Hundreds of millions of federal dollars are on the line, but AKDOT expects no problems making the necessary revisions.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A decision shooting down Alaska’s slate of transportation upgrades has put hundreds of millions of federal dollars on the line.
State officials said Thursday a change in regulation interpretations means federal agencies now require the STIP to include replicas of local planning documents from areas’ Metropolitan Planning Organizations . “We weren’t expecting denial, but we knew that was a possibility,” AKDOT Communications Director Shannon McCarthy said in a Thursday phone interview.
That priority tier is itself broken down into another five categories, containing a total of 152 projects or programs for which the federal agencies determined some sort of corrective action was necessary. The decision lists three projects, including a bridge replacement project along the Manh Choh ore trucking route on the Richardson Highway, saying they needed further inter-agency consultation to determine their eligibility during the freeze before getting a spot in the STIP.Federal officials said at a Feb. 5 inter-agency meeting the Richardson Highway bridge replacement project was exempt from the freeze, however — but it still has to be in FAST’s TIP. It’s not.
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