SAFETEA-LU Highlights

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SAFETEA-LU Highlights

• Roger Petzold
• Office of Interstate and Border Planning
• Federal Highway Administration
• Transportation Border Working Group
• Nov. 9, 2005

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Outline

• Federal transportation spending authorization
• Border and corridor program

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Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users
(SAFETEA-LU)

• Highways, Highway Safety, Transit, Other
• 5-year legislation 2005 - 2009
• Signed into law August 10, 2005
• P. L. 109-59

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SAFETEA-LU Total Funding
FY 2005-2009 FY 2004-2009
Federal-aid Highways 193.0 B 227.4 B
Public Transportation 45.2 B 52.6 B
Highway Motor Vehicle Safety 5.8 B 6.5 B
Totals 244.1 B 286.4 B
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Federal-aid Highway Authorizations
2005-2009 (Before 8.5B Rescission)
RDT
Other
Equity Bonus
IM
HPP
FLHP
ADHS
NHS
HSIP
CMAQ
STP
Bridge
Total 201.621
(In billions)
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New Highway Programs

• Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program
• Delta Region Development Program
• Denali Access System Program
• Express Lanes Demonstration Program
• Freight Intermodal Distribution Pilot Program
• Highways for LIFE Pilot Program
• Highway Safety Improvement Program
• Interstate Construction Toll Pilot Program
• National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement
  Program
• Projects of National and Regional Significance
• Truck Parking Program
• Safe Routes to Schools
• Work Zone Safety Grants

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Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program

• Created in new transportation authorization
• Purpose improve the safe movement of vehicles
  at U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico
• Total 833 million to be distributed by formula
  to states

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Section (a)

• General Authority.--The Secretary shall implement
  a coordinated border infrastructure program under
  which the Secretary shall distribute funds to
  border States to improve the safe movement of
  motor vehicles at or across the border between
  the United States and Canada and the border
  between the United States and Mexico.

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Section (b)

• Eligible Uses.--Subject to subsection (d), a
  State may use funds apportioned under this
  section only for (1-5)

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Section (b) (1) eligible uses

•    improvements in a border region to existing
  transportation and supporting infrastructure that
  facilitate cross-border motor vehicle and cargo
  movements 

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Section (b) (2) eligible uses

•   construction of highways and related safety
  and safety enforcement facilities in a border
  region that facilitate motor vehicle and cargo
  movements related to international trade 

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Section (b) (3) eligible uses

• operational improvements in a border region,
  including improvements relating to electronic
  data interchange and use of telecommunications,
  to expedite cross border motor vehicle and cargo
  movement 

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Section (b) (4) eligible uses

• modifications to regulatory procedures to
  expedite safe and efficient cross border motor
  vehicle and cargo movements and

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Section (b) (5) eligible uses

• international coordination of transportation
  planning, programming, and border operation with
  Canada and Mexico relating to expediting cross
  border motor vehicle and cargo movements.

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Section (c) Apportioned Funds

• 20 based on number of incoming commercial trucks
  ratio
• 30 number of incoming personal motor vehicles
  and buses ratio
• 25 based on weight of incoming cargo by
  commercial trucks ratio
• 25 based on number of land border ports of entry
  ratio

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Section (d) Projects in Canada and Mexico

• directly and predominantly facilitate
  cross-border motor vehicle and cargo movements at
  an international port of entry
• constructed to equivalent US standards
• properly maintained and used over the useful life
  of the facility

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Section (e) Transfer of Funds to the General
Services Administration

• Transfer of Funds to the General Services
  Administration
• Non-federal match required
• Limitation on amount that can be transferred
  (lesser of)
• 15 percent of the aggregate amount of funds
  apportioned
• 5,000,000 per year

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Section (f) Applicability of Title 23

• obligation in the same manner as if such funds
  were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23
• shall remain available until expended

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g) Definitions.--

• 1)    Border region.--The term border region''
  means any portion of a border State within 100
  miles of an international land border with Canada
  or Mexico. 

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Earmarked Border Projects

• Total for northern border is nearly 340 million
• Examples Blue Water Bridge, Peace Bridge,
  Calais/St. Stephen

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National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement
Program

• created in transportation reauthorization
• Purpose funding for highway projects in
  corridors of national significance to promote
  economic growth and trade
• Total 1.9 billion to be distributed on a
  discretionary basis

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Previous Corridors and Borders Program

• Coordinated Border Infrastructure and National
  Corridor Planning and Development programs in
  TEA-21 were discretionary and from a single
  source
• Totals 1.4 billion for Corridors and Borders
  program.

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