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McWane employs more than 4,000 U.S. workers who safely and sustainably manufacture ductile iron pipe, soil pipe, fittings, hydrants, and valves in facilities here in the United States. Our products comprise the backbone of the vital water distribution and wastewater treatment systems throughout North America and dependably provide the U.S. with clean drinking water.

McWane is committed to American workers and American industry. At a time when many of our competitors have moved their manufacturing operations overseas or elected to import foreign products at the expense of American jobs, McWane has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize its U.S. plants and make them safe, efficient and compliant with the world’s most demanding regulatory regime. In doing so, it preserved thousands of well-paying American jobs and the futures of many communities.

U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be used to reward those companies who have moved their operations, investment dollars, and jobs to foreign countries. Nor should they be used to purchase iron products cast in foreign foundries that completely disregard environmental and worker and workplace safety regulations. Rather, taxpayer-financed federal aid programs – particularly those administered by the federal agency charged with protecting the environment – should give a commonsense preference for American manufactured products in infrastructure projects. Such preferences ensure that companies and workers who play by the rules can compete on a more even playing field to supply these taxpayer-financed infrastructure projects.

Buying American means reinvesting U.S. tax dollars in the U.S. economy and with U.S. taxpayers. Buying American means preserving and creating jobs here in the United States. Buying American is good public policy and simply the right thing to do.

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The Honorable [Name]
United States [Chamber]
Washington, DC [Zip]

Dear [Title] [Name]:

Our nation must make significant investments to install, upgrade or replace our drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. As we invest in our nation's water infrastructure, American taxpayers expect, now more than ever, that the iron and steel products incorporated into these taxpayer-financed projects will be manufactured in America by American workers.

The vast majority of Americans support domestic preferences in taxpayer-financed infrastructure spending. They believe that our tax dollars should be reinvested in our taxpayers, thereby preserving and creating jobs in the United States. This overwhelming support is owed to a shared recognition that U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be used to reward those companies that have moved their operations, investment dollars and jobs to foreign countries, foreign mills and foundries that completely disregard environmental, worker and workplace safety regulations.

Our government procurement policies should not be divorced from our regulatory policies. To the contrary, taxpayer-financed federal aid infrastructure programs – particularly those administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is charged with protecting the environment – should give a commonsense preference for the products of American companies and workers who continue to manufacture in the United States in accordance with the nation’s stringent regulatory requirements, continue to invest in their U.S. operations, modernizing plants to make them safe and efficient, continue to create and sustain jobs here in the United States. Buy America procurement preference policies ensure that companies and workers that play by the rules can compete in U.S. taxpayer-financed government procurement markets.

I urge your support for the application of Buy American policies to the nation’s taxpayer-financed water infrastructure programs. These smart policies create demand for domestically produced goods and help to sustain and grow domestic manufacturing and the millions of upstream supplier and service provider jobs that it supports. Support Buy American policies for water infrastructure; it is simply the right thing to do.

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The Honorable [Name]
United States [Chamber]
Washington, DC [Zip]

Dear [Title] [Name]:

Please support legislation and policies that increase funding, financing and investment opportunities in this nation's critical drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, including the reauthorization of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) and the removal of caps applicable to private activity bonds used to finance water projects. Much of our drinking water infrastructure – more than one million miles of pipes beneath our streets – is nearing the end of its useful life and will soon need to be replaced.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) estimates that drinking water infrastructure improvements will require more than $1 trillion nationwide over the next 25 years. The AWWA also estimates that over the next 40 years, these needs will exceed $1.7 trillion, mostly for replacement costs associated with aging U.S. infrastructure. Funding reauthorization for the DWSRF and the elimination of caps on private activity bonds will be big steps toward addressing these needs.

In addition, at a time when public funds are scarce, those limited tax dollars should support American jobs. Please help ensure that our tax dollars support our jobs here in the U.S. by including Buy American preferences in any water infrastructure legislation.

Thank you for your time and consideration and for helping to create and preserve American jobs and our water systems.

The Honorable [Name]
United States [Chamber]
Washington, DC [Zip]

Dear [Title] [Name]:

Please support legislation and policies that increase funding, financing and investment opportunities in this nation's critical drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, including the reauthorization of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) and the removal of caps applicable to private activity bonds used to finance water projects. Much of our drinking water infrastructure – more than one million miles of pipe beneath our streets – is nearing the end of its useful life and will soon need to be replaced.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) estimates that drinking water infrastructure improvements will require more than $1 trillion nationwide over the next 25 years. The AWWA also estimates that over the next 40 years these needs will exceed $1.7 trillion, mostly for replacement costs associated with aging U.S. infrastructure. Funding reauthorization for the DWSRF and the elimination of caps on private activity bonds will be big steps toward addressing these needs.

Thank you for your time and consideration and for helping to create and preserve American jobs and our water systems.

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