This directive was canceled February 20, 2004.

U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration	Notice Subject FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2004 METROPOLITAN PLANNING FUNDS PURSUANT TO THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EXTENSION ACT OF 2003
	Classification Code	Date	Office of Primary Interest
	N 4510.511	October 1, 2003	HABF-10

1. What is the purpose of this Notice? This Notice transmits the certificate of Metropolitan Planning funds authorized for FY 2004 by the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 (STEA03). The apportionment is effective immediately.
   
   
2. What is the background information?
   1. Pursuant to Section 5(c)(1) of the STEA03, the Metropolitan Planning funds shall be available for obligation in the same manner as if the funds were apportioned under Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code.
   2. The funds are available for obligation immediately and are subject to obligation controls in Section 2(e)(3) of the STEA03, which provides that a State shall not obligate any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project after February 29, 2004, until enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program, as well as obligation controls imposed by a continuing resolution or an Act making appropriations for the Department of Transportation for FY 2004.
   3. The Program code to be used when obligating these funds will be provided under separate cover to the Division Offices.

3. What action is required? Division Administrators should ensure that this Notice is provided to State departments of transportation.

	Mary E. Peters Administrator

Attachments

CERTIFICATE OF APPORTIONMENT OF
THE SUM OF $100,000,000 AUTHORIZED TO BE MADE
AVAILABLE FROM THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND TO CARRY
OUT SECTION 134 OF TITLE 23, UNITED STATES CODE PURSUANT TO
THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EXTENSION ACT OF 2003 (STEA03)

TO--

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the State departments of transportation:

Pursuant to section 9503 of the Intermodal Revenue code of 1986, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 (STEA03), title 23, United States Code, and the delegation of authority from the Secretary of Transportation to the Federal Highway Administrator in Section 1.48 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, I certify--

First, that the Secretary of the Treasury has made the estimate required by section 9503(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and based on that estimate, I have determined that the amount which can be apportioned from the Highway Trust Fund to carry out section 5(c) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003 is 100 percent of the amount authorized to be made available from the Highway Trust Fund in compliance with section 5(c) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003.

Second, that pursuant to section 5(c)(1) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2003, these funds are available for obligation as if they had been apportioned under Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code.

Third, the amounts apportioned are subject to obligation controls contained in Section 2(e)(3) of the STEA03 which provide that a State may not obligate any funds for any Federal-aid highway program project after February 29, 2004, until enactment of the multi-year law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway program.

Fourth, that I have computed the apportionment for Metropolitan Planning funds for the purpose of carrying out Section 134 of title 23, United States Code, among the several States and the District of Columbia in the manner provided by law in accordance with the formula in section 104(f)(2) of title 23, United States Code.

Fifth, that the sums that are hereby apportioned to each State and the District of Columbia, effectively immediately, are respectively as follows:

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