PSG areawide chip seal

The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration awarded $533,582.76 under the Highway Planning and Construction federal grant program (CFDA 20.205) on September 6, 2022 to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities.

The funding will support the design and construction of a chip seal overlay project on all area roads in Petersburg, Alaska. Specifically, the grant will cover work by materials, survey, traffic, environmental, utilities, and bridge divisions to craft project and engineering documents for Phase 2 of the project. The chip seal overlay is intended to preserve and improve highways in the designated area. As sub-awardee, the State of Alaska Office of the Governor will also support delivery of the federally funded transportation project scope.

Project description

This project will design and construct a chip seal overlay on all areawide roads in petersburg. Phase 2 budget includes work by materials (field investigation), survey (pre-road survey of centerline for final striping layout), traffic (assistance with TCP), environmental, utilities (identifying anything that might require adjustment), bridge (evaluate chip seal and/or other overlays on bridges) & highway design workto craft the PS & E documents.