Before there is any discussion of raising taxes on the industry, Waterways Council, Inc. urges an intense, focused effort to examine why it takes so much longer to build projects than this nation was able to do just two decades ago. This effort must identify the structural and process changes, both within the Corps’ control and external to it, that are required to “get more project” for the dollars that are currently being contributed by industry and invested in lock and dam modernization. The current system forces the industry to pay for these significantly delayed projects and extraordinary cost escalations. According to Mr. Little, “Clearly, something is seriously wrong with the way that construction of inland waterway lock and dam modernization projects is currently proceeding.