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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JULY 19, 2018
Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
Action
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 Senior Director, Federal Affairs
Chair Kuehl and members of the Executive Management Committee, this is an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on July 3, 2018 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on July 19, 2018. Status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, which is updated monthly.
Federal Grants for Fiscal Year 2018
The U.S. Department of Transportation has a number of Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for competitive grant funding. Among the active NOFOs is the TIGER Grant program which is funded at a record $1.5 billion this year and the Bus and Bus Facilities Grant Program funded at $336 million. With regards to the next round of INFRA Grants, the USDOT expects that NOFO to be released later this year.
Federal Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations:
Staff is encouraged by the support that the New Starts program is receiving from Congress as both chambers advance their Transportation-HUD Appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2019. The House has approved their bill out of Committee and is awaiting consideration on the House floor. The bill provides similar formula funding as this current year and again provides a strong Capital Investment Grant Program (New Starts) funding level of $2.6 billion. With regards to the BUILD (formerly TIGER) grant program, the House bill provides $750 million, down from $1.5 billion in FY18. The Senate has also advanced their bill out of Committee with similar funding levels as the House bill. The Capital Investment Grant ...
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