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ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2 013 TABLE OF CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE ..................................................................... 4 ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION................................... 6 CONSTRUCTION HIGHLIGHTS .......................................................... 8 GROUNDBREAKINGS & RIBBON CUTTINGS ................................ 12 NEW IN 2013 ................................................................................... 14 RECOGNITIONS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS ..................................... 16 TOP TEN CONTRACTS OF 2013 .................................................... 18 AHTD ORGANIZATION & WORKFORCE ....................................... 20 PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT................................................................... 21 DISTRICT INFORMATION ................................................................ 22 FRONT & BACK COVER PHOTOS: Fall color along Highway 62 AHTD MISSION To provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally Carroll County • November 2013 sound intermodal transportation system for the user. Photography by John Jackson STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE SCOTT E. BENNETT Director t is with pleasure that the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation and more efficient travel. Thirty one projects, covering approximately 180 miles Department presents its Annual Report for 2013. Our State Highway of highways, will be improved with an estimated $1.8 billion investment into the Commission and our Department staff accomplished a great deal through Arkansas highway system. The vision will become clearer in 2014 when their hard work and commitment for the year and we are pleased to share construction gets underway. Ithose accomplishments in this report. Overall, the Department let 279 projects to contract totaling approximately We are proud of our portion of the Interstate system here in Arkansas. With $647 million. The largest was rehabilitation of Interstate 540 in the Fort Smith area. just over 650 miles of the nation’s Interstate network within our borders, it is Construction highlights for all ten of our Districts are included within these pages. imperative to keep those miles in top condition. In 2013, we saw the second This report also brings to the forefront several exciting developments that phase of our Interstate Rehabilitation Program swing into full gear. Three took place off of our highway system as well. Those can be found immediately projects totaling 40 miles have already been completed, eight projects are following this message and include a new District Headquarters in western underway and 64 are scheduled for the future. Once completed, we will have Arkansas, new Arkansas Welcome Centers and an exciting new program for our rehabilitated 458 miles of Interstate highway in this phase of the program. local communities as well. In addition to our Interstate program, our Department staff continued to As always, all of us at the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation prepare for our new four-lane highway construction and improvement program Department want to thank the people of Arkansas for their commitment and support titled the Connecting Arkansas Program. The goal is to make significant progress in helping us carry out the many programs that are making Arkansas’ highway toward connecting all parts of the State with four-lane highways to provide safer system one we can always be proud of. SCOTT E. BENNETT Director of Highways and Transportation 4 5 2013 HIGHWAY COMMISSION John Ed Regenold Dick Trammel Tom Schueck Robert S. Moore, Jr. Frank D. Scott, Jr. Chairman Vice Chairman Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner COMMISSION CHAIRMAN COMMISSION VICE CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONER TOM SCHUECK, COMMISSIONER ROBERT S. COMMISSIONER FRANK D. JOHN ED REGENOLD, of Armorel, DICK TRAMMEL, of Rogers, was of Little Rock, was appointed by MOORE, JR., of Arkansas City, SCOTT, JR., of Little Rock, was was appointed by Governor Mike appointed by Governor Mike Beebe Governor Mike Beebe effective January was appointed by Governor Mike appointed by Governor Mike Beebe Huckabee effective January 26th, effective January 12th, 2009. He 14th, 2011. Schueck has 41 years Beebe effective January 22nd, 2013. effective October 17th of 2013. He 2005. He is a longtime business and currently serves as Executive Vice experience in forming and managing Moore is a three-term member of the replaced John Burkhalter who resigned civic leader in east Arkansas. Former President, member of the Board of companies that are involved in heavy Arkansas House of Representatives from the Commission. Scott serves Governor Huckabee previously Directors and Board Secretary of Arvest construction. Among the companies and has represented the 12th District as business development officer for appointed Regenold to the Arkansas Bank in Rogers. He is past President he has founded are Schueck Steel, since 2007. He served as Speaker of First Security Bank. He received Economic Development Commission. and current member of the Board of the Custom Metals, Prospect Steel, the House in 2011 and 2012. He is his undergraduate degree from the He is Chairman of the Armorel Rogers-Lowell Chamber of Commerce. L-Con Constructors, L-Con Marine Owner/Operator of Moore Farms. He University of Memphis. He then Planting Company. He is also a He has served on the Rogers-Lowell Fabricators and Heritage Golf. Schueck had his own private law practice from obtained a Master’s of Business member of the St. Francis Levee United Way board and twice served has served on the Arkansas Parks, 1981 to 1985. Governor David Pryor degree with an emphasis on strategic Board and is a Commissioner for the as Drive Chairman. Trammel is a Recreation and Travel Commission, appointed Moore as chairman of the management from the University of District 17 Drainage District. He is the past President of the Rotary Club of and the Arkansas Pollution Control and Arkansas Transportation Commission Arkansas at Little Rock. Scott was former Chairman of the Mississippi Rogers and past Governor of Rotary Ecology Commission. He is a member in 1977. He would serve on the Governor Beebe’s Intergovernmental County Hospital System Board and a International District 6110. Trammel is of the Little Rock Municipal Airport staff of Governor Bill Clinton and Affairs Director beginning in 2007. member of the board of the Arkansas a founding Director, Director Emeritus Commission. He also serves on the served two decades as Director of the He left the Governor’s staff in 2012 to Northeastern College Foundation. His and past Chairman of the Northwest boards of The Nature Conservancy, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. join First Security Bank. In addition to term will expire in January of 2015. Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute UAMS Foundation and the Arkansas He is a member of the American his work at First Security, Scott serves (NARTI). He is a charter member, past Industrial Development Foundation. Legion, the Arkansas City Chamber on the boards of directors for the Little Chairman and past board member of His term will expire in January of 2021. of Commerce, Vice Chairman of the Rock Port Authority and Big Brothers/ the Board of Trustees of Northwest Desha County Historic Preservation Big Sisters of Central Arkansas. His Arkansas Community College. His term Society and Vice Chairman of term will expire in January of 2017. will expire in January of 2019. the John H. Johnson Cultural and Entrepreneurial Center Board. His term will expire in January of 2023. 7 CONSTRUCTION HIGHLIGHTS DISTRICT ONE DISTRICT TWO DISTRICT FOUR DISTRICT FIVE COUNTIES: Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, COUNTIES: Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Grant, COUNTIES: Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Polk, Scott, Sebastian COUNTIES: Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, St. Francis and Woodruff Jefferson and Lincoln and Washington Sharp, Stone and White Three Interstate rehabilitation projects were underway in Completion is nearing on the widening of Highway 82 near Work on the largest single contract ever awarded in AHTD Work was substantially completed in early 2013 on a District One in 2013. The first of those projects awarded was Lake Village. The project was awarded to Ideal Construction history began in January of 2013, a $78.8 million contract construction project that widened approximately one mile of for the improvement of approximately eight miles of Interstate Company of Crossett, Arkansas, in 2011 for $15.2 million. for rehabilitation of Interstate 540 in Fort Smith/Van Buren. Highway 167 in Ash Flat. The improvements extend from 55, from Interstate 40 to Jericho in Crittenden County. The Improvements include widening 4.5 miles of the roadway Awarded to Kiewit Infrastructure South Company of Fort Highway 354 northward to Highway 62/412 and widened the $7.7 million project was awarded to APAC-Tennessee, Inc. to five lanes and replacing a bridge over Ditch Bayou. The Worth, Texas, the project extends seven miles in Crawford and road from two to five lanes with curb and gutter. The project of Memphis Tennessee, and was completed in August. A improvements extend from the Mississippi River Bridge Sebastian Counties. The improvements begin at Interstate 40 was awarded to White River Materials, Inc. of Batesville, $51.9 million project was awarded to APAC-Tennessee, Inc. westward to the intersection with Highway 65 at Fairview. in Van Buren and continue southward to Highway 22 in Fort Arkansas, in early 2011 for $4.5
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