[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: 23CFR752.4]

[Page 372-373]
 
                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 752--LANDSCAPE AND ROADSIDE DEVELOPMENT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 752.4  Landscape development.

    (a) Landscape development, which includes landscaping projects and 
other highway planting programs within the right-of-way of all federally 
funded highways or on adjoining scenic lands, shall be in general 
comformity with accepted concepts and principles of highway landscaping 
and environmental design.

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    (b) Landscape development should have provisions for plant 
establishment periods of a duration sufficient for expected survival in 
the highway environment. Normal 1-year plant establishment periods may 
be extended to 3-year periods where survival is considered essential to 
their function, such as junkyard screening or urban landscaping 
projects.
    (c) In urban areas new and major reconstructed highways and 
completed Interstate and expressway sections are to be landscaped as 
appropriate for the adjacent existing or planned environment.
    (d) In rural areas new and major reconstructed highways should be 
landscaped as appropriate for the adjacent environment. Planning should 
include the opportunity for natural regeneration of native growth and 
the management of that growth.
    (e) Landscaping projects shall include the planting of native 
wildflower seeds or seedlings or both, unless a waiver is granted as 
provided in Sec. 752.11(b).

[43 FR 19390, May 5, 1978, as amended at 52 FR 34638, Sept. 14, 1987]