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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

Central
Federal Lands

Central Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Ricardo Suarez
720-963-3448
ricardo.suarez@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.cflhd.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

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Fact Sheet

 

New Mexico FLHP

NM FLHP road miles: 9,593
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $387,750,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 52.8%*
State population: 1,954,599

New Mexico State

  • National Park Service (16 units)

  • U.S. Forest Service (7)

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (25)

  • Fish and Wildlife Service (6)

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

Photo of the New Mexico State Highway 537The Federal Lands Highway Program in New Mexico. New Mexico State Highway 537 (NM 537), 55.6 miles long, is located in Rio Arriba and Sandoval Counties in northern New Mexico. NM 537, which lies entirely within the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, traverses northerly from U.S. Highway 550 to Dulce, New Mexico. The Jicarilla Apache Nation has included this route in the Indian Reservation Roads system.

Since the 1980s, the Federal Highway Administration has used Public Lands Highway Discretionary funds for improvements to NM 537 to bring the roadway in compliance with current highway standards. Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) has taken the lead in designing and constructing a series of projects totaling approximately 51 project miles.The projects have included roadway realignments, widening, bridges, and safety improvements. CFLHD has partnered with the Jicarilla Apache Nation and the New Mexico Department of Transportation to make these projects successes and to improve safety for travel through the reservation.

Download the New Mexico State FLHP Fact Sheet

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