[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR660.509]

[Page 320-321]
 
                           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. 660.509  General principles.

    (a) State and local highway agencies are expected to assume the same 
responsibility for developing and maintaining adequate highways to 
permanent defense installations as they do for highways serving private 
industrial establishments or any other permanent traffic generators. The 
Federal Government expects that highway improvements in the vicinity of 
defense installations will receive due priority consideration and 
treatment as State and local agencies develop their programs of 
improvement. The FHWA will provide assistance, as requested by MTMC,

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to ascertain State program plans for improvements to roads serving as 
access to defense installations. Roads which serve permanent defense 
installations and which qualify under established critieria as Federal-
aid routes should be included in the appropriate Federal-aid system.
    (b) It is recognized that problems may arise in connection with the 
establishment, expansion, or operation of defense installations which 
create an unanticipated impact upon the long-range requirements for the 
development of highways in the vicinity. These problems can be resolved 
equitably only by Federal assistance from other than normal Federal-aid 
highway programs for part or all of the cost of highway improvements 
necessary for the functioning of the installation.