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RICK CALHOUN, CHAIRMAN,

WATERWAYS COUNCIL, INC. As WCI

Chairman, I would say the biggest ongoing challenge for our association is always to convince decision-makers in Congress about the critical impor- tance of the nation's waterways and all that they provide to the nation in terms of exports, jobs, energy effi- ciency, traffic congestion relief and protection of the environment. We are a small industry compared to truck and rail, often out of sight, out of mind, yet just as important as we consider the intermodal world we operate in. The waterways provide the way forward for helping our nation to double its exports over the next two years, but we cannot accom- modate that goal if our lock and dam infrastructure is at risk of catastroph- ic failure. The lock and dam system — just like other infrastructure in other modes — requires recapitaliza- tion and the Capital Development

Plan will help our nation to maintain its competitive edge for getting our grain and other commodities to the world market more cheaply than other nations.

The Leaders

RICK CALHOUN, CHAIRMAN,

WATERWAYS COUNCIL, INC.

For the past two years Rick

Calhoun has been Chairman of the

Waterways Council, Inc., the nation- al public policy organization which advocates for a modern and well- maintained national system of ports and inland waterways. Calhoun is

Vice President of Cargill’s North

American Grain & Oilseed Business

Unit in Minneapolis, Minn.