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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 Successfully Defends Insurance Coverage for Construction Defects
Siding with AGC of America and the AGC of Alabama, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has unanimously held that the contractual liability exclusion to coverage under the commercial general liability (CGL) policies sold to AGC members across the country does not deprive these firms… Read More
June 30, 2015
EPA Outlines Policy on Vapor Intrusion, Promotes National Consistency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released final guidance on how best to assess and mitigate vapor intrusion, which occurs when vapors from below-ground contamination (soil or groundwater) rise into the indoor air of overlying buildings. EPA also has renewed efforts to… Read More
June 30, 2015
EPA Strengthens Underground Storage Tank Requirements
In June 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the first major revisions to the federal underground storage tank (UST) requirements since 1988 to help prevent and detect UST releases. With this action, EPA also amended the state program approval regulations. The final rule… Read More
June 29, 2015
EPA Releases Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
‘EJSCREEN’ Expected to Guide Agenda for Rule-Writers and Citizen Activists In its latest move to make environmental data more transparent and readily available to the public at large, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a new environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping… Read More
June 29, 2015
Help Support WRRDA Levels of Funding for Harbor Maintenance
Contact Your Member of Congress and Ask Them to Sign House Letter Representatives Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Janice Hahn (D-Calif.) are currently circulating an AGC-supported letter urging appropriators to utilize Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) revenues at the levels set by the Water… Read More
June 26, 2015
CBO Reports on Infrastructure Spending
This week, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report detailing public spending on transportation and water infrastructure from 1956 to 2014.  The report showed that public spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure has been fairly consistent as a share of Gross Domestic Product… Read More
June 26, 2015
House Passes Bill to Improve Passenger Rail
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 (PRRIA) by a vote of 316-101. The main focus of the bill is to reform and improve our nation’s intercity passenger rail systems.  These reforms are achieved mostly through changes to Amtrak… Read More
June 26, 2015
DOT Allows Use of Local Hire Preference on Highway and Transit Contracts
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a pilot program this week that will allow state and local governments to utilize local hiring preferences on their federal-aid highway and federal transit assisted contracts. The pilot program is effective immediately. In addition, DOT issued a… Read More
June 26, 2015
AGC Comments on EPA’s Ozone Rule Highlight the Crippling Economic Impacts Possible In Areas of Nonattainment
Comments Due by March 17 AGC is in the process of evaluating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed revisions to National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone. The proposal would greatly increase the stringency of the ozone NAAQS at a time when implementation of the current… Read More
June 26, 2015
SBA Proposes Mentor-Protégé Program for All Small Businesses
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently issued a proposed rule that would expand mentor-protégé arrangements to all federal small businesses. In a mentor-protégé arrangement, a small business—i.e., the protégé—can joint venture with non-small businesses—i.e., large or mid-tier… Read More
June 26, 2015

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