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Moving Forward, 2010-11: GO TO 2040 Implementation Report
Preview -- Freight Cluster Drill-Down
Nurturing the region’s industry clusters is one of the main recommendations from the Human Capital chapter of GO TO 2040. The plan directs CMAP, with the support of its partners, to perform “drill-down” analyses into specific established industry clusters, including freight, advanced manufacturing, and biotech/biomed, to better understand them. CMAP is focusing on freight as the first in...
Federal Transportation Reauthorization Update: Week of February 27
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives discussed replacing their initial 5-year reauthorization bill, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (AEIJA), with a reduced 18-month program. This proposal would fund federal transportation programs through mid-2013, and would reconnect mass transit funding to the Highway Trust Fund.
Also this week, the U.S. Senate failed to advance one...
House Leadership to Revise Transportation Reauthorization Bill
On February 23, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives leadership indicated it may revise its five-year transportation reauthorization proposal, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (AEIJA). These changes would reduce the length and perhaps the funding levels of the bill. Additionally, the changes would restore mass transit funding to the Highway Trust Fund. AEIJA had originally...
Reauthorization Bills to be Considered Next Week
On February 17, 2012, the U.S. Senate failed to invoke cloture on a package of committee-approved amendments to Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), its proposed federal transportation reauthorization bill. If approved, the package would have blocked further amendment to the bill. Several senators offered non-germane amendments to MAP-21 last week, including topics such...
Application Period Open for TIGER IV
The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) issued a Notice of Funding Availability for the fourth round of the TIGER program on January 31, 2012. The 2012 program will make available $500 million, including set-asides for rural areas and the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) credit assistance program. U.S. DOT’s pre-application system opened February 13, and...
House Transportation Reauthorization to be Split in Three Parts
On February 14, 2012, Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives indicated it would split the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (AEIJA) into three separate bills. One bill would contain the core transportation provisions (H.R. 7), one bill would contain the energy production provisions (H.R. 3408), and the final bill would include additional finance provisions (H.R. 3813). The...
House to Move on Transportation Reauthorization Bills, Senate Bill Passes Key Hurdle
The U.S. House of Representatives Rule Committee will hold a hearing on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (AEIJA) at 4:00 p.m. CST on February 14, 2012. Several dozen amendments were submitted by the 10:00 a.m. CST deadline on February 13, including a bipartisan amendment to restore dedicated funding for the Mass Transit Account from highway user fees. After passing the Rules...
White House Releases FY2013 Budget Proposal
On Monday, February 13, 2012, President Obama sent his budget proposal for FY 2013 to Congress. Notably, the $3.8 trillion spending plan would use savings from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to nearly double federal spending on transportation projects. The Obama administration proposes to spend $476 billion over six years on surface transportation projects, including $50 billion this year. ...
Senate Finance Committee Approves Reauthorization Bill
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved the Highway Investment, Jobs Creation, and Economic Growth Act of 2012 by a vote of 17-6-1 during its markup session on February 7, 2012. The Act would finance the highway, transit, safety, and research bills passed by various other Senate committees and will be combined with those bills to be voted on by the full Senate, perhaps as early as next week. As...
