1581-1582 Nyland Federal Assembly

[Blacaria]

269 FOR
106 AGAINST
146 ABSTAIN


With 268 votes needed for a majority, the Amended Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581 has been passed by the Assembly

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Nichlas Hougaard
Speaker of the Assembly

With deliberation and voting for the Amended Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581 over, I now open deliberation on the Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1582

Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1582
Assembly Bill 1582.658
Drafted by: Department of Commerce, Federal Budget Office, Army Corps of Engineers, Anders Kohout, and others. Submitted by: Milan Vuletaski Submit Date: 28 Dein, 1582 Hearing Date: Revision Date: Summary: Nyland's infrastructure system is an aging, crumbling behemoth in serious need of updating, both in real work to be done and in the processes that govern how work is awarded and managed. Hundreds of billions of daler in direct costs to taxpayers are lost each year due to infrastructure failings, as well as trillions of daler in indirect losses due to lost economic growth and increased household and business costs, due to failing and inadequate physical structures as well as antiquated governmental administrative and political structures controlling infrastructure projects. This plan thus: 1) Expands the federal government's role in educating the public on infrastructure financing and delivery. 2) Empowers public agencies to use options to work with private sector in development and consultation, & expands the federal agencies to do so. 3) Provides for standard method to inventory public infrastructure assets, and makes the inventory publicly accessible data. 4) Gives executive power and freedom to formalize standards and best practices for project permitting, standardize documentation, and create project priority framework. 5) Gives federal agencies power to generate private sources of funding for infrastructure projects. 6) Changes all federal public infrastructure funding accounts from discretionary accounts to permanent non-discretionary accounts, ensuring stable, long-term funding options for national infrastructure. 7) Authorizes the plans and funding for shovel-ready modernization work, and guarantees funding for inventory, planning, and construction of infrastructure modernization work, beyond regular maintenance for a period of not less than 10 years. Adoption of this plan will generate an increase in GDP of 19% over current growth patterns, save Nylanders $200 billion in real savings annually, and generate an additional 3.5 million permanent jobs for the country over the timeframe of the plan. Section 1: Office of Federal Procurement 1. Creates the "Office of Federal Infrastructure Procurement" (hereby "OFIP") under the Department of Commerce. 2. OFIP shall coordinate all federal planning and procurement et al for public and public-private infrastructure works across all federal agencies letting or otherwise in charge of infrastructure works projects, and have authority to issue decisions in the coordination and cooperation of works projects between agencies. 3. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise and oversee the implementation of public education programs regarding the nature of infrastructure financing and bid delivery methods. 4. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise and oversee a federal infrastructure inventory program of all federal infrastructure projects and assets, as well as create standards and methods for efficient coordination between state, federal, and private agencies. 5. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise, oversee and enforce standardized infrastructure project documentation and guidelines for project priority frameworks. 6. OFIP shall have the authority to set rules and regulations regarding the use and acceptance of public bidding processes, as well as regulations concerning public project financing and public-private project financing/investment, and have the means to enforce its rules and decisions. 7. OFIP shall issue guidance and recommendations pertaining to rules set forth in Section 1.4 above to any and all other federal, state, local, municipal et al agencies seeking to perform infrastructure works under federal provisions. Section 2: Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund 1. All non-defense federal infrastructure discretionary spending accounts (such as the Federal Highway Fund, the National Ports and Waterways Fund, the Federal Power and Energy Fund, and others) shall, be made permanent and non-discretionary beginning from the point of this act being signed into law. 2. All such previously discretionary budget accounts shall, by 1586, be merged with, subsumed by and subordinate accounts within a new Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund hereby created and administered by the OFIP 3. The Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund shall remain financially solvent, and with a permanent budget of not less than 0.625% of GDP (nominal). 4. The Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund shall encompass all federally funded and necessary construction, maintenance, emergency repairs, and contingencies across all federal agencies performing such work. Section 3: Federal Emergency Modernization and Building Fund 1. This act authorizes the appropriation of $3 Trillion over the next ten years, starting in 1583, for the temporary, discretionary, "Federal Emergency Modernization and Building Fund" (hereafter refered to as "the fund") which shall be overseen and administered by OFIP. 2. At the end of the ten (10) year period ending in 1593, the fund shall be closed and any remaining funds liquidated to the Department of the Treasury, unless funded and operated on a discretionary basis by statute of the Federal Assembly. 3. The fund shall be used solely for the complete modernization of all Economic and Social Infrastructure, as defined below, by and with the Corps of Engineers and any federal, state, local, and private infrastructure-maintaining agencies, to be planned and let between the years of 1583 and 1593 (or until the fund's discretionary operation ends, whichever is later). 4. The fund shall be used on a federal investment-matching basis determined by the OFIP with all public and private investing agents seeking to pursue infrastructure modernizations under this statute. 5. The OFIP shall review, approve, and coordinate projects financed in whole or in part by the fund. Section 4: Definitions 1. Economic Infrastructure shall be all infrastructure in Nyland that fall into the categories listed below in this section: 1.1 Drinking water systems 1.2 Waste water systems 1.3 Roads 1.4 Bridges 1.5 Rail 1.6 Ports 1.7 Waterways 1.8 Airports 1.9 Telecommunications 1.10 Power & electricity systems 1.11 Pipelines 2. Social Infrastructure shall be all infrastructure in Nyland that fall into the categories listed below in this section: 1.1 Schools 1.2 Libraries 1.3 Hospitals 1.4 Housing 1.5 Courthouses 1.6 Prisons 1.7 Civic buildings