Exempt Projects | |
SAFETY | |
1. | Railroad or highway crossing. |
2. | Hazard elimination program. |
3. | Safer non-federal-aid system roads. |
4. | Shoulder improvements. |
5. | Increasing sight distance. |
6. | Safety improvement program. |
7. | Traffic control devices and operating assistance other than signalization projects. |
8. | Railroad or highway crossing warning devices. |
9. | Guardrails, median barriers, crash cushions. |
10. | Pavement resurfacing or rehabilitation. |
11. | Pavement marking demonstration. |
12. | Emergency relief ( 23 U.S.C. 125 ). |
13. | Fencing. |
14. | Skid treatments. |
15. | Safety roadside rest areas. |
16. | Adding medians. |
17. | Truck climbing lanes outside the urbanized area. |
18. | Lighting improvements. |
19. | Widening narrow pavements or reconstructing bridges (no additional travel lanes). |
20. | Emergency truck pullovers. |
MASS TRANSIT | |
1. | Operating assistance to transit agencies. |
2. | Purchase of support vehicles. |
3. | Rehabilitation of transit vehicles. (In PM10 nonattainment or maintenance areas, such projects are exempt only if they are in compliance with control measures in the applicable implementation plan.) |
4. | Purchase of office, shop, and operating equipment for existing facilities. |
5. | Purchase of operating equipment for vehicles (e.g., radios, fareboxes, lifts, etc.). |
6. | Construction or renovation of power, signal, and communications systems. |
7. | Construction of small passenger shelters and information kiosks. |
8. | Reconstruction or renovation of transit buildings and structures (e.g., rail or bus buildings, storage and maintenance facilities, stations, terminals, and ancillary structures). |
9. | Rehabilitation or reconstruction of track structures, track, and trackbed in existing rights-of-way. |
10. | Purchase of new buses and rail cars to replace existing vehicles or for minor expansions of the fleet. (In PM10 nonattainment or maintenance areas, such projects are exempt only if they are in compliance with control measures in the applicable implementation plan.) |
11. | Construction of new bus or rail storage or maintenance facilities categorically excluded in 23 CFR 771. |
AIR QUALITY | |
1. | Continuation of ride-sharing and van-pooling promotion activities at current levels. |
2. | Bicycle and pedestrian facilities. |
OTHER | |
1. | Specific activities which do not involve or lead directly to construction, such as: |
a. | Planning and technical studies. |
b. | Grants for training and research programs. |
c. | Planning activities conducted pursuant to Titles 23 and 49 U.S.C. |
d. | Federal-aid systems revisions. |
2. | Engineering to assess social, economic and environmental effects of the proposed action or alternatives to that action. |
3. | Noise attenuation. |
4. | Advance land acquisitions ( 23 CFR 712 or 23 CFR 771 ). |
5. | Acquisition of scenic easements. |
6. | Plantings, landscaping, etc. |
7. | Sign removal. |
8. | Directional and informational signs. |
9. | Transportation enhancement activities (except rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings, structures, or facilities). |
10. | Repair of damage caused by natural disasters, civil unrest, or terrorist acts, except projects involving substantial functional, locational or capacity changes. |
Ariz. Admin. Code tit. 18, ch. 2, art. 14, tbl. 2