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Senators from Gulf  states have introduced a bill that would require at least 80% of BP’s penalties paid under the Clean Water Act in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill go toward environmental cleanup and economic restoration of the Gulf. The legislation, introduced July 21 by a bipartisan group of

Failure to reach an agreement would cause rise in interest rates and a credit crunch. A deal with spending cuts would hurt infrastructure funding.

 The 911 Memorial website was overrun yesterday when it opened its online box-office for ticket reservations to visit the Memorial. The site's traffic spiked, with up to 1,000 users simultaneously logged on—as opposed to the site's average of 40 simultaneous users—says Joseph Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Reservations opened at 9am and 5,000 tickets had been issued within the first hour. “There was a small hiccup at the beginning of the day,” says Michael Frazier at the 911 Memorial press office, “But the site held up and never went down. Everyone who wanted to order a ticket yesterday got one.”10 hours after the site opened there were more than 34,500 passes reserved internationally, says Frazier. Orders came in from Spain Australia, Brazil, Italy and Canada. Daniels told the New York Post that the Memorial Site itself will be able to accept around 6,000 visitors a day. The Memorial opens to the public on September 12 and the plaza area will be free to enter, but the memorial requires a ticket.If you want to pay your respects any time soon, you better get in e-line at www.911memorial.com  

Bucyrus, the once-great construction brand, still a giant in the mining world, is going away.

Construction groups like policy provisions in House committee chairman's plan, but not its funding level.

Academic administrators of top university engineering programs in India, Brazil, and China joined U.S. Ivy League counterparts and multinational industry leaders in late June at Columbia University in New York City to discuss opportunities for further global collaboration. This was the first in what the group hopes will be annual meetings to explore potential undergraduate, graduate, and industry partnerships.

Although the honor roll now includes more than 35 pioneers of yellow iron, several gaping holes still remain.

Pre-applications are due Oct. 3 for $527-million new round of popular infrastructure grant program.

Technology and how it can affect design and construction are clearly present concerns for ENR's readership. To gather our expanding coverage in one place, we have launched a twice-monthly e-mail newsletter designed to deliver insights, news, how-to's, links and more. Everything from gadget reviews to complex tech issues are explored in each FutureTech issue.

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