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Friday, July 21, 2017

Trump Sets up Infrastructure Council

President Donald Trump issued an executive order setting up an infrastructure "advisory council" under the Commerce Department that will have a maximum of 15 members covering areas like labor, finance and construction.Agriculture is not included as of yet. Their charge: "study the scope and effectiveness of, and make findings and recommendations to the president regarding, federal government funding, support, and delivery of infrastructure projects in several sectors, including surface transportation, aviation, ports and waterways, water resources, renewable energy generation, electricity transmission, broadband, pipelines, and other such sectors as determined by the council."The panel would be dissolved at the end of 2018 unless Trump extends it. Or it will disappear no more than 60 days after it offers a report on its conclusions to Trump.