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Volume 8 Issue 3 Summer 2015 Tribal Transportation News A Publication of the Western TTAP Published by the National Indian Justice Center High-Friction Surface Treatments Yield Positive Results The results are in: High-friction surface treatments High-friction surface treatments help motorists main- are cutting crashes at what used to be safety trouble tain better control in dry and wet driving conditions, spots, according to follow-up evaluations of installations reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities. They’re relative- across the country. ly low in cost compared to geometric roadway improve- High-friction surface treatments are pavement ments. And they can be installed quickly with minimal overlay systems with exceptional skid resistance not impact on traffic and negligible effect on the environ- typically provided by conventional paving materials. ment. They involve applying polish-resistant, durable aggre- gates with a polymer binder to provide motorists with The Missouri Department of Transportation re- better traction at high-crash locations, such as horizontal ceived a Highways for LIFE grant from FHWA to curves, intersection approaches, upgrades and down- demonstrate the use of high-friction surface treatment on grades. four projects in 2013 and 2014, two in Phelps County on The Federal Highway Administration highlighted the I-44 and two in Cole County on U.S. 54 and Missouri technology in the second round of Every Day Counts to 179. The locations had a history of wet-weather crashes. encourage highway agencies to mainstream it as a safety Applying a high-friction surface treatment cost more countermeasure at spot locations. By the beginning of than a traditional pavement wearing surface, but an eval- 2015, 37 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico uation showed that it significantly improved friction at were using high-friction surface treatments, up from 14 the four locations. In the first year after the U.S. 54 pro- two years earlier. Five states have made the treatments a ject, crashes dropped from an annual average of 32 to standard practice. just five. That resulted in a crash cost savings of $966,300, nearly twice the additional cost of high- friction surface treatment placement at all four locations combined. In 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Trans- portation applied a high-friction surface treatment to a curve in Wilson Borough. The site was chosen because of its history of wet-weather crashes—26 over a three- year period. Since the treatment was installed, just one crash has been reported. “I have been doing low-cost safety improvements for over 10 years and I have never seen such an immediate positive response to a safety treatment,” said Stephen Pohowsky, safety program specialist for the Pennsylva- nia DOT, which has used high-friction surface treat- ments on more than 40 projects and plans 100 more in 2015. “In our use of HFST on curves, we’ve seen a day- and-night difference in accident reduction and even (Continued on page 4) NIJC STAFF Joseph A. Myers, Executive Director Jerry Burroni, Educational Specialist Raquelle Myers, Staff Attorney Nicole Lim, Staff Attorney Carol Oliva, Development Officer Margaret Browne, Training Coordinator Barry Litchfield, Editor TTAP News Christy Garcia, Program Specialist Dixie Myers, Fiscal Officer Beverly Howell, Finance Manager Cassandra Overton, Financial Coordinator Doug Royer, Computer Systems Operations Tom Litchfield, Website Development Carrie Taylor, Admin. Assistant Table of Contents Board of Directors Judge William Johnson, President (Umatilla) High-Friction Surface Treatments Yield Positive Judge William Thorne, Vice-President (Pomo) Results 1 Judge Michael Petoskey (Ottawa) Western TTAP Staff Directory ................................. 2 Judge John St. Clair (Shoshone) Announcements ........................................................ 3 Ted Quasula, Consultant (Hualapai) Tribal Nation Builds GRS-IBS ................................. 4 Doug Nash, Attorney (Nez Perce) Tribal Peer Exchange Focuses on CM/GC ............... 4 The War on Potholes Has a New Weapon ................ 5 Sherwood Valley Bertha Keys Way Project ............. 6 5250 Aero Drive California’s Roads Rank Sixth in the Nation for Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Traffic Fatality Rate .................................................. 7 Phone: (707) 579-5507, Fax: (707) 579-9019 E-Mail: [email protected] Why are They called Potholes .................................. 7 http://www.nijc.org Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe, California ..................... 8 Mesa Eye Tracking Company Aims To Curb Distracted Driving..................................................... 9 New Malibu Tech Helps Parents' teach Kids Western TTAP is administered by the NIJC. If you would like to submit an article or graphic (jpg or tiff format) for publication in Tribal Transporta- Safe Driving .............................................................. 10 tion News, please send a text file (PC format) to Barry Litchfield, TTAP Northern California Tribes FHWA Safety Grant Coordinator/Editor, [email protected], along with a cover email giving us Awards ...................................................................... 11 permission to print your article. We appreciate your submissions! TRANSPORTATION RESOUCES Recent Transportation Legislation ............................ 12 The National Indian Justice Center is located in Santa Rosa, California. NIJC’s building also houses the administrative offic- Transportation Events Calendar................................ 13 es of the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, the Tribal Transportation Partners Directory .................. 14 Intertribal Court of California and the Regional Tribal Justice Tribal Transportation Resources ................................ 16 Center. Construction is currently underway for the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, which will include a story- Tribal Transportation Funding Resources ................. 29 telling venue, Native plants garden, California Indian foods, a small Native village, audio-visual displays that highlight Cali- If you would like to join our TTAP Mailing List and subscribe fornia Indian history and the contributions of California Indi- to our quarterly publication of Tribal Transportation News, go ans, as well as Edward Curtis prints and traveling exhibits. If to www.nijc.org/ttap.html and click on - join our mailing list. you are in the area, please come visit and tour the facilities. You can also call Barry Litchfield at (707) 579-5507 x 224. 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS Gregory G. Nadeau The Mile Marker: Acting Administrator A Caltrans Performance Report Federal Highway Administration This issue of the Mile Marker offers clear indicators of our continuing transformation, our focus on a safe, sus- tainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California’s economy and liability. This is the first issue to include the performance measures identi- fied in the Caltrans Strategic Management Plan 2015- 2020. To view this issue go to: http://www.dot.ca.gov/ ctjournal/MileMarker/2015-2/index.html On May 11, 2015, Gregory G. Nadeau became the Acting Administrator of the Federal Highway Admin- Global Green Technical istration, where he’d served as the agency’s Deputy Ad- Assistance Opportunity ministrator since 2009. He has carried out all the duties of the Federal Highway Administrator since December Does your community want greener, more equitable, 30, 2013, when Victor Mendez began serving as Acting and more vibrant neighborhoods? Is your community Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transporta- interested in increasing resilience in the face of extreme tion. weather events? Are there significant projects on the horizon that your community wants to make sustaina- The National Park Service ble? Global Green is now accepting applications for no- FY 2015 NAGPRA Grant cost technical assistance that can help communities Recipients achieve these goals. The assistance uses Global Green’s sustainable neighborhood assessment tool, which is The National Park Service announced the award of based on the LEED for Neighborhood Development eight Native American Graves Protection and Repatria- standard, a nationally recognized method for creating tion Act (NAGPRA) Repatriation grants totaling neighborhoods that are walkable, bikeable, resource- $74,348. The grants will assist in the repatriation of indi- efficient, and equitable. This free assistance is being viduals and sacred objects, objects of cultural patrimony provided under a grant to Global Green from EPA’s and funerary objects back to the tribes. Office of Sustainable Communities' Building Blocks for “The work funded by these grants is a step toward Sustainable Communities Program. addressing past violations of the treatment of human Eligible applicants are local and tribal governments. remains and sacred objects of native peoples, while re- The deadline for applications is July 17, 2015, at mid- storing the ability of American Indian and Native Ha- waiian peoples to be stewards of their own ancestral night PST. dead and cultural heritage.” said National Park Service For more information and the application form, visit Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. http://www.globalgreen.org/press/ Enacted in 1990, NAGPRA requires museums and gxocudahx8g29noqxp3knsalyr3hlc federal agencies to inventory and identify Native Ameri- can human remains and cultural items in their collec- tions, and to consult with culturally affiliated Indian Yurok Country Visitor Center tribes,