| (a) Maintenance programs. This section applies to the
following maintenance programs and the maintenance projects undertaken
under them:
(1) Bridge maintenance--Activities to repair or perform
preventive maintenance on bridges, culverts, retaining walls, and
barrier walls.
(2) Customer service--Activities related to providing
the traveling public with services, including maintaining rest areas,
picnic areas, and litter barrels.
(3) Debris and spills--Activities related to removing
debris from the right of way, including litter, roadway debris, spills,
and sweeping.
(4) Drainage--Activities related to maintaining drainage
systems and slopes on the right of way and within drainage easements,
including roadside ditches, slopes, channels, creeks, streams, and
rivers.
(5) Ferry maintenance--The maintenance and operation
of ferries under Transportation Code, §342.001.
(6) Maintenance enhancement--Maintenance activities
that improve the access to a highway or improve the performance of
the highway system such as the installation of turn lanes, turnouts,
turn-arounds, driveways, or shoulders.
(7) Pavement maintenance--Activities to repair or perform
preventive maintenance on pavements, including work performed on the
pavement surface, base, sub-base, sub-grade, or embankment.
(8) Roadside appurtenances--Activities related to fixtures
along the roadways, including signs, delineators, mailboxes, guard
rails, attenuators, illumination, and signals.
(9) Traffic pavement markings--Activities related to
markings on the pavement to control vehicular movement, including
installing and removing striping, specialty markings, and pavement
markings.
(10) Vegetation management--Activities performed to
establish and maintain the condition of the roadway and roadside on
the state highway right of way, including mowing operations, pest
management, revegetation techniques, erosion control, wildflower preservation
and propagation, tree and brush trimming and removal, and the preservation
of threatened and endangered plant species.
(b) Environmental review.
(1) Programs. At least every ten years the department
will conduct an environmental review following the requirements of
this chapter for each of the maintenance programs listed in subsection
(a) of this section.
(2) Projects. Except as provided in the next succeeding
sentence, no individual environmental review under this chapter will
be required for maintenance projects undertaken under programs listed
in subsection (a) of this section. An individual environmental review
under this chapter will be required for a maintenance project that
is conducted or supported by FHWA, unless FHWA has approved an environmental
review of the program under which the project is conducted.
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