Metro - File #: 2017-0608

• File #: 2017-0608
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/7/2017
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 9/21/2017
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE report on the candidate projects to be submitted for the FY 2018 INFRA competitive grant program.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Application, California State Transportation Agency, Express lanes, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, Grant Aid, I-105, I-405, I-605, I-710, Informational Report, Long Beach, Long Beach-East LA Corridor, Measure M, Plan, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Program, Project, Senate Bill 1, Southern California Highways, United States Department Of Transportation

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Subject
SUBJECT: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REBUILDING AMERICA (INFRA) FEDERAL COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE


Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on the candidate projects to be submitted for the FY 2018 INFRA competitive grant program.

Issue
ISSUE

On July 5, 2017 the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing that the competitive federal freight grant program initiated through the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act - the Fostering Advancements in Shipping and Transportation for the Long-term Achievement of National Efficiencies (FASTLANE) - would be rebranded as the INFRA program. Additionally, USDOT announced that approximately $700 million available in the FY 17 FASTLANE competition would be rolled over into the FY 18 INFRA cycle to create a one-time $1.5 billion-plus funding opportunity.

While many program features from FASTLANE were retained in INFRA, the major evaluation criteria were reconstituted to reflect new USDOT priorities for the program. These changes have required staff to employ an Evaluative Criteria Framework-as identified in Attachment A-that would include (1) a re-evaluation of projects previously submitted for FASTLANE and (2) a review of other Measure M Expenditure Plan projects-as provided in Attachment B-to determine if they were now considered eligible and competitive for the new INFRA competition. This process will ultimately lead to applications submitted to USDOT by the November 2, 2017 deadline.

This report serves to provide an update to the Board on the projects that staff will be submitting for the FY 18 INFRA cycle, as well as a review of the Evaluative Criteria Framework used to select candidate projects for this federal grant competition.



Discussion
DISCUSSION

Since the last INFRA application cycle-then the FY 17 FAS...