The initial cost estimate for the plant was $974 million.

The initial cost estimate was $2.3 billion no matter how the processing is divided between the two methods.

"An initial cost estimate for basic refurbishing came to $93 million," he writes.

A chief criticism related to the facility's large initial cost estimates and even larger final price tag.

Initial cost estimates were about € 3.7 billion, but the project has since seen several severe cost increments and delays.

Initial cost estimates, however, had been deliberately understated and the actual figures were nearly double at about 400 billion yen.

The plan for the aqueduct project underwent final design reviews late last year, and an initial cost estimate of $5 billion was tallied.

Mr. Wood has said in the past said that he always thought the initial cost estimates were artificially low.

Work on Hudson Hills spanned two county administrations, and more than doubled initial cost estimates of $7 million.

The initial cost estimate was $10 million, Mr. Farr said, but the expense was probably far higher once additions were made.

Maher Arar inquiry: Estimated cost is now at $23 million and growing, which is double initial cost estimates.

The tram cost $57 million to build-a nearly fourfold increase over initial cost estimates, which was one of several sources of controversy concerning the project.

The construction costs of Neuschwanstein in the king's lifetime amounted to 6.2 million marks, almost twice the initial cost estimate of 3.2 million marks.

The winning bid was awarded $77 million under initial cost estimates, and the contract is expected to be completed in late 2016, 18 months earlier than previously expected.

Conservative House Republicans say that federal health programs often exceed the initial cost estimates, and they have demanded some mechanism to slow the growth of Medicare spending.

In December 2002, the Auditor-General of Canada, Sheila Fraser, reported that the project was running vastly above initial cost estimates.

ILM's initial cost estimates were over Paramount's budget, so to save money the filmmakers redesigned some shots and outsourced some to other companies.

Throughout Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties, initial cost estimates were $14.6 million, although that figure represents only a portion of the actual monetary damage.

In 1976, the Parliament of Switzerland passed a bill for its construction, sponsored by Roger Bonvin, following an initial cost estimate of 76 million francs.

Although the initial cost estimate was $168 million, the cost now exceeds $500 million, according to Mr. Landry of the Air Transport Association.

The initial cost estimate of the elevated line was NT$42.6 billion, but due to delays the price-adjusted cost estimate rose to over NT$60.3 billion.

The companies involved in a much-debated pipeline to carry oil from the Caspian Sea to Turkey's Mediterranean coast have announced that they have found the initial cost estimate to be viable and will begin the next phase.

DIA, the first major airport to be built from scratch in the United States since Dallas-Fort Worth 20 years ago, is set to open May 15, eight months late and more than $1 billion over initial cost estimates.

Included in those amendments was the Acid Rain cap and trade program, the first program tailored specifically to the utility sector, which is achieving significant environmental and public health benefits at a fraction of the initial cost estimates and with relatively little government bureaucracy.

Under the plan, the Pentagon will lease 20 Boeing 767's and buy up to 80 more in a deal that has cut billions of dollars from initial cost estimates and will give the Air Force the planes it says it needs in short order.