Effective Delivery of Small-Scale Federal-Aid Projects (2011) / Chapter Skim
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5 was an overview of regulatory issues, including a summary of the legal basis for program requirements and the smallscale programs affected by these requirements. The second item was an analysis of programs that legally allow more flexibility than others (e.g., RTP)
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6 ous laws and regulations to specific federal-aid programs, and introduces a literature summary chronicling methods of state support for the LPA program drawn from the survey and from federal and other agency reviews. It then discusses definitions of risk for small-scale federal-aid projects and addresses obstacles to streamlining small-scale federal-aid project delivery, as reported in survey responses and literature reviews.
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7 and intracity and intercity bus terminals and facilities. Suballocations of apportioned funds from the STP traditionally have included set asides for the transportation enhancement program, and projects for urbanized areas with populations over 200,000 and areas with less than 5,000 population.
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8 High-Risk Rural Roads Program Each state's apportionment of HSIP funds is subject to the High-Risk Rural Roads Program (HRRR) , which provides construction and operational improvements on high-risk rural roads.
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9 APPLICABILITY OF REGULATIONS TO SPECIFIC FEDERAL-AID PROGRAMS A defining difference between the special federal-aid programs and general applications of federal-aid funds comes in the form of applicable federal regulations. Two examples are TE and RTP.
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10 Methods of State Support for Local Program Agency Program The local government or LPA office websites for each state transportation agency were reviewed to capture the kinds and depth of information easily accessible to potential local agency or nonprofit organization project sponsors. Table 2 presents the information posted on each of the state DOT websites related to LPA program.
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11 federal funds. The funds are distributed throughout the state proportionally to the population within each MPO.
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12 three types of revenue sources to provide public services: local-own source revenues (i.e., local taxes and service charges) , state aid, and federal grants.
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