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FFY 2017 Raleigh Urbanized Area Section 5307, 5340, and 5339 Distribution
Bret Martin, MPO Staff
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The Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017 Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5307, 5340, and 5339 apportionments to the Raleigh Urbanized Area (UZA) for seven-twelfths (7/12) of the fiscal year were released in January 2017. The remaining five-twelfths (5/12) of the full-year apportionment is expected to be released and authorized by the FTA the first or second week of May, now that the continuing federal budget resolution for the remainder of the FFY has been enacted. The City of Raleigh is the federally recognized designated recipient of these funds and has worked with CAMPO to coordinate with GoTriangle, GoCary, GoTriangle, Wake County, and North Carolina State University to develop the sub-allocation of these funding sources based on the most current CAMPO-approved MOU for the distribution of Section 5307, 5340, and 5339 funding among the City of Raleigh, GoTriangle, Town of Cary, and Wake County.
Per FTA policy, the MPO must concur with the sub-allocation of UZA federal formula transit grants and the programming of projects that will make use of the funding and request that FTA disburse the requested funds to eligible direct recipients in accordance with the sub-allocation. Attached are:
1) The draft split letter to the FTA requesting the distribution of federal formula transit grants to eligible direct recipients in accordance with the CAMPO-approved sub-allocation MOU;
2) The Section 5307/5340 sub-allocation worksheet that determines the amounts to be disbursed to each eligible direct grant for that funding source; and
3) The Section 5339 sub-allocation worksheet that determines the amounts to be disbursed to each eligible direct grant recipient for that funding source.
At the time this item's materials were prepared, the remaining five-twelfths (5/12) of the FFY 2017 apportionment had not been released by the FTA. The amounts shown in the a...
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