The Marine Transportation System and the Federal Role Measuring Performance, Targeting Improvement -- Special Report 279 (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B Statement of James R. McCarville
Appendix B Statement of James R. McCarville
Pages 166-172
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performance, the committee was asked to review projec tions of future freight demand, assess plans for public and private MTS maintenance and expansion, and describe the likely impact on the MTS over the next two decades if federal funding remains constant. I, along with some of the resource speakers, have brought to the committee's attention several disconcerting trends about system capacity that I believe were not sufficiently addressed in the main report.
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According to information published by the corps, our inland water resources infrastructure, partic ularly our locks and dams, is aging. Reinvestment in USACE infrastruc ture has declined over time, resulting in more frequent scheduled and unscheduled closures for repairs, reducing system performance, and adding costly delays to customers.
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The ColumbiaSnake River system already has significant containers on-barge traffic, and similar services are growing along the Gulf Intra coastal and North Atlantic ports. Failure to strategically provide solutions will add more unreliability to the entire transportation system and pass the inefficiency costs on to customers and the nation as a whole.
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USACE NAVIGATION BACKLOGS USACE projects that there is a $10 billion navigation infrastructure back log to complete all authorized projects and active preauthorized projects in planning, engineering, and development. This includes harbor and waterway construction projects and the benefits forgone because of delays.
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This will hinder its ability to maintain even current levels of operation. In addition to the types of performance measurements recommended in this report, USACE has undertaken internal improvements to stream line project process, measure performance, prioritize budgets, and improve benefitcost analysis (on the basis of recommendations from the Oak Ridge Laboratories)
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Further studies are under way for the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Waterway; for Emsworth, Dashields, and Montgomery Locks and Dam, and for the Ohio River main stem; for the Texas reach of the GIWW; for the Arkansas River; and for other major rehabilitations. FUNDING SOURCES AND PROJECT IMPACTS OF CONSTANT LEVEL FUNDING It was not in the committee charge to indicate where additional funding might come from, and it is not the purpose of this supplementary report to address that question.
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Some portion of the Surface Transportation Program funding could be set aside for those highway related freight connectors, especially the last mile connector between ports and the National Highway System, intermodal freight transfer facilities, and intelligent transportation innovations linking ports with the broader transportation infrastructure. And the use of water highways, or short-sea shipping, on the intracoastal and inland waterway systems should become eligible for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program funds, provided they meet the other requirements of that program to mitigate congestion and air quality problems.
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