Rebuilding the foundations : a special report on state and local public works financing and management

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Public works
  • Infrastructure
  • Levels of government
  • Government funding
  • Local government
  • State government
  • Government agencies
  • Interagency relations
  • Financing
  • Community environment
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTA-SET-447
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1402975
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00602616
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Alternative Finance ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Funding ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY
• Abstract:
  In 1988, prompted by the many national studies calling for more investment in ; public works infrastructure, Congress asked the Office of Technology Assessment ; (OTA) to evaluate how technologies, management, and financing could improve ; public works and make them more efficient and productive. From the outset, ; OTA planned to review State and local public works management and finance to ; spotlight issues that needed attention. The review produced so much practical ; and useful information that a decision was made to publish the results early in ; 1990 for use by the 101st Congress in this special report. Several intertwined ; issues quickly came to dominate OTA's discussions with State and local public ; works officials. As this report documents, the concerns centered on how to raise ; more money for upgrading and maintaining public works, how to enhance public ; works, and how to preserve the community environment and quality of life. Local ; officials focused on the complex tasks of resolving conflicts among these issues ; in a controversy-ridden and politically charged arena. State representatives ; highlighted the steps they have already taken to increase support for ; localities. This special report also outlines the roles of Federal, State, and ; local governments and points to avenues for strengthening the intergovernmental ; structure for managing and financing public works. The link in this record ; leads to a Table of Contents for this document in hypertext that will allow the ; user to view in .pdf format the entire document (131p., 5206K) or selected ; sections.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12680/dot_12680_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.04 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:54742b454fc9afb7fa69910ad32739cb9ccab9041e7d5ba19fca5c6cc090c874