(a) The department will classify projects in
one of the following categories:
(1) the
National Highway System, including ferries and terminals;
(2) the Alaska Highway System;
(3) the Community Transportation Program;
and
(4) the Trails and Recreational
Access for Alaskans (TRAAK) Program.
(c) The Alaska Highway System includes
existing or planned surface facilities that are of statewide significance
though not included in the National Highway System. The Alaska Highway System
specifically includes
(1) marine vessels and
facilities, including
(A) Alaska Marine
Highway System terminals and vessels that are not included in the National
Highway System; and
(B) terminals
and vessels owned and operated by political subdivisions of the state that
provide service between communities in the state;
(2) Craig-Klawock-Hollis Highway, from Craig
to Clark Bay;
(3) Copper River
Highway, from Cordova to end;
(4)
Denali Highway, from Richardson Highway to Parks Highway;
(5) Aleknagik Lake Road, from Kanakanak Road
to the village of Aleknagik;
(6)
Edgerton Highway and McCarthy Road, from Richardson Highway to end;
(7) Elliott Highway, from the Dalton Highway
junction to end;
(8) Glacier
Highway, from the Auke Bay Ferry Terminal to Echo Cove;
(9) Klawock Airport Road, from Klawock
Airport to Big Salt Lake Road;
(10)
Big Salt Lake Road, from Craig-Klawock-Hollis Highway to end;
(11) Hope Highway, from Seward Highway to
Hope;
(12) Thorne Bay Road, from
Big Salt Lake Road to Thorne Bay;
(13) North Prince of Wales Road, from the Big
Salt Lake Road junction to the Coffman Cove junction;
(14) King Salmon-Naknek Road, from Naknek to
King Salmon;
(15) Nabesna Road,
from Tok Cutoff to Nabesna;
(16)
Nome-Teller Highway, from Nome to Teller;
(17) Nome-Council Highway, from Nome to
Council;
(18) Kougarok Road
(Nome-Taylor Highway), from Nome-Council Highway to its end at the historic
community of Taylor;
(19) Steese
Highway, from the Elliott Highway junction to Circle Hot Springs;
(20) Minto Spur, from Elliott Highway to
Minto;
(21) Northway Road, from
Alaska Highway to Northway;
(22)
Mentasta Road, from Tok Cutoff to Mentasta;
(23) Lake Louise Road, from Glenn Highway to
Lake Louise;
(24) Clear
Road/Anderson Road, from Parks Highway to Anderson;
(25) Chena Hot Springs Road, from Steese
Highway to Chena Hot Springs;
(26)
Old Glenn Highway, from Palmer to the Glenn Highway;
(27) Palmer-Wasilla Highway, from Glenn
Highway to Parks Highway;
(28)
Petersville Road, from Parks Highway to end;
(29) Talkeetna Road, from Parks Highway to
end;
(30) Taylor Highway, from
Alaska Highway to Eagle;
(31) Top
of the World Highway, from Taylor Highway to Canadian border;
(32) North Tongass Highway, from the
Ketchikan Airport Ferry Terminal to end;
(33) South Tongass Highway, from Bawden
Street to end;
(34) Pile Bay Road,
from Williamsport to Pile Bay;
(35)
Eureka to Rampart Road, from Elliott Highway to Rampart;
(36) Chiniak Highway, from Sargent Creek Road
to Pasagshak Road;
(37) Pasagshak
Road, from Chiniak Highway to the Kodiak Missile Launch Complex;
(38) Rezanof Drive West, from Airport
Terminal Road to Chiniak Highway;
(39) Anton Larson Bay Road, from Cape Chiniak
Road to milepost 12.3;
(40) Mitkof
Highway, from the Petersburg Ferry Terminal to the planned ferry terminal on
the south end of Mitkof Island;
(41) Chignik Connector, a planned route
linking Chignik to Chignik Lagoon and Chignik Lake;
(42) South Naknek Access, a planned route
crossing the Naknek River from South Naknek to King Salmon-Naknek Road;
and
(43) Iliamna to Nondalton
Road.
(d) Projects in
the Community Transportation Program include surface transportation facilities
of local or regional significance that are owned by the state or its political
subdivisions, that are not included in the National Highway System, and that
are not included in the Alaska Highway System. Project categories in this
program include rural and urban streets, remote roads and trails, transit
projects, and intelligent transportation systems.
(e) Projects in the Trails and Recreational
Access for Alaska (TRAAK) Program
(1) are
those that qualify for financing under
(A)
16 U.S.C.
460l-4 -
460l-11 (Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965);
(B)
23 U.S.C.
206 (Recreational Trails Program);
or
(C) the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (P.L.
102-240) and subsequent amendments and
reauthorizations; and
(2) include trails that tie neighborhoods,
parks, and commercial areas together, bike and pedestrian trails, trail heads,
interpretive waysides, picnic areas, and rest stops.
