PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist State transportation agencies in the planning and development of an integrated, interconnected transportation system important to interstate commerce and travel by constructing and rehabilitating the National Highway System, including the Interstate System; and for transportation improvements to all public roads except those functionally classified as local; to provide aid for the repair of Federal-aid roads following disasters; to foster safe highway design; to replace or rehabilitate deficient or obsolete bridges; and to provide for other special purposes. This program also provides for the improvement of roads in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Alaskan Highway. The Federal Lands Highway Program provides assistance to the Federal Land Management Agencies for Federally-owned roads.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. DISASTER PREVENTION AND RELIEF;
- Disaster Relief;
2. TRANSPORTATION;
- Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- U.S. Territories;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);