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Highway Emergency Relief Program

The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Emergency Relief Program provides financial assistance to States and federal land management agencies for the reconstruction of qualified highways and bridges that have suffered serious damage as a result of natural disasters or catastrophic failures from an external cause.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Projects funded through the Emergency Relief program are generally completed more quickly than typical Federal-aid highway projects. In 2004, FWHA closed out 81 percent of emergency relief projects within four years of the disaster.
  • Regular funding authority for the program in recent years has not met the demand for assistance, which has resulted in a backlog of unfunded projects. Periodically, the program receives supplemental appropriations to fund backlogged projects.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Incorporating the program within FHWA's Financial Integrity Review and Evaluation procedures.
  • Establishing in-house guidance and criteria that will focus on project approval performance.
  • Establishing in-house guidance and criteria to ensure all FWHA state division offices approve projects according to the same standards.

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