Formulas, Takedowns, and Setasides - Highway Bridge Program

Formulas, Takedowns, and Setasides
Current Law	Administration Proposal H.R. 2088 & S. 1072 as Modified SAFETEA of 2003	House H.R. 3 as Passed House TEA-LU	Senate H.R. 3 as Passed Senate SAFETEA of 2005
Highway Bridge Program
Takedowns:
FHWA Administrative Expense 1-1/6%	Increased to 1.4%	FHWA administrative takedown limited to STP only. [1103]	FHWA takedown eliminated in favor of a direct authorization [1103]
FMCSA Administrative Expense	FMCSA takedown eliminated in favor of a direct authorization	Same as Administration bill [4101]	Same as Administration bill
Metropolitan Planning - 1%	Same as current law	Same as current law	Metropolitan Planning - 1.5% [1103]
Bridge Discretionary Program-$100M with not to exceed $25M available for seismic retrofit	Eliminated	Bridge Discretionary Program-$100M with $25M reserved for seismic retrofit projects (with $10M reserved for the bridge described in 23 USC 144(l)) and with, beginning in FY 2005, $10M reserved for construction of bridge joining Island of Gravina to Ketchikan in Alaska. [1115]	Bridge Discretionary Program-$133,962,264 with not to exceed $22,327,044 available for seismic retrofit and in FY 2005 earmarks of $44,654,088 each for Hoover Dam Bridge and St. Louis-Illinois Bridge over Mississippi River. [1807]
No comparable provision	No comparable provision	No comparable provision	New Strategic Highway Research Program - $11,610,063 per year [2001]
Direct authorization, no takedown	Direct authorization, no takedown	Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act-$140M per year beginning in 2005. [1115]	Direct authorization, no takedown.
Formula Factors:
Relative share of cost to repair or replace deficient highway bridges (square footage of deck area * cost factor)	Same as current law, changed reference from "square footage" to "area"	Same as current law	Same as Administration bill [1807]
Minimum Apportionment:
1/4% minimum and 10% maximum	Same as current law	Same as current law	Same as current law
Setasides:
State Planning & Research - 2%	State Planning & Research - 2.5%	Same as current law	Same as current law
Off-system bridges - at least 15% and not more than 35%	At least 15% with no maximum	Off-system bridges - at least 20% and not more than 35% [1115]	At least 15% (20% in Colorado and two unspecified States) with no maximum. Setaside funds may be used to complete the Warwick Intermodal Station (including the construction of a people mover between the Station and the T.F. Green Airport). [1807].

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