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Certain non-construction activities , such as transportation planning, require periodic progress reports . Similar procedures apply to the FLMAs and FLHP projects with the FHWA Office of FLH providing the mandatory stewardship and oversight. A value engineering analysis or other cost-reduction analysis is required for each project on the Federal-aid system with an estimated total cost of $259000, 000 or more, a bridge project with an estimated total cost of $20, 000, 000 or more ; and any other project determined to be appropriate . Annual financial plans are required for projects with an estimated total cost of $ 100 ,000, 000 or more . In addition, a project management plan must be submitted for projects with an estimated total cost of $ 5003000, 000 or more . Audits In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No . A- 133 (Revised, June 27, 2003 ), Audits of States , Local Governments, and Nonprofit Organizations, nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $ 500 , 000 or more in Federal awards from all sources during their fiscal year must have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $ 500 , 000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A- 133 . Records Project records and documents must be retained by the State or other governmental recipients/ subrecipients as specified in 49 CFR Part 18 or by non-profit recipients/subrecipients as specified in 49 CFR Part 19 . For the Federal Lands Highway Program, the Federal Lands Highway Divisions maintain the project records . Account Identification 69- 8083 - 0- 7401 . Obligations (Grants) FY 06 $241244 , 734,429 ; FY 07 est 26 , 000, 000, 000; and FY 08 est not available . Range and Average of Financial Assistance From $ 110, 730 ,468 . 79 to $2 , 302 , 859 , 917 . Average $ 620, 666,497 . PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS The Federal-aid Highway 1.Program has made significant contributions to the safer operation of the nation's highways, to the better intermodal connectivity of roads to other forms of transportation, and to the improvement of pavement and bridge conditions throughout the country, while helping to safeguard environmental conditions . It has provided funding for a wide range of alternatives to traditional highway construction projects to better serve transportation needs . It has developed and advanced critical new technologies, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems , and shared them with the States . The FLHP works to create the best transportation system in balance with the values of the Federal and tribal lands . The mission of the program is to improve transportation access to and within Federal and