Project Support Items:
• General refuge planning.
• Non-program specific conferences, field trips, or training conferences.
• Cultural resources investigations and work outside roadway construction limits
Construction or Improvements Items:
• Construction of new roads, new campground roads and related parking pads.
• Cyclic roadway maintenance work including chip and slurry seals (seal coats), pavement patching, roadway grading, shoulder and ditch grading, cleaning culverts, snow removal, roadside mowing, vegetation control, normal sign repair and traffic markings.
• Seal coats on top of new asphalt concrete pavements.
• Cyclic bridge maintenance work including cleaning and repairing bridge joints, cleaning repairing bridge drainage, and repairing other bridge appurtenances.
• Landscaping and irrigation systems of areas not disturbed by refuge road construction.
• Landscaping of disturbed areas with non-native plant species.
• Utilities and buildings not disturbed by construction.
• Sanitation facilities not disturbed by construction.
• Walls and erosion protection that are not part of or support the roadway prism.
• Recreational boat launching facilities and ramps.
• General refuge development projects.
• Roads that serve only an administrative site such as refuge housing, maintenance area or refuge dormitory (or a combination of these).
• Roads that provide access to Refuge Headquarters which are not open to the general public (i.e., not a visitor center).
• Roads that are primarily used for administrative purposes and open to the public only for very limited periods during the year under restrictive conditions.
• Restoration of borrow pits (or portions of borrow pits) created by projects funded with non Refuge Road program funds.
• Repairs to or replacement of fences not disturbed by Refuge Road construction.
