Editing Public Works Administration (section)

==Projects==
[[File: Steam shovel WDC 1933.gif|thumb|PWA-funded construction site in Washington, DC, in 1933]]
The PWA headquarters in Washington planned projects, which were built by private construction companies hiring workers on the open market. Unlike the WPA, it did not hire the unemployed directly. More than any other New Deal program, the PWA epitomized the progressive notion of "priming the pump" to encourage economic recovery. Between July 1933 and March 1939, the PWA funded and administered the construction of more than 34,000 projects including airports, large electricity-generating dams, major warships for the Navy, and bridges and 70 percent of the new schools and a third of the hospitals built in 1933–1939.

Streets and highways were the most common PWA projects, as 11,428 road projects, or 33 percent of all PWA projects, accounting for over 15 percent of its total budget. School buildings, 7,488 in all, came in second at 14 percent of spending. PWA functioned chiefly by making allotments to the various federal agencies; making loans and grants to state and other public bodies; and making loans without grants (for a brief time) to the railroads. For example, it provided funds for the Indian Division of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] (CCC) to build roads, bridges, and other public works on and near Indian reservations.

[[File: Fort Peck Dam (Fort Peck Montana) Spillway 01.jpg|right|thumb|[[Fort Peck Dam]] in Montana; spillway construction. One of the largest dams in the world, it continues to generate electricity. In July 1936, its construction employed 10,500 workers.]]
The PWA became, with its "[[Multiplier (economics)|multiplier-effect]]" and a first two-year budget of $3.3 billion (compared to the entire GDP of $60 billion), the driving force of America's biggest construction effort up to that date. By June 1934, the agency had distributed its entire fund to 13,266 federal projects and 2,407 non-federal projects. For every worker on a PWA project, almost two additional workers were employed indirectly. The PWA accomplished the electrification of rural America, the building of canals, tunnels, bridges, highways, streets, sewage systems, and housing areas, as well as hospitals, schools, and universities; every year, it consumed roughly half of the concrete and a third of the steel of the entire nation.<ref>George McJimsey, ''The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt'' (2000) "PWA (1939)", p 221;</ref> The PWA also electrified the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] between [[New York City]] and [[Washington, DC]].<ref>{{citation   | title = P.R.R. WILL SPEND $77,000,000 AT ONCE; Atterbury Outlines Projects Under PWA Loan Giving Year's Work to 25,000. TO EXTEND ELECTRIC LINE Sees Buying Power Restored and Industry Stimulated by Wide Building Program   | newspaper = The New York Times   | date = January 31, 1934 | url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A16F93559177A93C3AA178AD85F408385F9   | access-date = 2012-08-08   }}</ref> At the local level, it built courthouses, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities that remain in use in the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lowry |first=Charles B. |date=April 1974 |title=The PWA in Tampa: A Case Study |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |publisher=Florida Historical Society |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=363–380 |jstor=30145930 }}</ref>

===List of most notable PWA projects===
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* [[Bankhead Tunnel]] in [[Mobile, Alabama]]
* [[Lincoln Tunnel]] in New York City

====Water/wastewater====

* Detroit Sewage Disposal Project

====Bridges====
* [[Bourne Bridge]]
* [[Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge]]
* [[Overseas Highway]] connecting [[Key West, Florida]], to the mainland
* [[Sagamore Bridge]]
* [[Triborough Bridge]]

====Dams====
* [[Fort Peck Dam]]
* [[Grand Coulee Dam]] in Washington state
* [[Hoover Dam]]
* [[Mansfield Dam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his2341/new.html|title="New Deal Work Programs in Central Texas" 
|date=26 March 2015|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref>
* [[Pensacola Dam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/pensacola-dam-grand-lake-ok/|title=Pensacola Dam - Grand Lake OK - Living New Deal|date=26 March 2015|access-date=26 September 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326094454/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/pensacola-dam-grand-lake-ok/|archive-date=26 March 2015}}</ref>
* [[Tom Miller Dam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tom-miller-dam-austin-tx/|title=Tom Miller Dam - Austin TX - Living New Deal|date=26 March 2015|access-date=26 September 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326095815/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/tom-miller-dam-austin-tx/|archive-date=26 March 2015}}</ref>
* [[List of locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River|Upper Mississippi River locks and dams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/upper-mississippi-river-dam-winona-mn/|title=Upper Mississippi River Dam - Winona MN - Living New Deal|date=26 March 2015|access-date=26 September 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326010333/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/upper-mississippi-river-dam-winona-mn/|archive-date=26 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/Voices/transportation3.htm |title=Rivers of Life: History of Transportation, part 3 |website=Cgee.hamline.edu |access-date=2016-12-09 |archive-date=May 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519012349/http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/resources/voices/transportation3.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Airports====
* [[Austin–Bergstrom International Airport]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=New Deal Category: Airports |url=https://livingnewdeal.org/new-deal-categories/infrastructure/airports/ |access-date=May 3, 2022 |website=Living New Deal |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Charlotte Douglas International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Logan International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Los Angeles International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Nashville International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Philadelphia International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Portland International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Salt Lake City International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />
* [[Tampa International Airport]]<ref name=":0" />