MAP-21

Implementing the New Transportation Law

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Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21)

• Extends current law (SAFETEA-LU) through September 30th

• Authorizes transportation programs for two years

• ~$103 billion, or current spending plus inflation adjustments

• About $10.5 billion of that goes to the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund (not a foregone conclusion)

• No earmarks (SAFETEA-LU had thousands)

Program Architecture Changes: FHWA

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FHWA: The good, the bad, the ugly

• Good: Potential new transparency via FMIS, performance measurement (toothless), some more tolling

• Bad: STP eligibility expanded w/ no more funding, bike/ped funding shrinks and half can be “flexed” away

• Ugly: No funding dedicated to repair (down from 30 percent), match for new Interstate construction 95%

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FTA: The good, the bad, the ugly

• Good: New Starts process simplified, SGR grants and TAMS, TOD planning grants, transit agencies get a seat at MPOs, performance measurement (toothless)

• Bad: Funding ratio with highways stays the same

• Ugly: Thankfully the House didn’t make it ugly!

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CMAQ: Funding air quality improvements since 1991

• Up to half of funding can be “flexed” to non-CMAQ purposes, vs. 23 percent under current law

• PM-2.5-reducing projects must receive 25 percent in states with nonattainment or maintenance areas

• New cost-effectiveness study required

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NEPA: Taking a Hit, Again

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• Delegation of authority to states and new categorical exclusions

• Projects can progress before completion of environmental review

• New programmatic reviews, mitigation programs, and use of planning documents

• Deadlines, penalties, and administrative remedies for stalled projects

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TIFIA: More Money, But for What?

• Secured loans, loan guarantees or line of credit

• Eightfold increase in budget authority (from $122 m. to $1 b.)

• Only criteria for qualifying: First come, first served and creditworthiness

79.10%

9.60%

11.30%

Highways

Transit

Intermodal

TIFIA Loan by Mode, 1998-2011

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RESTORE Act

• Establishes a new trust fund for Gulf restoration (80 percent of anticipated revenue from BP settlement, ~$5-20 b.)

• Funding to be distributed to Gulf coast states

• Flexibility for spending funds is a problem

• Act establishes a program for observing, monitoring and technology Deepwater Horizon Spill – FSU Samping Cruise, 6/22/10

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We’re Not There Yet