 | Homeland Security and Defense
| Bechtel
Won't Run WTC Cleanup but Project Changes Still Loom
| Rapid
Evacuation Concepts Aired
| Compromise
Approved for Defense,NY
| Security
Funds Sought for Ports
| States
Seek at Least $3 Billion from Congress for Homeland Security - Dean
said, "For the many states that are currently facing budget crisis,
spending millions of dollars to purchase gas masks, communications
equipment for first responders and maintain security at key facilities
will require cuts in other state programs." If funds aren't
provided, he adds, "We're going to cut corners."
| Infrastructure
Security- Reassessing Risks -
 | Mike Parker, assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, said
in October that the security upgrades could cost $267 million in the
first year plus $65 million annually after that. Parker also said
that the estimate depends on a Corps security assessment still under
way.
| In the longer term, the security issue is providing new support
for bridges to provide alternative routes to roadways over major
dams, which had become bottlenecks. Keys says Burec is working with
the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and the states of Arizona and
Nevada about building a new bridge near Hoover Dam, for example.
| Infrastructure security will get a boost with coordination from a
public-private partnership formed Nov. 20. The Security
Infrastructure Partnership includes key federal agencies, such as
the Corps, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Federal Emergency
Management Commission and major design and private-sector
construction groups (ENR 11/26 p. 7). Hundreds of people already
have contacted the organization, says Dwight Beranek, the Corps'
chief of engineering and construction. |
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