Specifications for Construction of Roads and Bridges in National Forests and National Parks as Revised July 15, 1941: Federal Works Agency, Public Roads Administration ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - 512 pages
 

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Borrow___
72
Foundation Fill
80
Disposal of Surplus Material_
88
Item Page 38 Obliteration of Old Roadways
94
Roadside Cleanup Wooded areas
96
Spot Subgrade Reinforcement
99
Subgrade Preparation of new subgrade _
101
Finishing Earth Graded Roads Special finishing of new subgrade
103
Fine Grading Subgrade and Shoulders Reprepa ration of previously constructed subgrades
105
Shoulders__
107
Watering
109
Selected Borrow Base Course
110
Stabilized Soil Base Course
113
Furrow Ditches____
114
Gravel Base Course_
117
52A Crushed Gravel or Crushed Stone Base Course___
122
Telford Base Course__
127
Sledged Stone Base Course
129
Dry Choked Stone or Slag Base Course
131
Waterbound Macadam Base Course
134
Reconstructed Stone or Gravel Base Course_
140
Reconditioning of Used Roadbed Preparatory to bituminizing
143
Bituminous Macadam Base Course Asphalt or tar
145
Hot Bituminous Concrete Base Course_
151
SURFACE COURSES AND PAVEMENTS 100 Selected Borrow Surface Course _ _
163
Gravel Surface Course
166
Crushed Gravel or Crushed Stone Surface Course
171
Bituminous Prime Coat__
176
Bituminous Tack Coat____
179
Bituminous Preservative Treatment_
181
Class A Seal Coats___
189
Class A Surface Treatments
196
Class B1 Dense Graded RoadMix Surface Course___
203
Class B2 Dense Graded PlantMix Surface Course___
211
Class C1 Dense Graded RoadMix Surface Course_
218
Item Page 123 Class C2 Open Graded RoadMix Surface Course__
226
Class D Type D1 Mosaic Macadam Pavement Asphalt or tar
234
Class D Type D2 Three Application Macadam Pavement Asphalt or tar
240
Class E1 Macadam Pavement PlantMix Seal Coat Asphalt or tar
247
Class E2 Type EM Four Application Macadam Pavement Emulsified asphalt _
261
Class F Type F1 Dense Graded PlantMix
267
Class F Type F2 Open Graded PlantMix
276
STRUCTURES
281
Concrete and Stone Masonry Bridges
283
Steel Bridges
288
Timber Bridges
291
Log Bridges
296
Log Cuiverts
298
Culverts and Retaining Walls__
299
Concrete Classes A B D and S
300

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Page 21 - The contractor shall hold and save the Government, its officers, agents, servants and employees, harmless from liability of any nature or kind, Including costs and expenses, for or on account of any patented or unpatented invention, article, or appliance manufactured or used In the performance of this contract, Including their use by th
Page 44 - ... measured horizontally, satisfactorily completed in accordance with the specifications. The price stipulated in this item shall include the furnishing...
Page 272 - ... previously cleaned of all foreign materials. When directed by the engineer, each load shall be covered with canvas or other suitable material of sufficient size and thickness to protect it from weather conditions.
Page 54 - Overhaul (1,000 feet (300 meters) free haul)', as the case may be, which price and payment shall constitute full compensation for all labor, equipment, tools and incidentals necessary to complete the article.
Page 8 - Officer in writing of: (1) subsurface or latent physical conditions at the site differing materially from those indicated in this contract, or (2) unknown physical conditions at the site, of an unusual nature, differing materially from those ordinarily encountered and generally recognized as inhering in work of the character provided for in this contract.
Page 88 - Steel," as called for in the bid schedule, which price and payment shall constitute full compensation for the furnishing and placing of all materials; and for all labor, equipment, tools, and incidentals necessary to complete the item.
Page 123 - ... constructed on the prepared subgrade in accordance with these specifications and in conformity with the lines, grades, thickness, and typical cross section shown on the plans or as directed by the Engineer.
Page 151 - An armored thermometer reading from 200 °F. to 400 °F. shall be fixed in the asphalt feed line at a suitable location near the discharge valve at the mixer unit. The plant shall be further equipped with an approved dial scale mercury actuated thermometer, an electric pyrometer, or other approved thermometric instrument so placed at the discharge chute of the dryer as to register automatically or indicate the temperature of the heated aggregate.
Page 34 - ... requirements of the work and to produce a satisfactory quality of work. Equipment used on any portion of the project shall be such that no injury to the roadway, adjacent property, or other highways will result from its use. When the methods and equipment to be used by the Contractor in accomplishing the...

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