TORNILLO, Texas – Turner Construction Company and the U.S. General Services Administration have released statements after a Local 2 investigation in which more contractors said they haven't been paid for a government project.
Turner Construction Company released the following statement:
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"Turner's scope of work on the Border Crossing Station includes ten buildings including a main office facility, kennel, import and export facilities, commercial vehicle inspection, public restrooms and offices for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the State of Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission. Turner is not involved with the work on the bridge portion of the project.
"Through the end of September, the project team has completed approximately 98 percent of the work. Given the scale and complexity of the project, there have been a number of modifications to the project scope. Turner and the General Services Administration are actively discussing the impact of changes on the schedule and the project team is working toward a substantial completion date of Oct. 31, 2014. Marking the progress made toward successful completion on the project, the General Services Administration has begun the process of moving furniture into the buildings.
"Turner is committed to fulfilling its obligations to promptly pay the contractors for the hard work they perform on the project. All contractors working on this project have been paid every dollar that the General Services Administration has approved for payment."
The U.S. General Services Administration released the following statement:
"The Tornillo-Guadalupe Port of Entry project will provide completely new port facilities for non-commercial and commercial inspections at the new international bridge referred to as the Tornillo-Guadalupe International Bridge.
"The new facility is currently expected to be substantially completed in October of 2014 with the port becoming operational in November when it will start processing non-commercial traffic by way of the old Fabens bridge.
"It is anticipated that pedestrians and POVs will be able to use the new bridge starting in February 2015, at the earliest, with commercial traffic later in 2015."