1. LPA Time Extension Guidance

2. The Department will grant time extensions when Work on the critical path is delayed and impacts the completion date Contractor obligated to mitigate delays Delays fall into two types of categories

3. 1. Excusable (time), Non-Compensable (no money) – Delays not the fault of the Contractor or the Department Floods, tornados, lightning strikes, earthquakes, or other cataclysmic phenomena of nature weather Extraordinary delays in material deliveries (area-wide material shortages, freight embargo, government acts) Civil disturbances Fires or epidemics Labor strikes Added quantities Any other delay not the contractors or Departments fault

4. 2. Excusable (time), Compensable Delays (money) – Delays that are the Departments fault Revised work Utility or railroad interference Engineer ordered suspensions Acts of government other than the Department Neglect of the Department

5. Compensable Items limited to the following: – Extended labor – Escalated labor – Idle equipment – Material escalation – Field overhead – Home office overhead