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4. Tar and Chip or Chip Seal Roads
The Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program will not pay for tar and chipping or chip
sealing or any type of paving that results in a surface sealed with tar or road oil. It is
permissible to use Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program grants to convert a road
previously paved or tarred and chipped back to dirt and gravel.
5. Outside the Right Of Way
Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program funds may be used outside the right-of-way
of the road to mitigate the pollution impacts to a stream. Any work outside the right of
way must have direct effect on a public road open to travel at least one day per year with
the end result being the abatement of pollution. The reasons for working outside of the
right-of-way must be well documented in the project file and all necessary landowner
agreements should be in writing and located in the project file.
Conservation Districts are encouraged to utilize other sources of funding or in-kind
contributions to complete the work that is outside the right of way.
6. Combined Funds
Avoid combining Liquid Fuel funds and Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance funds on
projects.
If Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program funds were combined with liquid fuels
money to complete a project, the legal restrictions on liquid fuels funds would apply to
that portion paid for by liquid fuels.
If funds are combined, detailed accounting of which funds were spent on which portions
of the project must be maintained.
Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program funds may be combined with other funds.
They may be used as matching funds for projects provided the Dirt and Gravel Road
Maintenance Program funds are used for dirt and gravel road projects on identified
worksites. Examples of other funding streams might include Growing Greener, EPA
319, Adopt a Stream or Embrace A Stream. These funds should be shown as in-kind
expenditures.
7. Liquid Fuel Money
The Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code authorizes collection of tax from the purchase of
liquid fuels. A small portion of that tax funds the Dirt and Gravel Roads Maintenance
Program. A much larger portion of that tax is used by the state or returned to the
municipalities to fund maintenance of public roads, both paved and unpaved. This
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