THE BOLD ACT PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE REPORT TO THE AMERICAN CONCRETE PAVEMENT ASSOCIATION

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1 THE BOLD ACT PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE REPORT TO THE AMERICAN CONCRETE PAVEMENT ASSOCIATION November 30, 2016

2 PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE Initiated by Chairman David Zachry in January 2016 Mission: To reach ARTBA leadership consensus on the strategic legislative and regulatory issues that are most important to our members and to establish a direction for securing the desired changes to our market. Develop goals and strategies for improving federal transportation funding and achieving regulatory changes that could be advanced and, hopefully, accomplished before 2019 to help ensure a smooth reauthorization of the federal surface transportation programs in 2020.

3 PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE Co Chairs: Rob Charter, Group President, Caterpillar Ward Nye, President & CEO, Martin Marietta Members: John Boyle, President, Mountaineer Contractors Tony Boals, Vice President, Wright Brothers Construction Scott Cassels, President, Kiewit Infrastructure Group Tim Creson, President & CEO, Webber, LLC Matt Cummings, Executive Vice President, AECOM Tim Duit, President, TTK Construction, Edmond, Oklahoma Jim Fehsenfeld, President & CEO, Heritage Materials & Construction Mike Glezer, CEO, Wagman Heavy Civil Paula Hammond, SVP, WSP-Parsons Brinckerhoff David Harwood, Senior Vice President, Terracon Consultants Chris Hawkins, Chief Operating Officer, Hawkins Construction Mark Johnnie, Vice President & GM, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Kevin Kelly, President & CEO, Walsh & Kelly Darren Kettle, Exec. Dir. Ventura (California) Cnty Trans.Comm. Randy Lake, CEO, Oldcastle Materials Susan Martinovich, Highway/Bridge Market Sector Director, CH2M Chris Miller, Executive Vice President & COO, Granite Construction, Ross Myers, Chairman & CEO, Allan Myers Jule Smith, President, The Fred Smith Group Len Toenjes, President, AGC of Missouri Melissa Tooley, Director, SW Region UTC, Texas A&M University Paul Yarossi, President, HNTB Holdings

4 PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE Meeting at Caterpillar: July 13, 2016 Focus: How to ensure sustainable and robust future funding for the federal highway and public transportation investment program. Reviewed and discussed, in the context of the current political environment: All of the major use-based funding options that are or could be available to achieve these goals National Infrastructure Bank concept and public and private financing options The Task Force will look at regulatory reforms next.

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6 PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE Consensus: Our objective is to expand funding robustly to meet needs/performance outcomes identified by U.S. DOT in report to Congress just filling the hole and inflation is not acceptable outcome There has been no creative thinking on highway funding in Congress or White House for two decades, we need to provide it Politics of gas tax increase at federal level obvious deterrent to moving forward need to change discussion Packaging is key provide a mix of revenue streams give something to get something must be results oriented

7 PROJECT 2019 TASK FORCE We should offer a comprehensive, multi-faceted Federal Transportation Revenue & Tax Reform /Investment Package Would fit in the context of overall tax reform Would provide funding for any infrastructure initiative from new Clinton or Trump Administration Any proposed new revenue streams should be dedicated to meeting a defined national need to rebuild public confidence in the federal program Must produce tangible, measurable benefits Not just provide more money for the highway and transit program

8 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE: TAX REDUCTION 1. Take one for the team and remove the political poison Reduce the federal gas and diesel motor fuel tax rates by 5 cents per gallon (- 27%, - 20%) and index them to CPI 2. Give U.S. shippers some bottom line tax relief Eliminate federal heavy truck taxes 12 percent federal excise tax (FET) on the sale of new heavy trucks, tractors and trailers Annual Heavy Vehicle Use Tax New tire sales FET

9 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE: REVENUE ENHANCEMENT Initiate 6.25% federal Highway Transportation Services Tax (HTST) on the cost of shipping goods domestically by Class 7 and 8 heavy trucks Creates parity with long-standing 6.25% federal Air Cargo Tax which supports Airport & Airways Trust Fund programs Funding stream grows annually as U.S. economy grows

10 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX REFORM & INVESTMENT PACKAGE: REVENUE ENHANCEMENT Initiate Alternative Fuel Vehicle Highway Use Parity Tax Creates parity with gas tax (10-year gas tax at new rate equivalent, indexed) One time FET levied on first retail sale of alternative fuel vehicles paid by seller Electric only: $870 Electric/Gas Hybrid: $435 85% Ethanol Powered: $740 Deposited in Highway Trust Fund Mass Transit Account for dedicated, sustainable mass transit investment revenue stream

11 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE: REVENUE ENHANCEMENT Fill the remaining HTF funding gap by adjusting the federal Oil Spill Liability Tax by $6.75 per barrel and direct revenue stream to the HTF This has been proposed as H.R. 4848, introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), ranking Democrat on House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Use to fund federal highway and transit responsibilities not on the NHFN.

12 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE: REVENUE ENHANCEMENT Highway Trust Fund Revenue Streams FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2026 Per Gallon Gasoline $25.5B $18.5B $18.9B Per Gallon Diesel Motor Fuel $10.0B $8.0B $9.7B Heavy Truck Taxes $6.7B 0 0 Highway Transportation Services Tax 0 $40.0B $55.1B Per Barrel Transportation Oil Tax 0 $22.9B $19.3B Alternative Fueled Vehicle Parity Tax 0 $1.8B $2.2B TOTAL REVENUE TO HTF $42.2B $91.2B $105.2B FY 2018: - $15.7B Existing + $64.7B New = + $49.0B NET

13 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE: REVENUE ENHANCEMENT

14 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX REFORM & INVESTMENT PACKAGE HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TAX After NIB start-up, revenue dedicated exclusively for investments to upgrade the 68,000- mile National Highway Freight Network designated by Congress in the 2015 FAST Act. SHIPPERS PAY, SHIPPERS SEE BENEFIT EVERYONE WINS Funds the Critical Commerce Corridors (3Cs) Program first envisioned by the Fehsenfeld Family (Heritage Construction & Materials) and 2008 ARTBA Chairman Charlie Potts, advanced by ARTBA since 2006, and made statutory in the 2015 FAST Act.

15 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX REFORM & INVESTMENT PACKAGE HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TAX First $25B seed capital for National Infrastructure Bank start-up. Leverage to $225B for high-cost, multimodal transportation infrastructure projects Support new Build America Bonds program Trump suggesting bonds bipartisan supporters on Capitol Hill

16 ADVANCING THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TAX REFORM & INVESTMENT PACKAGE Obtain third-party vetting of Highway Transportation Services Tax revenue stream forecast and statutory language for U.S. Treasury Department reporting and collection protocol from shippers (i.e., PriceWaterhouseCooper, $200K). FY 2017 $22B FY 2021 $46B Start outreach to seek congressional champion(s) to embrace FY 2017 $23B FY 2017 $25B FY 2017 FY 2017 FY 2017 $12B $13B $0 concept, or similar, and move to include in any infrastructure initiative and/or comprehensive federal tax reform vehicle that starts moving in FY 2021 $25B Seek support of transportation construction-related national associations for The BOLD Act proposal and strategic approach.

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18 THE BOLD ACT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION REVENUE & TAX REFORM/ INVESTMENT PACKAGE Ask to ACPA and its member firms 1. As an organization, consider supporting The BOLD Act underlying premises and concept 2. Provide lobbying & grassroots support for demanding Transportation Revenue & Tax Reform as part of any comprehensive federal tax reform package that moves forward in Joining others in financially supporting the National Highway Freight Network investment 2017 communications strategy & campaign