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2 <br /> Whereas public works infrastructure, facilities, and services <br /> could not be provided without the skill and dedication of <br /> public works. professionals, including engineers and ad- <br /> ministrators, representing State and local governments <br /> throughout the United States; <br /> Whereas public works professionals design, build, operate, <br /> maintain, and protect. the transportation systems, water, <br /> supply infrastructure, sewage' and refuse disposal sys- <br /> tems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities <br /> that are vital to the citizens, communities, and commerce <br /> of the United States; <br /> Whereas the Department of Transportation estimates that <br /> every $1,000,000,000 invested in the Nation's highway <br /> system creates 47,000 jobs, and every $1 invested in the <br /> Nation's highway system generates. more than six times <br /> that amount in economic. activity; <br /> <br /> . Whereas every $1 invested in public transportation generates <br /> as much as $ 6 .in economic :returns to the Nation's econ- <br /> omy; <br /> Whereas the capital asset program of the General Services <br /> Administration is authorized annually to provide Federal <br /> employees with necessary office space, courts of law, and <br /> other special purpose facilities; <br /> Whereas since 1.972 the Nation has -invested more than <br /> $250,000,000,000 in wastewater .infrastructure facilities <br /> to establish a system that includes 16;000 publicly owned <br /> wastewater treatment plants, 1.00,000 major pumping <br /> stations, 600,000 miles of sanitary. sewers, and 200,000 <br /> miles of storm sewers; <br /> Whereas the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Ad- <br /> ministration is charged with the safe and secure move- <br /> •HRES 352 RH <br /> <br />