(a) Formula allocations. The commission will, subject
to the mandates of state and federal law, allocate funds from program
funding Categories 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11, as described in §16.153
of this subchapter (relating to Funding Categories), to the districts
and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) as follows:
(1) Category 1 Preventive Maintenance and Rehabilitation
- will be allocated to all districts as an allocation program according
to the following formulas:
(A) Preventive maintenance.
(i) Ninety-eight percent for roadway maintenance with
65 percent based on on-system lane miles, and 33 percent based on
the pavement distress score Pace factor; and
(ii) Two percent for bridge maintenance based on square
footage of on-system span bridge deck area;
(B) Rehabilitation. Thirty-two- and one-half percent
based on three-year average lane miles of pavement distress scores
less than 70, 20 percent based on on-system vehicle miles traveled
per lane mile, 32.5 percent based on equivalent single axle load miles
on-system, and 15 percent based on the pavement distress score Pace
factor;
(2) Category 2 Metropolitan and Urban Corridor Projects
- It is the commission's intent that Category 2 funds be used efficiently
on priority projects as determined by the MPOs. Category 2 funds will
be allocated to districts and MPOs for specific projects within the
MPOs' boundaries in the following manner:
(A) 87 percent to MPOs operating in areas that are
transportation management areas, according to the following formula:
30 percent based on total vehicle miles traveled on and off the state
highway system, 17 percent based on estimated population within the
boundaries of the metropolitan planning area using data derived from
the most recent census provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census (census
population), 10 percent based on lane miles on-system, 14 percent
based on truck vehicle miles traveled on-system, 7 percent based on
percentage of census population below the federal poverty level, 15
percent based on congestion, and 7 percent based on fatal and incapacitating
vehicle crashes;
(B) 13 percent to MPOs operating in areas that are
not transportation management areas, according to the following formula:
20 percent based on total vehicle miles traveled on and off the state
highway system, 25 percent based on estimated population within the
boundaries of the metropolitan planning area using data derived from
the most recent census provided by the U.S. Bureau of the Census (census
population), 8 percent based on lane miles on-system, 15 percent based
on truck vehicle miles traveled on-system, 4 percent based on percentage
of census population below the federal poverty level, 8 percent based
on centerline miles on-system, 10 percent based on congestion, and
10 percent based on fatal and incapacitating vehicle crashes;
(3) Category 4 Statewide Connectivity Corridor Projects
- will be allocated to districts as an allocation program for specific
corridors selected by the commission based on engineering analysis
of three corridor types and, if applicable to the particular corridor
type, considering the formula specified in subsection (a)(2) of this
section:
(A) Mobility corridors - congestion considerations
throughout the state;
(B) Connectivity corridors - two-lane roadways requiring
upgrade to four-lane divided roadways to connect the urban areas of
the state; and
(C) Strategic corridors - strategic corridors on the
state highway network that provide statewide connectivity;
(4) Category 5 Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement - will be allocated to districts and MPOs as an allocation
program for projects in a nonattainment area population weighted by
ozone and carbon monoxide pollutant severity. The department will
determine the final distribution of the allocation between the district
and MPO to ensure timely use of funds. Before the MPO's use of the
Category 5 funds, the MPO must obtain the district's concurrence on
the project for which the funds are to be used;
(5) Category 7 Metropolitan Mobility and Rehabilitation
(TMA) - will be allocated to MPOs operating in areas that are transportation
management areas as an allocation program based on the applicable
federal formula;
(6) Category 9 Transportation Alternatives - a portion
of the funds in this category will be allocated to MPOs serving urbanized
areas with populations over 200,000 as an allocation program based
on the areas' relative share of population, unless FHWA approves a
joint request from the department and the relevant MPOs to use other
factors in determining the allocation; and
(7) Category 11 District Discretionary - will be allocated
to all districts as an allocation program based on state legislative
mandates, but if there is no mandate or the amount of available funding
in this category exceeds the minimum required by a mandate, the funding
allocation for this category or the excess funding, as applicable,
will be allocated according to the following formula: 70 percent based
on annual on-system vehicle miles traveled, 20 percent based on annual
on-system lane miles, and 10 percent based on annual on-system truck
vehicle miles traveled. The commission may supplement the funds allocated
to individual districts on a case-by-case basis to cover project cost
overruns.
(b) Pace factor calculation. For purposes of subsection
(a)(1) of this section, the Pace factor is a calculation used to adjust
funding among districts according to increases or decreases in a district's
need to improve its pavement distress scores. It will slow the rate
of improvement for districts with the highest condition scores and
accelerate the rate of improvement for districts with the lowest condition
scores. The Pace factor is calculated by:
(1) determining the district with the highest distress
score;
(2) determining the deviation of a district's distress
score from the highest score;
(3) totaling the deviations for all districts as determined
by paragraph (2) of this subsection.
(c) Non-formula allocations. The commission, subject
to the mandates of state and federal law and specific requirements
contained in other chapters of this title for programs and projects
described in subsection (a) of this section, will determine the amount
of funding to be allocated to a district, metropolitan planning organization,
political subdivision, governmental agency, local governmental body,
recipient of a governmental transportation grant, or other eligible
entity from each of the following program funding categories described
in §16.153 of this subchapter:
(1) Category 3 Non-Traditionally Funded Transportation
Projects for specific projects;
(2) Category 6 Structures Replacement and Rehabilitation
as an allocation program;
(3) Category 8 Safety Projects generally funded as
an allocation program with some specific projects designated under
the Safety Bond Program;
(4) Category 9 Transportation Alternatives - of the
remaining funds in this category, a portion will be allocated to certain
areas of the state, for specific projects, based on the areas' relative
share of the population, and a portion may be allocated in any area
of the state for specific projects or transferred to other eligible
federal programs, as authorized by law;
(5) Category 10 Supplemental Transportation Projects
generally funded as an allocation program with some specific projects
designated under miscellaneous federal programs;
(6) Category 12 Strategic Priority for specific projects;
(7) Aviation Capital Improvement Program;
(8) Public transportation;
(9) Rail; and
(10) State waterways and coastal waters.
(d) Allocation program. For the purposes of this chapter,
the term "allocation program" refers to a type of program funding
category identified in the unified transportation program for which
the responsibility for selecting projects and managing the allocation
of funds has been delegated to department districts, selected administrative
offices of the department, and MPOs. Within the applicable program
funding category, each district, selected administrative office, or
MPO is allocated a funding amount and projects can be selected, developed,
and, subject to the base cash flow forecast prepared and published
in accordance with §16.152(b) of this subchapter (relating to
Cash Flow Forecasts), let to contract with the cost of each project
to be deducted from the allocated funds available for that category.
(e) Listing of projects. The department will list the
projects being funded from funds allocated under subsections (a)(2)
and (3) and (c)(6) of this section (categories 2, 4, and 12, respectively)
that the department intends to develop and let during the ten-year
unified transportation program (UTP) under §16.105 of this chapter
(relating to Unified Transportation Program (UTP)), and reference
for each listed project the program funding category to which it is
assigned. If a program funding category Cont'd... |