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...collapsed last year, killing eleven and causing $400 million worth of damage. Part of the problem: the law authorized enough money for the Army's Corps of Engineers to make an inventory but not a detailed safety inspection of the nation's 49,500 dams. The inventory, costing $3.4 million, classified 9,000 dams as "high hazard" structures, not because they were necessarily faulty but because there could be substantial loss of life and property if any failed. The corps estimates that a full inspection to determine which dams need reinforcement would cost $367 million, but only...
Those improvements alone would cost $36.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation has petitioned for funding, and the OMB is expected to act on the request later this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster to spur his colleagues to action, Idaho's Senator James McClure plans to resubmit two dam-safety bills that were introduced, unsuccessfully, after the Teton Dam collapse. Said McClure's home-state Senate partner Frank Church: "We have got to move urgently to watch over these dams, rebuild...
...redevelopment area should be big, and so should its budget-at least 1,000 acres and 30,000 dwelling units, at a cost to the Federal Government of $1 billion. An additional $200 million would go to encourage industrial and commercial development. The timetable should be equally ambitious: first occupants within one year and completion within five...
...jobs. Are there federal facilities which can be located there? Can we train people for employment in construction? Can we induce industries which serve Government or which sell overseas and could assemble here to build plants on the East River waterfront? Since the city and state can offer low-cost financing for buildings and equipment, tax incentives, low-cost power and other benefits, a suggestion from Washington might be all that's needed to interest some companies. And what a heartwarming thing it would be if industrial and housing development took place simultaneously." Whatever the merits of Robbins...
...makes little sense to give money just to those students whose eligibility to win presupposes a substantial level of personal wealth. Promises from the sponsors that the cost of a collection would not be a determinant in its selection does not adequately refute charges that the competition discriminates against those who cannot afford to build up a library...