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On 20 May 2006 the Argentine national highway directorate and the Jujuy provincial highway department signed an agreement in which sections of Jujuy provincial highways 85, 70, 74, 7, 64, 65, and 5 were transferred to national control for the construction of the so-called "Mining Corridor" which will become the new path of Route 40, more toward the west in that province. The agreement was ratified by provincial law 5520. Accordingly the section of the road between San Antonio de los Cobres and Abra Pampa is renamed National Route 1V40.
On February 2009, president Cristina Kirchner announced that the remaining unpaved length of the route in Santa Cruz was going to be paved.
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