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Attention Cities, Counties and Local Agencies Funding
Public Works Projects
The Rubberized Asphalt Concrete (Asphalt-Rubber)
grants program of $2.50 per ton authorized under Senate Bill
1346 is ready to accept applications. The money is
available to all cities, counties, districts and other local
government agencies funding pavement projects. Project can range
from 2,500 to
20,000 ton of Rubberized Asphalt Concrete hot mix utilizing 20%
crumb rubber per ton made from California waste tires. Chip California
waste tires. Chip Seal applications are not eligible.
To request an application, down the form from http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Tires/Grants/
or leave a message requesting an application on the CIWMB grants
hotline at (916) 341-6441 or e-mail your request to tiregrants@ciwmb.ca.gov.
The completed application must be received at the CIWMB offices,
101 "I" Street, Post Office Box 4025, Sacramento, California
95812-4025 by 3:00 PM, Wednesday January 28, 2004.
CIWMB has established a question-and-answer period
for this program to assist prospective grantees. Program specific
questions regarding an application must be submitted in writing
via e-mail or letter to the CIWMB by December 19, 2003. Rubberized
Asphalt Concrete projects already under construction are not
eligible for the $2.50 per ton grant.
For assistance with specifications or other aspects
of a RAC project, please contact either Theron Roschen, P.E.
Program Director of the Northern California Rubberized Asphalt
Concrete Technology Center at (916) 874-7225 or email roschent@SacCounty.net
or Erik Updyke, P.E., Co-Director of the Southern California
Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Technology Center at (626) 458-4914
or eupdyke@ladpw.org.
You may also download specs and design guidelines for the California
RAC Technology Centers website: www.rubberizedasphalt.org.
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Turning Old Tires into Quiet, Long
Lasting Pavements Workshops
Under contract with the California RAC
Technology
Centers, RPA organized two highly successful workshops in San
Diego, CA, August 28, 2003 and Fresno, CA, November 3, 2003.
The workshops covered a variety of topics including: The History
of Asphalt-Rubber; Production of Crumb Rubber; Manufacture of
Asphalt-Rubber; Pavements 101- Design and Construction Guidelines;
Life Cycle Costs; Cost Comparisons; A City's Ten Year Experience
and Construction and Inspections ractices. The workshops
also included special presentations by Dr. Gary Hick, P.E. MACTEC
Engineering, author of the California Design and Construction
Guidelines for Asphalt-Rubber and George B. Way, P.E, Pavement
Design Engineer, Arizona Department of
Transportation on the 30+ years experience in the use of Asphalt-Rubber
paving materials.
The workshops reached over 100 public works personnel
from cities and counties throughout California. In San Diego,
several other states and countries attended the workshop which
was held in conjunction with the APWA Annual Meeting and Exposition.
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Atlos Rubber, Inc., California's oldest
crumb rubber plants closes its doors
Robert (Bob) E. Winters, a longtime Officer
and Director of RPA and its predecessor organization, the Asphalt
Rubber Producers Group, announced the closing of the Los Angeles
based Atlos Rubber, after 64 years in the recycling business.
Winters took over the family business in 1959 and led the company
to a position of prominence and leadership in the rubber recycling
business. Winters is widely recognized
as a pioneer in the Asphalt-Rubber paving technology.
Working with the AR inventor, Charles McDonald, Winters founded
Overflex Corporation, which developed the first successful paving
applications using the McDonald "wet" process. Winters
was awarded the prestigious "Pioneer Award" by the
International Tire and Rubber Association in 1999.
He cited the high cost of doing business, specifically
over regulation, taxes, fees, workers compensation, insurance,
competition from highly subsidized foreign rubber, and energy
costs as reasons for the closing. Winters will not be "idle"
in retirement as he is interested in serving on the California
Integrated Waste Management Board to give the state the benefit
of his experience in tire recycling and the use of crumb rubber
in asphalt pavement. Many organizations, including RPA, agree
that California could benefit from such an appointment.
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