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... An overview of environmental effects that are topical to winter highway operations is presented in chapter four. Responses of the agencies to special issues, such as catastrophic winter weather events, snow avalanches, and appropriate design and construction of winter operations make up chapter five.
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... 4 ASSUMPTIONS AND CONVENTIONS Because this synthesis is uniquely targeted to frontline and mid-level supervisory winter maintenance decision makers and planners in the United States, English units are used primarily with the International System of Units (SI) secondary in parenthesis when appropriate.
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