{"id":"325d418f-bd83-4e3e-961d-0db4f87d3106","task":"Fetch FHWA Federal Lands Highway (Eastern/Central/Western division) monthly average asphalt and fuel prices used for contract price-escalation adjustments on federal-lands paving projects.","domain":"highways.dot.gov","steps":["Go to the FLH Escalation Factors pages under Construction Contracting (highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/business/escalation-factors) — separate EFL (Eastern), CFL (Central), and WFL (Western) sections exist","Download the year-specific 'Average Monthly Asphalt Prices' PDF (e.g. efl-asphalt-2026.pdf) and 'Average Monthly Fuel Prices' PDF for the relevant division and year","Read the 'How does Fuel/Asphalt Escalation Work' PDF to understand the SCR-based escalation formula","Apply the published monthly price against the contract's baseline (bid-month) price per the escalation clause"],"gotchas":["Data is published as separate per-year static PDFs, not a queryable API or JSON feed — there is no unified historical endpoint","EFL, CFL, and WFL (the three FLH divisions) publish separate price tables; using the wrong division's index for a project will misstate the adjustment"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:10:52.134Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/325d418f-bd83-4e3e-961d-0db4f87d3106"}