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MAP-21 Reauthorization: A Path to Better Health and Safety in Your County
•July 2014: Traffic Safety Facts (US DOT National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
•19 percent of the U.S. population lived in rural areas
•Rural fatalities accounted for 54 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2012.
•From 2003 to 2012, rural fatalities decreased 27 percent, whereas urban fatalities decreased by 14 percent.
MAP-21 Reauthorization: A Path to Better Health and Safety in Your County
MAP-21 and Safety
• Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) • Doubles available safety funds
• Performance Management – establishes national performance goals for Federal Highway Programs
• Requires States to collect performance measure on
all public roads • States will be held accountable for local road safety
performance
NACE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
• Fix the trust fund • Pass a multi-year surface
transportation authorization bill &
• Supports county surface
transportation priorities.
NACE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES • Increase Funding for County Road and Bridge
Projects: • Support county road and bridge projects by:
• 1) maintaining the set-aside for off-system bridges and continuing states’ ability to reduce the set-aside requirement if there are insufficient off-system bridge needs; and
• 2) providing more funding for locally-owned on-system roads and bridges by increasing the overall funding level for the Surface Transportation Program (STP) and continuing the STP suballocation to local areas but increasing the share to greater than 50 percent.
NACE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
• Increase the Role of Counties in Statewide Planning:
• 1) requiring that state departments of transportation, at a minimum, cooperate with local government officials (including county transportation officials) in the development of planning and funding allocation processes, including the development of State Strategic Highway Safety Plans; and
• 2) requiring that state departments of transportation coordinate with local government officials in defining the term ‘high risk rural road’ – or developing a federal definition of the term ‘high risk rural road’ after considering input from state and local stakeholders and other performance measurements.
GAO 14-113
To develop a pilot program with the Secretary of Transportation to select a number of locally-administered projects receiving $5 million or less in federal funds for the purpose of demonstrating whether waiving or reducing federal requirements for those projects would reduce costs and expedite project delivery without significant risk.
PROJECT STREAMLINING • This category of projects would be termed ‘simple projects’. A
simple project would be defined as:
• Simple Project - The term ‘simple project’ means a highway, tunnel or bridge project eligible for funding under title 23, United States Code, that meets the following criteria: • receives $5 million or less in federal funding; • is a project type that is set out in 23 CFR Part 771.117 (c)
and/ or (d); • occurs within the existing right-of-way in a manner that
substantially conforms to the preexisting design, function, and location as the original (which may include upgrades to meet existing codes and standards as well as upgrades warranted to address conditions that have changed since the original construction); and
• involves the repair, reconstruction, restoration, retrofitting, or replacement of any road, highway, bridge, tunnel, or transit facility (such as a ferry dock or bus transfer station), including ancillary transportation facilities (such as pedestrian/bicycle paths and bike lanes), that is in operation.
Newly Adopted National Strategy www.towardzerodeaths.org
TOWARDS ZERO DEATHS Adoption and Implementation by Counties “A commitment to a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, aggressive, and proactive approach to improving highway safety”
Key Safety Focus Areas
•Safer drivers and passengers •Safer infrastructure •Safer vehicles •Safer vulnerable users •Enhanced emergency medical services (EMS) •Improved safety management and data processes
Enhanced EMS Strategies in TZD
• Improve incident detection, 911 access, and enhanced 911 system capabilities.
• Improve on-scene medical care and transport to
hospitals. • Improve access to higher-level trauma centers. • Collaborate with safety partners to improve
understanding of EMS and identify opportunities to reduce crashes and save lives.
Contact NACE National Association of County Engineers
25 Mass. Ave. NW, Suite 580 Washington, DC 20001-1454
Phone (202) 393-5041 Fax (202) 393-2630
Email: [email protected] www.countyengineers.org
Ramon Gavarrete, P.E. President, NACE County Engineer
Highlands County, Florida 505 South Commerce Avenue
Sebring, Florida 33872 Phone (863) 402-6977
Fax (863) 402-6875 Email: [email protected]
NACE 2015: April 19 - 23
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUNDING UNDER MAP-21
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CMAQ/Other
9% Highway Safety
6%
STP 27%
NHPP 58%
MAP-21 HIGHWAY FUNDING
22%
78%
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY MILES
NHS Road Miles
Other Federal-aidHighway Miles
NACo asks Congress to increase funding for the Surface Transportation Program and increase the sub-allocation for local areas to support locally-owned road and bridge projects.
Background:
MAP-21 made changes to Federal-aid highway funding that significantly impacted the funding available to local governments for road and bridge projects.
Under MAP-21, funding for the nation’s bridges and Federal-aid highways were consolidated and are now primarily funded through two core programs, the National Highway Performance Program (NHPP) and the Surface Transportation Program (STP).
Surface Transportation Program The STP program provides flexible funding that may be used by states and localities for projects to preserve or improve conditions and performance on any Federal-aid highway and bridge projects on any public road, as well as facilities for nonmotorized transportation, transit capital projects and public bus terminals and facilities.
Under MAP-21, 50 percent of a state’s STP funds are to be distributed to local areas based on population (suballocated), with the remainder to be used in any area of the state. Prior to MAP-21, 62.5 percent of a state’s STP funds were suballocated to local areas. National Highway Performance Program The NHPP Program provides funding to support the condition and performance of the “National Highway System” (NHS). Prior to MAP-21, projects on the NHS received funding from the Interstate Maintenance program and the National Highway System program. Projects on the NHS are also eligible for STP dollars. Federal-aid Highway Miles There are 1 million miles of Federal-aid highways in the United States. Under MAP-21, 220,000 or 22% of those miles are designated as the NHS. Local governments own 52% of the Federal-aid highway miles that are not a part of the NHS.
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUNDING UNDER MAP-21
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Interstate Maintenance $5.7 billion
National Highway System $7 billion
Highway Bridge Program (85% for on- and off-system bridges)
$5 billion
Off-System Bridge Set-Aside (15% of Highway Bridge Program)
$885 million
Surface Transportation Program
$7.3 billion
National Highway Performance Program
$21.8 billion
Surface Transportation Program
$10 billion
MAP-21 PROGRAM CONSOLIDATION
SAFETEA-LU (FY 2011) MAP-21 (FY 2014)
Bridge Funding Changes Under MAP-21 Prior to MAP-21, all bridges were eligible for funding under the Highway Bridge Program. MAP-21 eliminated the Highway Bridge Program, shifting a majority of the program’s funding under the NHPP program and putting funding for off-system bridges under the STP program. Since only 23% of the nation’s bridges are a part of the NHS, the remaining 77% are only eligible for the STP program and have to compete with other eligible projects for very limited funding.
Highway Funding Under MAP-21 While the NHPP program only supports projects on 23% of the nation’s bridges and 22% of the Federal-aid highway miles, it receives two-thirds of the combined funding available for the NHPP and STP programs, and more than half of the total Federal highway funding under MAP-21. Meanwhile, 78% of all Federal-aid highway miles and 77% of the nation’s bridges are not eligible for the NHPP program and primarily rely on STP dollars.
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUNDING UNDER MAP-21
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MAP-21 significantly increased (by 74%) the funding available only to projects that are a part of the NHS, partially by shifting the majority of the old Highway Bridge Program to the NHPP program.
SAFETEA-LU (FY 2011)
MAP-21 (FY 2014)
% Change
Highway Bridge Program (excluding off-system bridge set-aside)
$5,012,212,512 -- --
Surface Transportation Program
(excluding set-asides)
$8,281,841,603 $9,048,542,623 +9%
Off-System Bridge Set-Aside $884,508,092 $776,523,176 -12%
Total $14,178,562,207 $9,825,065,799 -31%
Meanwhile, the funding available for bridges and Federal-aid highway projects that are not a part of the NHS, and therefore rely on STP dollars, decreased by about 30% under MAP-21. This funding is responsible for supporting 77% of the nation’s bridges and 78% of the Federal-aid highway miles. The decrease in available funding for bridges and highways that are not a part of the NHS has a significant impact on local governments since they own 52% of the highway miles that are not eligible for NHPP funding and 50% of the nation’s bridges. In addition, local governments only receive suballocated funds through the STP program, which accounts for a third of the total funding available for the NHPP and STP programs.
For further information, contact: Jessica Monahan at 202.942.4217 or [email protected].
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