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FFY 2025 FTA Section 5307, 5340, and 5339 Raleigh Urbanized Area Sub-Allocations
Crystal Odum, MPO Staff
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Each year, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) apportions formula grant funding for use within the Raleigh Urbanized Area (UZA) to a locally selected and federally recognized designated recipient. These funds include the Section 5307, 5340 and 5339 programs. The City of Raleigh is and expects to continue to function as the designated recipient of these formula grants for the Raleigh UZA. The designated recipient is responsible for coordinating with the other providers of public transportation services in the Raleigh UZA and the MPO to develop a sub-allocation method for distributing annual formula funds received from the FTA for the urbanized area.
For FFY 2025, the FTA announced the apportionment amounts in March 2025 based on the 2020 Census data. For the Raleigh UZA FFY 2025 sub-allocation formula methodology, the parties have agreed via an updated FY24-FY26 MOU approved in March 2023 (Attachment 2) to use the FFY 2023 sub-allocated annual amounts to the parties as a hold-harmless base amount and using the 2020 Census data and the federal formula for urbanized areas greater than one million in population to calculate the total sub-allocation amounts for the parties. For this year the parties also agree the towns of Apex, Morrisville and Johnston County Area Transit Services are parties to the sub-allocation formula at their full FFY2025 hold harmless amount.
Find attached a split letter to the FTA and the sub-allocation worksheets that determine the amounts to be disbursed to each eligible partner grant recipient (Attachments 3, 4, and 5). Per federal requirement, the MPO concurs with the sub-allocation of UZA federal formula grants and the programming of projects that will make use of the funding and asks that FTA disburse the requested funds to eligible direct grant recipients in accordance with the sub-allocation letter.
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