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posals. In the highway program, us- ers have a choice to use the new toll facility capacity, or to continue to use existing, non-tolled roadways. Water- ways’ P3s remove that choice as there is only one river with no off-ramp!

Businesses rely upon ef? cient and cost-competitive waterways trans- portation when making locational decisions. If the federal government enables private entities to charge wa- terways tolls, businesses, farmers, producers, and shippers on those wa- terways would ? nd themselves at a se- rious competitive disadvantage.

This particular P3 proposal should not prevail.

View the letters here: http://waterwayscouncil.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/01/P3-Sen- ate-letter-? nal.pdf http://waterwayscouncil.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/01/P3-

House-letter-? nal.pdf

With more than 30 years of federal government expertise, Mike Toohey serves as WCI’s President and CEO.

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