1. Margo Thomson obtains funding for Web-site by end of 9/97.
2. Whole Team agrees on Web-site design by end of fourth quarter of 1997.
3. Claudio Manissero designs and implements Web-site by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.
4. Bryce Simons sets up ACI-SHRP ASR training course and obtains ACI buy-in by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.
5. Bryce Simons draft up an ASR training program for review and approval of Team and ACI by the end of the third quarter of 1998.
6. Bryce Simons implements training courses through ACI by the end of the fourth quarter of 1999.
7. Bryce Simons adapts training course for use of AASHTO Team members' use by the end of the fourth quarter of 1999.
8. Claudio Manissero and Margo Thomson develop a marketing communications plan and establish a budget for this plan by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998.

3. Develop guide specifications.

1. Roger Surdahl will develop the draft guide specification based on the Mid-Atlantic ASR guide specification into the AASHTO format in active voice, and distribute it to the Team by November 10, 1997.
2. The Team will meet in Albuquerque, NM, on Nov. 19 through 21, 1997 to rework and revise the draft specification.
3. The ASR Team will accept a final Guide Specification at their meeting at TRB in January 1998.
4. Margo Thomson will present the final ASR Guide Specification to the AASHTO Materials Subcommittee and Construction Subcommittee for acceptance ballot by July 1998.

4. Provide technical assistance.

1. Dan Johnston and Dave Gress will develop and distribute a one-page flyer to advertise the availability of the Team's technical assistance by December 1998.
2. Individual ASR Team members will conduct site visits on request to view and discuss ASR problems and solutions beginning June 1998.
3. Individual ASR Team members will answer inquiries and report each contact to Margo Thomson on a quarterly basis, beginning in June 1998.

5. Review technology on ASR by Sept. 2000.

1. All Team members perform an annual review of existing ASR technology and submit the results of their review to the Team coordinator. The Team coordinator compiles this review material into an interim report, which is to be completed by the last quarter of the year.
2. The Team will survey all states at the end of 1999 to gather feedback on the usefulness of items for identification techniques, aggregate evaluation methods, mitigative methods, remediation methods, and the AASHTO ASR Guide Specification. The Team coordinator will establish a sub-team by the end of 1998 to develop the survey. The Team coordinator will distribute and collect the survey by 6/30/99.
3. The final report on the review of ASR technology will be due at sunset (Sept. 2000) from the Team coordinator and the sub-team, which developed the survey.

6. Estimate cost-benefit ratio of implementing ASR technology.

1. Claudio Manissero will gather cost data from lead states based on their experiences by 1/1/99.
2. Claudio Manissero will develop a survey for other AASHTO members to obtain from them information about costs associated with ASR by 11/1/98. Margo Thomson will distribute this survey to AASHTO members by 12/30/98, and collect the survey by 3/30/99.
3. Claudio Manissero will lead the effort to analyze the data obtained in a. and b. above to obtain cost benefits of implementing SHRP ASR technology by 9/30/99.

ASR Lead State Team (as of 1998)