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    <Category>Executive Branch: Departments</Category>
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    <AgencyName>Federal Highway Administration</AgencyName>
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        <Address>1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590</Address>
        <Phone>202-366-0650</Phone>
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        <ShowFootNote>Yes</ShowFootNote>
        <ShowHeader>Yes</ShowHeader>
        <ShowHeaderParagraph>Yes</ShowHeaderParagraph>
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            <NameColumnValue>Victor M. Mendez</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Administrator</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Gregory G. Nadeau</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Deputy Administrator</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeffrey F. Paniati</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Executive Director</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>(vacancy)</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chief Counsel</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Elissa K. Konove</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chief Financial Officer</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Sarah J. Shores</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Administration</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Warren S. Whitlock</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Civil Rights</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Joyce A. Curtis</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Federal Lands Highway</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Walter C. "Butch" Waidelich, Jr.</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Infrastructure</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jeffrey A. Lindley</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Operations</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Gloria M. Shepherd</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, and Realty</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David Kim</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Policy and Governmental Affairs</TitleColumnValue>
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            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Public Affairs</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Michael F. Trentacoste</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Research, Development, and Technology</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Anthony T. Furst</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Safety</TitleColumnValue>
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              <Paragraph>The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) was established as an agency of the Department of Transportation by the Department of Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 104). Title 23 of the United States Code and other supporting legislation authorize the Administration's various activities.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>FHWA's mission is to improve mobility on our Nation's highways through national leadership, innovation, and program delivery. The Administration works with Federal, State, and local agencies as well as other stakeholders and partners to preserve and improve the National Highway System, which includes the Interstate System and other roads of importance for national defense and mobility. The FHWA works to improve highway safety and minimize traffic congestion on these and other key facilities. The FHWA bears the responsibility of ensuring that America's roads and highways remain safe, technologically up-to-date, and environmentally friendly.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Through surface transportation programs, innovative and traditional financing mechanisms, and new types of pavement and operational technology, FHWA increases the efficiency by which people and goods move throughout the Nation. The Administration also works to improve the efficiency of highway and road connections to other modes of transportation. The Federal-aid Highway Program's budget is primarily divided between Federal-aid funding and the Federal Lands Highway Program.</Paragraph>
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        <ProgramName>Programs</ProgramName>
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          <Heading>Federal-aid Highway Program</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>FHWA manages the Federal-aid Highway Program, which provides financial and technical assistance to States for constructing and improving the Nation's transportation infrastructure. The program includes the provision of engineering standards and policies, technical expertise, and other assistance related to the maintenance of highways, rural and urban roads, bridges, tunnels, hydraulic/geotechnical structures, and other engineering activities. Projects associated with the Federal-aid highway program include the National Highway System, Surface Transportation Program, Highway Bridge Program, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program, the Emergency Relief Program, and the Federal Lands Highway Program.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Federal Lands Highway Program</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Federal Lands Highway Program (FLHP) funds and gives technical assistance to a coordinated program of public roads servicing the transportation needs of Federal and Indian lands. The Program provides funding for public roads and highways on Federal and tribal lands that are not a State or local government responsibility. The planning, construction, and improvement of highways and bridges in national forests and parks, other federally owned land, and tribal lands benefit from FLHP funding.</Paragraph>
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        <ProgramName>Field and Division Offices</ProgramName>
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              <Paragraph>The FHWA consists of a Headquarters office in Washington, DC; a Federal-aid division office in each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; four metropolitan offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles serving as extensions of the corresponding Federal-aid division offices; and three Federal Lands Highway division offices.</Paragraph>
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                <WebAddress>http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/about/field.cfm</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>A complete list of FHWA field and division offices is available online.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Information and Management Services, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Phone, 202-366-0534.</Footer>
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      <WebAddress>http://www.fhwa.dot.gov</WebAddress>
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