STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (STIP) FISCAL YEARS 2011, 2012, 2013 AND 2014 (2015 and 2016 Illustrative Years) PREPARED BY STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAYS DIVISION PLANNING BRANCH September 2010 869 Punchbowl Street, Rm. 301 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Email - [email protected] State Of Hawaii Department of Transportation Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) In accordance with 23 CFR 450.218, the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) hereby certifies that the transportation planning process is addressing major issues facing the State and it’s non-urbanized area and is being carried out in accordance with all applicable requirements with the development of the STIP and its corresponding revisions. 23 CFR 450.218 REQUIREMENT HDOT COMPLIANCE The HDOT carries out a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive statewide multimodal transportation planning process. For Planning purposes, the planning boundaries under consideration by the HDOT include the entire state. For planning purposes, the urbanized/metropolitan area for the State of Hawaii is the entire Island of Oahu. This planning process includes the involvement of the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OMPO). OMPO is the State of Hawaii’s only MPO, which coordinates with the Local transportation organizations within the MPO. OMPO manages the metropolitan planning process. There are comprehensive agreements relating to the CTPP between the State (signed by GOV) and each non-metropolitan county (signed by each mayor). Updates to these agreements are currently being processed. There is a metropolitan agreement between the State, OMPO and the City (2/14/01). Also, within 23 U.S.C. 134 and 135, 49 U.S.C. 5303 and the law that created the individual counties, it states that planning 1 and development coordination with the State is required. 5304, and this part 450 The Planning Departments and Public Work Departments of the non-metropolitan neighbor island counties have a separate but parallel non-metropolitan planning process called the Countywide Transportation Planning Process (CTPP). Through this process, these entities help to coordinate with other agencies that have an interest or stake in the need for accessibility and mobility of people and freight. See attached overall Statewide Transportation Planning Process Organizational chart. Both metropolitan and non-metropolitan processes includes: 1. Public involvement for comments on a proposed action. 2. An administrator and/or staff level Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to holistically analyze and endorse a proposed action. 3. Department directors and elected officials as members of a decision making Policy Committee (PC) to approve a proposed action. 23 CFR 450.218 REQUIREMENT HDOT COMPLIANCE As the non-metropolitan transit coordinator, close coordination with the HDOT’s Statewide Transportation Planning (STP) office is also required. The development of the STIP updates and its revisions demonstrate how the overall process can work. It goes through this overall planning process to assure continuing, cooperative and comprehensive coordination. Coordination with these other participating agencies for STIP development and maintenance is documented in the 11-14 (+2) STIP Report (pink cover), Section II - Participating Agencies, p.7. Coordination for revisions are documented in the Over the Shoulder Review meeting summaries and Project Status meeting minutes (statewide highway transportation agency coordination meetings that are held quarterly and monthly) as described in the11-14(+2) STIP Report, Section X – Monitoring and Revising 23 U.S.C. 134 and 135, 49 U.S.C. 5303 and the Approved STIP, pp 210-214. 5304, and this part 450 1 Public involvement for the development of the STIP and its Revisions is extensive and is described in the 11-14(+2) STIP Continued. Report, Section IV – Public Involvement, pp. 13-17. For amendment revisions, the same procedures are followed, except that on site meetings are held on a case by case basis only. In general, this follows the practices described in HDOT’s Guide for Public Involvement Planning (10/03). Coordination and consistency of the STIP with other planning documents is described in the 11-14(+2) STIP Report, Section IX – Project Descriptions and Consistency with Other Planning Documents. pp. 205-208. Demonstration of conformity of the STIP with the eight SAFETEA-LU federal planning factors is also documented in this section of the 11-14(+2) STIP Report. The entire 11-14(+2) STIP Report as referenced above and information on the revisions are posted on the HDOT’s STIP website at: http://hawaii.gov/dot/highways/STIP/fy2011-2014.htm 23 CFR 450.218 REQUIREMENT HDOT COMPLIANCE Within the HDOT, there is an Office of Civil Rights (OCR). This office is responsible for ensuring that Title VI and Environmental Justice requirements are being addressed by the Department, as well as other civil rights requirements. For more information on OCR and its programs, see the HDOT’s OCR website: http://hawaii.gov/dot/administration/ocr The Title VI and Environmental Justice requirements are being addressed through coordination and cooperation between the Civil Rights, STP, and Highways (Planning, Design, ROW, and Construction) Branches. Specific examples of coordination efforts to ensure nondiscrimination in programs, procedures, operations and include 1) revising and implementing both the Highway Division Guide for Public Involvement Planning, 2) Partnering up on projects involving Title VI/EJ issues for NEPA compliance. 3) Working together on projects ensuring the public involvement process includes outreach to EJ populations, resulting in diverse project advisory groups, 4) Coordinating to develop EJ demographics and mapping EJ populations using GIS in order to assess transportation equity considerations. Cooperation among programs is an important function to assure that social, economic and environmental impacts on communities and individuals are considered in the planning process. Moreover, partnering helps to ensure EJ populations have the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as opportunity to participate in the transportation decision-making process. 2 amended (42 U.S.C. 2000d-1) and 49 CFR The Department’s CSS (ADA, Title VI implications) multidisciplinary Part 21; team includes Highways, STP, and Civil Rights representatives. Furthermore, representatives from Civil Rights, STP, and Highways often represent the Department at Workshops, and Conferences where there are Title VI/EJ issues. Examples include the Hawaii LTAP Engineering for Non-Engineers Training. OCR has developed and adopted a Title VI Plan (1/09) which defines departmental policy on Title VI. An important aspect of the Title VI Program is an annual report of Title VI accomplishments and goals. This document tracks departmental compliance with Title VI and EJ. The questionnaire and compliance review of affected program areas is an effective tool for program representatives to become knowledgeable about the ways in which to implement Title VI and EJ. The STIP and its revisions are assessed using the HDOT’s Title VI Plan as a guide. Performance measures were developed to analyze impacts to Title VI and Environmental justice populations. This analysis is described in the 11-14(+2) STIP Report, Section V – Title VI/Environmental Justice Analysis, pp. 54-61. When the updated long- range plans and mid-range plans are developed and adopted, there will have been a seamless and more comprehensive (planning to funding/implementation) opportunity for participation in the planning process for all populations covered by Title VI. 23 CFR 450.218 REQUIREMENT HDOT COMPLIANCE The HDOT fully complies with its Civil Rights Policy (4/08) which states, in part, that “the HDOT’s policies, procedures and practices do not discriminate against any person based on sex, age, race, color, religion, ancestry, disability, marital status, national origin, arrest/court record, sexual orientation, breast 49 U.S.C. 5332, prohibiting discrimination feeding and National Guard participation.” on the basis of race, color, creed, national 3 origin, sex, or age in employment or HDOT’s OCR is the overseer of the Civil Rights Policy. business opportunity; This policy enforces and supports HDOT’s commitment to complying with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) Program. HDOT’s OCR has developed and adopted a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program Plan (11/04). OCR is responsible for ensuring that this plan is followed. DBE designation of a business is taken into consideration during the evaluation of a firm for awarding of a HDOT contract. The DBE Plan states the following as HDOT policy: The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in the award and administration of USDOT-assisted contracts to DBEs in its Federal highway, airport, harbor and transit financial assistance programs. DBE requirements are addressed by the following mechanisms: although HDOT is precluded from setting DBE goals on specific Section 1101(b) of the SAFETEA-LU (Pub. projects, (because of the Western States Paving case), the HDOT L. 109-59) and 49 CFR part 26 regarding divisions set a numerical, race-neutral percentage reflecting an 4 the involvement of disadvantaged business aspirational DBE participation goal every