[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR660.515]

[Page 318-319]
 
                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 660--SPECIAL PROGRAMS (DIRECT FEDERAL)--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart E--Defense Access Roads
 
Sec. 660.515  Project administration.

    (a) Determination of the agency best able to accomplish the 
location, design, and construction of the projects covered by this 
regulation will be made by the FHWA Division Administrator after 
consultation with the State and/or local highway agency within whose 
jurisdiction the highway lies. When an agency other than the State or 
local highway agency is selected to administer the project, the Division 
Administrator will be responsible during the life of the project for any 
necessary coordination between the selected agency and the State or 
local highway agency.
    (b) Defense access road projects under the supervision of a State or 
local highway agency, whether on or

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off the Federal-aid system, shall be administered in accordance with 
Federal-aid procedures, as modified specifically herein or as limited by 
the delegations of authority to Regional and Division Administrators, 
unless approval of other procedures has been obtained from Washington 
Headquarters Office of Direct Federal Programs (HDF-1).
    (c) The Division Administrator shall have a firm commitment from the 
State or local highway agency, within whose jurisdiction the access road 
lies, that it will accept the responsibility for maintenance of the 
completed facility before authorization of acquisition of right-of-way 
or construction of a project.
    (d) When defense access road funds are available for a pro-rata 
portion of the total project cost, the remaining portion of the project 
may be funded as a Federal-aid project if on a Federal-aid route. 
Defense access road funds shall not be substituted for the State's 
matching share of the Federal-aid portion of a project.