Inland Waterways: Still or Turbulent Waters Ahead?
| Autor: | Michael S Bronzini |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
Government
Economic growth Sociology and Political Science Natural resource economics Fuel tax 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Subsidy Lock (computer science) 0506 political science Federal budget Dredging 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics Revenue 050207 economics Waste disposal |
| Zdroj: | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 553:66-74 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3349 0002-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0002716297553001006 |
| Popis: | Waterway transportation has played an important role in the history of the United States, and it continues to be important today. The federal government is responsible for building and maintaining the locks and channels that provide navigation, with funding coming partly from general revenues and partly from the fuel tax revenues deposited in the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. A current concern is that nearly half of the lock chambers in the system are over fifty years old, so the backlog of structures requiring major rehabilitation or replacement is large and growing. Expenditures from the trust fund at a rate sufficient to meet this need would deplete the fund in a matter of a few years. Other current policy issues include continued operation of tributary waterways with low traffic, continued subsidy of the water mode in the face of federal budget deficit reduction efforts, environmental effects of tow traffic, and disposal and beneficial reuse of dredged material. |
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