The January 19, 2006 Federal Register includes a Notice of Availability of Guidance on New Starts Policies and Procedures and Request for Comments. This is Docket Number FTA-2006-23636. The deadline for comments is March 10, 2006. The guidance applies to all fixed-guideway projects, including rail or bus rapids transit. FTA is proposing changes in the guidance to accommodate policy changes...
We’ve gotten several questions, and suddenly realized that we never announced what projects were included in our pending application for statewide JARC funding. I’ve attached a listing of the projects which were included. The application was submitted back in November. Pam says it has received the required signoff from the Department of Labor and we are awaiting word from FTA....
Every other year, the Transportation Research Board sponsors an excellent conference on Rural and Intercity Transportation. Iowa Hosted this event back in 1995. This year it will be held in the State of Washington. They recently sent out “hold this date cards,” announcing that it run from October 22-25 at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington. Participation in this event...
Senator Harkin was successful in getting a delay of the original January 18, 2006 deadline for all Head Start transportation to take place in vehicles built compliance with the Head Start Transportation Rule into the recently passed the Department of Health and Human Services’ FY06 appropriation. The language in that bill also allowed another round of waivers of the requirements...
FY2007 Allocations With the turning of the New Year, and just about everyone clamoring for their FY2007 formula funding allocations, we’ve implemented policy from prior years of cutting off the pending updates of the last few FY2005 year-end reports, for the purpose of the formulas. A spreadsheet showing the FY2007 5311 (including the rural portion of 5310 funding) is attached...