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U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

August 2007
See FLH website for sources

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Fact Sheet

 

Alabama FLHP

AL FLHP road miles: 579
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $17,920,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 2.3%*
AL population: 4,599,03

Alabama State

  • National Park Service (8 units)

  • U.S. Forest Service (1)

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (1)

  • U.S. Fish andWildlife Service (10)

  • This percentage includeds Federal lands that are not part
    of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map


Photo of Bains Gap Road in Calhoun County, AlabamaThe Federal Lands Highway Program in Alabama. Eastern Federal Lands worked closely with its partners in Calhoun County, Alabama and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to resurface Bains Gap Road (2.4 miles).The work included repair of masonry box culverts using flowable-fill concrete, replacement of guardrail, signage, and striping. Calhoun County provided funding for construction and obtained all permits. FWS owns the road. Refuge Roads Program funds were used for preliminary engineering and design.

The road connects local communities across Alabama’s third highest mountain ridge and provides an evacuation route in case of an incident from the Anniston Army Depot weapons incineration program. Bains Gap is a scenic route offering beautiful vistas of unfragmented forests as it travels through one of the newest NationalWildlife Refuges, the 9,016 acre Mountain Longleaf Refuge (established in 2003). The refuge contains the last remaining stands of old growth mountain longleaf pine forest situated within the Southern Appalachian Mountain Range.

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