By MARY GILBERT
The stimulus bill before the House today allocates billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, but according to a new study [PDF] from the American Society of Civil Engineers, an even larger investment is necessary. To fix a "crumbling" infrastructure system that it gives a grade of D, the ASCE is recommending $2.2 trillion -- from the government and private sector -- over the next five years.
"Decades of underfunding and inattention have jeopardized the ability of our nation's infrastructure to support our economy and facilitate our way of life," the ASCE argues in introducing its 2009 Report Card For America's Infrastructure.
The latest version of the stimulus package allocates "$27 billion for highways, $19.5 billion for schools, $9 billion to expand broadband Internet access, and $8.4 billion for mass transit," according to U.S. News & World Report. In ASCE's report, roads, schools and transit each received a grade of D or D-. However, other D- areas -- for example, drinking water, inland waterways and wastewater -- are not addressed by the legislation moving through Congress.
ASCE stresses the role that infrastructure projects could have in improving the nation's economic health in both the short term and long term and suggests that the federal government should take a leadership role in tackling the problem.
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