Haumont Contracting Company of Phoenix, Arizona, has been awarded a contract covering construction of about 11 1/2 miles of road on the Navajo Indian Reservation running easterly from Tuba City, Arizona, toward Keams Canyon and Window Rock, the Department of the Interior announced today.
Haumont's bid of $267,721.04 was the lowest of eleven received. The others ranged from $276,725.73 to $419,467.05.
The road will be an important link in the highway system which the Bureau of Indian Affairs is constructing to promote Indian economic advancement under the 10-year Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Program. It will serve Indians and others in the Tuba City vicinity and facilitate cross-reservation travel between U.S. Highways 89 and 666.
When completed, the project will provide a graded and drained highway with a two-course base, the second course to be stabilized with liquid asphalt, and a bituminous seal coat with an aggregate wearing surface. It will involve 125,359 cubic yards of unclassified excavation, 19,178 cubic yards of borrow, 59,167 tons of base course, and 985 tons of liquid asphalt.
