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Washington Update
MAP-21 Reauthorization, Highway Trust Funds
and Related Transportation Issues
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Federal Update
 MAP-21
Reauthorization
 GROW America
 Highway Trust Fund
(HTF)
 USDOT MAP-21
Rulemaking
 AMPO MAP-21
Recommendations
 Outlook
MAP-21 Reauthorization
• Program authorizations expire May 31, 2015
• Senate & House Infrastructure Committees
– Hearings, drafting
• Senate & House Revenue Committee
– Discussion revenue options
• House & Senate Budget Committees
– Both budgets establish “reserve funds” that would allow spending to
be increased if the revenue is found
• President/USDOT
– GROW America - $478B, 6 year bill
– 14% tax on foreign earnings of US companies
Highway Trust Fund - Revenue
• July 2014- Congress transfers $11B from general fund
to HTF to support current spending levels through May
31, 2015
• HTF receives $40B annually in revenue and interest
• MAP-21 spends roughly $53B annually
• $13B+ annual funding gap to maintain current
spending levels
Revenue for the HTF
• Where is the revenue?
 Stand alone gas tax increase? Unlikely
 VMT fee? Unlikely
 Comprehensive tax overhaul with a gas tax
increase? Unlikely
 Devolution to the states? Unlikely
 Additional general fund transfers? Likely
AMPO Reauthorization
General Recommendations
• Address long term health of the HTF – keep all options
on the table
• At minimum, maintain current funding plus inflation
• Pass a 6-year reauthorization bill – provide
predictability and certainty in funding and policy
AMPO Reauthorization Recommendations
• Empower MPOs
– Increase Surface Transportation Program (STP)
sub allocation percentage to MPOs
– Sub allocate Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
(CMAQ)
– Increase Planning (PL) funding
• Include MPOs in decisions for designations of urban
freight corridors
U.S. DOT – GROW America Proposal
• $478 billion, 6-year bill
– $317b for highways
– $115b for transit
•
New Programs
–
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New $13.4 billion Critical Immediate Investments
New $10 billion Multimodal Freight Investments
 MPOs required to be on State advisory committees
 MPOs eligible applicants under grant program
– $2 billion Fixing & Accelerating Surface Transportation (FAST)
competitive grants
• $1.25 billion TIGER
U.S. DOT GROW America
MPO Provisions
• Secretary may designate an MPO as a “High
Performing” MPO & grant additional STP funds
• $70 million pilot program for MPOs 1+ million in
population to improve transportation connectivity to
disadvantaged Americans and neighborhoods with
limited options
• Requires MPOs to offer a higher degree of public
participation
Looking Ahead:
MAP-21 Reauthorization
• Staff does not anticipate major policy shifts
• USDOT completion of performance measure rules
• No changes in apportionment formulas
• Freight program with funding is possible
• Continue improving project delivery
MAP-21 Rulemaking/Implementation
• AMPO/AASHTO Joint Comments on Proposed National Ambient
Air Quality Standards for Ozone (3/17/15)
• AMPO Comments on Additional Authorities for Planning and
Environmental Linkages (11/10/14)
• AMPO/NARC Joint Comments Statewide and Non-Metropolitan,
Metropolitan Transportation Planning (10/2/14)
• AMPO Comments Statewide and Non-Metropolitan, Metropolitan
Transportation Planning (9/2/14)
• AMPO Comments Highway Safety Improvement Program NPRM
(6/25/14)
MAP-21 Rulemaking/Implementation
(continued)
• AMPO Comments on the Draft Designation of the Primary Freight
Network (1/11/14)
• AMPO Comments on CMAQ Interim Guidance (1/11/14)
• AMPO Comments on FTA ANPRM, National Public
Transportation Safety Plan, the Public Transportation Agency
Safety Plan, the Public Transportation Safety Certification
Training Program; Transit Asset Management (12/31/13)
• AMPO Comments FTA-FHWA Transit Rep Guidance (10/30/13)
Outlook:
114th Congress—Transportation
•Likely MAP-21 Extension after May 31
•The key to reauthorization is the
revenue decision
NPRMs’ Schedule
Rule
Dates
Highway Safety Program Grants
Comment Period Closed
FTA ANPRM* (Rule 60)
Comment Period Closed
CMAQ Program Interim Guidance
Comment Period Closed
Safety Performance Measure (Rule 26)
Comment Period Closed
Highway Safety Improvement Program (Rule 30)*
Comment Period Closed
*60 day comment period.
FHWA/FTA Metropolitan and Statewide Planning (Rule 27 & 61)
Comment Period Closed
CMAQ Weighting Factors (Rule 33)
Comment Period Closed
Planning and Environmental Linkage (supplemental to Planning
NPRM)
Comment Period Closed
Pavement/Bridge Performance Measure (Rule 28)
Comments Due
May 8
Asset Management Plan (Rule 32)*
Comments Due
April 21
*60 day comment period.
System Performance Measure (Rule 29)
Release: September
2015*
Thank You
DeLania Hardy – 202.624.3684
[email protected]
Levon Boyagian – 202.624.3681
[email protected]