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ACNM Members:

Click here for the ACNM  Membership Directory advertising form.  If you would like to advertise in the 2012 Membership Directory please fill out this form and send it back to the ACNM office by January 27, 2012.  If you have any questions please contact myself or Mike Beck. 

Thank you,

Ashley Johnson
ACNM Bookkeeping
505-344-2072 Ext.15
505-344-1554 Fax
information@aconm.org
www.aconm.org

 

ACNM Members:


Please see the below note sent out by AGC of America this morning.


The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill to repeal the 3 percent withholding mandate today, October 27. Unless this law is passed, starting January 1, 2013, all federal and state contracts for goods and services will be subject to a 3 percent income tax withholding on each and every payment over $10,000 to a contractor. The requirement also applies to large local governments that make $100 million or more in annual expenditures for goods and services. This mandate will impose compliance costs in excess of tax revenue raised. It will be bad for construction, bad for federal, state and local governments and it must be repealed now.
While the Senate vote on repeal failed last week, it did gain bipartisan support and it is likely they will hold additional votes on repeal. We need as many Representatives to vote for the bill as possible to send a strong message to the Senate to follow suit and enact repeal. That is why we are asking you to continue contacting your Representative today to urge them to support passage of H.R. 674. If you have already contacted your elected officials, please take another minute and forward this message to your employees, suppliers and colleagues and ask them to encourage their elected officials to support this important piece of legislation.
To date, more than 20,000 AGC members have heeded the calls to action. Member communications and AGC press materials on this critical topic have not gone unnoticed around the Capitol.

Ashley Johnson
ACNM Bookkeeping
505-344-2072 Ext.15
505-344-1554 Fax
information@aconm.org
www.aconm.org

 

 

Member Alert Notice:

AMERICAN GENERAL CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION is NOT Affiliated with 
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)


Already in the new year, AGC Members have again reported receiving unwanted and unsolicited solicitation faxes from the “AMERICAN GENERAL CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION” (AGC ASSOCIATION). They are again circulating the Associate Dues Application that we began seeing in November 2010. These faxes have been reported by members across the country and are again causing great confusion.

PLEASE NOTE THAT NEITHER AGC OF AMERICA NOR ANY OF ITS CHAPTERS IS THE SOURCE OF THIS SOLICITATION.

Indeed, neither has any affiliation of any kind with this largely unknown, confusing and persistent organization.

To file an FCC complaint specific to this unwanted and unsolicited fax to your home or business, go to click here or go to http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm and follow the instructions for a junk fax complaint.

In the past, AGC of America has written to this organization, insisting that it cease and desist from any further use of its confusing language. In the wake of the most recent events, AGC of America is, once again, considering its legal options.

Again, please understand that this is NOT an AGC invoice and you should be careful in responding to the fax and providing money to this inquiry. For an example of these faxes, click here.

Feel free to share this alert with your members, chapter colleagues and accounting departments.

 For more information, contact Elisa Brewer Pratt at (703) 837-5343 or brewere@agc.org.

 Click here for AGC membership application

Elisa Brewer Pratt
Executive Director, Chapter Support Services
The Associated General Contractors of America
2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400
Arlington, VA  22201
Direct Phone - (703) 837-5343
Direct Fax - (703) 837-5400
Cell Phone - (571) 216-3973
email: brewere@agc.org
www.facebook.com/AGCofA
www.agc.org

FORTY-EIGHTH
PAVING AND
TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE

 Monday and Tuesday
January 10-11, 2011

Sponsored by:

Department of Civil Engineering
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

ATR Institute
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Click here for Flyer       Click here for Registration Form

 

 

Model Rule on non-road (i.e., off-road) diesel equipment anti-idling.

 

Dear AGC Chapters and Members:

 Attached is a draft Model Rule on non-road (i.e., off-road) diesel equipment anti-idling.  I understand that several Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are actively considering adopting this model rule once it becomes final.  As drafted, the model rule is quite strict; it would limit idling of construction equipment to no more than three (3) consecutive minutes, with limited exceptions.

 AGC of America plans submit comments on this draft rule in advance of the SEPTEMBER 30th DEADLINE.  Please email Leah Pilconis at pilconisl@agc.org this week with your thoughts and concerns regarding the attached draft (4 pgs).   Comments also can be sent directly to Anna Garcia at agarcia@otcair.org.

 The draft model rule was written by the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) Mobile Source Committee, which includes representatives for the OTC states, EPA Regional Offices and EPA headquarters.  It was developed in conjunction with NESCAUM. 

 The OTC is a multi-state organization created under the Clean Air Act (CAA). OTC is responsible for advising EPA on transport issues and for developing and implementing regional solutions to the ground-level ozone problem in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.  If you have any questions, please contact Wick Havens, OTC Contractor, at wick.havens@pechan.com or 717-991-7303.

 Background

 Approximately 15 states and dozens of local counties have promulgated laws that restrict the amount of time that vehicles/equipment can idle their main engines. In April 2006, EPA compiled a list of state and local anti-idling laws (PDF) (EPA420-B-06-004). Since the publication of this document, new laws may have been passed, and some existing laws have been modified.  For a continually updated list of state and local anti-idling laws, see the American Transportation Research Institute's (ATRI's) current list of state and local laws.

 

Also in April 2006, EPA released its own model for a state idling law (PDF) (EPA420-S-06-001) for states to consider adopting.  EPA’s model law applies only to commercial diesel vehicles that are designed to operate ON HIGHWAYS (as defined under 40 CFR 390.5) and to locations where commercial diesel vehicles load or unload.

 

Government and industry alike have expressed concern about the inconsistent pattern and impractical design among existing state and local idling restriction laws.  OTC is acting as a facilitator to help create more consistent idling laws (applicable to off-road diesels) around the country.

 

For the states, reducing idling may result in reductions of air pollutants. For the equipment owner/operator, reducing idling may result in fuel savings.  More information on the costs/benefits may be found in the EPA report Cleaner Diesels: Low Cost Ways to Reduce Emissions from Construction Equipment online at http://www.epa.gov/ispd/pdf/emission_0307.pdf.

 

 Click here for draft Model Rule on non-road (i.e., off-road) diesel equipment anti-idling.PDF.

_____________________________
Leah F. Pilconis
Consultant on Environmental Law & Policy
Senior Environmental Advisor to 
The Associated General Contractors of America
Tel: 703-837-5332 
Fax: 703-837-5401
pilconisl@agc.org
http://www.agc.org/environment

 

 

Recommended highway construction crafts that are proposed for the Federal wage decisions.  These recommended crafts are, in part, a result of an audit conducted by the US Department of Labor.  USDOL asks that each District review the recommended crafts and make recommendations, if necessary, regarding whether the craft is named correctly and/or whether certain crafts should be combined with other crafts.  Additionally, each District is asked whether the backhoe, excavator and trackhoe are considered the same piece of equipment or different pieces of equipment.

The USDOL is seeking our comment immediately.  Please review the attachments and provide feed back to Christine Archuleta by Thursday, September 2, 2010.  We apologize for the short time-line.  If you have any questions, please contact Christine at (505) 827-1776.

 

Thanks,

METRO - RECOMMENDED CRAFTS 08172010
RURAL - RECOMMENDED CRAFTS 08172010

Bryan E. Brock, Director

Office of Equal Opportunity Programs

NM Department of Transportation

505.827.1774

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                 CONTACT:  Brian Turmail
August 31, 2010                                                                                                 (703) 837-5310; turmailb@agc.org

 

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD ABANDONS ORIGINAL ESTIMATES OF OFF-ROAD DIESEL EMISSIONS, CONCEDING OFF-ROAD RULE NOT NEEDED TO MEET EMISSIONS GOALS
Board Now Predicts that Off-Road Diesel Emissions Will be Lower than State’s Goals for Years to Come, Contractors Urge Immediate Repeal of Unneeded Rule

            The California Air Resources Board abandoned its original estimates of off-road diesel emissions today, conceding that its “off-road rule” is not needed to meet ambitious goals for the off-road equipment in the construction and certain other industries.  According to new estimates that the agency staff developed over the summer, off road fleets of diesel equipment will exceed the state’s emission goals for many years to come. 

During the earlier rulemaking process, the board staff used the now abandoned estimates to justify an “off-road rule” that would needlessly force contractors across the state to retire, retrofit, repower or replace billions of dollars worth of construction equipment, and all at a time when California’s construction industry is still losing jobs.  When informed of the state’s new forecasts, association officials called on the Board’s members to repeal the rule “quickly and completely.”

            “The fact that this agency has been willing to find and fix the significant flaws in its original estimates is a victory for sound science over rash regulation,” said Mike Kennedy, general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of America. “As the agency’s own data now makes clear, it is time for the board to repeal its costly and unneeded rule.”

            Kennedy said the state’s new forecasts are for emissions of nitrogen oxide from the regulated fleets to fall well below the levels that the state has targeted in each and every year through 2025.  The state now predicts that emissions of particulate matter will fall below the targeted levels through 2015 and will remain close to those targets through 2025.

            The state agency revised its diesel emissions estimates after an analysis of the state’s original “emissions inventory” found significant flaws in the state’s data.  That analysis, conducted by Sierra Research on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of America, found that the state has systematically over-estimated diesel emissions from off-road equipment by a factor of 3.5.  The new data that the state released today essentially confirms that finding, association officials noted.

            “The good news is that thousands of construction workers won’t have to lose their jobs on account of bad science and erroneous estimates,” said Kennedy.  “The construction industry is now eager to work with the board to find ways to meet ambitious environmental goals and still protect the state’s remaining construction jobs.”

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