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Whereas, in the ‘‘2008 Conditions & Performance’’ report of 
the Department of Transportation, the Department con-
firms that investment in United States highway, bridge, 
and transit infrastructure has not kept up with growing 
demands; 
Whereas, in the ‘‘2008 Conditions & Performance’’ report of 
the Department of Transportation, the Department 
found that an additional $27,000,000,000 per year in 
capital investments is needed to sustain highway condi-
tions 
and 
performance 
and 
an 
additional 
$96,000,000,000 per year in capital investments is need-
ed to make cost-effective highway improvements and 
eliminate the existing bridge maintenance backlog; 
Whereas capital expenditures in highways, bridges, and public 
transportation from all levels of government and the pri-
vate sector are over $91,450,000,000 annually; 
Whereas the capital asset program of the General Services 
Administration is authorized annually to provide Federal 
employees with necessary office space, courts of law, and 
other special purpose facilities; 
Whereas, since 1972, the United States has invested more 
than $300,000,000,000 in wastewater infrastructure fa-
cilities to establish a system that includes 16,000 publicly 
owned wastewater treatment plants, 100,000 major 
pumping stations, 600,000 miles of sanitary sewers, and 
200,000 miles of storm sewers; 
Whereas the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Ad-
ministration is charged with the safe and secure move-
ment of almost 1,200,000 daily shipments of hazardous 
materials by all modes of transportation and oversees the 
safety and security of 2,300,000 miles of gas and haz-
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ardous liquid pipelines, which account for 64 percent of 
the energy commodities consumed in the United States; 
Whereas the National Railroad Passenger Corporation annu-
ally provides more than 27,100,000 people with intercity 
rail service; 
Whereas the National Surface Transportation Policy and 
Revenue Study Commission estimates that the total cap-
ital cost of reestablishing the national intercity passenger 
rail network by 2050 is approximately $357,200,000,000 
(or $8,100,000,000 annually for the next 40 years); 
Whereas 21 airfield projects have opened at 18 of the 35 
busiest airports in the United States since fiscal year 
2000, including 15 runways, 3 taxiways, one runway ex-
tension, one completed airfield reconfiguration, and one 
airfield reconfiguration that is two-thirds completed, and 
these airfield projects have provided the airports with the 
potential to accommodate 1,900,000 additional airfield 
operations each year and decrease average delay per op-
eration by approximately 5 minutes; 
Whereas 3 airports have airfield projects under construction, 
and an additional airport will begin construction this fis-
cal year, and these 4 airfield projects will provide the air-
ports with the potential to accommodate an additional 
110,900 airfield operations each year and decrease aver-
age delay per operation by approximately 1.5 minutes; 
Whereas transparency and accountability information relating 
to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
(Public Law 111–5) demonstrates successful implementa-
tion of highway, transit, and wastewater investments 
under the Act; 
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Whereas 
$30,000,000,000, 
or 
percent 
of 
the 
$38,200,000,000 provided for highway, transit, and 
wastewater infrastructure formula programs under the 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub-
lic Law 111–5), has been put out to bid on 14,063 
projects as of December 31, 2009; 
Whereas, across the United States, as a result of the Amer-
ican Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public 
Law 111–5) work has begun on 10,348 projects totaling 
$22,800,000,000, or 60 percent of the total available for 
highway, transit, and wastewater infrastructure formula 
programs under the Act; 
Whereas the 10,348 highway, transit, and wastewater infra-
structure projects on which work has begun have created 
or sustained approximately 300,000 direct jobs as of De-
cember 31, 2009; 
Whereas total employment from the 10,348 highway, transit, 
and wastewater infrastructure projects on which work 
has begun, which includes direct, indirect, and induced 
jobs, totals more than 938,000 jobs; 
Whereas direct job creation from highway, transit, and waste-
water infrastructure projects under the American Recov-
ery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5) 
has resulted in payroll expenditures of $1,500,000,000; 
and 
Whereas public works professionals are observing National 
Public Works Week from May 16 through 22, 2010: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of National 
Public Works Week; 
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(2) recognizes and celebrates the 50th anniver-
sary of National Public Works Week; and 
(3) urges citizens and communities throughout 
the United States to join with representatives of the 
Federal Government in activities and ceremonies 
that are designed to pay tribute to the public works 
professionals of the United States and to recognize 
the substantial contributions that public works pro-
fessionals make to the United States. 
Æ 
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