The U.S. Dept. of Transportation is reviving Obama-era pilot programs for state agencies and contractors to give hiring preferences to people who live in areas where construction projects are located if they receive federal agency funding.

The local-hire initiative, which Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg宣布5月19日，在华盛顿特区的弗雷德里克·道格拉斯纪念桥替换项目中，受到了一个著名的建筑联盟的称赞，但受到一个主要承包商的批评。

The action would restore a program begun under the Obama administration but halted by the Trump administration.

The new programs would apply to projects with Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration funding and also will include a focus on workforce development, the department said.

[View FHWA/FTA Federal Register notice of the pilot programshere。]

The programs are to run for four years. FHWA said in its Federal Register notice that it is only interested in contracts advertised in that time period.

恢复DOT计划是乔·拜登（Joe Biden）总统采取的一系列举动的一部分，以撤销特朗普政府采取的行动，也是拜登政府强调公平的进一步例子。

Budtigieg表示，新的飞行员努力将包括“低收入工人或投资不足，服务不足和负担不足的社区”中的桥梁项目的讲话（该桥梁项目）。

根据计划,状态点,承包商和另外一些er “recipients and subrecipients” of FHWA and FTA funding must seek approval from the agencies to use the new local-hire pilot program on a project.

In its Federal Register notice, FHWA said in the past, projects it has funded have prohibited local-hire preferences or training opportunities in economically depressed areas where projects are located.

The agency said the bar on local-hire provisions “was based upon maintaining competition in contract bidding.” But FHWA added it also frequently resulted in having a workforce that was “not necessarily representative of all communities where projects were located.”

Buttigieg表示，该计划的目的是创造就业机会，这将导致“建筑行业的伟大职业”。

Terry O’ Sullivan, general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, offered strong support for DOT’s move to reinstate the local-hire programs. He noted that the Frederick Douglass Bridge used a project labor agreement with the building trades.

奥沙利文在statement, “Construction workers feel pride when they are building the very infrastructure they and their families use every day.”

He added, “Rebuilding outdated and deteriorating bridges and infrastructure across our entire nation is about more than just concrete and steel—it is about people and building lifelines to a more robust and competitive economy, to good jobs, and to a safer transportation system.”

美国相关的总承包商批评了DOT计划。

Stephen E. Sandherr, AGC president and chief executive officer, said in astatement, “We share the administration’s desire to see more people—particularly from disadvantaged areas—enter the middle class via high paid construction careers.”

But he added, “The problem with local-hire mandates is that they solve the symptom and not the problem.”

He added: “Our members are desperate to hire workers and would love to hire local employees where they do business. But too many communities have defunded their career and technical education programs and as a result there are too often too few local workers with any interest in construction careers or basic skills that would make them attractive to hire.”

桑德尔说，在一些有地方租赁条款的项目中，在附18luck官网近地区雇用的人中有80％在完成之前就离开了该项目。

The Obama administration had put in place a similar pilot program in March 2015, but it was cancelled in October 2017, under the Trump administration.

DOT said in its2017 Federal Register noticeannouncing the program's halt that it had determined that promulgating a provision to allow geographic-based hiring preferences is "not practicable for the efficient and cost-effective delivery of projects.”