FY05 Appropriations Signed
On Wednesday, the President signed the Omnibus Appropriation Act, which included the FY05 funding for all domestic programs, including transportation. There was no change from what each house of congress passed before the Thanksgiving break, except that the House had to agree to delete the provision giving some of their committee chairs access to everyone’s personal tax returns. FTA should publish their apportionments based on the FY05 appropriations within the next two weeks. We will announce our official formula allocations for the 5310 and 5311 programs and the Governor’s apportionment portion of 5307as soon as we can after FTA’s numbers are available. We will also include the figures for the unofficial suballocations of peerpool funds within the Governor’s group and the 5310/5311 group.
Everyone is reminded that they are to provide Pam Lee with the information on the programming of their individual peerpool funds within two weeks from when we make that announcement. You can be working on that already using the estimates that we handed out at the IPTA meeting and which can be found under What’s New on our website. Remember that Governor’s Apportionment systems may program up to half of their peerpool suballocation for either traditional capital projects of for Associated Capital Maintenance Items, while the other half can only go toward traditional capital. For 5310/5311 systems, the half that is limited to traditional capital has already been programmed by the group, so the individual suballocations may go for either traditional capital or Associated Capital Maintenance. Some of you also have funds that you rolled forward from last year, those figures were also presented at IPTA and are now on the website. Projects to use these peerpool funds have to come from the approved STIP.
If you have questions on the process, please contact Pam at 515-239-1872 or [email protected].
Peter H. Hallock
IaDOT - Office of Public Transit
ph. 515-239-1765 fax 515-233-7983
e-mail: [email protected]