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The Federal Aviation Administration’s Limited Progress in Adopting NextGen Provisions

Monday, February 10th, 2014

EXHIBIT C. STATUS OF FAA’S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TITLE II REQUIREMENTS (AS OF AUGUST 23, 2013)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is a critical infrastructure project that will transform the Nation’s air traffic management from ground-based radar to a satellite-based system with the goals of improving safety, meeting the expected demands for increased capacity, and improving efficiency. It is also FAA’s most complex modernization effort to date and will require multibillion-dollar investments from both the Federal Government and airspace users to successfully implement. However, since its inception a decade ago, FAA’s progress in implementing NextGen has not met the expectations of Congress and industry stakeholders, and key modernization efforts have experienced significant cost increases and schedule delays.

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Tags: airports, flight, Next Generation Air Transportation System, NextGen, Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Transportation, USDOT
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Keystone XL: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Monday, February 3rd, 2014

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The Keystone XL Pipeline (the proposed Project) is a proposed 875-mile pipeline project that would extend from Morgan, Montana, to Steele City, Nebraska. The pipeline would allow delivery of up to 830,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) in Canada and the Bakken Shale Formation in the United States to Steele City, Nebraska, for onward delivery to refineries in the Gulf Coast area (see Figure ES-1). TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP (Keystone) has applied for a Presidential Permit that, if granted, would authorize the proposed pipeline to cross the United States-Canadian border at Morgan, Montana.

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Tags: Keystone Pipeline, State Department, United States Department of State
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This Infra Week

Friday, January 31st, 2014

INFRA STORIES YOU SHOULDN’T MISS!
San Bernardino, California: Divided No More
Miami Transportation Planners Light the Way
Big Energy Buildings Go Greener
Sprucing Up the Waiting Game
Atlanta Snowstorm Strands Drivers

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Tags: Atlanta, buildings, Caltrans, emergency preparedness, Energy efficiency, I-215, Light Rail, Miami, San Bernadino, snowstorm, sprawl, train stations
Posted in High Speed Rail, Highway, Infra Week, Local, National, Public Opinion, Rail, Roads, Smart Grid, Smart Growth, Sustainability, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

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National Solar Jobs Census

Monday, January 27th, 2014

THE SOLAR FOUNDATION
The National Solar Jobs Census 2013 is the fourth annual update of current employment and projected growth in the United States solar industry. Data for Census 2013 is derived from a statistically valid sampling and comprehensive survey of 15,437 employers throughout the nation, in industries ranging from manufacturing to construction and engineering to sales. The rapid pace of change in this industry has warranted annual updates that examine the size and scope of the solar labor force and employers’ perspectives on job growth and opportunities.

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Tags: Solar, The Solar Foundation
Posted in Employment, Energy, Environment, Equity, Infra Views, Jobs, National

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Power Surge: Department of Defense and Energy Security

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS
The U.S. Department of Defense defines installation energy security as the ability to assure access to reliable sources of energy and deliver that power to meet operational needs on its bases in the United States and abroad. The U.S. military needs safe, secure, reliable, and affordable energy to operate facilities on an uninterrupted basis. To meet essential power requirements, defense leaders have initiated far-reaching steps to harness advanced technologies capable of conserving energy, enabling on-site production from renewable sources, and saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

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Tags: Department of Defense, DOD, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global, Infra Views, National, Policy, Technology

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States’ Growing Role in Funding the Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Innovation Newsbriefs
Vol. 25, No. 1
As we enter the new year (celebrating our 25th year of publication), and as the deadline for reauthorization of the surface transportation program draws closer, those who want the new bill to sharply increase federal spending for transportation face a vexing reality. The Highway Trust Fund, a vital source of support for the federal surface transportation program for over half a century, no longer can keep up with the nation’s growing transportation needs. A combination of more fuel-efficient cars, rising CAFE standards and consumer embrace of hybrid vehicles has kept gas tax revenue stagnant, throwing the Trust Fund out of balance with the rising demand for transportation funds. A possible decline in per capita travel could cause the future imbalance to grow even larger.

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Tags: C. Kenneth Orski, Highway Trust Fund, Innovation Newsbriefs, Ken Orski
Posted in Funding, Guest Post, Innovation Newsbriefs, National, Policy, The Infra Blog

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Interactive Map: Average Household Carbon Footprints

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

Keep an eye on your area’s carbon consumption and compare it to the rest of the country with these new interactive maps from UC Berkeley. Linked to their CoolClimate Carbon Footprint Calculator, this new tool visualizes the nation’s carbon consumption in a fresh way and invites new comparisons–pit the East Coast against the West, mountains again valleys or cities against suburbs. Additional maps break down carbon usage into household energy and transportation.

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Tags: carbon footprint, CoolClimate, Interactive Map, UC Berkeley, University of California
Posted in Green, National, Sustainability, The Infra Blog

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Status and Trends of America’s Wetlands

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
The cumulative effects of losses in the freshwater system have had consequences for hydrologic and ecosystem connectivity. In certain regions, profound reductions in wetland extent have resulted in habitat loss, fragmentation, and limited opportunities for reestablishment and watershed rehabilitation.

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Tags: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wetlands
Posted in Environment, Green, Infra Views, National, Pollution, Sustainability

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Understanding Flight Delays

Monday, January 13th, 2014

Figures 1 and 2. Number of Scheduled Flight Operations and Percent of Flight Delays Impacted by Poor Weather, 2004 Through 2012

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
New infrastructure has helped reduce flight delays at many of the Nation’s busiest airports. Since 2000, 20 major airports previously designated by FAA as most critical to improving the capacity and efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS) have completed substantial runway or taxiway projects that have served to increase capacity or improve traffic flows.

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Tags: Air travel, airports, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of the Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, RITA, United States Department of Transportation
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Gas Taxes and User Fees Pay for Only Half of State and Local Roads

Friday, January 10th, 2014

Table 1: User Fees and User Taxes as a Percent of State-Local Transportation Spending, 2011

TAX FOUNDATION
The lion’s share of transportation funding should come from user fees (amounts a user pays directly for a service the user receives, such as tolls) and user taxes (amounts a user pays, based on usage, for transportation, such as fuel and motor vehicle license taxes).[2] When road funding comes from a mix of tolls and gasoline taxes, the people that use the roads bear a sizeable portion of the cost. By contrast, funding transportation out of general revenue makes roads “free,” and consequently, overused or congested—often the precise problem transportation spending programs are meant to solve.

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Tags: Gas tax, Joseph Henchman, Tax Foundation, VMT
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Archive for the ‘National’ Category

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Limited Progress in Adopting NextGen Provisions

Keystone XL: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

This Infra Week

National Solar Jobs Census

Power Surge: Department of Defense and Energy Security

States’ Growing Role in Funding the Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure

Interactive Map: Average Household Carbon Footprints

Status and Trends of America’s Wetlands

Understanding Flight Delays

Gas Taxes and User Fees Pay for Only Half of State and Local Roads

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