Regional Project Award and Obligation Report for Northeastern Illinois
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Regional Project Award and Obligation Report for Northeastern Illinois Federal Fiscal Year 2017 HELPING COMMUNITIES PROSPER Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Summaries of obligations and awards .................................................................................................. 3 FFY 2017 obligations and awards list .................................................................................................. 14 Federally funded road projects ............................................................................................................ 14 Non-federally funded road projects ..................................................................................................... 60 Transit projects ................................................................................................................................... 88 Appendices ............................................................................................................................................. 101 Appendix 1: Obligation and award data information ...................................................................... 101 Appendix 2: Advance construction information ............................................................................... 103 Appendix 3: TIP ID ................................................................................................................................ 104 Appendix 4: Council of Mayors map .................................................................................................. 105 Appendix 5: Fund sources in the TIP .................................................................................................. 106 Appendix 6: Project phases ................................................................................................................... 112 Appendix 7: Programmers and implementers .................................................................................. 113 Introduction This report identifies obligations or awards of project phases that occurred in Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017 (October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2017) in the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) region, building on federally mandated reporting requirements set out in 23 CFR 450.334. An obligation occurs after the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) or Federal Transit Administration (FTA) signs an authorization, which is a commitment to participate financially in a project. The obligation means that funds are assigned to the project and are available for reimbursement to the implementing agency. The obligation process used by Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) makes extensive use of advance construction (AC) (see Appendix 2 for more information) as a financial tool for projects using FHWA funds. This report treats project phases that have federal obligations or have been authorized in AC the same, as obligations. Obligations are also used for transit projects. An FTA obligation is a grant agreement between a project sponsor and the FTA, often for a specific funding type and for all project phases. An award occurs when a construction bid is opened, a construction contractor or engineering consultant has been selected, and a contract has been executed. For state or locally funded projects, “award” is synonymous with “obligation” in this report. The CMAP region annually spends billions of dollars on transportation infrastructure. While a large portion of this is federal or state funds, counties, municipalities, and townships also spend their own locally derived funds. CMAP makes an effort to collect information about expenditure of locally derived funds, going beyond the requirement to report only FHWA, FTA, and major capital project obligations and awards in the obligation report. Information in this report is from Federal, State, and local obligations and awards used for transportation infrastructure projects (see Appendix 1 for more detail.) Information on locally funded project phases is derived from a variety of sources. Municipal information is from a municipal survey CMAP conducted in 2016. Municipalities were asked how much local funding they spent on projects that utilized only local funds. Township data is based on Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) distribution from IDOT to townships as reported in IDOT’s 2017 For the Record report. CMAP receives county information directly from the counties and through publicly accessible budgets or county board actions. CMAP also works with local transit agencies, including the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra, Pace, and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), and also the Illinois Tollway to capture annual expenditures for capital projects that do not utilize federal or state funding. 1 This report includes both summaries and project phase listings for projects that counties and transit agencies accomplished using only local funds. Those phases are included in the list of non-federally funded road projects and the list of transit projects. However, the same level of detail is not included for municipal and township projects using only local funds because that information is not readily available. The project phases represented in this report are all located within the CMAP region, comprising Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties, and portions of DeKalb and Grundy counties. The region is also divided geographically by Council of Mayors boundaries. Each municipality in the region belongs to, and is categorized within, a council. In this report, these boundaries are used to summarize and compare data across the region. CMAP also classifies projects into one of three categories: maintenance, modernization, or expansion. Each project’s classification is based on its project and work types reported by the implementing agency to describe the project in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). CMAP collects both project type and work type data, and uses this information to demonstrate progress toward implementing our regional priorities. The data in this report are available electronically as part of TIP documentation. CMAP has developed numerous online tools summarizing transportation programming data throughout the region. This report is organized into the following sections: Graphics summarizing obligations and awards in a variety of categories. A list of federally funded road projects, including bicycle/pedestrian projects. A list of non-federally funded road projects. Regionally significant projects are included in this section. A list of transit projects. This list includes non-federal and federally funded transit projects obligated/awarded in FFY 2016 in the CMAP region. A series of appendices that explain data sources and data summarizing techniques, as well as other information. 2 Summaries of obligations and awards These summaries highlight the region’s capital transportation obligations and awards, and demonstrate their relationship to regional priorities. Completion of planning, design, and construction of a transportation project may require many years. As a result, the obligations and awards shown in this report may reflect projects that were underway prior to the adoption of the region’s comprehensive plan. The summaries reflect all obligations or awards incurred in FFY 2017, regardless of fund source. Capital transportation obligations and awards in FFY 2017 totaled $3,003,180,992. Figure 1 illustrates the make-up of these obligations by fund source. Figure 1. While making up the largest share of the obligations, federal funds typically cover only a portion (often 80 percent) of project cost, and require a funding match from non-U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) sources including those shown in Figure 1 as matching funds or transportation development credits (TDCs). TDCs have no monetary value and are used as a mechanism to access funds without providing match. Local funds that are used on federally funded projects above and beyond the required match are shown as state/local funds (non-matching). The remainder of the non-federal funding is primarily from the State of Illinois and does not require local match. Some projects are funded only with local revenues from agencies such as townships and municipalities. The local funds in Figure 1 are CMAP estimates. Transportation projects are completed in phases. Transit projects typically having an engineering phase, followed by an implementation or construction phase. Roadway, bicycle, and pedestrian projects typically having preliminary engineering, design engineering, construction engineering, and construction. Regardless of mode, many transportation projects also require a right of way phase, which accounted for only one percent of all obligations and awards in FFY 2017. The distribution of all FFY 2017 awards and obligations by phase is shown in Figure 2. 3 Figure 2. Of the $1.3 billion in federal funds obligated or awarded in FFY 2017, $584,895,708 was from FHWA programs, as shown in Figure 3. More information about each fund source, including eligible project types and project selection criteria, can be found in Appendix 5. Figure 3. 4 The four fund categories that account for nearly 80 percent of all FHWA obligations and awards include two sources used almost exclusively by IDOT (National Highway Performance Program (NHPP) and Surface Transportation Program-State (STP