428 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 2, § 003
Applicable to each functional classification set forth in Chapter 39, Article 21 Neb. Rev. Stat.
Maintenance is defined as the preservation and upkeep of a highway, road or street including all its elements, in a condition as near as is practical to the original or as constructed condition in order to provide the road user with a safe and convenient highway facility.
Routine Maintenance funds should be used only for the restoration and repair of the roadway and roadside to the safe and usable condition to which it was constructed and for limited roadside maintenance such as mowing the shoulders of the road, filling shoulder washes, cleaning ditches and backfilling small slides or washouts.
The following routine maintenance operations, replacements, and minor additions, although not all inclusive, are considered to be physical maintenance.
* Scarifying, reshaping, and restoring material losses.
* Applying dust palliatives.
* Patching, repairing, surface treating, joint filling, and mudjacking on bituminous or concrete surfaces.
* Resurfacing of concrete, brick, or bituminous pavements .
* Replacement of traveled way and shoulder in-kind.
* Replacement of unsuitable base materials in patching operations.
* Scarifying, reshaping and restoring material losses.
* Applying dust palliatives.
* Patching and repairing all surface types, including base.
* Resealing bituminous types.
* Reseeding and resodding.
* Reshaping of drainage channels and sideslopes.
* Restoration of erosion controls.
* Cleaning and repairing culverts.
* Removing slides.
* Mowing and tree trimming.
* Replacing topsoil, sod, shrubs, etc.
* Replacement, with essentially the same design, of curb, gutter, riprap, and underdrain.
* Cleaning, painting, and repairing.
* Replacements, with essentially the same design, of rails, floors, stringers, piling and beams. Steel piling may be used to replace timber piling.
* Replacement of walls in-kind.
Maintenance for Minimum Maintenance roads shall be defined as providing only those activities and services required for the usage by farm machinery and occasional or intermittent use by passenger or commercial vehicles.
Funds can be used to provide for repair and restoration of culverts and bridges only if required for safe passage of the occasional usage.
Snow plowing, placement of any surfacing material, including gravel or crushed aggregate of any type and mowing of the roadway is not required for this classification of road; however, roadway and roadside mowing may be necessary in order to provide for safety at intersections and to permit passing.
Maintenance for Remote Residential roads shall be defined to require only those activities and services necessary to provide access to remote residences, farms and ranches by passenger and commercial vehicles.
Routine Maintenance funds should only be used for the restoration and repair of the roadway and roadside to the safe and usable condition to which it was constructed and for limited roadside maintenance such as mowing the shoulders of the road, filling shoulder washes, cleaning ditches and backfilling small slides or washouts.
On existing aggregate surfaced or paved surfaced roads reclassified to Remote Residential, maintenance includes maintaining the roadway and roadside and the surfacing width that existed at the time the road was reclassified or converting all or part of the existing pavement to crushed aggregate of any type, provided the existing traveled way width and surfacing width is maintained.
The following maintenance operations, although not all inclusive, are considered to be traffic services to the public.
All operations resulting from snow, such as erection of snow fences to minimize snowdrifts and the actual removal of snow from the roadway.
All operations to reduce hazard due to icing of the roadway surface; such as, sanding, the application of chemicals to lower melting point, opening of inlets, actual removal of ice as by scraping, and in some instances the supplying of heat.
* Replacement of guardrail in-kind.
* Painting, repairing, and replacement or additions of traffic control devices, and lighting standards.
* The furnishing of power for lighting and traffic control devices and the regular replacement of parts such as light bulbs.
* Maintaining rest areas.
* Replacement of roadside rest areas in-kind.
The cost of services performed directly for road users, among which are supervision of roadside rest areas, cleaning operations on roadsides, motor vehicle repair and towing services, and operation of information booths.
Extensive repair or replacement due to damage as a result of storm, flood, or military operations may be considered as extraordinary maintenance, betterment, 3R work, reconstruction, or even as new construction. Each case should be considered separately and usually it is advantageous to keep all such accounts together under the heading of Unusual or Disaster Operations.
428 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 2, § 003