Federal grants to fix
facilities at public sites
Hawaii will receive $3.6 million from a federal land grant program to improve facilities at the state's national parks and other public places, U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye announced yesterday.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park will receive $954,000, the largest single grant, to build acceleration and deceleration lanes and landscaped islands to channel traffic and widen shoulders on Highway 11. The park will also get $279,997 to apply friction-course paving to increase skid resistance on Chain of Craters Road and $82,507 to create preliminary impact assessments for Crater Rim Drive.
Inouye, D-Hawaii, said the money was earmarked from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration Public Lands grant program.
Other grant money includes:
>> The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor will receive $850,000 to upgrade the memorial's parking lot pavement and improve drainage.>> The Kealia Pond Wildlife Refuge on Maui will receive $750,000 to create a greenbelt and footbridge.