| (a) Highway program funding categories. The ten-year
unified transportation program (UTP) described in §16.105 of
this chapter (relating to Unified Transportation Program (UTP)) will
contain the following 12 program funding categories for highway related
projects:
(1) Category 1 Preventive Maintenance and Rehabilitation
- preventive maintenance and rehabilitation on the existing state
highway system, including:
(A) Preventive maintenance - minor roadway modifications
to improve operations and safety; and
(B) Rehabilitation - installation, rehabilitation,
replacement, and maintenance of pavement, bridges, traffic control
devices, traffic management systems, and ancillary traffic devices;
(2) Category 2 Metropolitan and Urban Corridor Projects
- mobility and added capacity projects along a corridor that improve
transportation facilities in order to decrease travel time and the
level or duration of traffic congestion, and safety, maintenance,
or rehabilitation projects that increase the safe and efficient movement
of people and freight in metropolitan and urbanized areas;
(3) Category 3 Non-Traditionally Funded Transportation
Projects - transportation related projects that qualify for funding
from sources not traditionally part of the state highway fund including
state bond financing under programs such as Proposition 12 (General
Obligation Bonds), Texas Mobility Fund, pass-through toll financing,
unique federal funding, regional toll revenue, and local participation
funding;
(4) Category 4 Statewide Connectivity Corridor Projects
- mobility and added capacity projects on major state highway system
corridors which provide statewide connectivity between urban areas
and corridors, to create a highway connectivity network composed of
the Texas Highway Trunk System, National Highway System, and connections
from those two systems to major ports of entry on international borders
and Texas water ports;
(5) Category 5 Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement - congestion mitigation and air quality improvement area
projects to address attainment of a national ambient air quality standard
in the nonattainment areas of the state;
(6) Category 6 Structures Replacement and Rehabilitation
- replacement and rehabilitation of deficient existing bridges located
on the public highways, roads, and streets in the state, construction
of grade separations at existing highway-railroad grade crossings,
and rehabilitation of deficient railroad underpasses on the state
highway system;
(7) Category 7 Metropolitan Mobility and Rehabilitation
(TMA) - transportation needs within the boundaries of designated metropolitan
planning areas of metropolitan planning organizations located in a
transportation management area;
(8) Category 8 Safety - safety related projects both
on and off the state highway system including the federal Highway
Safety Improvement Program, Railway-Highway Crossing Program, Safety
Bond Program, and High Risk Rural Roads Program;
(9) Category 9 Transportation Alternatives - transportation
related activities as described in Chapter 11, Subchapter G, of this
title (relating to the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program);
(10) Category 10 Supplemental Transportation Projects
- transportation related projects that do not qualify for funding
in other categories, including landscape and aesthetic improvement,
erosion control and environmental mitigation, construction and rehabilitation
of roadways within or adjacent to state parks, fish hatcheries, and
similar facilities, replacement of railroad crossing surfaces, maintenance
of railroad signals, construction or replacement of curb ramps for
accessibility to pedestrians with disabilities, and miscellaneous
federal programs;
(11) Category 11 District Discretionary - projects
eligible for federal or state funding selected at the district engineer's
discretion; and
(12) Category 12 Strategic Priority - projects with
specific importance to the state including those that generally promote
economic opportunity, increase efficiency on military deployment routes
or to retain military assets in response to the federal military base
realignment and closure reports, and maintain the ability to respond
to both man-made and natural emergencies.
(b) Program funding categories for other modes of
transportation and transportation infrastructure. The UTP will contain
the following program funding categories for aviation, public transportation,
rail, and the state's waterways and coastal waters projects:
(1) Aviation Capital Improvement Program - projects
based on the anticipated funding levels of the Federal Aviation Administration
Airport Improvement Program and the Texas Aviation Facilities Development
Program for general aviation airport development in Texas;
(2) Public transportation - projects based on the
anticipated funding levels for public transportation including fixed
route city bus service, rural demand response service, special transit
service for elderly and persons with disabilities, and intercity bus
service from city to city;
(3) Rail - rail related projects including light rail,
freight rail, passenger rail, and high-speed rail; and
(4) State waterways and coastal waters - water related
projects including lands, easements, and rights of way for the widening,
deepening, and expansion of the main channel of the Gulf Intracoastal
Waterway (GIWW), including beneficial use projects of dredged material,
and other maritime related projects.
(c) Determination of funding allocations. The commission
will use a performance-based process to determine, subject to the
mandates of state and federal law, the amount of funds to be allocated
to each program funding category described in subsection (a) of this
section for the appropriate period of time, in order to achieve established
performance outcomes. The commission will determine, subject to the
mandates of state and federal law and specific requirements contained
in other chapters of this title, the amount of funds to be allocated
to each program funding category described in subsection (b) of this
section for the appropriate period of time.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §16.153 adopted to be effective January 1, 2011, 35 TexReg 8388; amended to be effective November 15, 2012, 37 TexReg 8981; amended to be effective October 12, 2014, 39 TexReg 7945; amended to be effective March 18, 2015, 40 TexReg 1524; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 10670 |
