The Metropolitan Transportation Planning ... - Saginaw County

The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues
Congestion Mitigation and
Air Quality (CMAQ)
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States may transfer up to 50% of the
amount by which the CMAQ
apportionment for the fiscal year exceeds
the amount that would have been
apportioned for that fiscal year if the
CMAQ program had been funded at
$1.35 billion annually to STP, NHS, IM and/
or Bridge Replacement/Rehabilitation.
Transferred funds may only be used in
nonattainment and maintenance areas.
Interstate Construction (IC) ● A state other than Massachusetts may
transfer an amount equivalent to the
federal share of the cost to complete its
open-to-traffic Interstate segments
included in the latest Interstate Cost
Estimate (ICE) from its IC funds to NHS and/
or IM.The work on which the transfer is
based will be removed from the ICE and
will lose its IC fund eligibility.
● States may transfer IC funds remaining
after all work included in the ICE has been
fully financed to the NHS.
● States with remaining completion work on
Interstate gaps or open-to traffic segments
may relinquish IC fund eligibility and
transfer to the NHS amounts equivalent to
the federal share of the cost of such work
in the most recent ICE.
Interstate Maintenance (IM) ● States may transfer up to 50% of IM
apportionments to NHS, STP, CMAQ, and/
or Bridge Replacement/Rehabilitation.
National Highway System
(NHS)
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States may freely transfer up to 50% of NHS
apportionments to IM, STP, National
Highway System (NHS),CMAQ, and/or
Bridge Replacement/Rehabilitation.
States may transfer up to 100% of NHS
apportionments to STP, if approved by the
Secretary of Transportation and if sufficient
notice and opportunity for public
comment is given.
Surface Transportation
Program (STP)
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Transportation Enhancement (TE) set aside
states may transfer up to 25% Program
(STP) of the difference between the
amount set aside for TE for the fiscal year
and the amount set aside for TE for FY 1997
to IM, CMAQ, NHS, and/or Bridge
Replacement/Rehabilitation.
Safety set aside funds equivalent to the
funds made available for FY 1991 for the
Hazard Elimination and Railway-Highway
Crossing Programs may not be transferred.
Up to 25% of the difference between the
remainder of the safety set aside for the