Project Support Items:

• Traffic engineering and safety studies.

• Identification and surveillance of accident locations.

• Road Inventories.

• Bridge, pavement, safety and congestion management systems.

• Necessary environmental studies and resource investigations confined to the general roadway construction limits.

• Project-related re-vegetation and control of invasive plants.

• Necessary architectural and landscape engineering services.

• Engineering design for roads, bridges, adjacent vehicle parking areas, provisions for pedestrian and bicycles, and roadside rest areas including sanitary and water facilities.

• Construction engineering for contract administration, inspection and testing.

• Necessary interagency program/project formulation meetings.

• Interagency program review meetings (per interagency agreement).

• Necessary interagency project coordination.

• Research part of coordinated technology implementation program.

Construction and Improvements Items:

• Resurfacing (milling, recycling and overlaying) existing pavements.

• Excavating and replacing failed base courses and poor subgrade materials.

• Replacing, upgrading or relocating deteriorated, undersized or poorly located drainage structures (aprons, inlets, culverts and headwalls etc.).

• Improvements to facilitate wildlife crossings, passage of aquatic organisms and habitat connectivity.

• Repair or upgrading existing guardrails or guardwalls.

• Minor widening of the roadway, realigning of intersections, adding of turn lanes, intersection islands, or pullouts, flattening of curves, or adjusting curve superelevation if the work can be accomplished on the existing road bench.

• Repairing, rehabilitating or replacing existing retaining walls if the estimated cost of a single wall or site is $200,000 or less.

• Repairing and or stabilizing landslides, severely eroding or failing slopes if the estimated cost of a single site is $200,000 or less.

• Projects off of the roadway bench may be allowed to widen or realign the road, construct new pullouts or add other features such as comfort stations and interpretive signage provided that they total no more than 5% of the project's construction costs.

• Removing or grinding existing pavement to convert a road to an aggregate surface.

• Replacing, upgrading or adding new pavement markings and signage to address changing traffic patterns, new uses or safety problems as well as to meet current standards if occurring in conjunction with an RR roadway project. Sign or marking replacement due to age, damage or deterioration is not eligible for funding, unless undertaken as part of a road rehabilitation project.

• Engineered pavement overlays that add structural value, design life or improved skid resistance.

• Double bituminous surface treatments and chip seals that are part of predefined stage construction or form final surface on low volume roads.

• Engineered rehabilitation or reconstruction of pavement structures, bridges and bridge decks.

• Engineered spot safety improvements resulting from safety studies.

• Upgrading of substandard traffic barriers and bridge rails to current standards.

• Replacement of nonstandard traffic regulatory and guide signs.

• Upgrading substandard or nonconforming traffic markings (one time only).

• A single refuge entrance sign if the sign conforms to FWS standards, is in a safe location, is part of an adjacent Refuge Roads project, and is of reasonable cost ($10,000 maximum including design, materials and installation).

• Accommodating traffic and pedestrians through construction zones.

• Public approach roads and interchange ramps that are under the jurisdiction and responsibility of the FWS.

• Installation of warranted roadway lighting.

• Adjustment of utilities directly related to roadway work.

• Conduits crossing under the roadway to accommodate future planned utilities.

• Landscaping and native plant seeding of areas disturbed by the RRP program projects.

• Landscaping required to meet Environmental Impact Study mitigation measures resulting from roadway construction.

• Construction of erosion control and environmental mitigation measures directly related to roadway construction.

• Experimental features where there is a planned monitoring evaluation schedule.

• Public parking lots or pull-offs to trail heads adjacent to RRP projects, interpretive areas, public lodging, visitor center, (including necessary supporting retaining walls, protective railings and adjacent perimeter sidewalk).

• Provisions for pedestrians and bicyclists within/adjacent to roadway prism when warranted for safety reasons.

• Maintenance and improvement of existing recreational trails in accordance with the FHWA/FWS Recreational Trails Guidance with total funding not to exceed 5% of the national program funds.

• Restoration of borrow pits created by projects funded from the RRP program.

• Force account and day labor, including materials and equipment rental being performed in accordance with approved plans and specifications, that has been determined to be cost-effective (public interest).

• All the aforementioned work can be performed on existing parking areas, pullouts, sidewalks or bicycle paths if the work is incidental to a RRP roadway project.