Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere” may be living up to its name.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that a congressional appropriations committee has removed earmarks in federal highway funding legislation for controversial bridges near Anchorage and Ketchikan, AK.

However, the $452.5 million set aside from the bridges will still go to Alaska. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, said the money wouldn’t be directed toward the Ketchikan bridge, though there is no directive for what the money must now be used for.

The money generated controversy when it was earmarked in the Highway Bill earlier this year. The $223 million would have gone to a bridge that would connect the mainland to an island that is home to 50 people, an airport, and a ferry service.

The so-called “bridge to nowhere” generated much controversy, forcing the congressional committee to remove earmarks for its funding from the Department of Transportation’s annual spending bill.

Courtney Schikora Boone, a spokeswoman for Sen. Stevens, told the Daily News-Miner the fight for the bridge funding might not be done yet, because the conference committee’s work on the transportation bill isn’t finished.

“Nothing is final,” she said.

Congress is expected to present a final version of the appropriations bill by Friday, Nov. 18.