U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Cancellation of Flexible Excess TAP Funds Authority
From:
// Original signed by //
Elissa K Konove
Chief Financial Officer
To:
Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, and Realty
Associate Administrator for Policy
Chief Counsel
Division Administrators
Date: February 9, 2015
Reply to: HCFB-10
(HCF-2015-002)
The purpose of this memorandum is to notify the States via the Division Offices of each State's Flexible Excess TAP funds authority for the period beginning on August 1, 2014, and ending on July 31, 2015. In addition, this memo outlines the steps necessary to utilize the flexibility.
Section 213(d) of title 23, United States Code (U.S.C.), provides authority for States to elect to use excess TAP funds for any activity for which the Secretary has approved the obligation of funds for any State under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program (23 U.S.C. 149). Additional information on project eligibilities under the Flexible Excess TAP funds authority, the continuation of TAP requirements, and the determination by States (in coordination with the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)) on whether to use Flexible Excess TAP fund authority and subsequently, what projects to select, can be found in the TAP Q&As posted under FHWA's MAP-21 Q&As (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/map21/qandas/).
Pursuant to section 213(d) of title 23, U.S.C., on August 1st of each fiscal year, each State's Flexible Excess TAP funds authority is calculated as that State's unobligated balance of available TAP funds minus the amount reserved for that State for TAP for that fiscal year. The attached table reflects each State's current Flexible Excess TAP funds authority for the period beginning on August 1, 2014, and ending on July 31, 2015.
If a State decides to use the flexibility to obligate TAP funds on a CMAQ-eligible project(s) and that project(s) is ready to be obligated, the following steps must be taken to utilize the identified flexibility:
If the State is unable to obligate the transferred funds on the identified CMAQ-eligible project(s), the State should submit a request to transfer the associated funds back to the main TAP program codes from which they originated.
Each State's Flexible Excess TAP funds authority is calculated as an overall State flexibility and this flexibility may be exercised in any proportions among the TAP funding categories. However, the flexibility may only be used by transferring between the program code pairs as shown in the table below.
Transfer | Transfer | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
TAP Funding Category | From: | To: | From: | To: |
TAP - Any Area | M300 | M390 | M30E | M39E |
TAP > 200,000 | M301 | M305 | M3E1 | M3E5 |
5,001 < TAP < 200,000 | M302 | M306 | M3E2 | M3E6 |
TAP < 5,000 | M303 | M307 | M3E3 | M3E7 |
Division Administrators should ensure that copies of this memorandum are provided to the State departments of transportation.
If you have any questions, please contact Kim Monaco at 202-366-2045, or kimberly.monaco@dot.gov.
Attachment
State | Amount |
---|---|
Alabama | 14,893,434 |
Alaska | 4,916,464 |
Arizona | 5,627,942 |
Arkansas | 8,044,743 |
California | 66,422,659 |
Colorado | 8,702,290 |
Connecticut | 3,231,420 |
Delaware | 728,587 |
District of Columbia | 554,770 |
Florida | 0 |
Georgia | 0 |
Hawaii | 2,625,309 |
Idaho | 1,312,546 |
Illinois | 24,611,849 |
Indiana | 0 |
Iowa | 7,955,019 |
Kansas | 8,277,957 |
Kentucky | 11,434,834 |
Louisiana | 7,129,861 |
Maine | 1,674,206 |
Maryland | 10,794,269 |
Massachusetts | 10,357,110 |
Michigan | 0 |
Minnesota | 0 |
Mississippi | 7,471,718 |
Missouri | 7,991,271 |
Montana | 4,196,777 |
Nebraska | 0 |
Nevada | 4,563,885 |
New Hampshire | 2,496,198 |
New Jersey | 15,297,825 |
New Mexico | 4,928,058 |
New York | 25,809,739 |
North Carolina | 12,400,402 |
North Dakota | 0 |
Ohio | 10,975,637 |
Oklahoma | 3,029,300 |
Oregon | 606,602 |
Pennsylvania | 17,787,491 |
Rhode Island | 1,062,618 |
South Carolina | 0 |
South Dakota | 0 |
Tennessee | 15,921,579 |
Texas | 41,650,155 |
Utah | 0 |
Vermont | 1,397,941 |
Virginia | 20,036,525 |
Washington | 0 |
West Virginia | 4,227,168 |
Wisconsin | 7,959,663 |
Wyoming | 2,091,290 |
Total | 411,197,110 |