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ARTBA Recommends Streamlined EPA & DOT Regulations

Legal Forum Helps Navigate Project Pitfalls

Highway & Transit Bill Focus of May 23-25 Industry Events

A Message

from ARTBA

Chairman Bill

Cox:

Opening day for

M.L.B. is around

the corner—and for

ARTBA members, the first pitch

in our big game will be the May

23-25 Federal Issues Program

(FIP) and Transportation

Construction Coalition

Washington Fly-In. More than

ever, the stakes are high and

our industry needs a strong

team on the field.

Congressional leaders

have expressed their desire

to move a long-term highway

and transit bill this year. The

Obama Administration has also

weighed in with its $551 billion

reauthorization proposal.

This means we have a starting

point for action. Now it’s time

for our rank-and-file to get

in the game, make our views

heard, and shape this critical

legislation.

The FIP includes legislative

and regulatory briefings, a

transportation construction

market report and forecast

from top ARTBA staff, and

committee meetings so you

can meet face-to-face with top

federal agency officials.

During the fly-in, you

will have the opportunity

to visit with your members

of Congress and explain the

benefits of a new robust surface

transportation investment law.

Our industry needs your

leadership. Register today.

Contact Ed Tarrant with any

questions.

ARTBA members and staff

appeared March 14 before U.S.

Department of Transportation

(DOT) and Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) panels

to advocate for regulatory

reforms that would improve

the delivery of transportation

improvements and benefit the

transportation construction

industry.

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In today’s job market,

keeping your competitive

advantage is essential. Are you

successfully navigating costly

legal and regulatory project

pitfalls? Learn how at ARTBA’s

April 6-7 Transportation

Construction Law & Regulatory

Forum in Washington, D.C.

At this interactive event, top

industry lawyers and experts

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Upcoming Events

3rd Annual ARTBA Transportation Construction Law & Regulatory ForumApril 6–7 Washington, D.C. [Add to Calendar]

ARTBA Federal Issues Program & TCC Fly-InMay 23–25 Washington, D.C.[Add to Calendar]

ARTBA Young Executive Development ProgramMay 23–26Washington, D.C.[Add to Calendar]

International Bridge ConferenceJune 5–8 Pittsburgh, Pa.[Add to Calendar]

TransOvation 2011 WorkshopSeptember 7–9 Near Dulles Airport, Va.[Add to Calendar]

ARTBA National ConventionOctober 2–5 Monterey, Calif. [Add to Calendar]

ARTBA Public-Private Partnerships ConferenceNovember 15–16 Washington, D.C. [Add to Calendar]

ARTBA REGIONAL MEETINGSNortheastern November 28–29 New York, N.Y.[Add to Calendar]

SouthernNovember 30–December 1 Tampa, Fla.[Add to Calendar]WesternDecember 5–6 Los Angeles, Calif.[Add to Calendar]

CentralDecember 7–8Chicago, Ill.[Add to Calendar]

Visit our Events Page for more information.

Save the Date! ARTBA National Con-vention in Monterey, Calif., October 2-5. Contact Ed Tarrant.

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Nominations Sought for 2011 Hall of Fame Class

Nominate an individual or a family from the public or private sectors who has made extraordinary contributions to U.S. transportation development or demonstrated exceptional leadership over their lifetime to the ARTBA Foundation Hall of Fame. A new website—www.artbahalloffame.org—contains the 2011 nomination form and details about the inaugural class announced last November. Nominations are due by June 1. Contact Holly Bolton.

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800Transportation Advocates Stormed Capitol HillFor the National Bike Summit, March 8-10. Some 375 industry advocates at-tended the 2010 TCC Washington Fly-In. Will your voice heard in 2011? Register now for the May 24-25 program.

April 6-7 ARTBA Law & Regulatory ForumContinued from page 1

Products & ServicesNational Work Zone Awareness Week

April 4-8 is National Work Zone Awareness Week. In preparation, ARTBA and the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse are offering unique safety products, so that your company can highlight the importance of work zone safety on the jobsite. Contact Liz Cavallaro by March 30 to get your resource pack by Work Zone Awareness Week.

Order free and low-cost work zone materials and safety training products from the ARTBA Store today!

will share their expertise and address

real world project situations on topics

such as:environmental regulations, risk

management, government contracting,

project documentation, construction claims,

OSHA regulations and P3s. Presenting

firms include: Peckar & Abramson; Watt,

Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald; Kilpatrick

Townsend; Beveridge & Diamond; Holland

& Knight; Ogletree Deakins and Hill

International.

This member service is specifically

geared toward in-house counsel, company

leadership, project managers, HR managers

and others interested in the latest legal and

regulatory trends impacting transportation

improvement projects nationwide. A

welcome reception will also provide an

opportunity to network with your peers.

Space is limited–register today! View the

full program or contact Allison Wenograd at

202.289.4434 for more information.

Without a neW

highway/transit bill…

During COnEXPO-COn/agg, make your voice heard!

Visit your transportation industry organization listed below to call Congress and tell them why a robustly financed highway/transit bill is critical for job creation and economic growth.

Get in the game to help our industry

help america!

National Asphalt Pavement Association – Booth GL-3322Associated General Contractors of America – Booth S-10856, H-31601National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association – Booth C-8033American Road & Transportation Builders Association – Booth GL-3212Association of Equipment Manufacturers – Booth GL-3221American Concrete Pavement Association – Booth S-11256National Ready Mixed Concrete Association – Booth S-9133American Traffic Safety Services Association – Booth GL-3131Associated Equipment Distributors — Room N236

a PrOjECt Of thE transPOrtatiOn COnstruCtiOn COalitiOn

A complete list of members is available at: www.transportationconstructioncoalition.org

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“The amount of ignorance about our program and the benefits of our program to America is unbelievable. If we’re going to get this thing done, we need to work together. There are plenty of forces that would just as soon rip us apart. We have a president now who has stepped out and taken leadership on infrastructure. As transportation people, as infrastructure people, we’ve got to find things in his proposal that we like and support him.”

William Millar, president, American Public Transportation Association

“I think PIRG is on a planet that is not occupied by anyone else in the transportation universe. There are more holes in the assertions of this report than in a brick of Swiss cheese...The transportation community has never been more unified in our policy goals that we are today...”

Jeff Solsby, ARTBA director of public affairs, responding in “Better Roads” magazine to a report released by activist group PIRG, critical of the highway user fee system. The report is here.

TRB Newsletter: March 15, 2011ARTBA is pleased to make available another service for members that highlights new research, technologies, industry best practices and information resources available to the transportation design and construction industry. This material comes from the Transportation Research Board. Read the most recent newsletter.

How do They Do it? Mastering the Art & Science of Innovation3M is a company known around the world for its unrelenting focus on innovation; HNTB’s Ted Zoli won a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award for his “outside-the-box” bridge design work; and John Hillman of Teng & Associates won the ENR Award of Excellence for his work as a transportation engineer. How do they do it, and how can you bring their skills to your workplace? Attend TransOVation 2011, an industry-first innovation workshop Sept. 7-9 near Dulles, Va. Visit transovation.net to learn more.

Overheard

Fostering Innovation

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ARTBA Recommends Improved EPA, DOT RegulationsContinued from page 1

Marc Herbst,

executive director

of the Long Island

Contractors’

Association and

vice chairman

of ARTBA’s Council of State

Executives, urged U.S. DOT

officials to: develop regulations

that allow established contractors

to help Disadvantaged Business

Enterprise (DBE) firms succeed;

provide a construction industry

exemption to federal hours of

service trucking regulations;

and revise regulations to make

it easier for patented and

proprietary products to enter the

nation’s transportation market.

Nick Goldstein, ARTBA’s

vice president of environmental

& regulatory

affairs, told an

EPA regulatory

review panel that

inefficiencies

in completing

environmental

reviews can slow down needed

transportation improvements.

He specifically urged EPA

to work more directly with

U.S. DOT officials to expedite

completion of transportation

project environmental reviews

and to consider the effect of

regulations on other departments

or agencies. Goldstein also

cautioned EPA against classifying

coal ash and non-harmful

forms of asbestos as hazardous

materials since these substances

pose no threat to human health

and are essential to many

transportation improvements.

The Herbsts & Goldstein

comments are available here.

Economics & Research News New Contract Award Data Shows Decrease

The value of new transportation

contract awards in February 2011

was down 5.8 percent compared

to the same time in 2010, to

$9.2 billion. Every mode except

highways showed a decrease. The

value of new highway contract

awards year-to-date in February

was up 13.3 percent to $6.6 billion

compared to February 2010, while

number of highway contracts

was down 7.4 percent to 2,651. If

you want to learn more, contact

ARTBA’s Liz Cavallaro about the

Transportation Construction

Market Intelligence Reports.

Senators Introduce Build ACT

Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Kay

Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)

March 16 introduced the “Building

and Upgrading Infrastructure

for Long-Term Development”

(BUILD) Act to establish an

infrastructure bank, with a

presidentially appointed board,

designed to leverage private

investment in public works

projects by providing loans

and loan guarantees. The bank

would be capitalized with an

initial $10 billion to support

transportation, water, energy,

and communications projects of

national or regional significance

with total costs of at least $100

million, or $25 million for rural

projects. The bank is designed

to become self-sufficient within

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the first few years. The act would

also extend for 2011 and 2012

a provision of the American

Recovery and Reinvestment Act

(ARRA) that made interest earned

on PABs exempt from calculations

of the Alternative Minimum Tax.

It is important to note this

infrastructure bank plan is one of

several that have been proposed

by members of Congress and the

Obama Administration—all with

varying scopes, funding levels, and

relationships to existing executive

branch departments.

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Become a Scheduling Expert in Just Three Days!

Are you a scheduler, estimator

or project manager who would

like a better grasp on managing

transportation construction

projects? Do you and your

company take full advantage

of Primavera’s scheduling and

management tools? Would

you like to learn to prepare

project schedules more quickly

and efficiently? If any of these

questions apply to you, then

ARTBA’s Transportation

Development Foundation

Transportation Builder Institute

has the perfect solution—the

Scheduling Academy, planned for

April 19-21 in Washington, D.C.

For more information, contact

Laura Spitz at 202.289.4434.

Safety News

Clearinghouse Unveils New Work Zone Awareness Week Poster

The National Work Zone Safety

Information Clearinghouse

is a key supporter of National

Work Zone Awareness Week,

April 4-8. This year’s theme

is “Safer Driving. Safer Work

Zones. For Everyone.” The

national “Kickoff Event” will be

hosted by the Maryland State

Highway Administration. As in

previous years, the Clearinghouse

will sponsor printing of the

official poster, which will be

sent to thousands of people and

organizations across the country.

This poster and a variety of other

posters and work zone safety

products are available through

the Clearinghouse website.

Download a PDF copy of the digital “Washington Newsline.”

Meetings & Events

2011 International Bridge Conference

Exhibitor prospectus and

sponsorship information are

available. Contact Jim Colleton.

ARTBA News

ITS Group Forming

ARTBA member firms with

an interest in Intelligent

Transportation Systems (ITS)

are encouraged to sign up

representatives to help lead,

organize and participate in

a new ARTBA ITS Policy &

Promotion Council. For details,

contact Rob Regier.

APRIL 1: YOUNG EXECUTIVE PROGRAM DEADLINE APPROACHING!

ARTBA’s 2011 Young Executive Development Program (YEDP), to be held May 23-26, is an immersion course in the Nation’s Capital designed to introduce the next generation of leaders to federal legislative and regulatory policies and ARTBA’s role in shaping them. It features sessions on highway/transit financing, economics, environmental issues, P3s & industry innovation. The program also features an interactive session with a high-profile industry CEO & tour of FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.

Admission is competitive. A nomination letter must accompany each application. Each person who refers an applicant will be entered in a drawing to win a new Apple iPad (16 GB “wi-fi” model). Contact Jeff Solsby at 202.289.4434 with any questions.

2011 YEDP Application

ARTBA Welcomes New Member: Advanced Infrastructure Technologies

AIT designs and manufactures Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite bridge systems which are lightweight, easy to install, rebar free, and exceed American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials standards for load capacity to create a longer lasting structure that virtually eliminates ongoing maintenance and corrosion issues. Their primary member will be Barry Raeburn, executive vice president, operations.