Sentences with phrase «large federal infrastructure»

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The merger will create the world's largest energy infrastructure group, although the Federal Trade Commission must first review the deal.

The federal Liberals came to power a year ago in large part on their promise to invest $ 120 billion in infrastructure over the next decade, essentially doubling Ottawa's spending from the previous 10 years.

That's why, in Economic Action Plan 2013, our Government launched the new Building Canada Plan, the largest long - term federal commitment to infrastructure in Canadian history.

Rarely in the news lately is the federal government's massive infrastructure plan, even though, back in the 2015 campaign, it loomed large.

While federal and provincial governments will continue to play an important role investing in infrastructure, they simply do not have the resources to meet the demand — pegged at somewhere in the neighbourhood of $ 500 - billion — without a large increase in tax revenues or drastic cuts to social programs.

Together, we secured billions of federal dollars for two of the largest infrastructure projects in the country — the 2nd Avenue Subway and the Queens - Manhattan Connector.

«Gateway will be the largest infrastructure project in the country and will require unprecedented cooperation and commitment from regional and federal leaders,» said Foxx.

Officials in charge of the federal E-rate program, which awards discounts to help school districts afford telecommunications services and infrastructure, say they have identified a disturbing pattern in E-rate applications involving the International Business Machines Corp., one of the largest vendors under the program.

School facilities is second only to highways as the largest sector of public infrastructure spending, but it's been more than 20 years since the federal government conducted a comprehensive review of the nation's school buildings.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Federal grant funds that otherwise might be required to support these large projects can then be redirected toward smaller but critical infrastructure investments.

In 2016, our flagship initiative is the Federal Permitting Dashboard, an online tool for Federal agencies, project developers, and interested members of the public to track the Federal Government's permitting and review process for large or complex infrastructure projects.

The Permitting Dashboard (www.permits.performance.gov) is an online tool for federal agencies, project developers and members of the public to track the federal government's permitting and review process for large or complex infrastructure projects.

The TIFIA program maximizes limited federal resources to deliver large infrastructure investments.

Importantly, the Administration's surface transportation reauthorization proposal, the GROW AMERICA Act, would build on current support for public and tribal lands, including creating a new program to support construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of large, nationally significant transportation infrastructure within or accessing federal or tribal lands, including national parks and forests.

This program offers the sponsors of large transportation projects a new tool to leverage limited Federal resources, stimulate additional investment in our Nation's infrastructure, and encourage greater private sector participation in meeting our transportation needs.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

She joins one of Australia's largest national infrastructure, energy and construction and engineering teams, with an established track record in delivering major contentious and non-contentious construction projects for federal and state government departments and authorities, project developers, owners, financiers, domestic and international investors and construction companies across a variety of sectors.

• Use federal policy tools to attract more private investment in infrastructure projects so that new large - scale improvements can be privately financed and paid for by users.