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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

FTA Fiscal Year 2005 Apportionments, 

Allocations and Program Information; 

Notice of Supplemental Information, 

Changes, and Corrections 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice makes the full 

amount of the FTA fiscal year (FY) 2005 

program apportionments or allocations 

available for obligation. In addition, it 

announces changes and corrections to 

the December 29, 2004, ‘‘FTA Fiscal 

Year 2005 Apportionments, Allocations 

and Program Information; Notice,’’ 

based on language in the ‘‘Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU), (Pub. L. 109–59); 

technical amendments for transit in the 

‘‘Emergency Supplemental 

Appropriations Act for Defense, the 

Global War on Terror, and Tsunami 

Relief, 2005’’ (Pub. L. 109–13, hereafter 

called the 2005 Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations Act); 

congressional clarifications; and FTA’s 

administrative decision to extend the 

period of availability of FY 2005 Elderly 

and Persons with Disabilities Program 

(section 5310) funding. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

appropriate FTA Regional 

Administrator or Mary Martha 

Churchman, Director, Office of Resource 

Management and State Programs, (202) 

366–2053. 

I. Funds Available for Obligation 

SAFETEA–LU, signed into law by 

President Bush on August 10, 2005, 

reauthorizes transit and highway 

programs through September 30, 2009. 

The authorized transit programs are 

detailed in the Act as are program 

funding levels for FY 2005 through FY 

2009. 

SAFETEA–LU authorizes FY 2005 

transit program funding levels at the 

same levels specified in the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 

(Pub. L. 108–447, December 8, 2005; 

hereafter called the 2005 Appropriations 

Act) as adjusted in the 2005 Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations Act for 

the New Starts program. The program 

funding tables published in the 

December 29, 2004, Notice reflect the 

FY 2005 appropriated funding level for 

each program. The amount shown in the 

‘‘Apportionment’’ or ‘‘Allocation’’ 

column of a table is the full amount now 

available for obligation by grantees, with 

the exception that amounts in some 

tables have been revised by FTA. The 

revised tables are included in this 

document and supersede those 

contained in the December 29, 2004, 

Notice. 

The amount shown in the 

‘‘Apportionment’’ or ‘‘Allocation’’ 

column includes both trust funds 

(contract authority) and general funds, 

and reflects the total dollar amount of 

obligation limitation and appropriations 

in the 2005 Appropriations Act. The 

authorized amounts for FY 2005 in 

SAFETEA–LU reflect the 0.80 percent 

rescission, which was applied 

proportionately to the discretionary 

budget authority and obligation 

limitation, and to each program, project 

and activity. 

This document is posted on the FTA 

Web site at http://www.fta.dot.gov/ 

25_ENG_HTML.htm. It is also available 

by calling the regional office. Each 

regional office will also distribute this 

notice by e-mail to its mailing list. 

II. Changes and Corrections 

The information in the following 

paragraphs describes changes or 

corrections to the December 29, 2004, 

Notice. The changes are the result of 

compliance with overriding language in 

SAFETEA–LU or the 2005 Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations Act; 

execution of an FTA administrative 

decision to extend the availability of 

section 5310 funds; implementation of 

changes for Bus and New Starts projects 

based on congressional correspondence 

on clarifications or technical 

corrections; Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) allotment of 

funds to FTA for certain projects 

identified in the conference report 

accompanying the 2005 Appropriations 

Act under section 117; and/or correction 

of errors identified by FTA. 

A. Section 5309 Bus and Bus-Related 

Allocations (FY 2005 and Prior Years) 

In the Federal Register Notice 

published December 29, 2004, two FY 

2002 projects extended in the 

conference report were not included in 

Table 10 because the balances for these 

projects were included in amounts 

transferred to the New Starts program. 

In response to technical amendments 

included in the 2005 Emergency 

Supplemental Appropriations Act, these 

two projects have been added to the list 

of extended projects: WV, Morgantown 

Parking Facility and WY, Southern 

Teton Area Rapid Transit bus facility. In 

addition to these two projects, FTA is 

now able to honor intentions to extend 

lapsing earmarks expressed by Congress 

in either the House or Senate Committee 

Reports accompanying the 2005 

Appropriations Act, and to extend a 

project that was reprogrammed in the 

Senate report. These projects have been 

added to Table 10. 

Footnotes to the table describe the 

source of each action and the period of 

availability of reprogrammed projects. 

They also explain clarifications 

contained in letters to FTA from the 

House and Senate Appropriation 

Subcommittee Chairmen, and, where 

applicable, correction of a previously 

published balance. 

For additional details or questions on 

a specific project please contact the 

appropriate FTA regional office or Ryan 

Hammon at (202) 366–2053. 

B. Section 5309 New Starts Allocations 

(FY 2005 and Prior Years) 

Table 11 shows revised FY 2005 

section 5309 New Starts Allocations. 

The revised amounts are due to 

language in section 6061 of the 2005 

Emergency Supplemental 

Appropriations Act, which reduced the 

amount allocated to eleven Full 

Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) 

projects, which had been appropriated 

funds in excess of what was required to 

complete the FFGA. This technical 

amendment also corrected the amounts 

appropriated for the Northern New 

Jersey, Newark Elizabeth Rail Line 

MOS–1 and Northern New Jersey, 

Hudson-Bergen MOS–1 projects, which 

had been misnamed and switched in the 

original appropriation. 

The allocation amount has been 

revised for the following projects: 

• Los Angeles, MOS 3 Metro Rail 

(North Hollywood). 

• Fort Lauderdale, South Florida 

Commuter Rail Upgrades. 

• New Orleans, Canal Street Streetcar 

Project. 

• Washington, DC/Metropolitan Area, 

Largo Extension. 

• Minneapolis, Hiawatha Light Rail 

Project. 

• St. Louis, Metro Link St. Clair 

Extension. 

• Northern New Jersey, Newark 

Elizabeth Rail Line MOS–1. 

• Northern New Jersey, HudsonBergen MOS–1. 

• Pittsburgh, Stage II Light Rail 

Transit Reconstruction. 

• Salt Lake City, CBD to University 

LRT. 

• Salt Lake City, Medical Center 

Extension. 

The unallocated balance in Table 11 

reflects the reduction in the amount of 

funds transferred to the FY 2005 New 

Starts program from prior year 

unobligated balances. 

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As promised in the December 29, 

2004 Notice, a list of the prior year 

projects for which the balances were 

transferred to New Starts is provided as 

follows: 

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There was one change to the extended 

projects listed in Table 12—Prior Year 

Unobligated Section 5309 New Starts 

Allocations. The unobligated amount for 

the Northeast Indianapolis, Indiana, 

Downtown Corridor Project was 

changed from $5,228,042 to $5,068,042 

to reflect a previous obligation. 

C. Fixed Guideway Modernization 

Adjustment 

Language in sections 3035 and 3041 

of SAFETEA–LU provides for the 

inclusion of Morgantown, WV as an 

eligible urbanized area for fixed 

guideway modernization 

apportionments. The language further 

directs that the FY 2005 fixed guideway 

modernization apportionments be 

adjusted (or recalculated) with the 

Morgantown fixed guideway mileage 

included. The FY 2005 fixed guideway 

modernization apportionments and unit 

values for the formula factors (route 

miles and vehicle revenue miles) have 

been revised accordingly, and are 

displayed in Table 7 and Table 5, 

respectively. 

D. Technical Correction to Section 198 

of the 2005 Appropriations Act 

Section 198 of the 2005 

Appropriations Act states, ‘‘For the 

purpose of any applicable law, for fiscal 

years 2004 and 2005, the city of 

Norman, Oklahoma, shall be considered 

to be part of the Oklahoma City 

urbanized area.’’ This provision has an 

unintended impact on the section 5307 

apportionments for these urbanized 

areas, and also affects the 

apportionment of all urbanized areas 

with a population less than 1 million. In 

anticipation of a legislative technical 

correction, FTA did not apply this 

provision when apportioning FY 2005 

section 5307 funds in the December 29, 

2004, Notice. 

Language in section 6063 of the 2005 

Emergency Supplemental 

Appropriations Act amends section 198 

to make clear that the provision is 

applicable to apportioning Federal-aid 

highway funds only. FTA 

apportionments are not affected. 

E. Period of Availability for FY 2005 

Section 5310 Extended 

The period of availability for funds 

appropriated for the Elderly and Persons 

with Disabilities Program (49 U.S.C. 

5310) is administratively established at 

one fiscal year. The December 29, 2004, 

Notice of FTA FY 2005 Apportionments 

and Allocations noted that FY 2005 

funds allocated to the States under 

section 5310 must be obligated by 

September 30, 2005. 

Due to the delayed availability of the 

full year’s apportionment of FY 2005 

section 5310 funds and the limited 

period during which the funds may be 

obligated, FTA is extending the period 

of availability for FY 2005 section 5310 

funds by six months to provide 

flexibility to States that may need 

additional time to obligate all the FY 

2005 funds. With this six-month 

extension, FY 2005 funds apportioned 

to States under section 5310 must be 

obligated by March 31, 2006. 

F. FHWA Allotment of Section 117 

Funds to FTA 

Section 117 of the 2005 

Appropriations Act references House 

Report 108–792 list of projects 

identified in the conference report, a 

number of which are transit projects, 

that are designated to receive funding 

from FHWA funding sources. To date, 

FHWA has allotted funding to FTA to 

administer several of the projects that 

are transit in nature. The projects and 


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allotted funding are shown in the table 

below. 

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G. FTA Correction 

The following correction is noted to 

information in the December 29, 2004, 

Notice. 

• On page 78213, the heading on the 

table under paragraph I should read 

‘‘RTAP’’ instead of ‘‘EMSP:.’’

• On page 78214–78215, under 

paragraph ‘‘M. Over-the-Road Bus 

Accessibility Program,’’ the amounts 

allocable to providers for intercity fixedroute service and to other providers of 

over the road services (as specified in 

second the pargraph under subsection 

heading ‘‘1. Total Allocation’’) should 

read $5,208,000 and $1,686,400, 

respectively, instead of $5,239,744 and 

$1,654,666. 

Issued on: September 6, 2005. 

Jennifer L. Dorn, 

Administrator. 

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