North Carolina

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Department of the Interior’s projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for North Carolina. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $48.7 million in North Carolina as part of the recovery plan signed by the President to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st Century.

Funding Overview

North Carolina: $48,719,000

Indian Affairs: $1,325,000

Roads and Bridges Maintenance: $1,255,000
- 1 Road Maintenance Projects
- 1 Bridge Maintenance Projects
Workforce Training: $70,000

National Park Service: $36,214,000

Blue Ridge Parkway: $14,586,000
- Reconstruct Historic Stone Guardwalls
- Rehabilitate Peaks of Otter Dam
- Replace Mt. Pisgah Wastewater Treatment System (Filter bid option)
- Control Invasive Plants with Student Conservation Corps Team
- Design and Install a Fire Suppression System in Pisgah Lodge
- Remove Hazardous Trees and Encroaching Vegetation Along Parkway Corridor
- Remove Vegetation on Bridges and Bridge Abutments to Increase Driver Safety
- Repair Historic Buck Spring Tunnel
- Repair Historic Stone Walls on Moses Cone Estate
- Repave Linville Falls Picnic Area, Balsam Gap and Linville Falls Maintenance Areas
- Resurface Deteriorated Maintenance Parking Area - Oteen
- Grade and Resurface Historic Carriage Trails on Moses Cone Estate
- Rehabilitate White Rock Falls Trail Head and Visitor Parking Area
- Repair Trails Parkwide
Cape Hatteras: $696,000
- Paint Historic Civilian Conservation Corps Cabins
- Repair the Historic Hatteras Island Fire Cache Facility
- Replace Deteriorating and Unsafe Campground Picnic Tables and Grills at Four Campgrounds
- Replace Roof at Historic Bodie Island Lighthouse Station
Carl Sandburg Home: $99,000
- Maintain and Protect Historic Cultural Landscape
- Perform Preventive Maintenance on Fire Suppression Systems
- Remove Hazardous Trees and Limbs Throughout Park
- Repaint Historic Structures
Great Smoky Mountains: $20,360,000
- Provide Accessibility To Park Comfort Stations and Picnic Camp Sites
- Maintain 61 Historic Cemeteries
- Repair Historic Rock Retaining Walls and Resurface Clingmans Dome Road and Parking Areas
- Rehabilitate 10.4 Miles of Trails in South District
Guilford Courthouse: $435,000
Moores Creek: $38,000

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: $10,493,000

Alligator River NWR: $17,000
Asheville, NC ES Field Office: $500,000
Currituck NWR: $80,000
Edenton NFH: $44,000
Mattamuskeet NWR: $2,006,000
- Rehabilitate silted canal.
- Replace 3 Pumping Stations for Moist Soil Units to manage water on three impoundments totaling 853 acres.
- Replace deteriorating metal storage building
- Replace the aged and worn out metal storage building
NC Coastal Plain Complex: $540,000
Pea Island NWR: $6,000
Pea Island NWR and Alligator River NWR: $6,650,000
Pocosin Lakes NWR: $650,000
- Rehabilitate rutted FHWA Route 108 - Allen Road.
- Rehabilitate silted in canal located beside Trux Road.
- Repair the Pungo Lake Banding Site.

U.S. Geological Survey: $687,000

Deferred Maintenance - Discontinued Streamgages, Cableways, Wells: $233,000
- Removal of Discontinued Cableway Station 30
- Removal of Discontinued Cableway Station 8
- Removal of Discontinued Streamgage 29
- Removal of Discontinued Streamgage 8
Upgrade Streamgages: $454,000

Projects in North Carolina

Bridge Maintenance Project

Project Number: S520011O
Bureau: Indian Affairs
Unit: Eastern Band -Cherokee Indians
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Roads and Bridges Maintenance

Control Invasive Plants with Student Conservation Corps Team

Project Number: 154273
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Design and Install a Fire Suppression System in Pisgah Lodge

Project Number: 146446
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Establish an adequate on-refuge base of operations for staff and volunteers, and an orientation point for visitors by constructing an energy efficient Headquarters/Administrative/Visitor Building using a standard floor plan design to gain cost efficienciency

Project Number: 97110122
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Pea Island NWR and Alligator River NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Construction

Grade and Resurface Historic Carriage Trails on Moses Cone Estate

Project Number: 139686
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 5
Type of Project: Trails Maintenance and Construction

Maintain 61 Historic Cemeteries

Project Number: 121721
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Great Smoky Mountains
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Maintain and Protect Historic Cultural Landscape

Project Number: 141880
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Carl Sandburg Home
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Operation and Maintenance Repairs for Tribal Spt Operations, Detention Center and Employee Housing

Project Number: N/A
Bureau: Indian Affairs
Unit: Multi Locations
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Workforce Training

Paint Exterior and Reroof Park Facilities (multiple projects)

Project Number: 112246
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Moores Creek
State: NC
Congressional District: 7
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Paint Historic Civilian Conservation Corps Cabins

Project Number: 102219
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Cape Hatteras
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Perform Preventive Maintenance on Fire Suppression Systems

Project Number: 141878
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Carl Sandburg Home
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Provide Accessibility To Park Comfort Stations and Picnic Camp Sites

Project Number: 149646
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Great Smoky Mountains
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Construction

Rehabilitate 10.4 Miles of Trails in South District

Project Number: 121666
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Great Smoky Mountains
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Trails Maintenance and Construction

Rehabilitate damaged, eroded and leaking perimeter dike surrounding the Creef, Laurel Bay and Twiford farm and moist soil management

Project Number: 2007701629
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Alligator River NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Rehabilitate damaged, eroded, and leaking South Pond impoundment dike.

Project Number: 2007701608
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Pea Island NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Rehabilitate rutted FHWA Route 108 - Allen Road.

Project Number: 2007701790
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Pocosin Lakes NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 1
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Rehabilitate silted canal.

Project Number: 2007701527
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Mattamuskeet NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Rehabilitate silted in canal located beside Trux Road.

Project Number: 2007701643
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Pocosin Lakes NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Remove Hazardous Trees and Limbs Throughout Park

Project Number: 142077
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Carl Sandburg Home
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repaint Historic Structures

Project Number: 148958
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Carl Sandburg Home
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair deteriorated Monkey Island bulkhead

Project Number: 2007733522
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Currituck NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair Historic Buck Spring Tunnel

Project Number: 148035
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair Historic Rock Retaining Walls and Resurface Clingmans Dome Road and Parking Areas

Project Number: 54757
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Great Smoky Mountains
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Roads and Bridges Maintenance

Repair Historic Stone Walls on Moses Cone Estate

Project Number: 119279
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 5
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair the Historic Hatteras Island Fire Cache Facility

Project Number: 123538
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Cape Hatteras
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair the Pungo Lake Banding Site.

Project Number: 4134890
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Pocosin Lakes NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 1
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Repair Tour Road Surface

Project Number: 114207
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Guilford Courthouse
State: NC
Congressional District: 13
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace 3 Pumping Stations for Moist Soil Units to manage water on three impoundments totaling 853 acres.

Project Number: 2008855834 - 2009924023 - 2008852877
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Mattamuskeet NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace Deteriorating and Unsafe Campground Picnic Tables and Grills at Four Campgrounds

Project Number: 141532
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Cape Hatteras
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace deteriorating metal storage building

Project Number: 2006407487
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Mattamuskeet NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace HVAC system

Project Number: 2009923358
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Edenton NFH
State: NC
Congressional District: 1
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace Roof at Historic Bodie Island Lighthouse Station

Project Number: 102308
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Cape Hatteras
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Replace the aged and worn out metal storage building

Project Number: 5138029
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: Mattamuskeet NWR
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Restore wetland and water management capabilities

Project Number: N/A
Bureau: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Unit: NC Coastal Plain Complex
State: NC
Congressional District: 3
Type of Project: Habitat Restoration

Resurface Deteriorated Maintenance Parking Area - Oteen

Project Number: 82477
Bureau: National Park Service
Unit: Blue Ridge Parkway
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Deferred Maintenance

Road Maintenance Project

Project Number: S520011O
Bureau: Indian Affairs
Unit: Eastern Band -Cherokee Indians
State: NC
Congressional District: 11
Type of Project: Roads and Bridges Maintenance

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North Carolina

Funding Overview

North Carolina: $48,719,000

Projects in North Carolina

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