The
Highway Bridge Program (HBP) is authorized by the federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA21).
The purpose of the Program is to replace or rehabilitate public highway bridges over waterways, other topographical barriers, other highways, or railroads when the State and the Federal Highway Administration determine that a bridge is significantly important and is unsafe because of structural deficiencies, physical deterioration, or functional obsolescence.
Reimbursable scopes of work include replacement, rehabilitation, painting, scour countermeasure, bridge approach barrier and railing replacement, low water crossing replacement, and ferry service replacement.
About $240 million of federal funds are made available to local agencies annually. The federal reimbursement rate is 88.53% of the eligible participating project costs including preliminary engineering, right of way, and construction costs.
See the
Caltrans Highway Bridge Program web site for information.