Metro - File #: 2016-0653

• File #: 2016-0653
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 8/19/2016
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 9/15/2016
• Final action: 9/15/2016
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station Project, Assembly Bill 2690, Budgeting, California State Transportation Agency, Cap-and-Trade, Cleaning, Federal Transit Administration, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Grant Aid, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Housing, Informational Report, John Fasana?, Los Angeles International Airport, Maps, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Metro Blue Line, Metro Crenshaw Line, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Gold Line, Metro Green Line, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail K Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metro Red Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, New Starts Program, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Terminal 27, Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, U.s. Department Of Housing And Urban Development, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2

Date	Action By	Action	Result
9/15/2016	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
REVISED
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Subject/Action
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared By Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Director, Federal Affairs

Chairman Fasana and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on August 30, 2016 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on September 15, 2016.
Federal Grants for Fiscal Year 2016
As you are well aware Chairman Fasana, earlier this month Metro celebrated three mobility enhancing projects that received federal funding.
On August 15th, at an event led by you, Metro celebrated the opening of the North Hollywood Station Underpass project - which was funded - in part - with a $10 million federal Bus and Bus Facilities grant. This fantastic project will increase the safety of thousands upon thousands of our customers - who will no longer have to navigate crossing a very busy Lankershim Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. We were very pleased to have a number of distinguished guests at this event - including Congressman Tony Cardenas.

On August 24, Chairman Fasana and Director Ridley-Thomas joined with Senator Boxer to mark the successful use of a $546 million TIFIA loan for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor project. At an event held at the Green Line's Aviation Station - Senator Boxer expressed her confidence in our agency and her appreciation that our agency worked with her to embed the America Fast Forward Innovative Finance initiative into MAP-21. This America Fast Forward section of MAP-21 helped to ensure that the TIFIA program was fully funded - which later gave the program the ability to offer a $856 million TIFIA loan...