補正予算で防災インフラ強化＝来月初めにも枠組み－ダム、堤防を総点検へ・政府

　台風１９号の激甚災害指定などを受け、政府は２０１９年度補正予算案の調整を急ぐ。夏以降に台風や大雨による被害が相次いだため、河川の堤防の復旧を含めたインフラ強化の費用を中心に組み入れる予定。来月初めにも枠組みを取りまとめる方針だ。
　梶山弘志経済産業相は２９日夜、長野県の阿部守一知事との会談で、「１１月初めになると思うが、政策パッケージをまとめて政府の方から発表がある」との見通しを示した。
　台風１９号などにより、各地で河川の堤防決壊や家屋への浸水被害が発生した。安倍晋三首相は、堤防の強化に加え、「将来、気候変動の影響で降雨量が増大し、水害が頻発化、激甚化する場合に備えた治水対策を適切に講じていく」と述べた。政府は全国の堤防やダムを総点検し、防災機能を高める方針だ。（2019/10/29-20:07）

The Japanese government is set to speed up work to compile a fiscal 2019 supplementary budget focused on infrastructure reinforcement projects, following a recent string of powerful typhoons and massive floods that devastated many areas of the country.
   The government is expected to draw up an outline of the extra budget in early November. At a meeting on Tuesday with Shuichi Abe, governor of Nagano Prefecture, one of heavily affected areas, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama said that a related policy package will be compiled in early November and announced by the government.
   Torrential rains from the recent typhoons heavily damaged levees along rivers and caused widespread flood damage. On Tuesday, the government designated Typhoon Hagibis, which tore through eastern and central Japan in mid-October, as an "extraordinary" disaster under a relevant law and flood damage from the 19th typhoon of the year as a disaster with extreme severity, in order to facilitate the reconstruction of affected areas.
   On the day, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will strengthen levees to prevent such damage reoccurring.
   "We will take appropriate water control measures to prepare for future surges in the frequency and severity of flood damage resulting from an increase in the amount of rainfall reflecting climate change," Abe said. The government plans to inspect all levees and dams across the country and boost disaster management capabilities.