Chambers County Highway Department

Chambers County Highway Department, a U.S. county government entity headquartered in La Fayette, Alabama, serves as a federal grant recipient focused on roadway safety planning and infrastructure improvements in central Alabama, operating as a prime recipient on Federal Highway Administration grants and as a sub-recipient on Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery sub-awards.

Chambers County Highway Department has received two prime grants from the Federal Highway Administration under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program (CFDA 20.939). The most recent award, issued May 26, 2026, provides $284,000 in project grant funding for supplemental planning activities across Autauga, Chambers, and Elmore Counties, with completion targeted for May 26, 2028; deliverables include comprehensive safety action plan development, traffic safety data analysis, and multi-jurisdictional stakeholder coordination to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries. An earlier SS4A grant awarded May 21, 2024, funded a comprehensive safety action plan covering Autauga, Chambers, Elmore, and Perry Counties with completion in July 2026. Additionally, the department acts as sub-recipient on three disaster recovery sub-awards from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency (prime grantee, with FEMA as the underlying funding source), all dated May 6, 2023, for roads and bridges reconstruction under the Roads and Bridges assistance category.

The department's federal footprint remains modest — five total awards (two prime grants, three grant sub-awards) across two customer agencies as of mid-2026, with combined dollars obligated of $1.8 million. Activity shows one award completing within the next twenty-four months. The vendor does not hold federal contracts or sit on contract vehicles; its federal engagement is restricted to grant funding through FHWA and FEMA sub-awards focused on regional transportation safety and post-disaster infrastructure recovery in central Alabama.