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“The costs estimated by the States were over or under-estimated by reason of errors of a wide variety, such as improper unit prices, omissions and computations.”
“For most of the States we could not verify the reasonableness of the estimates for the costs of right-of-way because of the inadequacy or lack of supporting documentation.”
. "New York right-of-way costs include an Smourit of $24.8 million for 35.3 miles of right-of-way, the estimate for which, we. were informed. was' prepared in less than 1 day.”
“Tile Georgia estimate was over stated by about $19.7 million because of various errors in computation. As a consequence of the above errors, the cost? of South Carolina and Alabama were also overestimated by: $960,000 and $41,000 for three border bridges for which Georgia had prepared die estimates.” *
*Tn several States, right-of-way employees are political appointees.
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