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FY 1999 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The fiscal 1999 National Corridor Planning and Development Program and Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program grant recipients



State Project

Allocation
Alaska Design/Reconstruction of portions of the Dalton Highway

$600,000
Arizona

(lead state*)

 Planning for parts of the CANAMEX Corridor.

$1,000,000
Arizona

(lead state)

 Design of the Hoover Dam Bypass in CANAMEX Corridor.

$2,000,000
Arizona Site development work for commercial vehicle inspection and weighing in the vicinity of Nogales.

$2,500,000
Arkansas

(lead state)

 Environmental Studies for future I-69.

$10,000,000
Arkansas

(lead state)

 Acquisition of right-of-way for Highway 71 from Texarkana to the Louisiana state line.

$2,000,000
Arkansas

(lead state)

 Environmental review, design, right-of-way acquisition and bridge replacement for parts of U.S. 412 in northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri.

$1,000,000
California Environmental review, detailed design and right-of-way acquisition for State Route 905.

$7,400,000
California Coordinated study of feasibility of new border crossing, planning for port of entry improvements and planning for improving border transportation efficiencies in the vicinity of Mexicali and to improve border transportation systems with Baja California.

$ 340,000
Georgia Comprehensive corridor study for State Route 22, U.S. 80, State Route 96 and I-16 to Savannah.

$1,500,000
Idaho Environmental, concept, location, comprehensive and corridor planning and right-of-way acquisition for U.S. 95 from State Route 1 to the Canadian border.

$1,200,000
Illinois Reconstruction of westbound mainline of I-55 from Dan Ryan Expressway to Kedzie Avenue.

$3,000,000
Indiana Construction of highway and bridges for Hoosier Industrial Corridor between State Route 13 and State Route 9.

$2,000,000
Indiana Planning, routing and location studies for High Priority Corridor 18 (a.k.a., future I-69) in Southwest Indiana and nearby Kentucky.

$400,000
Iowa Reconstruction/widening of I-35 from west of State Route 415 to east of U.S. 69.

$3,000,000
Kansas Feasibility, location and design studies for a corridor from Missouri to Oklahoma generally along U.S. 54.

$560,000
Kentucky Preliminary engineering and environmental studies for a facility from Pike County to future I-73 in West Virginia, with the proviso that one alternative for study be less costly than alternatives previously studied (e.g., a phased improvement where the initial phase includes some at grade intersections and a later phase includes improving those intersections to interchanges).

$4,500,000
Louisiana Environmental, preliminary engineering, design and construction work to upgrade U.S. 90 to a controlled access facility to be identified as I-49 from Lafayette to the West Bank Expressway.

$3,000,000
Louisiana Design, right-of-way acquisition, utility relocation and construction work for development of I-49 from Shreveport to the Arkansas State line.

$1,000,000
Maine

(lead state)

 Project development work for a new border crossing in Calais through the NEPA process and other planning work supporting the development of the U.S. 2 corridor in New England.

$1,500,000
Maryland

(lead state)

 Study of feasibility and other issues involving the development of projects to provide substantial improvements to a north to south corridor in Western Maryland and nearby parts of Virginia and West Virginia.

$500,000
Michigan Design of improved Ambassador Bridge gateway and reconstruction of nearby portion of I-75/I-96.

$10,600,000
Michigan Deployment of technology improvements on Blue Water Bridge, design of improvements to a nearby grade crossing and construction of a nearby truck cargo facility.

$1,200,000
Michigan Study of cross border transportation improvements in Livingston, St. Clair, Monroe, Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw and Macomb counties.

$100,000
Minnesota Mobile vehicle inspections using portable scales.

$144,000
Minnesota Study and environmental review of improvements to U.S. 53 from Virginia to Cook and International Falls to the vicinity of Kabetogama.

$500,000
Missouri

(lead state)

 Deployment planning for ITS improvements for I-35/I-29 corridor from Mexico to Canada.

$800,000
Montana Feasibility of bypass in city of Billings, Yellowstone County.

$150,000
New Jersey Development of multimodal/intermodal corridor plan for rail and highway improvements in vicinity of Port Elizabeth, N.J., approximately parallel to the New Jersey Turnpike.

$1,000,000
New Mexico Widen the Domenici Highway (State Route 136) from 2 to 4 lanes in vicinity of the Mexico border.

$4,000,000
New York

(lead state)

 Technology and physical improvements to institute Intelligent Transportation Systems for expediting rail cargo at border crossings in Buffalo, N.Y.; Detroit; Port Huron, Mich.; and Ranier, Minn.

$1,000,000
New York Design, right-of-way acquisition, construction and reconstruction from 2 to 4 lanes of U.S. 219 from State Route 39 in the vicinity of Springville to State Route 17/I-86 in the vicinity of Salamanca.

$500,000
New York Development of a commercial vehicle processing center in the vicinity of the Buffalo/Fort Erie Bridge.

$960,000
New York ITS Operational test including design, construction and operation at the Buffalo/Fort Erie Bridge.

$1,800,000
New York Widen approaches on northbound I-81, including preliminary engineering, design and construction in the vicinity of the Thousand Islands border crossing.

$200,000
New York Design of Inspection facilities in the vicinity of the Port of Rochester border crossing.

$400,000
North Dakota Develop model for planning border crossing improvements based on Pembina- Emerson and Portal-North Portal ports of entry.

$200,000
Oklahoma Reconstruction and addition of two lanes to I-35 from the South Canada Bridge to U.S. 77.

$3,000,000
Oregon

(lead state)

 Multimodal trade corridor study of the I-5 corridor between Portland and Vancouver and vicinity from I-84 in Oregon to

I-205 in Washington. The I-5 corridor serves the ports of Portland and Vancouver, the intermodal yards of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, and the Portland International Airport.

$2,000,000
Pennsylvania Construction of new facilities and reconstruction of existing facilities to freeway standards in various portions of Washington and Allegheny counties as part of the Mon-Fayette expressway.

$4,000,000
South Dakota Construction of interchange, frontage roads and railroad underpass in Rapid City from State Route 79 south of the city to I-90 at the Elk Vale Road Interchange.

$3,000,000
Tennessee Reconstruction and addition of 2 lanes in the vicinity of the

I-40/I-240 midtown interchange in Memphis.

$3,000,000
Texas Construction of freeway overpasses and connectors in Laredo on FM 3464 from I-35 to the new border crossing.

$6,200,000
Texas Border station improvements at the International Bridge of the Americas in El Paso County.

$2,400,000
Texas Construction of bridge and upgrading to four lanes in Hidalgo County on U.S. 281 south of Pharr.

$1,800,000
Texas Construction and upgrading to eight lanes of I-35 in Comal County from Walnut Avenue to FM 725.

$1,700,000
Texas Construction of safety inspection facility, bus processing center, electronic vehicle traffic management system and related improvements at three border crossing locations in Hidalgo port-of-entry system.

$1,900,000
Washington Construction of a number of highway-rail grade separations and port access projects on the Freight Action Strategy (FAST) Corridor from Everett to Tacoma.

$10,000,000
Washington Binational Coordination for border crossings in Whatcom County.

$811,000
Washington Freight and traveler origin and destination study and commodity flow study in Whatcom County.

$ 238,000
Washington Outreach project to market preclearance program in Whatcom County.

$200,000
West Virginia Construction to freeway standards of the Mon-Fayette expressway from I-68 east of Morgantown to the Pennsylvania state line.

$3,000,000
West Virginia Reconstruction and widening of the Tolsia Highway from two to four lanes with partial access control in Wayne and Mingo Counties.

$3,500,000
Wisconsin Construction to improve a two-lane facility to a four-lane divided highway along State Route 29 in Brown, Marathon, Shawano and Dunn Counties.

$3,000,000
Wyoming

(lead state)

 Preliminary engineering, environmental studies and coordination for a joint port of entry along U.S. 87 between Buffalo, Wyo., and Billings, Mont.

$1,300,000

Contact

Martin Weiss, martin.weiss@dot.gov, (202)366-5010
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