FAST Act

FAST ACT
Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation
GETTING THERE
FUNDING THE BILL
FAST ACT
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Five year bill fully funded (2016-2020)
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$305 Billion
 $225
Billion - Highways
 $ 61 Billion - Public Transit
 $ 10 Billion - Rail
$
9 Billion - Highway Safety, Nationally Significant
Federal Lands and Tribal Projects, and Appalachian
Regional Development
HIGHWAY FORMULA FUNDED PROGRAMS
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
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NATIONAL HIGHWAY PERFORMANCE
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CONGESTION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY (CMAQ)
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HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT (HSIP)
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METROPOLITAN PLANNING
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RAILWAY-HIGHWAY CROSSINGS
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NATIONAL HIGHWAY FREIGHT PROGRAM
NATIONAL HIGHWAY FREIGHT PROGRAM
~1.2 Billion per year
 Infrastructure and operational improvements
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 Strengthen
economic competiveness
 Congestion and Bottleneck Relief
 Improve safety
 Reduce cost of freight
 Efficiency
State Freight Advisory Committee
 State Freight Plan
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NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT FREIGHT AND
HIGHWAY PROJECTS GRANT
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Competitive Grant
 $800,000,000
for 2016
 $850,000,000 for 2017
 $900,000,000 for 2018
 $950,000,000 for 2019
 $1,000,000,000 for 2020
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Eligible Activities
 Highway
freight projects
 Freight rail, intermodal and ports
 Rail-highway grade crossing or separation
NATIONAL TRAVEL AND TOURISM
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US DOT develop strategic plan
 Assessment
of condition and performance
 Identification of issues
 Forecast travel and tourism volumes
 Identification of major facilities and corridors
 Assessment of barriers to improved performance
 Strategies to improve connectivity
WHAT IT DOES
Provides 5 years of certainty for planning and
construction
 Provides a modest 5% increase in 2016
 Provides for inflation 2017 -2020
 Provides New Technology Grants
 Continues Streamlining
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WHAT IT DOESN’T DO
Solve the issue of the Highway Trust Fund
 Currently ~$15B year short
 By 2020 ~$20B year short
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ARIZONA APPORTIONMENTS
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FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
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742M
757M
773M 791M
FY20
810M
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I-11
HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDORS
The CANAMEX Corridor from Nogales, Arizona, through Las Vegas, Nevada,
to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Montana, to the Canadian
Border as follows:
 In the State of Arizona, the CANAMEX Corridor shall generally
follow- I-19 from Nogales to Tucson;
 I-10 from Tucson to Phoenix; and
 United States Route 93 in the vicinity of Phoenix to the Nevada
Border [I-11].
 In the State of Nevada, the CANAMEX Corridor shall follow United States Route 93 from the Arizona Border to Las Vegas; [I11] and
 I-15 from Las Vegas to the Utah Border.
 From the Utah Border through Montana to the Canadian Border, the
CANAMEX Corridor shall follow I-15.
HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDORS
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Sonoran Corridor
‘‘(83) The Sonoran Corridor along State Route
410 connecting Interstate Route 19 and
Interstate Route 10 south of the Tucson
International Airport.
FUTURE INTERSTATES
WHAT IT MEANS
5 years of consistency
 Funding certainty for 5 years
 Continuing the policies of MAP 21
 Continuing to work on streamlining efforts
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WHAT’S NEXT