The latest federal transportation funding authorization is the five-year Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which was signed in December 2015. Highlights of FAST that are relevant to the CTP are summarized in Table 61. Table 61. FAST Act Highlights Program Purpose Status in Overview of Changes in FAST Act FAST Act §5307 - Provides funding Modified bus rule" is modified to ‘"100 Urbanized for transit capital, include non-ADA general Area Formula operations, population demand response Program planning, and transit service engineering in Allows 20% of allocation to be used urbanized areas for operations of ADA paratransit (which have a certain conditions population of Directs recipients to maintain 50,000 or more). equipment and facilities in This includes some accordance with their transit asset ADA management plan complementary Eliminates requirement to spend paratransit service 1% of 5307 funds on Associated costs. Transit Improvements Allows use of up to 0.5% of 5307 funds for Workforce Development Increases the Small Transit Intensive Cities (STIC) tier starting in FY 2019 Funding: $4.53 Billion (FY 2016) authorized Small but not substantial changes in funding levels from previous years §5310 - Provides funding to Modified Allows states or localities that Enhanced support provide transit service to be direct Mobility of transportation for recipients under this section Seniors & the elderly and Individuals persons with
The latest federal transportation funding authorization is the five-year Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which was signed in December 2015. Highlights of FAST that are relevant to the CTP are summarized in Table 61. Table 61. FAST Act Highlights Program Purpose Status in FAST Act Overview of Changes in FAST Act §5307 - Urbanized Area Formula Program Provides funding for transit capital, operations, planning, and engineering in urbanized areas (which have a population of 50,000 or more). This includes some ADA complementary paratransit service costs. Modified ‘"100 bus rule" is modified to include non-ADA general population demand response transit service Allows 20% of allocation to be used for operations of ADA paratransit certain conditions Directs recipients to maintain equipment and facilities in accordance with their transit asset management plan Eliminates requirement to spend 1% of 5307 funds on Associated Transit Improvements Allows use of up to 0.5% of 5307 funds for Workforce Development Increases the Small Transit Intensive Cities (STIC) tier starting in FY 2019 Funding: $4.53 Billion (FY 2016) authorized Small but not substantial changes in funding levels from previous years §5310 - Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals Provides funding to support transportation for the elderly and persons with Modified Allows states or localities that provide transit service to be direct recipients under this section
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