Metro - File #: 2024-0209

• File #: 2024-0209
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 3/22/2024
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 4/18/2024
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE April 2024 State and Federal Legislative Report.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Budget, Budgeting, Federal Transit Administration, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Government funding, Grant Aid, Housing, Informational Report, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Olympic games, Partnerships, Project, Safety, Transit operators, Transit safety, Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 3

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
APRIL 18, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE April 2024 State and Federal Legislative Report.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared by Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations, Deputy Executive Officer: Federal Affairs

Chair Bass and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on several key federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on March 22, 2024, and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on April 18, 2024. The status of relevant pending legislation is monitored on the Metro Government Relations Legislative Matrix, updated monthly.

Federal Government: Funding Bill Status

Last month, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 4366) on March 9, 2024. This measure included spending for federal transportation programs for the balance of Federal Fiscal Year 2024.

With the passage of this measure, Metro can expect to receive the following funding for several of our transit capital projects, including $478 million for the Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3, $165 million for the Westside Purple Line Extension Section 2 Project and $66.9 million for the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor Project.

The passage of this spending measure will also guarantee that our agency will also receive funding from several federal formula programs that deliver more than $600 million to our agency on an annual basis.


White House Budget for Fiscal Year 2025
Last month, the White House issued their Fiscal Year 2025 Budget which proposed that Congress provide funding that would permit the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to allocate $315.7 million for Metro's Westside Purple Line Extension (WPLE) Section 3. This funding recommendation would serve to c...