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Federal Register/Vol. 75, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 16, 2010 / Notices
2. Basis for Formula Apportionments.
As specified in law, 82.72 percent of
the amounts authorized for Section 5305
are allocated to the Metropolitan
Planning program. FTA allocates
Metropolitan Planning funds to the
States according to a statutory formula.
Eighty percent of the funds are
distributed to the States as a basic
allocation based on each State's UZA
population, based on the most recent
decennial Census. The remaining 20
percent is provided to the States as a
supplemental allocation based on an
FTA administrative formula to address
planning needs in the larger, more
complex UZAs. The amount published
for each State is a combined total of
both the basic and supplemental
allocation.
3. Program Requirements
The State allocates Metropolitan
Planning funds to MPOs in UZAs or
portions thereof to provide funds for
projects included in an annual work
program (the Unified Planning Work
Program, or UPWP) that includes both
highway and transit planning projects.
Each State has either reaffirmed or
developed, in consultation with their
MPOs, an allocation formula, based on
the 2000 Census. The State allocation
formula may be changed annually, but
any change requires approval by the
FTA regional office before grant
approval. Program guidance for the
Metropolitan Planning Program is found
in FTA Circular 8100.1C, Program
Guidance for Metropolitan Planning and
State Planning and Research Program
Grants, dated September 1, 2008. For
more about the Metropolitan Planning
Program and the FTA Circular 8100.1C,
contact James Garland of the Office of
Planning and Environment at (202) 366-
0526.
4. Period of Availability
The funds apportioned under the
Metropolitan Planning program to each
State remain available for obligation by
FTA to recipients for four fiscal years-
which includes the year of
apportionment plus three additional
years. Any apportioned funds that
remain unobligated at the close of
business on September 30, 2013, will
revert to FTA for reapportionment
under the Metropolitan Planning
Program.
5. Consolidated Planning Grants
FTA and FHWA planning funds
under both the Metropolitan Planning
and State Planning and Research
Programs can be consolidated into a
single consolidated planning grant(CPG), awarded by either FTA or
FHWA. The CPG eliminates the need to
monitor individual fund sources, if
several have been used, and ensures that
the oldest funds will always be used
first. Unlike "flex funds" for capital
programs, planning funds from FHWA
may be combined with FTA planning
funds in a single grant. Alternatively,
FTA planning funds may be transferred
to FHWA to be administered as
combined grants.
Under the CPG, States can report
metropolitan planning program
expenditures (to comply with the Single
Audit Act) for both FTA and FHWA
under the Catalogue of Federal Domestic
Assistance number for FTA's
Metropolitan Planning Program
(20.505). Additionally, for States with
an FHWA Metropolitan Planning (PL)
fund-matching ratio greater than 80
percent, the State can waive the 20
percent local share requirement, with
FTA's concurrence, to allow FTA funds
used for metropolitan planning in a CPG
to be granted at the higher FHWA rate.
For some States, this Federal match rate
can exceed 90 percent.
States interested in transferring
planning funds between FTA and
FHWA should contact the FTA Regional
Office or FHWA Division Office for
more detailed procedures. Current
guidelines are included in Federal
Highway Administration Memorandum
dated July 12, 2007, "Information: Final
Transfers to Other Agencies that
Administer Title 23 Programs."
For further information on CPGs,
contact Nancy Grubb, Office of Budget
and Policy, FTA, at (202) 366-1635.
B. State Planning and Research Program
(49 U.S.C. 5305(e))
This program provides financial
assistance to States for Statewide
transportation planning and other
technical assistance activities, including
supplementing the technical assistance
program provided through the
Metropolitan Planning program. The
specific requirements of Statewide
transportation planning are set forth in
49 U.S.C. 5304 and further explained in
23 CFR part 450 as referenced in 49 CFR
part 613, Statewide Transportation
Planning; Metropolitan Transportation
Planning; Final Rule. This funding must
support work elements and activities
resulting in balanced and
comprehensive intermodal
transportation planning for the
movement of people and goods.
Comprehensive transportation planning
is not limited to transit planning or
surface transportation planning, but also
encompasses the relationships among
land use and all transportation modes,without regard to the programmatic
source of Federal assistance. For more
information, contact James Garland of
the Office of Planning and Environment
at (202) 366-0526.
1. FY 2010 Funding Availability
CR 2010 provides $8,114,000 to the
State Planning and Research Program
(49 U.S.C. 5305). The total amount
apportioned for the State Planning and
Research Program (SPRP) is $8,073,430
as shown in the table below, after the
deduction for oversight (authorized by
49 U.S.C. 5327).
STATE PLANNING AND RESEARCH
PROGRAM
Total Appropriation ............... $8,114,000
Oversight Deduction ............. - $40,570
Total Apportioned ........... $8,073,430
State apportionments for this program
are displayed in Table 2.
2. Basis for Apportionment Formula
As specified in law, 17.28 percent of
the amounts authorized for Section 5305
are allocated to the State Planning and
Research program. FTA apportions
funds to States by a statutory formula
that is based on the most recent
decennial Census, and the State's UZA
population as compared to the UZA
population of all States.
3. Requirements
Funds are provided to States for
Statewide transportation planning
programs. These funds may be used for
a variety of purposes such as planning,
technical studies and assistance,
demonstrations, and management
training. In addition, a State may
authorize a portion of these funds to be
used to supplement Metropolitan
Planning funds allocated by the State to
its UZAs, as the State deems
appropriate. Program guidance for the
State Planning and Research program is
found in FTA Circular 8100.1C. This
funding must support work elements
and activities resulting in balanced and
comprehensive intermodal
transportation planning for the
movement of people and goods.
Comprehensive transportation planning
is not limited to transit planning or
surface transportation planning, but also
encompasses the relationships among
land use and all transportation modes,
without regard to the programmatic
source of Federal assistance. Eligible
work elements or activities include, but
are not limited to studies relating to
management, planning, operations,
capital requirements, and economicfeasibility; evaluation of previously
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