The Senate proposal is just a two-page framework and will require a lot of work to transform it into legislation. Transportation reauthorization will almost certainly be a major component, with measures already approved by the Senate Environment Public Works Committee and the Commerce Committee combined with yet-to-be-released transit provisions. Were talking with Senate staff to determine how the other pieces of the compromise deal-energy, broadband, and resilience-would come together in the package.
We also won a partial fix to the PPP/FAR credits clause issue in the bill, limiting the FAR credit to federal dollars in contract payments and thereby preventing state DOTs from applying the FAR provision to state-funded contracts
Passage in the Senate isnt car title loans Alaska a slam-dunk by any stretch. The deal is already getting pushback from both ends of the political spectrum, either for being too expansive or not expansive enough. Perhaps anticipating a lengthy debate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will focus on infrastructure throughout July.
ACEC will be party to these discussions, continuing to make the case that our nation needs this generational investment in the built environment.
The ACEC Infrastructure Scenarios Impact on Forecast report, which was released last week, will bolster the case for putting our industry to work designing the future. Читать далее “Administration officials and a bipartisan group of Senators are drumming up support for a compromise”