U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
202-366-4000
Notice |
Subject |
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM OBLIGATIONS FISCAL
YEAR 1998 - TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY AS AMENDED BY TEA-21 RESTORATION ACT |
Classification Code |
Date |
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N 4520.151 |
July 24, 1998 |
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- PURPOSE. To advise of the revised limitation on Federal-aid
highway program obligations for FY 1998 and the distribution among the States.
- CANCELLATION. FHWA Notice N4520.149, "Federal-Aid Highway Program
Obligations Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 - Surface Transportation Extension Act of
1997," dated December 5, 1997; and FHWA Notice N4520.150, "Federal-Aid Highway
Program Obligations - Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 - Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century," dated June 10, 1998, are hereby canceled.
- BACKGROUND. The distribution of FY 1998 obligation limitation has
been revised based on the technical amendments to the Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st Century pursuant to the TEA 21 Restoration Act.
- LIMITATION - LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS. The Transportation Equity Act
for the 21st Century, as amended, provides for the limitation on obligations as follows:
- The total obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction
programs shall not exceed $21,500,000,000 for FY 1998.
- The limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply to obligations under:
(1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code;
(2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1981;
(3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981;
(4) sections 131(b) and 131(j) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982;
(5) sections 149(b) and 149(c) of the Surface Transportation Relocation Assistance Act of 1987;
(6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991;
(7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code, as in effect on
the day before the date of enactment of the Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st Century;
(8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (but, for each of
the fiscal years 1998 through 2007) , only in an amount equal to $639,000,000 per fiscal year; and
(9) section 218, title 23, United States Code.
- ALLOCATED ACCOUNTS
- Amounts authorized for administrative expenses and funded from the administrative
takedown authorized by section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code,
the amount authorized for highway use tax evasion program and for the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics are subject to the limitation on obligations
but are excluded from the State-by-State distribution.
- Unobligated balances of funds from previous fiscal years which are allocated
by the Secretary are subject to the limitation on obligations but are
excluded from the State-by-State distribution.
- Obligation of funds authorized for Transportation Research under section
5001(a) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, as amended,
shall not exceed $397,650,000 for FY 1998 and shall remain available for
a period of three fiscal years. This limitation is within the overall
limitation of $21,500,000,000 for FY 1998.
- Amounts which are allocated to the States will be covered by an equal
amount of obligation limitation which will be distributed with the allocation of the funds.
- REDISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN AUTHORIZED FUNDS
- Pursuant to section 1102(f) of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century, the Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds authorized
to be appropriated for such fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs
which are allocated by the Secretary, that the Secretary determines will
not be allocated to the States and will not be available for obligation
due to the imposition of any obligation limitation for FY 1998.
- Such distribution to the States shall be accomplished within 30 days
of the date of this Notice. The funds so distributed shall be available
for any purposes described in section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
- Headquarters program offices will be notified by the Office of Budget
and Finance of the reduction in contract authority due to the imposition
of the obligation limitation for FY 1998.
- OBLIGATION LIMITATION DISTRIBUTED TO THE STATES
- Attachment 1 shows the amount of formula obligation limitation distributed
to each State for FY 1998. Each State receives a proportional amount of
obligation limitation available to be distributed to the States based
on the ratio that each State's total apportionments subject to the
limitation on obligations bears to the total of such apportionments to all States.
- Pursuant to Section 1103(m) (5) of the Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century the amount of obligation authority made available under
section 2(e) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997 shall
be considered to be an amount of obligation authority made available for
fiscal year 1998 under section 1102(a) of this Act.
- After August 1, 1998, the Secretary will revise the distribution of
limitation made available if a State does not plan to obligate the amount
distributed during FY 1998 and redistribute such amount to those States
able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed during
FY 1998. The redistribution will give priority to those States having
large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under title 23, United
States Code, Sections 104 and 144; section 160 of title 23 (as in effect
on the day before enactment of the Transportation Equity act for the 21st
Century); and section 1015 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991.
- SPECIAL LIMITATION
- Section 1102(a) (4) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
provides for obligation limitation within the overall obligation ceiling
of $21,500,000,000 for the funds authorized under the following:
(1) section 117 of title 23, United States Code (relating to high priority projects program);
(2) section 201 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965;
(3) the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Act of 1995; and
(4) $2,000,000,000 for section 105 of title 23, United States Code (relating to minimum guarantee).
- This special limitation associated with the programs listed above shall
remain available until used for the obligation of funds for which distributed
and shall be in addition to any amount of any limitation imposed for future fiscal years.
- The State-by-State distribution of the special limitation associated
with minimum guarantee for FY 1998 is also shown in Attachment 1. The
special limitation associated with High Priority Projects, the Appalachia
Regional Development Act and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Act will
be distributed when the funds are allocated to the States.
- ACTION. Division Administrators should ensure that copies of this
Notice are furnished to State transportation agencies.
Original signed by,
Kenneth R. Wykle
Administrator
Attachment
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ATTACHMENT 1 |
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION |
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FY 1998 DISTRIBUTION OF OBLIGATION
LIMITATION
PURSUANT TO SECTION 1102 OF THE TRANSPORTATION
EQUITY ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AS AMENDED BY
TEA 21 RESTORATION ACT |
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STATE |
FORMULA
OBLIGATION
LIMITATION |
SPECIAL
LIMITATION
FOR
MINIMUM
GUARANTEE |
TOTAL |
ALABAMA |
323,004,466 |
50,167,537 |
373,172,003 |
ALASKA |
150,305,570 |
67,292,922 |
217,598,492 |
ARIZONA |
257,207,423 |
38,002,164 |
295,209,587 |
ARKANSAS |
215,482,048 |
27,694,342 |
243,176,390 |
CALIFORNIA |
1,587,952,633 |
122,712,973 |
1,710,665,606 |
COLORADO |
209,662,039 |
12,320,453 |
221,982,492 |
CONNECTICUT |
224,379,422 |
54,036,529 |
278,415,951 |
DELAWARE |
75,621,753 |
9,243,685 |
84,865,438 |
DIST. OF COL. |
74,522,222 |
371,302 |
74,893,524 |
FLORIDA |
710,735,513 |
148,562,050 |
859,297,563 |
GEORGIA |
544,615,419 |
103,489,469 |
648,104,888 |
HAWAII |
86,129,224 |
9,484,960 |
95,614,184 |
IDAHO |
115,797,731 |
22,007,575 |
137,805,306 |
ILLINOIS |
586,776,124 |
37,842,271 |
624,618,395 |
INDIANA |
377,345,098 |
58,019,634 |
435,364,732 |
IOWA |
214,466,742 |
10,229,845 |
224,696,587 |
KANSAS |
211,385,358 |
7,566,910 |
218,952,268 |
KENTUCKY |
274,655,031 |
45,624,312 |
320,279,343 |
LOUISIANA |
264,275,865 |
27,618,736 |
291,894,601 |
MAINE |
89,636,621 |
9,074,149 |
98,710,770 |
MARYLAND |
257,617,998 |
23,351,368 |
280,969,366 |
MASSACHUSETTS |
531,707,530 |
10,672,774 |
542,380,304 |
MICHIGAN |
512,579,818 |
68,381,896 |
580,961,714 |
MINNESOTA |
255,072,523 |
20,015,596 |
275,088,119 |
MISSISSIPPI |
206,928,136 |
19,078,322 |
226,006,458 |
MISSOURI |
403,245,210 |
33,093,131 |
436,338,341 |
MONTANA |
157,509,350 |
31,307,001 |
188,816,351 |
NEBRASKA |
146,384,156 |
3,554,014 |
149,938,170 |
NEVADA |
116,571,562 |
19,350,580 |
135,922,142 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
81,675,858 |
10,248,043 |
91,923,901 |
NEW JERSEY |
451,657,427 |
25,104,136 |
476,761,563 |
NEW MEXICO |
160,740,597 |
22,756,901 |
183,497,498 |
NEW YORK |
860,787,873 |
85,623,086 |
946,410,959 |
NORTH CAROLINA |
445,401,427 |
78,355,902 |
523,757,329 |
NORTH DAKOTA |
115,610,741 |
9,956,101 |
125,566,842 |
OHIO |
579,182,057 |
54,829,104 |
634,011,161 |
OKLAHOMA |
266,120,747 |
23,047,683 |
289,168,430 |
OREGON |
207,832,584 |
15,908,740 |
223,741,324 |
PENNSYLVANIA |
806,487,543 |
94,132,833 |
900,620,376 |
RHODE ISLAND |
95,419,633 |
17,016,106 |
112,435,739 |
SOUTH CAROLINA |
255,379,971 |
43,022,126 |
298,402,097 |
SOUTH DAKOTA |
120,193,288 |
12,922,638 |
133,115,926 |
TENNESSEE |
364,469,192 |
52,756,166 |
417,225,358 |
TEXAS |
1,170,884,693 |
176,479,995 |
1,347,364,688 |
UTAH |
133,031,995 |
11,659,001 |
144,690,996 |
VERMONT |
79,607,984 |
7,309,823 |
86,917,807 |
VIRGINIA |
422,166,924 |
55,192,111 |
477,359,035 |
WASHINGTON |
307,240,520 |
22,319,661 |
329,560,181 |
WEST VIRGINIA |
173,164,917 |
27,877,565 |
201,042,482 |
WISCONSIN |
316,331,400 |
52,182,647 |
368,514,047 |
WYOMING |
121,773,703 |
11,133,132 |
132,906,835 |
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SUBTOTAL |
16,716,733,659 |
2,000,000,000 |
18,716,733,659 |
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SPECIAL LIMITATION
HIGH PRIORITY PROJECTS |
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917,358,899 |
WOODROW WILSON BRIDGE |
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22,275,000 |
ALLOCATION RESERVE |
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1,843,632,442 |
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GRAND TOTAL |
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21,500,000,000 |
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