 고문, 학술 기관을 포함하는 45개 조직의 전문가의 결론이며 미국 기반시설의 지도력과 국가의 세계적인 경쟁력을 회복하기 위한 계획을 제공한다.

미국 토목공학협회에서 4년마다 실시하는 평가에서 미국의 전반적인 시설이 D+ 등급을 판정 받았다. 미국 토목공학협회는 등급향상과 국가적 시설 확장을 위해3조6천억 달러가 2020년까지 투자되어야 된다고 평가했다. 보고서는 등급향상 문제에 대한 토론과 글이 쓰여졌지만 현재와 미래의 시설 요구를 충적하는 실질적인 권고와 실행 가능한 해법을 제공한다고 밝혔다.

A new report released on Friday, June 27, at the National Press Club outlines new and innovative ways that the federal government, the industry and other stakeholders can work together to solve the crisis of the failing state of U.S. infrastructure.

The report, titled "Making The Grade", is the result of experts from 45 different organizations, including corporations, professional organizations, think tanks, financial advisors, and academic institutions, and offers a six-point plan with fresh ideas to regain America's infrastructure leadership and revive the country's global competitiveness.

The report's name is intended as a rallying cry in response to last year's quadrennial report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which gave America's overall infrastructure a D+ grade. The ASCE estimates that $3.6 trillion must be invested by 2020 to make critically-needed upgrades and expansions of national infrastructure -- and ultimately avoid trillions of dollars in lost business sales, exports, disposable income, and GDP. 

While much has been written and discussed about the problem, "Making the Grade" provides substantive recommendations and workable solutions to help meet present and future infrastructure needs. Accordingly, the report's six-point recommendations include:

Making infrastructure a cabinet-level priority
Forming U.S. infrastructure regions
Establishing a national infrastructure bank
Selling "opportunity" bonds
Creating a national infrastructure index
Engaging the American people to build support for the importance of infrastructure policy

Collectively, these recommendations apply modern tools, technologies, approaches, and fresh thinking to offer a new vision and path forward for the way U.S. infrastructure should be planned, financed, designed, and built.

The 45 organizations involved are dedicated to driving the policy recommendations forward through continued public advocacy, wider industry dialogue and engagement with lawmakers over the coming months and years. For the full report.

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 6월 30일]