[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 210 (Monday, October 31, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75478-75480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26208]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning Project
Selections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning
Announcement of Project Selections.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal
Year (FY) 2015 and FY 2016 appropriations for the Pilot Program for
Transit-Oriented Development Planning (TOD Pilot Program), as
authorized by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
(MAP-21) with additional funding provided by the Fixing America's
Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. On April 14, 2016, FTA published a
Notice of Funding
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Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 22155) announcing the availability of $20.49
million in funding for this program. This program supports
comprehensive planning efforts associated with new fixed guideway and
core capacity improvement projects that are seeking or have recently
received funding through FTA's Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants
(CIG) Program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Successful applicants should contact
the appropriate FTA Regional Office for information regarding applying
for the funds. For program-specific information, applicants may contact
Benjamin Owen, FTA Office of Planning and Environment, at (202) 366-
5602 or [email protected]. A list of Regional Offices can be found
at www.transit.dot.gov. A TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/
FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the NOFO, FTA received 20
proposals from 17 states requesting $17.6 million in Federal funds.
Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's
responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria as detailed in the
NOFO. Two of the 20 projects were deemed ineligible to receive funds
because they did not meet the eligibility requirements described in the
NOFO. A further two were associated with transit projects for which the
risk of major scope changes could render the proposed comprehensive
planning efforts moot. Those projects would be eligible to reapply to a
future TOD Pilot Program funding opportunity if and when the
uncertainties are resolved. FTA has selected 16 projects as shown in
Table I for a total of $14.7 million.
Recipients selected for competitive funding should work with their
FTA Regional Office to finalize the grant application in FTA's Transit
Award Management System (TrAMS) for the projects identified in the
attached table to quickly obligate funds. Grant applications must
include eligible activities applied for in the original project
application. Funds must be used consistent with the submitted proposal
and for the eligible planning purposes established in the NOFO.
Recipients are reminded that program requirements such as local match
can be found in the NOFO. A discretionary project identification number
has been assigned to each project for tracking purposes and must be
used in the TrAMS application.
Selected projects are eligible to incur costs under pre-award
authority no earlier than the date projects were publicly announced,
October 11, 2016. Pre-award authority does not guarantee that project
expenses incurred prior to the award of a grant will be eligible for
reimbursement, as eligibility for reimbursement is contingent upon all
applicable requirements having been met. For more about FTA's policy on
pre-award authority, please see the FTA Fiscal Year 2016
Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information and Interim
Guidance found in 81 FR 7893 (February 16, 2016). Post-award reporting
requirements include submission of the Federal Financial Report and
Milestone progress reports in TrAMS as appropriate (see Grant
Management Requirements FTA.C.5010.1D and Program Guidance for
Metropolitan Planning and State Planning and Research Program Grants
C.8100.1C). Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal
statutes, regulations, executive orders, FTA circulars, and other
Federal requirements in carrying out the project supported by the FTA
grant. FTA emphasizes that grantees must follow all third-party
procurement guidance, as described in FTA.C.4220.1F. Funds allocated in
this announcement must be obligated in a grant by September 30, 2017.
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
Table I--FY 2017 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning Project Selections
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State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation ($)
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AZ............................... City of Phoenix.... D2017-TODP-001..... South Central Light 2,000,000
Rail TOD Planning
Grant.
CA............................... Santa Clara Valley D2017-TODP-002..... VTA BART Phase II-- 1,520,000
Transportation TOD and Station
Authority (VTA). Access Planning
Study.
CA............................... Los Angeles County D2017-TODP-003..... West Santa Ana 2,000,000
Metropolitan Branch Transit
Transportation Corridor TOD
Authority. Strategic
Implementation
Plan.
CO............................... Regional D2017-TODP-004..... Colfax Corridor 1,350,000
Transportation Connections TOD
District. Implementation
Plan (C3 TOD Plan).
FL............................... Miami-Dade County.. D2017-TODP-005..... Master TOD Plan for 960,000
the Miami-Dade
County East-West
Corridor.
ID............................... Valley Regional D2017-TODP-006..... State Street 279,000
Transit. Corridor Transit
Oriented
Development (TOD)
Design and
Implementation
Plan.
MI............................... City of Detroit D2017-TODP-007..... City of Detroit 300,000
Department of Feasibility Study
Transportation. for Major Transit
Capital
Investment--East
Jefferson Avenue.
MO............................... Bi-State D2017-TODP-008..... Northside-Southside 374,278
Development Agency. Pilot Program for
Transit-Oriented
Development
Planning.
MN............................... Metropolitan D2017-TODP-009..... METRO Blue Line 1,200,000
Council/Metro Extension--Advance
Transit. d Transit-Oriented
Development
Planning (BLRT
TOD).
NM............................... Rio Metro Regional D2017-TODP-010,.... New Mexico's 572,000
Transit District. D2017-TODP-011..... Knowledge
Corridor: BRT,
Land Use and
Economic
Opportunity on
University
Boulevard.
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OR............................... Lane Transit D2017-TODP-012..... River Road Transit 450,000
District. Community
Implementation
Plan.
OR............................... Metro.............. D2017-TODP-013..... Southwest Corridor 895,000
Equitable
Development
Strategy (SWEDS).
TX............................... North Central Texas D2017-TODP-014..... DART Red and Blue 1,400,000
Council of Line Corridors TOD
Governments. Planning Study.
UT............................... Utah Transit D2017-TODP-015..... Ogden/WSU BRT-- 250,000
Authority. Transit Oriented
Development (TOD)
Analysis and
Implementation
Plan.
VA............................... County of Fairfax, D2017-TODP-016..... Transit-Oriented 400,000
Virginia. Development
Planning for the
Richmond Highway
Corridor.
WI............................... City of Milwaukee.. D2017-TODP-017..... Milwaukee Streetcar 750,000
King Drive and
Walker's Point
Extensions--Equita
ble Growth through
TOD.
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