The Baltimore Region’s Annual Listing of Obligated Projects for FY 2017 The information in the Baltimore Region’s Annual Listing of This requirement was established in MAP-21, the surface Obligated Projects for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 was compiled from data transportation law preceding the FAST Act. Acting on MAP-21 provided by the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) and provisions, the United States Department of Transportation (US the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). The Federal Highway DOT) on May 27, 2016, issued its Final Ruling in the Federal Register Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FHWA (23 CFR Parts 450 and 771) and FTA (49 CFR Part 613)) on (FTA) expect that the projects included in the Annual Listing of Statewide Transportation Planning / Metropolitan Transportation Obligated Projects are consistent with the categories of projects Planning. This ruling included Section 450.334, the Annual Listing that are listed in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). of Obligated Projects requirement. The May 2016 Final Ruling will The annual listing of obligated projects contain only funded remain in effect until the US DOT issues new final regulatory obligations. The intent of this list is to improve the transparency of guidance for the FAST Act. transportation spending decisions to the public by providing This document lists all transportation projects in the Baltimore information about funds requested and obligated by either FHWA region that were obligated in state fiscal year 2017 for the period or FTA toward a project included in the Baltimore region’s TIP. of July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017. FHWA defines obligation as “[t]he Purpose of this Report federal government’s legal commitment (promise) to pay or The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act that was reimburse the states or other entities for the federal share of a 2 Thus, obligated projects are strategies or signed into law by the President on December 4, 2015 states: project’s eligible costs.” projects funded under Title 23 U.S.C. and Title 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53, “An annual listing of projects, including investments in for which the supporting federal funds were authorized and pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities, for committed by the State or designated recipient and authorized by which federal funds have been obligated in the preceding year the FHWA or awarded as a grant by the FTA. Obligated projects in shall be published or otherwise made available by the this list were not necessarily initiated or completed in federal fiscal cooperative effort of the state, transit operator and metropolitan year 2017 but received FHWA or FTA funds in the report. The planning organization for public review. The listing shall be obligated project costs reflected in this report also may not be 1 consistent with the categories identified in the TIP.” equal to final project costs, due to project cost savings, overruns, or the advanced construction finance process. 1 1 Title 49 U.S.C., Section 5303 (j)(7)(B) 2 Financing Federal Aid Highways Glossary. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/fifahiwy/ffahappa.htm, April 6, 2013. Background Administration, the Maryland Department of the Environment and The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB) is the the Maryland Department of Planning, as well as Harford Transit. Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Baltimore This report comprises a list of federally obligated projects that were region. As an MPO, the BRTB is directly responsible for making sure included in 2017 – 2020 Baltimore Region Transportation that any money to be spent on existing and future transportation Improvement Program or in an earlier TIP. The TIP contains specific projects and programs is based on a continuing, cooperative and funding requests over a four-year period covering the current comprehensive (3-C) planning process. All transportation projects spending priorities for surface transportation projects and and programs that receive federal funding in our region go through strategies from the long-range transportation plan. It is the BRTB’s this planning process. way of allocating its limited transportation resources among the The mission of the BRTB is to provide regional transportation various capital and operating needs of the region. The TIP includes planning and policy making for the Baltimore region. a description of federal requirements, a discussion of fund sources, a project listing for the coming year, and a description of all projects Specifically, the BRTB provides overall program management of the requesting federal funds over the next 4 years. 2-year work program, the Unified Planning Work Program. In addition, the BRTB provides policy direction and oversight in the In the Baltimore region, the TIP includes all state and local projects development of a federally mandated Long Range Transportation that request federal dollars (those projects have a state or local Plan, the Transportation Improvement Program and the dollar match). This becomes part of the Maryland Statewide transportation element of the State Air Quality Implementation Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The Maryland STIP Plan. The work program, the long range transportation plan and the reflects six years of projects and is fiscally constrained. All projects transportation improvement program all require approval by the and funding details in the STIP have been approved by the BRTB and were available for public review prior to adoption. Governor through the State’s annual budget process. The STIP is comprised of three parts: the STIP Executive Summary, the The BRTB is comprised of an 13-member board representing the Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Improvement cities of Annapolis and Baltimore, the counties of Anne Arundel, Programs, and Highway Program Documentation. Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard, and Queen Anne’s and the Maryland Department of Transportation, the Maryland Transit 2 Baltimore Region Federal Aid Obligations for FY 2017 Transit Projects Obligated TIP Project Title TIP ID MTA Grant # Description Funding FTA Funding Program: Urbanized Area Formula Program (5307) Bus and Rail System Preservation and MD-2016-006-00 Installation of Double Crossovers $3,180,000 40-0015-64 Improvement MD-2017-008-00 Metro Interlocking Renewals $5,475,510 Kirk Bus Facility Replacement - Phase 1 & 2 40-1203-65 MD-2016-006-00 Kirk Bus Division Phase 2 $16,518,000 MD-2016-006-00 FY 2017 Bus Preventive Maintenance $16,375,578 Bus and Rail Preventive Maintenance 40-1204-64 MD-2016-006-00 FY 2016 Bus Preventive Maintenance $918,454 MD-2017-008-00 FY 2017 Bus Preventive Maintenance $918,454 Bus New Main Shop 40-1401-66 MD-2016-006-00 Bus Main Shop $9,329,000 Metro Fleet and Train Control Replacement Metro Railcar and Signaling Systems MD-2016-006-00 $34,054,176 40-1403-64 Program Rehabilitation and Replacement MD-2016-006-00 Metro Railcar Vehicle Sub-Systems Overhaul $7,143,000 MD-2016-006-00 FY 2016 Bus Procurement $7,011,000 MTA Core Bus and Paratransit Vehicle 40-1601-05 MD-2017-008-00 FY 2017 Bus Procurement $28,540,000 Replacement MD-2017-008-00 Mobility Vehicle Replacement $3,292,000 5307 Subtotal $132,755,172 FTA Funding Program: Passenger Ferry Grant Discretionary Program (5307(h)) Water Transit Strategic Plan MD-2017-004-00 Rebrand Harbor Connector $334,880 42-1701-09 Implementation MD-2017-004-00 Harbor Connector ADA Landing Improvements $1,022,112 5307(h) Subtotal $1,356,992 FTA Funding Program: Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities Program (5310) FFY 2014 & FFY 2015 5310 Enhanced Mobility for Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities 40-1502-69 MD-2016-011-00 Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities $1,206,462 5310 Subtotal $1,206,462 3 FTA Funding Program: Non-Urbanized Area Formula Program (5311) Rural Transit Systems - Operating FFY 2015 & FFY 2016 5311 Rural, Appalachian 40-9204-61 MD-2017-005-00 $238,020 Assistance RTAP, & Intercity Operating Assistance 5311 Subtotal $238,020 FTA Funding Program: Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Projects (5312) Fixed Location Train Detection and Worker 40-1702-64 MD-2017-009-00 Fixed Location Train Detection and Worker Warning $688,448 Warning System System 5312 Subtotal $688,448 FTA Funding Program: State of Good Repair Formula Program (5337) Bus and Rail Preventive Maintenance 40-1204-64 MD-2017-002-00 Rail Preventive Maintenance $12,132,842 MD-2017-006-00 MARC III Coaches Overhaul $13,413,000 MARC Rolling Stock Overhauls and MD-2017-006-00 MARC Positive Train Control $452,000 70-1501-53 Replacement MD-2017-006-00 MARC GP-39 Repower $6,249,756 MD-2017-006-00 MARC Diesel Locomotive $15,081,000 MD-2017-006-00 MARC Joint Benefits Projects - CSX $15,811,000 MARC Improvements 70-1502-54 MD-2017-006-00 MARC Joint Benefit Projects - Amtrak $12,385,000 MD-2017-006-00 MARC BWI Garage Repair Fund $482,000 MD-2017-006-00 MARC BWI Station Improvements $354,000 MARC Facilities 70-1503-55 MD-2017-006-00 MARC Riverside Maintenance Facility Design & $513,000 Engineering MD-2017-006-00 Martin State Airport Improvements $3,908,000 5337 Subtotal $80,781,598 FTA Funding Program: Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Program (5339) Kirk Bus Facility Replacement - Phase 1 & 2 40-1203-65 MD-2016-009-00 Kirk Bus Facility Replacement Phase 2 $5,639,546 Bus New Main Shop 40-1401-66 MD-2016-009-00 Maryland Bush Street Maintenance Shop $1,664,000 MD-2016-004-00 Operator Training Room A/C System $20,000 Urban Transit