Show IMP U D PUBLIC ROADS BUREAU WORK and estimates plans specifications are examined and approved in short period over ino 50 per cent of fill all applications in tile the district handled bundled tor for federal aid are arc ollices of lie bureau of public roads united states department of I 1 agriculture in an average of five d days ays 90 per cent or of them pass the chief final washington to engineers office in four lays days the plans app approval roNal in the and c estimates which specifications P e states furnish and aich which have to be reviewed sometimes checked and always reported on in detail with specific recommendations pass the district about the same n ngin inels InT cers ls office at rate its as tile the applications 0 and nil SO 00 pel ile district If cent of thern pass pall the engineers office in three and a half lays there are tit at pre present ent over active federal aid projects project S in the united states the federal aid act Is administered with ith three per cent of tile lie OPP appropriations and this fund Is carefully controlled each month on the basis of under the law actual performance As an illustration of efficient administration tra tion district no 8 with offices located in INI montgomery alabama cot col tile the government from december ber 1916 to april 1920 1020 inclusive tills this Is 19 an of 1916 1016 per month reports from the die district engineer for that district show that flint the bureaus engineering review and technical advice ic e in connection with state projects submitted have resulted in large savings in road construction A single case in one state was revised by the lie district en engineers i office nt at a sains fa mg ma A J sa S 4 S granne granite blocks i laid aice and rammed maintenance cost of this kind of pavement Is ls less than that of any other kind ot of 0 another project was redesigned to cost less at the time the plans were reviewed emed by the bureau |