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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MARCH 17, 2016
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SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
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RECOMMENDATION
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RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared By Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Director, Federal Affairs
Chairman Ridley-Thomas and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal affairs impacting our agency. This report was prepared on March 1, 2016 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on March 17, 2016.
Federal Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017:
Later this year, both the House and Senate appropriations committees will begin their work on their spending bills for Federal Fiscal Year 2017. We are going to be working closely with members of our Board, the Los Angeles County Congressional Delegation and our federal advocacy team to ensure that our Board-approved priorities are reflected in the final spending bills adopted by Congress later this year. Specifically, we are working to ensure that the President's recommendation (embedded in his Fiscal Year 2017 Budget) that our agency received $375 million for our New Starts projects is included in the transportation spending bill considered by both the House and Senate this year.
FAST Act:
Late last year, the Congress adopted and President Obama signed into law America's new surface transportation authorization bill - Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). The bill authorizes a number of existing and new federal grant programs.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Fiscal Year 2016 TIGER Grant program. As authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, signed by the President on December 18, 2015, $500 million is available for various transportation proje...
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