SUBCOMMITTEE ON ROADS.

!!.5. Conarees. Senate. OF THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS.
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETIETH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

STATUS OF THE INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND DESIGN
OF BRIDGES IN THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 18, 19, AND 20, 1968

Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works

RICHARD B. ROYCE, Chief Clerk and Staff Director

M. BARRY MEYER, Counsel

BAILEY GUARD, Assistant Chief Clerk (Minority)

JOSEPH F. VAN VLADRICKEN, LEON G. BILLINGS, J. B. HUYETT, Jr.,
and RICHARD D. GRUNDY, Professional Staff Members {

Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Highway Administrator, accompanied by

Francis C. Turner, Director of the Bureau of Public Roads..

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1968

Vice Admiral Paul E. Trimble, Assistant Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard,

accompanied by Harold F. Olson, Chief, Bridge Branch, Navigation

Department

Lt. Col. Ferd E. Anderson, Jr., Assistant Director of Civil Works, Central

Divisions, Department of the Army, accompanied by Wendell Johnson,

Chief, Engineering Division, Directorate of Civil Works__

John O. Morton, president, American Association of State Highway

Officials; accompanied by Ward Goodman, Committee on Bridges and

Structures; and Alfred E. Johnson, executive director, American Asso-

ciation of State Highway Officials_-_.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1968

Frank Masters, Jr., consulting engineer, firm of Modjeski & Masters,

Harrisburg, Pa., representing the Consulting Engineers Council_

John Pershing, general counsel, International Bridge, Tunnel, & Turnpike

Association__

Nomer Gray, Chairman, Committee on Professional Practice, American

Society of Civil Engineers_-

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127, 130

Gerard F. Fox, past chairman, Structural Division, American Society of
Civil Engineers--.

Thomas M. Goodfellow, president, The Association of American Railroads.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Article From the Civil Engineering Magazine, October 1967, entitled

"Programming Structural Integrity Maintenance," by Lawrence L.

Smith..

Bridge inspection and maintenance procedures in use by the State highway
departments, table-----

Bridges 30 years old or older maintained by the State highway depart-
ments__

84

Coast Guard search and rescue operations resulting from the Point Pleasant

Bridge collapse---.

42

Engineering and Design-Periodic inspection and continuing evaluation
of completed civil works structures..

56

Gray, Nomer, chairman, Committee on Professional Practice, American
Society of Civil Engineers, comments on Informational Guide for In-
spection of Highway Bridges of the Bureau of Public Roads_-
Johnson, Alfred E., executive director, American Association of State
Highway officials, response to submitted questions...

Masters, Frank, Jr., Consulting Engineers Council, comment on Infor-

mational Guide for Inspection of Highway Bridges of the Bureau of

Public Roads__

President's Task Force on Bridge Safety-Committee 3, National Study

to Assure Bridge Safety, Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Highway Ad-

ministrator, Chairman-An Informational Guide for Inspection of

Highway Bridges...

129

90

133

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