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® September 2 2020 Vol. LVII • No. 18
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Inside
Keeping Up-to-Date on Heavy-Duty Clean Air Regs
Amid Challenges, Contractor Delivers Jobs Safely…8
Rehabilitation of Eight Bridges Nears Finish…16
The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) awarded the $131 million contract to Tutor Perini Corporation of New Rochelle, N.Y.
Firm Finishes Two-Year Job in One…39
Maryland Looks to Unclog Long-Time Bottleneck
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section..............39-55 Utility Construction Section .. ......................................59-64 Snow & Ice Section ......65-67 Auction Section ......100-112 Business Calendar ..........104 Advertisers Index ............110
By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
The construction of the Baltimore Beltway I-695 Outer Loop is getting closer to its completion date of late summer 2021. The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) awarded the $131 million contract to Tutor Perini Corporation of New Rochelle, N.Y. The project began in the fall of 2015. According to Shantee Felix, assistant media relations manager of the office of communications for MDOT SHA, the proj-
With the coronavirus pandemic pausing the Cleaner Trucks Initiative, the California Air Resources Board has developed rules for onroad heavy-duty vehicles and engines that may go further than the EPA’s efforts.
By Lucy Perry CEG CORRESPONDENT
Got heavy-duty trucks? Federal and state environmental agencies have your assets on their radars. Critical policy programs such as the Cleaner Trucks Initiative, and California’s Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus rule and the Advanced Clean Trucks ect begins south of U.S. 40 (Baltimore Initiative are affecting the trucking side of the heavy National Pike) and goes to MD 144 construction industry despite the COVID-19 pandemic. (Frederick Road) for a total distance of 1.44 Making Trucks mi. Cleaner “It will alleviate a long-standing bottleThis spring, the EPA set September 2020 as the date neck that impacts roughly 200,000 motorists it would issue the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for who use this section of the roadway,” she the Cleaner Trucks Initiative (CTI), created to control said. The work consists of the following: air pollution from heavy-duty engines. Though it’s now on hold due to the pandemic, and widening of the outer loop roadway to procould be further delayed by the November presidential vide four continuous through lanes with auxiliary lanes, replacement of the outer loop election, final rule has been set for July 2021, reported Edmondson Avenue and Ingleside Avenue the National Law Review. The agency may issue an advanced notice of bridges over I-695, rehabilitation work on see BELTWAY page 36
see RULES page 70