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Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Improving Project Oversight.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-APR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-05-173 January 31, 2005

The federal-aid highway program provides over $25 billion a year to states for highway and bridge projects, often paying 80 percent of these projects' costs. The federal government provides funding for and oversees this program, while states largely choose and...

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...manage the projects. Ensuring that states effectively control the cost and schedule performance of these projects is essential to ensuring that federal funds are used efficiently. We reviewed the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) approach to improving its federal-aid highway...

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