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Senators Bennet (center) and Blunt (right), speaking at conference, discuss their bill to set up a new $50-billion infrastructure fund.

Private financing can help narrow the huge difference between infrastructure’s massive needs and its limited public funding, speakers at a recent conference in Washington, D.C., said. But they also noted that public-private financing vehicles alone won’t close the gap completely.

ASCE执行董事帕特里克·纳塔莱(Patrick Natale)在5月14日的会议上发表在5月14日的会议上,美国土木工程师协会(ASCE)和两党政策中心赞助的会议上发表讲话。2020年。”

标准普尔评级服务基础设施和可再生能源的分析经理Anne Selting表示,MHFI的标准普尔的标准普尔单位(标准普尔)估计,基础设施的公共资金和需求之间存在2000亿美元的差距。她补充说:“我们必须将私人投资视为一种选择。”

(MHFI是ENR和S&P的公司父母。)新利18备用

一种机制是公私合作伙伴关系(P3),以设计,建造,运营和维护高速公路或其他基础设施。
Selting said that in the last year or so, S&P had assigned ratings to more than $3 billion in P3-related debt. But she added that the market segment is “still best labeled as nascent.”

进步政策研究所的经济学家戴安娜·卡维(Diana Carew)表示,2013年美国道路和街道建设的0.3%是私人资助的。她说:“有巨大的改进空间。”

Carew noted that there are hurdles for P3s, observing that 17 states lack legislation allowing such financial mechanisms for infrastructure.

联邦机构正在研究创新融资。一项计划是《运输基础设施融资与创新法》或蒂菲亚的运输部贷款计划。

The 2012 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act hiked TIFIA’s direct federal funding to $750 million in 2013 and $1 billion last year, from $122 million in 2012. Each direct federal TIFIA dollar can leverage $10 in loan volume. Grants and other funding combine with TIFIA loans to complete projects’ financial packages.

DOT的首席财务官西尔维亚·加西亚(Sylvia Garcia)告诉会议与会者,该部门“瞄准目标”,今年要结束14项TIFIA项目协议,比2013年的9次达成。

Some in Congress also are exploring ways to attract private dollars for infrastructure. U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Roy Blunt (R-Tenn.) discussed their bill that would establish a $50-billion “American Infrastructure Fund” that Bennett said could support about $750 billion in loans or local government funding for infrastructure projects.

公司可以通过将其一些海外利润从税收中排除,以购买基金支持的债券。他们的措施是在一月份引入的,是众议院众议院众议院众议院众议员约翰·德莱尼(John Delaney)(D-Md。)提出的提案的同伴。

一项六年的六年表面运输法案已经开始在参议院中移动,这可能是Bennet-Blunt提议的潜在工具。5月15日,环境和公共工程委员会批准了一个更大包装的公路政策部分,以包含过境和安全元素。失踪的主要作品是尚未放弃的财务头衔,需要提供数十亿美元的资金来弥补高速公路信托基金的短缺。

被问及他是否正在考虑将基础设施基金法案附加到较大的高速公路法案上。Blunt在接受Enr新利18备用采访时告诉ENR:“我认为我们会寻找任何合理的机会来推动这项法案前进。”他补充说,基础设施基金可能是基础设施融资的“工具箱中的工具”之一。

直言不讳的说,“如果太大lbox turns out to be the moving highway bill, [it would be] a good place to put these tools.”

但是他还说,他和Bennet不会寻求将他们的提议添加到高速公路法案中,“不知道[他们的提议]将在众议院得到很好的接受。”