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March 12, 2016 • Vol. XX • No. 6 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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Cavalier Air Force Station Opens in N.D. By Brenda Ruggiero
Lano Equipment Hosts Open House…8
IAAP Names Rock Solid Safety Award Winners…34
CEG CORRESPONDENT
which is also close to the diverging-diamond interchange that Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) is building. The $16 million municipal project is locally funded through a combination of impact fee revenues, a gas tax and wheel tax funds. The project, to be completed in September or
A recent project at the Cavalier Air Force Station in North Dakota will “further ensure that the most capable radar in the world can remain in effect during possible contingency scenarios,” said Lt. Col. John Koehler, 10th Space Warning Squadron commander at the station. The project began on March 31, 2014, and was scheduled to be complete by Dec. 30, 2015, with a small portions pending completion. According to Koehler, the $20 million project includes infrastructure improvements to the Air Force’s phased-array radar system, the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS), the most capable radar in the Space Surveillance Network. Operated and maintained by the 10th Space Warning Squadron at Cavalier Air Force Station, the radar provided roughly 29 million observations to the network last year, tracking about one third of all low earth orbiting objects. PARCS continuously provides critical missile warning and space surveillance data to North American Aerospace
see LINCOLN page 48
see STATION page 44
Reconstruction of a 2 mi. (3.2 km) segment of the city of Lincoln’s NW 48th Street between West Vine Street and West Adams Street began March 30, 2015 when crews from K2 Construction, based in the city, arrived on the scene of this project, which also is close to the diverging-diamond interchange that Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) is building.
K2 Construction Works With Local Groups on 48th Street By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT A History of Paving, Compaction, Milling…76
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Reconstruction of a 2 mi. (3.2 km) segment of the city of Lincoln’s NW 48th Street between West Vine Street and West Adams Street began March 30, 2015 when crews from K2 Construction, based in the city, arrived on the scene of this project,
Asphalt, Concrete, Paving, Compaction & Milling Section ......................55-83 By Adam Aton
Lawmakers Look for Road Funds in Unusual Places
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Auction Section ......94-101 Business Calendar ........99 Advertisers Index ........102
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri lawmakers are looking beyond the usual places for funding road and bridge repairs after they promised to make it a priority this session. House Republicans hope to send the Senate a budget that includes roughly $30 million to revive the Missouri Department of
Transportation’s cost-sharing program. The department typically splits half the cost of an infrastructure project with a local government. The only other transportation funding likely to materialize this year, said House Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer, is if voters approve an increase to the tobacco tax in November. Other tobacco tax increases failed in 2002, 2006 and 2012, though the latest fell short by only 1.5 percentage
points. The Senate is slated to debate raising the fuel tax by 1.5 cents for gasoline and 3.5 cents for diesel, a proposal sponsored by Republican Sen. Doug Libla with support from Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. But it faces strong headwinds: Many Republicans in the Senate — several of whom face primaries in their campaigns for higher office — are reluctant to raise taxes, and House see FUNDS page 86