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Bingham Canyon Mine Displays Monumental Character By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Big. That little word captures the essence of Rio Tinto Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon open pit mine. Situated a few miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah, the mine is big…as in one of the largest manmade excavations in the entire world, a hole so vast that astronauts can spot it from space. Big… as in the world’s top copper mine, 20 million tons produced to date and counting. A big mine with big equipment to match — including six-story-tall electric shovels loading 320-ton-capacity haul
His arrival came eight months after a rock avalanche that, in keeping with the monumental character of the mine, was the largest nonvolcanic landslide on record in North America. Some 150 million tons of rock and dirt rushed down the northeast side of the mine at speeds of up to 100 mph. To put the enormity of the slide in perspective, mine publicists say 150 million tons of dirt would cover New York City’s Central Park 64 feet deep. Surprisingly, Rio Tinto restored production within days of the disruptive slide. No loss of life occurred because geotechnical engineers had been monitoring the
The shovel’s dipper or bucket holds more than 100 tons (90.7 t) of material — three scoopfuls and a 320-ton haul truck is ready to roll.
haul roads, it changed a whole face of the mine and littered most of the bottom of the pit. Thirteen of the huge haul trucks that were thought to be parked out of harm’s way were buried, as were three gigantic shovels and three drills. Several of the trucks eventually were dug out and Big. That little word captures the essence of Rio Tinto Kennecott’s Bingham restored to service. Canyon open pit mine. With recovery operatrucks. slope for months in anticipation of tions still under way, Meador came Dave Meador has the big job of a slide. They moved people, equip- north from Down Under and two managing operations at the ment, and supplies from the antici- years later became Bingham Bingham Canyon. The Virginia pated path of the landslide — or so Canyon’s manager. But if you Tech engineering graduate brings they believed. want to find him, don’t look for to the task a continental perspecIt turned out the massive dislo- him in an office. tive, the continent being Australia cation of rock and earth did not “I spend most of my time in the where Meador worked for Rio behave as predicted. It ran out mine and in the concentrator [a Tinto for five years in a variety of across the floor farther than anyone separate ore processing facility five capacities before moving to foresaw. It not only, as expected, miles north of the pit],” he said. Bingham Canyon in 2013. obliterated mining benches and “I’m on the front line with the
truck drivers and supervisors and shovel operators.” He acknowledges that his enormous workplace, which has been synonymous with Kennecott corporation for more than 90 years, is an iconic hole in the ground, a vast bowl with long, terraced and gently descending slopes. “Personally, I feel privileged to work in a place like this with the strong brand and the history it has. It is amazing how long Kennecott has safely operated the mine.” Safety is a core value of Kennecott’s business. No fatalities have been recorded at the Bingham Canyon mine since 1989, almost 30 years now. Accidents happen, of course, including two years ago when an earthen embankment gave way and sent one of the trucks rolling 300 ft. down an embankment. The driver walked away with bruises, one of the more dramatic seat belt endorsements.
“Fatalities are not something we accept in doing business,” Meador said. Copper ore was discovered in the Oquirrh Mountains canyon by two brothers named Bingham just a year after Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley with Brigham Young. But mining wasn’t seriously pursued for 15 years and an open pit wasn’t started until the end of the century. By 1923, Kennecott held a majority interest in the mine. Finally, Rio Tinto absorbed Kennecott in 1989 and invested some $2 billion to modernize the operation. The pit has grown to be 2.75 mi. wide at the top and three-quarters of a mi. deep. It’s big, in a word. All of that missing rock and soil has been pried loose and carted away using increasingly sophisticated methods. Mining and processing have evolved from primisee MINE page 8
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St. John Properties Begins Construction on Grove Tower St. John Properties has commenced construction on its newest office building. The 190,000-sq.-ft. Grove Tower is next to I-15 and Pleasant Grove Boulevard (Exit 275). Grove Tower follows on the company’s recent completion of two other adjacent single story office buildings within their 60acre master planned development known as Valley Grove. “We are thrilled with the investment St. John Properties is making in the gateway of our city,” stated Mayor Mike Daniels of Pleasant Grove City. “The Grove Tower represents the breadth, depth, and quality of their company as much as the development they are building.” “We are very excited about the economic development impact of St. John Properties’ investment in our city,” added PG City Councilwoman Dianna Andersen. “We are so pleased to be a part of Pleasant Grove’s rapid growth on Utah’s Silicon Slopes,” said Daniel Thomas, managing partner of St. John Properties Utah. “In the heart of Utah County, Grove Tower offers businesses unmatched connectivity and access to the whole valley, giving employees more time for work and play and not in traffic.” The six-story Grove Tower class-A office space promises 360-degree views of Mt. Timpanogos and Utah Lake. Grove Tower is LEED designed to address the air pollution that plagues our valleys, reduce water consumption and lower maintenance costs for tenants. The Need The state added 42,100 jobs between November 2015 and November 2016, according to the Utah Department of Workforce Services. Utah Valley’s tech
The 190,000-sq.-ft. Grove Tower promises 360-degree views of Mt. Timpanogos and Utah Lake.
heavy silicon slopes are pulling the epicenter of population growth south of the state’s capitol city as new jobs and new homes dot the Utah County landscape according to the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. This is driving increased demand for office space in Utah Valley.
St. John Properties has commenced construction on its newest office building.
Grove Tower anchor tenant Instructure is expanding to Utah Valley. “We are excited to expand our engineering and customer success teams in Utah County and look forward to drawing upon the incredible talent base the market provides,” said Jeff Weber, SVP of People and
Places for Instructure. St. John projects Grove Tower completion in December with tenant occupancy in January 2018. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Grove Tower follows on the company’s recent completion of two other adjacent single story office buildings within their 60-acre master planned development known as Valley Grove.
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President Monson Announces Five New LDS Temples Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced plans to build five new temples, located in Brasília, Brazil; the greater Manila, Philippines, area; Nairobi, Kenya; Pocatello, Idaho; and Saratoga Springs, Utah. The announcement was made during opening remarks on April 2, at the Sunday morning session of the Church’s 187th Annual General Conference. The five announced temples bring the total number of operating temples (155) and temples announced or under construction (27) to 182 temples worldwide. Dedicatory services will be held for five temples this year, including the Paris, France Temple (May 21); Tucson, Ariz. Temple (Aug. 13); Meridian, Idaho Temple (Nov. 19); and Cedar City, Utah Temple (Dec. 10). The Idaho Falls, Idaho Temple will be rededicated June 4. There are five temples under renovation, including the Frankfurt, Germany Temple; Idaho Falls, Idaho Temple; Jordan River, Utah Temple; Oakland, Calif. Temple; and Washington D.C. Temple. Temples under renovation are considered operating temples. Brasília, Brazil Aside from the United States and Mexico, more Latterday Saints live in Brazil (more than 1.3 million members) than any other country. The Brasília Brazil Temple is the 10th announced temple in Brazil, including six operating temples (Campinas, Curitiba, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife and São Paulo). Three other temples are announced or under construction, including Fortaleza (groundbreaking Nov. 15,
2011), Rio de Janeiro (groundbreaking March 4, 2017) and Belém (announced April 3, 2016). Brazil has a population of approximately 211 million people. Greater Manila, Philippines A temple to be built in the greater Manila, Philippines, area will mark the second temple in Manila. The Manila, Philippines Temple was dedicated in 1984. With the announcement, the Philippines will have four temples announced or dedicated, including Cebu City, Manila (2) and Urdaneta. In a nation of approximately 104 million people, there are nearly 750,000 Latter-day Saints. Nairobi, Kenya Kenya is home to more than 48 million people with more than 13,000 members of the Church. The temple will serve more than 30,000 members in East Africa. There are three operating temples in Africa (Aba, Nigeria; Accra, Ghana; and Johannesburg, South Africa), two under construction (Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Durban, South Africa) and two more announced (in addition to Nairobi), including Abidjan, Ivory Coast; and Harare, Zimbabwe, for a total of eight temples in Africa. Pocatello, Idaho Idaho has four operating temples (Boise, Idaho Falls, Rexburg and Twin Falls). The Idaho Falls Temple is being renovated and will be rededicated on June 4, 2017, while the Meridian Idaho Temple is nearing completion and will be
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Honnen Equipment Co. announced the promotion of Matt Murphy to director of John Deere sales. He will be responsible for contributing to the overall sales strategy of Honnen Equipment throughout our ten branches in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and southern Idaho. Murphy’s 19 years of heavy equipment sales and sales management experience will aid in strengthening customer relationships as well as help drive company goals. To fill Murphy’s previous role, Honnen promoted Kevin Krausch to Colorado Front Range sales manager. To this position Krausch brings more than 18 years in heavy equipment industry sales experience including seven most recently spent as a territory/account manager of Honnen. He will be responsible for overseeing all John Deere Construction & Forestry sales operations for the Front Range of Colorado. For more information, visit www.Honnen.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
dedicated on Nov. 19, 2017. The Pocatello Idaho Temple will be the 6th operating temple in Idaho. With a state population of 1.7 million people, Idaho is home to approximately 450,000 Latter-day Saints. Saratoga Springs, Utah As world headquarters of The Church of Jesus of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah has 2.1 million members of the Church with a state population of approximately 3.1 million people. There are 16 operating temples in Utah, including Bountiful, Brigham City, Draper, Logan, Jordan River, Manti, Monticello, Mount Timpanogos, Ogden, Oquirrh Mountain, Payson, Provo City Center, Provo, St. George, Salt Lake and Vernal. The Jordan River Temple is undergoing extensive interior renovation, while the Cedar City Temple is scheduled to be dedicated on Dec. 10, 2017. The Saratoga Springs Temple will be the 18th in the Beehive State. About Temples Latter-day Saints consider temples to be the “house of the Lord,” the most sacred places on the earth. Temples differ from the meetinghouses or chapels where all are welcome to attend Sunday worship services. In the temple, the teachings of Jesus Christ are reaffirmed through marriage, baptism and other ceremonies that unite families for eternity. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Big-D Construction’s Lab Project Crowned ‘Champion of the Year’ Big-D Construction garnered several Excellence in Construction awards from the Utah Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), including the inaugural ‘ABC Champion of the Year’ award. During its annual state convention and EIC Awards dinner in April, ABC awarded the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Center of the Arts project the “Champion of the Year.” The project also won the “Excellence in Construction Award for Institutional Over $10 Million.” Big-D’s Unified State Laboratory project won the “Commercial Over $20 Million” award. The following projects received Honorable Mention accolades: • O.C. Tanner Corporate Headquarters, “Renovation Over $5 Million” • Cabela’s Retail, “Commercial $5 to $10 Million” • Intermountain Healthcare Park City Hospital Outpatient Expansion, “Healthcare Over $5 Million” “It is an honor to receive these awards from ABC,” said Forrest McNabb, Big-D president. “These awards reflect the longstanding relationships we have with these great customers, our subcontractors and suppliers, the design partners, and our amazing employees.” In addition, Big-D’s safety program received recognition from the ABC Utah Chapter and the Utah Labor Commission. Big-D was presented with the 2016
Annual Workplace Safety Award and ABC’s Gold Level STEP Award. Both awards recognize Big-D’s commitment to promoting an exemplary safety culture. “Safety is the highest priority on all of our projects,” said McNabb. “We remain committed to achieve zero harm on our job sites with our nationally-recognized TH!NK safety program.” Founded in 1967 in Ogden, Utah, Big-D has grown to comprise eight regional offices, generating more than $1 billion in revenue and establishing itself on a national scale. The company was recently named one of Engineering News Record’s Top 100 Contractors in the nation, and has been an Engineering News Record Top 400 Contractor for 27 consecutive years. Big-D is certified as a Great Place to Work and has been recognized as one of Utah Business’ Best Companies to Work For, as well as one of the publication’s Top 100 Private Companies since 2008. Big-D also has been selected as a Best of State (Commercial Construction) winner three times and won “Contractor of the Year” by the Utah Chapter of CCIM in 2017. For more information, visit big-d.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Avalanche at Mine Dislodges 150 Million Tons of Material MINE from page 1
tive picks and shovels and horses and carts to rugged if rudimentary trucks and narrowgauge railroads and finally to monstrous machines, some of them autonomous, and miles-long conveyor belts. Rio Tinto has been in the vanguard of autonomous and distance-controlled machines for a decade. After the slide, the company employed remote-controlled bulldozers and loaders to clear the way for manned equipment to return safely to work. It employed an autonomous excavator, drill, and hydraulic shovel in the year following the slide. While some remote-controlled equipment still is utilized when safety is an issue, Meador said no autonomous equipment is operated there “in this current market. We have operated it in the past. We have experience with it and would use it again in areas where there might be risk of geological instability.” Instead, the company relies on experienced drivers to pilot its house-sized trucks and swivel its hill-sized shovels. Drilling units also have operators in cabs, systematically boring holes for explosive charges that produce the rubble for those shovels. Rio Tinto Kennecott officials decline to talk in specifics about brands of equipment, only acknowledging they operate a “mix” of makes. But reports through the years give glimpses of that mix. For example, after all that earth crashed down into the mine, the company scurried around to acquire a massive amount of equipment, including shovels, haul trucks, drills, dozers, excavators, wheel loaders and graders — 180 pieces of equipment. They were needed to remediate the mine and concurrently restart production. Twenty-two haul trucks previously bud-
Thirteen of the huge haul trucks that were thought to be parked out of harm’s way were buried, as were three gigantic shovels and three drills.
Dave Meador has the big job of managing operations at the Bingham Canyon.
geted were acquired — Komatsu 930E models. The machines are direct descendants of the R.G. LeTourneau Haulpak. Each rigid, two-axle truck stands 24 ft. (7.3 m) high and can carry 320 tons (290 t) of material on tires more than 12 ft. (3.7 m) tall. Engine size? Upwards of 2,500 hp depending upon configuration. A 16-cylinder diesel engine fueled from a 1,200-gal. (4,542 L) tank is paired with electric wheel motors to power the gigantic vehicle from the bottom of the pit to a rock crusher at the upper lip of the mine. In the days after the landslide, Rio Tinto diverted to the mine a new P&H 4100XPC electric rope shovel that originally was destined for another company operation. The
Commercial uses for the mine’s production include computers, cell phones and solar panels.
shovel’s dipper or bucket holds more than 100 tons (90.7 t) of material — three scoopfuls and a 320-ton haul truck is ready to roll. The 40-ft. (12 m)-tall machine’s boom extends 70 ft. (21.3 m) in the air. Needless to say, the shovel was shipped to the mine in pieces and assembled in the pit. The company also quickly acquired a Hitachi 5600 hydraulic shovel, a 590-ton (535 t) twin-engined machine. It also had to be assembled at the bottom of a secondary switch-back road, which became the primary access route for the pit after the slide. Trucking and sledding the shovel components to the lower assembly area was considered almost as big an achievement as procuring the machine. A Volvo A40 articulated
truck was converted into a transport unit to haul some machine parts. Other new equipment bought and leased after the disaster included Caterpillar D11 bulldozers, the first of which was delivered three weeks after dust settled in the mine. Today the mine has a fleet of 110 trucks, including Caterpillar and Komatsu haulers, most of them with Tier II engines. The trucks team up with eight electric and two hydraulic shovels. Each month, eight of the shovels trundle to a new location where rubble blasted from a 56-ft. (17 m)-high shelf awaits loading into trucks. The fractured rock is created from explosions triggered in 300 12-in. (30.5 cm)-diameter holes drilled see MINE page 10
The Rio Tinto Kennecott operation employs approximately 800 men and women at the mine.
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Rio Tinto Kennecott Bingham Canyon Mine Operates 24/7 MINE from page 8
daily along the shelf by a dozen drilling rigs. Some 500,000 tons (453,592 t) of ore and waste are hauled from the pit every 24 hours. The mine operates 24/7, as conditions permit. “It changes quite a bit, naturally, in winter time,” Meador said. The Oquirrh Mountains mine site is, after all, across Salt Lake Valley from the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, where the Winter Olympics were held in 2002. The pit ranges from 8,000 ft. above sea level at the top to about 4,400 feet at the bottom. “So being at a high altitude, we have whiteout conditions sometimes and our production profile looks a little bit different in winter. We are always doing the best we can, but there are times when we just need to pull back.” Each shift, 100 of the trucks rumble up and down the 10-degree sloped roadway. The nearly 30-ft.wide trucks pass one another on the 100-ft.-wide path. They travel at an average speed of 8 mph — a little faster than that coasting downhill when empty — with posted speed limits and engine governors dictating operational speeds. “We limit the speed of the trucks for safety reasons,” Meador said.
Some 3,500 ft. of the roadway had to be rebuilt after the 2013 slide. From the shovel at the bottom to the crusher at the top, the journey is about 2 mi. long, a trip a haul truck can complete in 30 minutes or so. Not all the collected material is ore-bearing or otherwise of economic value, of course, so not all transported material ends up at the 200,000-tons-a-day crusher. Overburden is dumped in engineered and permitted locations. The Rio Tinto Kennecott operation employs approximately 800 men and women at the mine, with 200 of them at work each shift along with a variable number of contractors, more than 100 in some cases. The company prides itself on the diversity of its workforce and the generational attachment of families to the operation. “If you go in the mine,” Meador said, “a number of team members can reach in their wallets and pull out photos of their grandfathers or great-grandfathers who worked here.” Another 30 people are on the clock each shift maintaining equipment, either doing field maintenance or working in Kennecott’s 19-bay truck shop. In 2011, a 100,000-ft. expansion updated the maintenance facility to accommodate a fleet of equipment that
Commercial uses for the mine’s production include computers, cell phones and solar panels.
grows larger year by year. “Our team does an excellent job from a maintenance standpoint. Our people have gotten really, really good at working efficiently,” Meador said. Augmenting the good shop work is the company’s good working relationship with equipment-makers. “We are fortunate that we can go to manufacturers and talk about things we are experiencing with the equipment. We are able to prevent a lot of issues from developing.” The open pit itself is the core of the operation, but it is only a starting place for Rio Tinto’s Utah mining operation. Crushed rock carried from the pit leaves the mine on a conveyor system that carries basketball-sized rubble 5 mi. north — including 3 mi. through a tunnel —
to a concentrator. There, valuable minerals are separated out and ground into fine powder before being conveyed as a liquid concentrate 17 mi. farther north. In several subsequent steps, the copper ore is filtered and smelted — another monumental statistic: the smelter stack is the tallest structure in Utah, just shorter than the Empire State building — before being cast and refined. On an average day, ten rail cars, each containing 185,000 lbs. of virtually pure copper sheeting, roll away to customers. The rest of the story is about the company’s environmental efforts, including creation of a 3,000 acre Kennecott Inland Sea Shorebird Reserve, an area set aside to mitigate 1,000 acres of wetlands
encroached upon by an expanded Kennecott tailing impoundment area. Also created by the company is Daybreak, a 4,100-acre masterplanned community built on land impacted by the mine over the decades. It features open space, trails, energy-efficient homes and LEED-certified buildings, one of which is the Rio Tinto Kennecott headquarters. On another environmental front, the company reached an agreement last fall with Rocky Mountain Power to decommission the company’s three coal-fired powerplants, though they were operated only during non-winter months. Copper is the main product of the Bingham Canyon mine, of course, but gold, silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid are produced as well. Commercial uses for the mine’s production include computers, cell phones and solar panels. “There is great pride here in how we are helping push human progress,” Meador said. “We are mining materials that at the end of the day are making a difference — and we are doing so safely and with respect for the environment.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
Construction Begins on Innovation Center at Hill AFB By Micah Garbarino 75TH AIR BASE WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Developers at Hill Air Force Base are breaking ground on another new construction project, creating more space for new jobs near the base. Air Force and Utah officials participated in a ceremony March 3, 2017, to mark the progress at Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park. The new 21,000-sq.-ft. building will be leased by the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative, which will operate an Innovation Center in the building. The USTAR Innovation Center will focus on providing the tools and resources needed to support start-up companies in maturing and commercializing their technology. Once complete, the new facility will house approximately 8,000 sq. ft. of office space and labs, and 13,000 sq. ft. of space dedicated to manufacturing, research and develop-
ment projects. “Having USTAR at Falcon Hill is a significant boon for the community here, and is just the first of many ‘outside the fence’ techfocused office projects we envision for this area,” said Taylor Woodbury, the chief operating officer at Woodbury Corporation. “Much like the Silicon Slopes area down south, our goal is for this new USTAR building to be the cornerstone of the Silicon Hill movement that will help create a thriving tech community in northern Utah.” In addition to Hill’s vital national defense mission, the base is an economic hub for Utah, providing a $3.34 billion impact annually. The base hosts the Air Force’s first operational F-35A Lighting II wing and is home to maintenance on several aircraft, including the Air Force’s fifth generation fighters — the F-22 Raptor and the F-35. The base also is home to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate, which will oversee the $62 billion replacement program
for the Minuteman III missile. The project is part of the ongoing Enhanced Use Lease Program at Hill AFB, one of the largest projects of its kind in the Defense Department. “It’s exciting to see new organizations capitalize on the benefits of our EUL program. As the Falcon Hill project continues to grow we hope to see similar private and public projects that will add synergy to the Air Force mission,” said Col. Jennifer Hammerstedt, the 75th Air Base Wing commander. The program allows the Air Force to lease land to a developer to create and lease commercial space and infrastructure. The new building is expected to be complete in late 2017. “We’re continuing to see the benefits of this program at Hill,” said David Williamsen, the chief of the EUL Program Office. “The benefit to the Air Force is affordable infrastructure and the synergy
created by having contractors being able to work on the Air Force mission either on the base or in close proximity to the base.” Falcon Hill is the first EUL program of its kind to be entirely market-driven, Williamsen said. This is the seventh major construction project completed by Sunset Ridge Development Partners as part of the EUL project. The most recently-completed office building, now occupied by Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Directorate, opened in December 2014. A retail facility, housing Starbucks Coffee, opened in 2015. Over the life of the program, more than 100 potential projects both inside and immediately outside Hill AFB gates may be completed. In the coming months, the developer plans to begin construction on a new, 74,000-sq.-ft. software building on base. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Utah, Missouri to Study Project Funding Needs Both Missouri and Utah are creating new transportation task forces to study their states’ project funding needs and make recommendations to legislators on future revenue-raising options. Those panels will get under way at a time when a number of states are boosting transportation funding by raising motor fuel taxes and a range of fees on drivers or vehicle registrations and other efforts that mainly target direct users of the transportation system. In Missouri, the Jefferson City News Tribune reported that state lawmakers again ended a legislative session without boosting project funding, but approved a resolution to create a “21st Century Missouri Transportation System Task Force.” Although the story cited complaints by some that lawmakers keep studying the problems without following through with a revenue plan, it said the task force would be charged with evaluating the condition of Missouri’s transportation infrastructure and its current funding. The panel would have until Jan. 1, 2018, to file a report. The story said Patrick McKenna, Missouri DOT director, told the News Tribune, “We are in favor of creating an
action plan to solve the transportation funding issues in the state of Missouri — and are hopeful that the task force will provide additional information and public forum to accomplish those aims.” In Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the new Transportation Governance and Funding Task Force got under way May 16, and received a warning from Carlos Braceras, Utah DOT executive director. “We’re going to double our population in 35 years. And we are not going to be able to double our road miles,” Braceras said, according to the Tribune. The legislation creating that panel said it shall study, prepare and report and make recommendations on governance, coordination, oversight and operational structures of transportation agencies in Utah, the funding needs and future funding sources. It is to report the task force’s findings and recommendations to the legislative Transportation Interim Committee and the governor before Dec. 1. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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