Metro - File #: 2016-0491

• File #: 2016-0491
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 6/1/2016
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 6/16/2016
• Final action: 6/16/2016
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Report.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Budget, Budgeting, Cap-and-Trade, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Grant Aid, Housing, Informational Report, Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, 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, New Starts Program, Program, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Students, Transit Pass, U.s. Department Of Housing And Urban Development, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2

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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JUNE 16, 2016

Subject/Action
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

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RECOMMENDATION

Title
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 of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on June 3, 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 Metro is pursuing a number of grants authorized by the FAST Act and/or backed by the Federal Fiscal Year 2016 transportation appropriations bill adopted by the U.S. Congress late last year. As I shared with the Board last month, Metro has submitted applications for the FASTLANE Grant program and TIGER Grant program to the U.S. Department of Transportation for their consideration. The projects submitted by our agency for these grants were outlined in a Board Box issued by our Chief Executive Officer in March.

Metro's Government Relations team will continue to actively seek Congressional support for our grant applications.

Federal Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2017
Most recently, the U.S. Senate moved this May to approve the Federal Fiscal Year 2017 Transportation - HUD Appropriations Bill. We are pleased that the bill - as drafted - includes robust funding for Metro's New Starts projects. Specifically, the bill provides $100 million for the Regional Connector, $100 million for the Purple Lines Extension Phase 1, and lastly the bill states that $250 million will be available for California's three New Starts projects that are awaiting Full Funding Grant Agreements.

Over in the U.S. House or Representatives, the FY2017 Transportation-HUD Bill has be...