FTA Fiscal Year 2005 Apportionments, Allocations and Program Information; Notice of Supplemental Information, Changes, and Corrections
Number 70 FR 53867
09-12-05
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09-12-05
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[Federal Register: September 12, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 175)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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Part III
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FTA Fiscal Year 2005 Apportionments, Allocations and Program
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
FTA Fiscal Year 2005 Apportionments, Allocations and Program
Information; Notice of Supplemental Information, Changes, and
Corrections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice makes the full amount of the FTA fiscal year (FY)
2005 program apportionments or allocations available for obligation. In
addition, it announces changes and corrections to the December 29,
2004, ``FTA Fiscal Year 2005 Apportionments, Allocations and Program
Information; Notice,'' based on language in the ``Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
(SAFETEA-LU), (Pub. L. 109-59); technical amendments for transit in the
``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War
on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005'' (Pub. L. 109-13, hereafter called
the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act); congressional
clarifications; and FTA's administrative decision to extend the period
of availability of FY 2005 Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
Program (section 5310) funding.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The appropriate FTA Regional
Administrator or Mary Martha Churchman, Director, Office of Resource
Management and State Programs, (202) 366-2053.
I. Funds Available for Obligation
SAFETEA-LU, signed into law by President Bush on August 10, 2005,
reauthorizes transit and highway programs through September 30, 2009.
The authorized transit programs are detailed in the Act as are program
funding levels for FY 2005 through FY 2009.
SAFETEA-LU authorizes FY 2005 transit program funding levels at the
same levels specified in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005
(Pub. L. 108-447, December 8, 2005; hereafter called the 2005
Appropriations Act) as adjusted in the 2005 Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act for the New Starts program. The program funding
tables published in the December 29, 2004, Notice reflect the FY 2005
appropriated funding level for each program. The amount shown in the
``Apportionment'' or ``Allocation'' column of a table is the full
amount now available for obligation by grantees, with the exception
that amounts in some tables have been revised by FTA. The revised
tables are included in this document and supersede those contained in
the December 29, 2004, Notice.
The amount shown in the ``Apportionment'' or ``Allocation'' column
includes both trust funds (contract authority) and general funds, and
reflects the total dollar amount of obligation limitation and
appropriations in the 2005 Appropriations Act. The authorized amounts
for FY 2005 in SAFETEA-LU reflect the 0.80 percent rescission, which
was applied proportionately to the discretionary budget authority and
obligation limitation, and to each program, project and activity.
This document is posted on the FTA Web site at the Grants & Financing section.
It is also available by calling the
regional office. Each regional office will also distribute this notice
by e-mail to its mailing list.
II. Changes and Corrections
The information in the following paragraphs describes changes or
corrections to the December 29, 2004, Notice. The changes are the
result of compliance with overriding language in SAFETEA-LU or the 2005
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act; execution of an FTA
administrative decision to extend the availability of section 5310
funds; implementation of changes for Bus and New Starts projects based
on congressional correspondence on clarifications or technical
corrections; Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) allotment of funds
to FTA for certain projects identified in the conference report
accompanying the 2005 Appropriations Act under section 117; and/or
correction of errors identified by FTA.
A. Section 5309 Bus and Bus-Related Allocations (FY 2005 and Prior
Years)
In the Federal Register Notice published December 29, 2004, two FY
2002 projects extended in the conference report were not included in
Table 10 because the balances for these projects were included in
amounts transferred to the New Starts program. In response to technical
amendments included in the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
Act, these two projects have been added to the list of extended
projects: WV, Morgantown Parking Facility and WY, Southern Teton Area
Rapid Transit bus facility. In addition to these two projects, FTA is
now able to honor intentions to extend lapsing earmarks expressed by
Congress in either the House or Senate Committee Reports accompanying
the 2005 Appropriations Act, and to extend a project that was
reprogrammed in the Senate report. These projects have been added to
Table 10.
Footnotes to the table describe the source of each action and the
period of availability of reprogrammed projects. They also explain
clarifications contained in letters to FTA from the House and Senate
Appropriation Subcommittee Chairmen, and, where applicable, correction
of a previously published balance.
For additional details or questions on a specific project please
contact the appropriate FTA regional office or Ryan Hammon at (202)
366-2053.
B. Section 5309 New Starts Allocations (FY 2005 and Prior Years)
Table 11 shows revised FY 2005 section 5309 New Starts Allocations.
The revised amounts are due to language in section 6061 of the 2005
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, which reduced the amount
allocated to eleven Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) projects, which
had been appropriated funds in excess of what was required to complete
the FFGA. This technical amendment also corrected the amounts
appropriated for the Northern New Jersey, Newark Elizabeth Rail Line
MOS-1 and Northern New Jersey, Hudson-Bergen MOS-1 projects, which had
been misnamed and switched in the original appropriation.
The allocation amount has been revised for the following projects:
Los Angeles, MOS 3 Metro Rail (North Hollywood).
Fort Lauderdale, South Florida Commuter Rail Upgrades.
New Orleans, Canal Street Streetcar Project.
Washington, DC/Metropolitan Area, Largo Extension.
Minneapolis, Hiawatha Light Rail Project.
St. Louis, Metro Link St. Clair Extension.
Northern New Jersey, Newark Elizabeth Rail Line MOS-1.
Northern New Jersey, Hudson-Bergen MOS-1.
Pittsburgh, Stage II Light Rail Transit Reconstruction.
Salt Lake City, CBD to University LRT.
Salt Lake City, Medical Center Extension.
The unallocated balance in Table 11 reflects the reduction in the
amount of funds transferred to the FY 2005 New Starts program from
prior year unobligated balances.
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As promised in the December 29, 2004 Notice, a list of the prior
year projects for which the balances were transferred to New Starts is
provided as follows:
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There was one change to the extended projects listed in Table 12--
Prior Year Unobligated Section 5309 New Starts Allocations. The
unobligated amount for the Northeast Indianapolis, Indiana, Downtown
Corridor Project was changed from $5,228,042 to $5,068,042 to reflect a
previous obligation.
C. Fixed Guideway Modernization Adjustment
Language in sections 3035 and 3041 of SAFETEA-LU provides for the
inclusion of Morgantown, WV as an eligible urbanized area for fixed
guideway modernization apportionments. The language further directs
that the FY 2005 fixed guideway modernization apportionments be
adjusted (or recalculated) with the Morgantown fixed guideway mileage
included. The FY 2005 fixed guideway modernization apportionments and
unit values for the formula factors (route miles and vehicle revenue
miles) have been revised accordingly, and are displayed in Table 7 and
Table 5, respectively.
D. Technical Correction to Section 198 of the 2005 Appropriations Act
Section 198 of the 2005 Appropriations Act states, ``For the
purpose of any applicable law, for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the city
of Norman, Oklahoma, shall be considered to be part of the Oklahoma
City urbanized area.'' This provision has an unintended impact on the
section 5307 apportionments for these urbanized areas, and also affects
the apportionment of all urbanized areas with a population less than 1
million. In anticipation of a legislative technical correction, FTA did
not apply this provision when apportioning FY 2005 section 5307 funds
in the December 29, 2004, Notice.
Language in section 6063 of the 2005 Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act amends section 198 to make clear that the provision
is applicable to apportioning Federal-aid highway funds only. FTA
apportionments are not affected.
E. Period of Availability for FY 2005 Section 5310 Extended
The period of availability for funds appropriated for the Elderly
and Persons with Disabilities Program (49 U.S.C. 5310) is
administratively established at one fiscal year. The December 29, 2004,
Notice of FTA FY 2005 Apportionments and Allocations noted that FY 2005
funds allocated to the States under section 5310 must be obligated by
September 30, 2005.
Due to the delayed availability of the full year's apportionment of
FY 2005 section 5310 funds and the limited period during which the
funds may be obligated, FTA is extending the period of availability for
FY 2005 section 5310 funds by six months to provide flexibility to
States that may need additional time to obligate all the FY 2005 funds.
With this six-month extension, FY 2005 funds apportioned to States
under section 5310 must be obligated by March 31, 2006.
F. FHWA Allotment of Section 117 Funds to FTA
Section 117 of the 2005 Appropriations Act references House Report
108-792 list of projects identified in the conference report, a number
of which are transit projects, that are designated to receive funding
from FHWA funding sources. To date, FHWA has allotted funding to FTA to
administer several of the projects that are transit in nature. The
projects and
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allotted funding are shown in the table below.
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G. FTA Correction
The following correction is noted to information in the December
29, 2004, Notice.
On page 78213, the heading on the table under paragraph I
should read ``RTAP'' instead of ``EMSP:.''
On page 78214-78215, under paragraph ``M. Over-the-Road
Bus Accessibility Program,'' the amounts allocable to providers for
intercity fixed-route service and to other providers of over the road
services (as specified in second the pargraph under subsection heading
``1. Total Allocation'') should read $5,208,000 and $1,686,400,
respectively, instead of $5,239,744 and $1,654,666.
Issued on: September 6, 2005.
Jennifer L. Dorn,
Administrator.
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