A key government economic panel will call for a freeze on dam and road projects on which construction has not yet begun when it issues a blueprint for reform on June 27, government sources said Friday.
The so-called big-boned program to be issued by the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy will also call for projects to build airports and ports to be scrapped if similar facilities are already located nearby, the sources said.
The proposals follow a promise by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to review public works projects in order to keep the issuance of new government bonds below 30 trillion yen in fiscal 2002.