Breakout Recommendations

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Breakout Recommendations
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Ports and Maritime

• Issues to Raise Before Congress
• Need integration/streamlining of environmental
  permitting
• Greater prominence for freight in TEA21
  reauthorization
• Eliminate or modify harbor maintenance tax.
  Priority
• Eliminate
• Reduce
• Allow for other port infrastructure needs
• Improve Port security

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Ports and Maritime

• Issues to Raise Before Congress
• Improve education regarding Freight
• With policy makers
• With public
• With prospective professionals in education
  system
• --need to think in terms of economic development
• Improve intermodal connections

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Ports and Maritimesession 2

• What is working that should be encouraged
• Two levels
• State
• Federal

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State

• Research in ITS/infrastructure
• Using ITS and e-commerce
• Info on ship arrivals
• Cameras showing port traffic conditions
• Developing coalitions and partnerships
• Freight Mobility Roundtable
• Freight mobility System Improvement Team
• EWITS
• MPOsregional project evaluation committee

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State

• Freight Mobility Board (FMSIB)
• but needs
• Takes politics out of project selection
• Participation of legislature is key to push
  issues/projects
• WSDOT-appointed specific individuals to promote
  freight throughout state

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Federal

• Research is being done and is working
• Thinking outside the box in research, planning,
  etcinnovation
• Develop coalitions and partnerships
• Federal agency coordination and cooperation with
  industry reps
• FDA
• Customs

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Trucking

• Mandates
• Reduction of federal government preemption on
  size and weight
• Let states make decision with neighboring states
• Allow flexibility to make agreements with Canada
• Hours of service and driving
• Current fed law made in 1930sindustry has
  changed
• Have an open form to consider needed changes

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Trucking

• Entry level drivers
• Driver shortage
• Must be 21 to drive interstate
• 18 to 20 can drive intrastate
• Pilot program should train 18-yr olds with older
  drivers

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Trucking

• Funding Priorities
• Highway trust fund
• Streamlining of environmental costs and
  mitigation
• Cost/benefit analysis of using TEA21 for Mass
  Transit

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Trucking

• Funding Priorities
• CVISNITS
• Data opportunities
• Incentives for preclearance

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Trucking

• Funding Priorities
• Border Relief Corridor Programs
• Increase Section 1118 1119 funds
• Dedicated roadway for prescreened cars/trucks
• Retain partnership requirement for corridor
  programs (e.g., FAST)
• Rest area expansion
• Strategic locational choices

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Trucking

• Funding Priorities
• MCSAP
• Important and successful safety program
• Maintain-or better, increaselevel of funding
• Increased CDL program with enhanced security and
  shared state records

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Railroads

• Message
• Need to invest in BOTH passenger and freight rail
• Question
• How should public infrastructure in rail be
  structured?

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Railroads

• Priorities (not in priority order)
• More money for Section 130
• Expand eligibility for
• Borders and Corridors Program sec 1118 1119)
• CMAQ
• Funding for shortlines regional railroads
• States, RRs, MPOs collaborate on suggestions for
  high priority earmarks
• Public funding for PTS

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Railroads

• Priorities (not in priority order)
• Allow accelerated depreciation of infrastructure
  development (3 5 years)
• Streamline permitting process to reduce
  regulatory burden in time of heightened security
• Dedicated rail funding source (e.g., FHWA
  matching program)
• Fix the RRIF program

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Government-to-Government

• Purpose of session
• Identify whats working well in government
  relations
• Problems
• Suggest possible solutions

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Government-to-Government

• Whats working well
• Transportation funding firewalls (e.g., Highway
  Trust Fund)
• Senate Leadership
• Cooperative partnerships among
• WSDOT
• FHWA
• FAST Corridor Project
• Public and Private Agencies

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Government-to-Government

• Whats working well
• Certification acceptance/stewardship agreements
• Fed aid/local agency approval steps thorough and
  work well from many perspectives
• MPOs for long range in urban areas
• Section 1118 1119

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Government-to-Government

• Whats working well
• Hold Harmless provision
• Advanced construction
• FHWA
• Extend FHWA funds

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Government-to-Government

• Possible Problems
• Increase state fuel tax and supplement funds with
  assurance provisions
• Signed contract or charter for accountability
• Advertise construction phase concurrent with
  right-of-way approval process

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Government-to-Government

• Possible Problems
• Issues 4, 5, 6 on federal programs page
• Target resources to improve infrastructure and
  security
• Encourage continuation of 1118
• Encourage continuation of 1119
• Financial awards for efficiency such as
  environmental streamlining

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Government-to-Government

• Possible solutions/recommendations
• Remove federal ties
• Better ability to get return on funds
• Guarantee that funds used on similar projects
• Remove direct fed oversight
• Remove DBA NEPA
• Federal trust of state/local agency reinvestment
• Protect NHS and interstate system
• Focus on areas of high fed interest
• Exempt all but NHS

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Government-to-Government

• Possible solutions/recommendations
• Signed Charters/contracts for accountability of
  all parties
• Who leads project
• Who interprets federal rules
• Who consolidates the review
• Identify and include all players from the
  beginning
• Advertise construction before r/w approval
• Local agency assumes risk
• Uniform laws need to change42 49 USC
• Review original state wording
• Balance how much enforcement is needed

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Government-to-Government

• Possible solutions/recommendations
• Issues 4, 5, 6 from Federal Programs
• (4) Target resources
• - security now a major issue for infrastructure
• - dont create security bottlenecks
• - Try to protect everything you protect
  nothing
• (5 6) 1118 1119 OK

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Government-to-Government

• Possible solutions/recommendations
• Financial rewards for efficiencies
• Clearly target and clearly define what we want
  rewards for
• There are unequal state levels of
  performanceestablish equivalent standards
• Supplant federal programs with equivalent state
  programs
• As a follow-up, organize recommendations and
  bring back a unified report