Government Information

http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads//assets/crs/R43209.pdf

Provides information about the process by which the Army Corps of Engineers determines how and to what extent environmental requirements must be taken into consideration when they plan a project.  Also identifies selected issues from the past 50 years that resulted in the enactment of various environmental requirements.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by National Agricultural Law Center

http://www.sigir.mil/files/quarterlyreports/September2013/Report_-_September_2013.pdf#view=fit

The culmination of 20,000 pages of reporting on the use of $60 billion of U.S. funding for Iraqi reconstruction.  From the Office of the Special Inspector General

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/07/presidential-memorandum-transforming-our-nations-electric-grid-through-i

Makes provision for the establishment of energy right-of-way corridors on federal lands to minimize regulatory conflicts and environmental/cultural impacts in the siting of electrical transmission lines.  From the White House

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41746.pdf

Discusses risks to highways, especially bridge structures, from earthquakes and actions to reduce risk, based on models used by Japan, regarded as having the most earthquake resilient infrastructure.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

http://water.epa.gov/grants_funding/dwsrf/upload/epa816r13006.pdf

Shows a total 20 year capital improvement need of $384 billion to provide safe drinking water to the public.  From the Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=DOS-2013-0011

Comments received by the State Department on the proposed pipeline project.  Contains approximately 100,000 comments, the first set to be posted of a total of 1.2 million.  Posted on Regulations.gov

http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/653741.pdf

Examines the impacts of climate change on roads and bridges, wastewater systems, and NASA centers; the extent to which climate change is incorporated into infrastructure planning; factors that enabled some adaptive measures to be enacted; and federal efforts to address local adaptation needs.  From the Government Accountability Office

http://www.sigir.mil/files/learningfromiraq/Report_-_March_2013.pdf#view=fit

The final in a series of reports on the Iraq War and the U.S. efforts to rebuild the shattered country.  Includes how much money was spent  ($60 billion), where the money went (much of it to training and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces), and final lessons.   Follows an earlier report: Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience.  From the Office of the Special Inspector General