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FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			STERLING CONSTRUCTION CO INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000874238
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OTHER THAN BUILDING CONST - CONTRACTORS [1600]
		IRS NUMBER:				251655321
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2751 CENTERVILLE RD.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 3131
		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			DE
		ZIP:			19803
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3024789170

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		20810 FERNBUSH LANE
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77073

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OAKHURST CO INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950831

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OAKHURST CAPITAL INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19931130
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Sterling Construction Company, Inc.</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 18pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, filed March 16, 2009</font></div>
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for the period ended June 30, 2009, filed August 10, 2009</font></div>
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O'Brien:</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 18pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">This
letter is in response to your comment letter to me dated November 19, 2009,
regarding the above-noted filings of Sterling Construction Company, Inc
("Sterling"). For your convenience, our response, which is attached, is in
italics and is prefaced by the text of the Staff&#8217;s corresponding
comment.</font></div>
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let me know if you have any questions or if we can provide additional
information or otherwise be of assistance in expediting the review
process.</font></div>
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Allen, Jr.</font></div>
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Anagnosti, SEC</font></div>
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      note your response to comment 4 in our letter dated October 6, 2009.
      Specifically, we note your explanation as to why it is appropriate to
      aggregate your local offices, which appear to represent separate
      components of your operating segment, into one reporting unit for purposes
      of testing goodwill for impairment in accordance with the guidance in
      paragraph 30 of SFAS 142 and EITF D-101. In future filings, please include
      disclosure either in the footnotes to your consolidated financial
      statements or within the critical accounting policies section of MD&amp;A
      that summarizes the factors you considered in determining that your
      reporting units meet the aggregation criteria discussed in EITF Topic
      D-101, including your conclusion that the reporting units have similar
      economic characteristics. This information appears useful to your
      investors as the majority of the goodwill balance relates to your Nevada
      office and because of the judgment involved in determining aggregation of
      the reporting units. Please provide us with the disclosure you intend to
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future filings we will make the following disclosure in our critical accounting
policies section of MD&amp;A:</font></div>
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discussed above, we operate in one segment and have only one reportable segment
and one reporting unit component, heavy civil construction. Even if our local
offices were to be considered separate components of our heavy civil
construction operating segment, those components could be aggregated into a
single reporting unit for purposes of testing goodwill for impairment under
Accounting Standards Codification 50-11 and EITIF D-101 because our local
offices all have similar economic characteristics and are similar in all of the
following areas:</font></div>
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      nature of the products and services--each of our local offices performs
      similar construction&#160;&#160;projects is the same&#8212;they build,
      reconstruct and repair roads, highways, bridges and water, waste water and
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      nature of the production processes-- our heavy civil construction services
      rendered in the construction production process by each of&#160;&#160;on
      our construction projects performed by each local office is the same&#8212;they
      excavate dirt, remove existing pavement and pipe, lay aggregate or
      concrete pavement and pipe and build bridges and similar large structures
      in order to complete our projects.</font></div>
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      type or class of customer for their products and services&#8212;substantially
      all of our customers are federal and state departments of transportation,
      cities, counties, and regional water and toll-road authorities. A
      substantial portion of the funding for the state departments of
      transportation to finance the projects we construct is furnished by the
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      methods used to distribute their products or provide their services-- the
      heavy civil construction services rendered on our projects are performed
      primarily with our own field work crews (laborers, equipment operators and
      supervisors) and equipment (backhoes, loaders, dozers, graders, cranes,
      pug mills, crushers, and concrete and asphalt
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      nature of the regulatory environment&#8212;we perform substantially all our
      projects for federal, state and municipal governmental agencies, and all
      the projects we perform are subject to substantially similar regulation
      under U.S. and state department of transportation rules, including
      prevailing wage and hour laws; codes established by the federal government
      and municipalities regarding water and waste water systems installation;
      and laws and regulations relating to workplace safety and worker health of
      the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and to the
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economic characteristics of our local offices are similar.&#160;&#160;While
profit margin objectives included in contract bids have some variability from
contract to contract, our profit margin objectives are not differentiated by our
chief operating decision maker or our office management based on local office
location. Instead, the projects undertaken by each local office are primarily
competitively-bid, fixed-unit price contracts, all of which are bid based on
achieving gross profit levels based on margin objectives that reflect the
relevant skills required, the contract size and duration, the availability of
our personnel and equipment, the makeup and level of our existing backlog, our
competitive advantages and disadvantages, prior experience, the contracting
agency or customer, the source of contract funding, anticipated start and
completion dates, construction risks, penalties or incentives and general
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