| FHWA 01-10 | Contact: Doug Hecox |
| Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Phone: 202-366-0660 |
Transportation Secretary Announces Nearly $94 Million for Federal Lands Road Projects in 31 States
WASHINGTON - Sixty-eight road projects in 31 states will receive $93.9 million in Public Lands Highways grant funds to improve access to public lands, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced today.
"The roads that carry America to and through its national parks, tribal lands or any of the other federal lands need help, just like the rest of the national highway system," said Secretary LaHood. "These funds will help protect the roads for the many who depend on them and improve the quality of life for communities served by these unique places."
The funds will improve and increase accessibility on the lands of 15 Native American tribes, 11 military bases, 19 national park units, 10 national forests and four national wildlife refuges.
Unlike most of the nation's public roads which are managed by state departments of transportation, federal lands roads are maintained by various tribal and federal agencies. Funds from the Public Lands Highways grant program supplement their existing infrastructure programs. They can also be used for cities and counties that are responsible for the roads providing access to federal and tribal lands.
Examples of this year's grant recipients include:
- More than $4 million will be used to help improve road access to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township, Pa.
- Nearly $3 million will be used for road improvements near the forthcoming American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial in Washington, D.C., between I-395 and the U.S. Capitol. The memorial is anticipated to be completed by 2012.
- Nearly $2 million will be used to make tribal road improvements on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
- Nearly $1 million will be used for alternative transportation improvements around the Fort Baker area in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California. This work includes pedestrian connection improvements, upgrades to National Park Service shuttle buses, planning for bio-diesel refueling capacity, and installation of signs, bicycle racks, benches and other related equipment.
- More than $1 million will be used to complete construction of the SR 101/ t3ba'das Parkway on the Skokomish Indian Reservation, Washington.
This is the largest amount of grant funding awarded to public lands roads since 2002, and the second largest in the 79-year history of the Federal Highway Administration's Public Lands Highways program.
A complete list of the 2009 recipients is below. Additional detail about the program can be found online at https://flh.fhwa.dot.gov/programs/plh/discretionary.
| STATE |
PROJECT DESCRIPTION |
TOTAL FUNDING |
| AK |
Alaska Trails Initiative |
$1,900,000 |
| AK |
Fairbanks/North Star Borough Rural and Road Service Upgrades |
$950,000 |
| AZ |
Arizona Forest Highway 39, General Hitchcock Highway (Catalina Highway), Pima County |
$1,662,500 |
| AZ |
Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge |
$5,958,712 |
| AZ |
Infrastructure - Roads Improvement, Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells |
$950,000 |
| AZ |
Sage Brush Road Project, Navajo Mountain Chapter |
$139,650 |
| CA |
Bald Hill Slide Mitigation, Hoopa Reservation |
$812,500 |
| CA |
Forest Highway 171 Widening, Butte County |
$1,998,450 |
| CA |
Fort Baker Transportation Upgrades |
$975,000 |
| CA |
Needles Highway, Needles |
$3,800,000 |
| CA |
Presidio Transportation Demand Management Project, San Francisco |
$1,012,500 |
| CA |
South Access to the Golden Gate Bridge, Doyle Drive, City and County of San Francisco |
$2,612,500 |
| CA |
State Route 88 Pine Grove Corridor Improvement Project, Amador County |
$180,500 |
| CO |
Improved Access to Powers Boulevard, Peterson AFB |
$2,280,000 |
| CO |
Sand Dunes Northern Access Road |
$608,750 |
| CO |
SH 115, Ft. Carson |
$1,252,650 |
| CO |
SH 13 South of SH 64 Rio Blanco Divide |
$475,000 |
| DC |
American Veterans Disabled for Life |
$2,850,000 |
| DC |
New Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge Construction Project |
$950,000 |
| DE |
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Recreation Trail |
$570,000 |
| FL |
BIA Route 1281, Snake Road Improvement Project, Seminole Big Cypress Reservation |
$475,000 |
| FL |
Fort George Island Access Road, Jacksonville |
$475,000 |
| FL |
Snake Road Safety Improvements, Miccosukee Reservation |
$760,000 |
| HI |
Federal Lands Improvement Project |
$1,900,000 |
| ID |
City of Rocks Back Country Byway |
$1,961,750 |
| ID |
FH-24, Banks to Lowman |
$475,000 |
| IL |
Seibert Road Improvements, Shiloh |
$950,000 |
| MA |
Riverwalk Extension Construction, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell |
$912,500 |
| MD |
BRAC Related Improvements, Anne Arundel County |
$3,063,750 |
| MD |
BRAC Related Improvements, Harford County |
$3,087,500 |
| MD |
BRAC Related Improvements, Montgomery County |
$3,087,500 |
| MD |
MD 4 at Suitland Parkway |
$2,267,500 |
| MT |
Montana Secondary 323 from Ekalaka to Alzada |
$2,850,000 |
| NC |
Maintain Infrastructure/Restore Visitor Services for Blue Ridge Parkway |
$475,000 |
| ND |
Cannon Ball and Fort Yates Community Streets Road Improvements |
$1,822,908 |
| NJ |
Multi-Use Pathway, Sandy Hook |
$810,000 |
| NM |
US 491: Navajo 9 to Shiprock, Four-lane upgrade |
$950,000 |
| NV |
Boulder City Bypass Improvements, Boulder City |
$855,000 |
| NV |
Extension of Starr Road to Saint Rose Parkway and Henderson Starr Road Interchange at I-15 |
$1,187,500 |
| NV |
I-15 Sloan to Apex Interchange |
$475,000 |
| NV |
Pyramid Lake Highway Corridor, Sparks |
$1,425,000 |
| NV |
Southern Nevada Beltway Interchanges |
$2,850,000 |
| NV |
SR-160 Blue Diamond Highway -- Las Vegas to Pahrump |
$2,612,500 |
| NY |
Fort Drum Connector Road |
$1,425,000 |
| OH |
Improved Accessibility to the Cuyahoga National Park, Akron-Peninsula Road, Summit County |
$475,000 |
| OR |
US Highway 199 Improvements |
$475,000 |
| OR |
US Highway 42 Improvements |
$1,425,000 |
| PA |
Flight 93 National Memorial, Public Lands Transportation Needs |
$4,275,000 |
| PA |
Stoopville Road Traffic Calming Measures Surrounding Dolington National Veterans Cemetery, Bucks County |
$950,000 |
| RI |
Blackstone River Bikeway |
$575,000 |
| SD |
Cuny Table Road (BIA Route 2), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation |
$1,900,000 |
| SD |
Improvements to SD 73 from US 18 to Jackson County Serving Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservation |
$950,000 |
| SD |
Kenel Road (BIA Route 3) Rehabilitation and Resurfacing, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Corson County |
$237,500 |
| SD |
Reconstruction of BIA Route 15, Marshall County |
$475,000 |
| TN |
Stones River National Battlefield Tour Route |
$1,200,000 |
| TX |
Rittiman/Harry Wurzbach Corridor Improvements, San Antonio |
$950,000 |
| UT |
Bear River Access Road Forest Street Improvements, Brigham City |
$285,000 |
| UT |
Navajo Route 35 Resurfacing Project |
$950,000 |
| UT |
SR-92 Lehi to Highland |
$712,500 |
| VA |
Onville Road Intersection and Road-Widening Project, Prince William County |
$988,655 |
| VA |
US Route 1/ VA Route 619 Traffic Circle/Interchange, at the entrance of USMC Quantico Marine Corps Base, Prince William County |
$1,187,500 |
| VA |
Wolf Trap Performing Arts Multi-Use Trail, Fairfax |
$1,187,500 |
| WA |
B-Reactor Access Road Analysis Project |
$190,000 |
| WA |
Skokomish Tribe Reservation Road Improvements |
$1,330,000 |
| WA |
Squaxin Island Access Improvement Project |
$1,045,000 |
| WI |
Improvement to US Highway 70 in Oneida County and Vilas County |
$712,500 |
| WY |
17-Mile Road Reconstruction, Wind River Indian Reservation |
$475,000 |
| WY |
Grand Teton National Park Pathways System |
$1,900,000 |
| TOTAL |
68 Projects |
$93,943,275 |
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