Bridges & Dams
A culvert inspection done on a 72 month interval.
What is the maximum non-NBI major culvert inspection frequency?
To qualify for FHWA ERFO federal funding, the event must exceed this minimum federal share amount.
What is $700,000?
This is the central system that standardizes facility management processes and information needs for BLM users.
What is FAMS?
This BLM funding source, created in 2020, is used to tackle large‑scale deferred maintenance projects that improve safety, access, and asset condition across public lands.
What is the Great American Outdoors Act Legacy Restoration Fund (L9840)?
This federal law established a sustained-yield forestry management system for over 2 million acres of revested timberlands in western Oregon.
What is the O&C Act?
A vehicle gross load exceeding 40 tons.
What gross truck load requires a haul authorization permit?
To qualify under ERFO, a road must meet this accessibility condition and not just be an internal administrative route.
What is being ‘open to public travel’?
There are three types of System records, each correspond to a segment classification.
What are Road Systems, Primitive Road Systems, and Trail Systems?
Unlike GAOA projects, which often require multi‑year planning and extensive compliance, this type of maintenance funding is typically used for smaller, quicker actions like grading roads, repairing signs, and servicing restrooms.
What is Annual Maintenance (L1660 and L6254)?
This federal law established grazing districts in order to regulate and manage the overgrazing of public lands that occured during the era of homesteading.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act?
A structure with 20' or greater span length at road centerline.
What is a NBI qualified structure?
Site‑specific scope, quantities, and cost estimates for ERFO are captured in this essential inspection report.
What is a Detailed Damage Inspection Report (DDIR)?
These two systems interface with FAMS to track financial information and federal real property.
What is FBMS and FRPP?
Because GAOA projects must show quantifiable reductions in this metric, engineers carefully track before‑and‑after asset condition scores in FAMS.
What is the deferred maintenance backlog?
This Act covers approximately 2.6 million acres of land and approximately 14,000 miles of roads to manage and maintain within OR/WA BLM.
What is the O&C Act?
A dam where a breach is likely to result in off-site property damage but no likely loss of life.
What is a Significant hazard potential classification?
180 days after the event.
What is the time limit for the BLM to complete emergency repairs?
Constructed assets are considered capitalized assets and need to be entered into FBMS at the NOC when they are greater than this value.
What is $250,000?
$250,000.
What is the capitalization threshold per asset for a DM (L1653) project?
This Act covers approximately 14 million acres of land and approximately 8,000 miles of road to manage and maintain within OR/WA BLM.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act?
A bridge highway load rating factor less than 1.0.
When does a bridge need to be load posted?
The ERFO program provides federal funding to repair roads on federal lands damaged by these two types of events.
What are “natural disasters and catastrophic failures”?
This FAMS component is required to be in place for an asset to qualify for DM or GAOA funding.
What is a Work Order?
Before DM (L1653) & GAOA (L9840) projects can be awarded for design and construction contracts, engineers must ensure this major compliance requirement is fully completed and documented.
What is NEPA?
Every BLM Program requires this asset in order to fully access, inventory, monitor, and manage their resource.
What is the BLM Transportation System?