FHWA Issues Proposed Rule on Assessing and Monitoring Climate Risks to Highways

The Federal Highway Administration issued a proposed rule seeking to address the impacts of climate change by ensuring adequate state planning.

On November 13, 2024 FHWA issued a proposed rule that seeks to address the impacts of climate change by ensuring states plan for the effects of sea level rise, extreme weather events, flooding, and other climate change impacts on their transportation systems. (89 Fed. Reg. 89506, Nov. 13, 2024). If finalized, the rule would require each state to create an AMP describing how the state’s investment strategies would address risks from extreme weather events and risks to system resilience. The rule would further require states to incorporate their AMP into “the transportation planning processes that lead to the long-range statewide transportation plan.”