Transcript Document 7318255

TEAM Meeting
Mary Ridgeway
Richmond Heights, MO
Federal Highway Administration
October 8, 2004
Missouri Division
AGENDA
Past T-bills
 ISTEA -- Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
TEA – 21 --Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century
 TEA 21 Restoration Act
Safe
Accountable
Flexible
Efficient
Transportation
Equity
Act
Key Messages
 Built upon Safer, Simpler, Smarter theme
Improves highway safety and helps grow the
Nation’s economy without costly new taxes
Helps ensure transportation projects are
completed on time and within budget, while
protecting the environment
Retains overall program structure while
increasing flexibility by eliminating most
discretionary programs
Key Messages
More Than a Spending Plan
 Key blueprint for investment
•Comprehensive safety initiative to save more lives
•Create jobs and sustain economic growth
•Reduce congestion and minimize project delays
•Continuing commitment to infrastructure
investment
•Empower local decision makers by increasing
funding flexibility
•Increase environmental stewardship and
protections
•Increase transit efficiency for a more seamless
transportation network
Simplify Federal
Transportation Programs
Preserving funding flexibility to
allow the broadest application of
funds to transportation
solutions, as identified by States
and local communities.
Make the Federal
Transportation Programs
Smarter
• Strengthen the stewardship of Federal funds
without treading on State prerogatives or
creating red tape by:
Strengthening the Department's suspension and
debarment policies to prevent contractors from
continuing to defraud the government
• Allowing States to share in monetary recoveries
from Federal fraud cases.
Expand State and Local Discretion
Provide local transportation leaders with
simpler, more flexible transportation funding
options best suited to meet their needs by
streamlining program requirements.
Planning Processes
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Metropolitan Long Range Plan and TIP combined into a
single Transportation Plan (TP)
 Former TIP projects now included in TP
 Update cycle changed from 3 to 5 years
 Expands list of interest groups expected to comment
on the TP
 Priority will be given to planning practices and
processes that support homeland security planning,
performance based planning, safety planning,
operations planning, freight planning, and integration
of environment and planning
 Adds air quality planning
Highway Safety
Improvement Program
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Stand alone program funded at $7.5 billion over 6
years
Replaces STP setaside
Emphasizes a proactive approach to safety
Sections 152 and 130 activities remain eligible
under new “core” program
Program components include strategic and
performance based goals, safety data
improvements, and a process to assess results of
safety projects.
Provides funding flexibility for States that develop
and implement a strategic highway safety plan.
Highway Safety
Improvement Program
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Emphasizes intersection improvements,
pavement and shoulder widening, warning
devices such as rumble strips, skid
resistance
Adds safety conscious planning
Uses identical formula as currently used for
STIP
Establishes the National Blue Ribbon
Commission on Highway Safetyd at
Transfer of Funds
 Transfer
of Highway & Transit Funds
Transfer of Highway Funds for
Transit
Transfer of Transit Funds for
Highway
Transfer of Highway Funds to Other
Federal Agencies
Transfer of Funds Among States or
to the FHWA
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program (CMAQ)
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Eligibility
o New eligibility for scrappage programs
o Makes clear that diesel retro-fit programs are
eligible
Enhanced coordination with air quality agencies
Revised apportionment formula to reflect new
NAAQS
Authorizations increased to $8.9 billion over 6-year
period
Transportation System Management &
Operations (TSM&O)
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Accelerate deployment of 21st Century technology
(ITS)
Support creation of institutional arrangements
necessary for effective Operations
Investigate and develop the next generation of
operational capabilities
Increase transportation community’s use of
effective operational strategies and techniques
Transportation System Management &
Operations
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No separate funding provided
Regional operations collaboration and coordination
activities eligible for Surface Transportation Program
funds
TSM&O planning and regional operations collaboration
and coordination activities eligible for State Planning and
Research Funding
Includes TSM&O as a specific research area
Bicycle Transportation and
Pedestrian Walkways
Maintains existing broad eligibility of
pedestrian and bicycle facilities and programs
 Clarifies eligibility, e.g. allows use fees on
trails
 Continues funding for national clearinghouse
for education and technical support
 Includes pedestrian and bicyclist safety in the
list of eligible safety improvement projects in
the new Highway Safety Improvement
Program.
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Bridge Related Provisions
 Eliminates the discretionary program
 Excludes bridges funded under Title 23
from being considered “water resources
projects” under the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act
 Adds eligibility for systematic preventive
maintenance
 Removes requirement that a bridge must
be "significantly important."
Senate Version
SAFETEA of 2004
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On May 19, 2004, the Senate passed the
enrolled version of H.R. 3550 which is the bill
that is being conferenced.
July 22, 2004, Vice Chairman Young asked
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman
Thomas, to present the numbers for the House
offer that Chairman Thomas said the President
will sign -- $299 billion CA and $284 billion
Guaranteed Spending.
Provides $301 billion of guaranteed funding for
2004-2009 with $244.6 billion for highways,
highway safety and motor carrier safety
Senate Version (cont.)
May 20, 2004, the Senate named 21
members to a House-Senate
conference on a six-year surface
transportation reauthorization bill.
 Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla.,
chairman of the Environment and
Public Works Committee, will chair
the conference
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House Version
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: A LEGACY
FOR USERS or TEA-LU
 April 2, 2004, the House of
Representatives passed H.R. 3550 by a
vote of 357 to 65.
 Provides $279.5 billion of guaranteed funding
for 2004-2009 with $228 billion for highways,
highway safety and motor carrier safety
House Version (cont.)
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On June 3, 2004 the House appointed 52
conferees
31 Republicans and 20 Democrats
representing the following committees:
House Transportation and Infrastructure
Budget
Education and the Workforce
Energy and Commerce
Government Reform
Judiciary
Resources
Rules
Science
Ways and Means
Extension Acts
2004
STEA04 Part V
STEA04 Part IV
STEA04 Part III
STEA04 Part II
STEA04
2003
STEA03
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Extension Acts
2004
STEA04 Part V
President signed on Sept 30
Extends for another 8 months
Redirects Ethanol excise tax
The Byrd Test
Feature of the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund
Origins in the Highway Revenue Act of 1956
Requires a comparison of the outstanding authorizations from
the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund to the
resources anticipated to be available. If the anticipated resources
are not sufficient, the Byrd Test is triggered.
How’s the Byrd Test Calculated?
The current calculation for FY 2004 is:
Estimated receipts for FYs 2005-2006
$61,731,000,000
Less: Estimated unfunded authorizations-end of FY 2004
$62,459,565,628
Byrd Test headroom
-$728,565,628
WEBSITES
Reauthorization of TEA-21
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reauthorization/index.htm
FHWA Home Page
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/
Missouri Division Home Page
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/modiv/index.htm
Mary Ridgeway
Federal Highway Administration
Missouri Division