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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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AGC Wins Big in Unanimous Supreme Court Decision on Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determinations
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that will allow landowners to challenge a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determination that a jurisdictional “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) is present on property where they want to build.  A “jurisdictional determination” significantly impacts how land may… Read More
June 28, 2016
House Committee Moves FY 2017 Transportation Funding Bill
AGC-Backed Provision Restricting Transportation Department Pilot Program Remains With Senate action already finished, the House Appropriations Committee this week approved the FY 2017 transportation appropriations bill. Both versions of the legislation maintain the funding levels set in the 2015… Read More
June 28, 2016
Bipartisan Support in House for Highway Trust Fund Fix
This week, 132 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Ranking Democrat Sander Levin (Mich.) in support of fixing the Highway Trust Fund as part of comprehensive tax reform.  Thanks to the AGC members who met… Read More
June 28, 2016
House Holds Hearing on OSHA's New Recordkeeping Rule
AGC Outlines Concerns of Construction Industry in Letter This week, AGC delivered a letter to the House Education and the Workforce Committee for a hearing that examined the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) rule on Improved Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses. AGC… Read More
June 28, 2016
Puerto Rico Financial Crisis Legislation Advances
AGC Supports Sensible Fiscal Reform for Path Forward On May 25, the House Natural Resources Committee passed legislation that with sensible fiscal reforms—and no taxpayer dollars for a bailout—to address the financial crisis in Puerto Rico. The AGC-backed bill would create a debt-restructuring… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC Objects to DOD Contracting Proposed Rule
On May 24, AGC objected to the Department of Defense’s proposed change to the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (DFARS) that would prohibit the use of any cost-plus system of contracting for military construction and military family housing projects governed under Title 10 of the U.S. Code.… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Supported $5 Billion Water Infrastructure Bill Advances
On May 25, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved an AGC-supported $5 billion Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which authorizes new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works construction projects, including locks, dams, levees, harbor maintenance dredging and… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Backed Civilian BRAC Bills Pass House
Potential to Unlock Billions in New Construction On May 23, the House unanimously approved two AGC-supported bills – The Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act, H.R. 4487, and the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act, H.R. 4465 – that would encourage federal agencies to dispose of, consolidate,… Read More
June 28, 2016
House Panel Advances AGC Procurement Reform Priorities
On May 17, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously approved AGC-supported legislation that would (1) require civilian federal agencies—non-Department of Defense agencies—to utilize the two-step design-build selection process for design-build projects greater than $3 million… Read More
June 28, 2016
AGC-Backed Design-Build Rule Finalized
On May 16, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued an AGC-supported final rule that effectively limits the second-step (“short-list”) of the two-step design-build procurement process to no more than five teams. Through AGC’s efforts, this reform was passed by Congress in 2014. For… Read More
June 28, 2016

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