File #: 2016-0582   
Type: Informational Report Status: Filed
File created: 7/22/2016 In control: Executive Management Committee
On agenda: 8/18/2016 Final action: 8/18/2016
Title: RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Report.
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: Cap-and-Trade, Federal Transit Administration, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Grant Aid, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Housing, Informational Report, Metro Blue Line, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Gold Line, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, New Starts Program, Program, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, 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
Attachments: 1. 08 - August 2016 Leg Matrix
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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
AUGUST 18, 2016

Subject/Action
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 Fasana and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal affairs of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on July 28, 2016 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting.

Federal Grants for Fiscal Year 2016

I am pleased to share with you that earlier this week Metro was awarded $15 million for the Rosecrans/Marquardt grade separation project through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program run by the U.S. Department of Transportation. TIGER grants are very competitive discretionary grants and I want to thank our staff for their hard work in submitting a successful application. I also want to express our appreciation for the strong support we received from our Congressional Delegation for this grant - especially from U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Linda Sanchez. It should be noted that our agency has secured five TIGER grants over the last eight years that TIGER grants have been issued - which is a positive track record that reflects favorably on our agency and the strong confidence the U.S. Department of Transportation has in our ability to build mobility enhancing projects.

Metro's Government Relations team will continue to actively seek Congressional support for our other grant applications which include an FTA Bus and Bus Facilities grants and FTA Mobility on Demand Sandbox Program grants.
One last note on federal grants - in August our agency will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony for the North Hollywood Station Und...

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