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						<title><![CDATA[The US Senate passes the two-year surface transportation authorisation bill]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[On 29 June, the US Senate passed the two-year surface transportation authorisation bill, the aptly named MAP-21 - Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century. The bill now goes to the President who is expected to sign it shortly.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=38&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:25:00 +0100</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[Encouraging development in US transportation funding]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[A news release from Congressman Mica, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, reported some encouraging news yesterday on the authorisation of a Surface Transportation Bill.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=37&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:52:00 +0100</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[An update on the US surface transportation bill]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The House and Senate staff have been making offers and counteroffers on several policy provisions recently, but at this point, completing a comprehensive bill by 30 June - when the 9th extension expires - is logistically almost impossible.  So, the real question is how long the next extension will be - a few weeks in order to wrap up conference deliberations on a multi-year bill, or longer, possibly as long as six months, as House Speaker John Boehner has suggested.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=36&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[US surface transportation program extended for another 90 days]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Following on from our earlier blog about the Transportation Bill, the US Senate passed a 90-day extension of the surface transportation program by unanimous consent yesterday, 29 March 2012. The bill, which is the ninth short-term extension since the SAFETEA-LU expired in September 2009, is "clean" meaning it does not include any policy or funding changes from current law. It will extend the highway and transit programs through 30 June 2012.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=23&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:24:00 +0100</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[What's next for the US Transportation Bill?]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[You may have read in the press that the US Senate, by a vote of 74-22, has passed S 1813, the two year, $109 billion reauthorisation of the federal surface transportation program after voting on 30 amendments, many of which were not particularly material to the bill.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=21&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[Are contract announcements helpful to the investment community?]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Accurate and timely disclosure is paramount, particularly against the current background of uncertainty and tension in the markets. Besides, construction companies, with their lumpy work flows and bespoke accounting, are a case in point for helpful disclosure.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=17&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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						<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Balfour Beatty IR Update]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Our new IR blog is a forum for us to talk about issues that are important to our investment community and for you to respond with your own thoughts and ideas. It is part of a suite of blogs we are launching that will cover company operations, our projects and sustainability.]]></description>
						<author><![CDATA[Basak Kotler]]></author>
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						<link><![CDATA[http://www.balfourbeatty.com/index.asp?pageid=43&blogid=14&rssfeed=irupdate]]></link>
						<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:31:00 +0100</pubDate> 
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