WASHINGTON — The National Grain and Feed Association on April 16 commended the Inland Waterways Users Board, a congressionally mandated advisory committee to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on a new plan to finance and improve the cost-management of projects aimed at rehabilitating the nation's system of inland waterway locks and dams. "We congratulate the I.W.U.B. for approving a plan that provides a constructive path forward to resolve the funding shortages and lack of important new projects that have plagued the inland waterways system," said Mark J. Carr of AEP River Operations, Chesterfield, Mo., chairman of the N.G.F.A.'s Waterborne Commerce Committee. "At the same time, the plan recognizes that increased funding must be accompanied by significant and meaningful reforms to improve the efficiency of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' operations and its cost-management of projects to protect against unabated cost overruns and delays on large new construction projects."
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