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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MAY 17, 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 Garcetti 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 May 2, 2018 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on May 17, 2018.
Federal Grants for Fiscal Year 2018
As we noted to Board members last month, Metro has applied for a number of federal grants this year - including a number of major INFRA grants.
We have and continue to engage a broad array of stakeholders to ensure that our grant applications have the best opportunity of being approved by the USDOT. We remain cautiously optimistic that Metro's INFRA grant applications will be favorably reviewed by the USDOT. At present, we believe that INFRA grants will be announced at the end of May - beginning of June.
Most recently, the USDOT issued two Notices of Funding Opportunity. The first notice is for $1.5 billion in surface transportation grants provided by the Fiscal Year 2018 omnibus appropriations act (The BUILD program, formerly known as TIGER); and second, for $84 million for Technologically Advanced Transit Buses (also referred to as the LoNo grant). Metro staff are reviewing these NOFA's and we will identify for the Board which Metro projects meet the eligibility requirements.
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