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REPORT BY THE                                           RELEASED



Comptroller General


OF THE UNITED STATES


Water Project Construction Backlog--

A Serious Problem With No Easy Solution





The Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of
Reclamation started fiscal year 1982 with 934
authorized water projects needing about $60 bil-
lion to complete construction. For fiscal year
1982, the Congress provided construction funds
for 289 of these projects, but did not fund the
remaining 645 projects needing about $24.5 bil-
lion to complete. About $21.9 billion had already
been spent on the 289 funded projects. Another
$35.5 billion--including  an estimate for future
inflation of Crops projects--is needed to complete
them. The backlog has grown in actual dollars
because funding has not been sufficient to offset
inflation and other cost increases.

No easy answers exist for eliminating the con-
struction backlog. However, this report discusses
several alternatives which taken either singly or
in combination could lessen it.















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