Implementation of MAP-21
Major FHWA actions (complete and pending)
Updated as of May 30, 2013
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Note: Acronyms are spelled out in a list at the end of this document.
FUNDING & MOST GUIDANCE OUT; RULES NEXT
- Accomplished to date
- Extensive outreach (webinars, online dialogues, meetings)
- Guidance/FAQs on most programs
- FY13 apportionments
- NPRMs and final rules on some provisions
- Up next
- Final guidance on some topics
- Rulemaking activity
MAJOR PROGRAMS
OTHER KEY PROVISIONS
Freight provisions
- Accomplished to date
- Process for development of National Freight Network
- Guidance on freight topics:
- [Interim] Increased Federal share for freight projects
- [Interim] State freight advisory committees
- [Interim] State freight plans
- Special permits during period of national emergency
- Contract in place for truck size and weight study
- Up next
- Designation of Primary Freight Network
- Final rule on 550 lb. allowance for idle reduction equipment
- Clarified guidance (and best practices) re: special permits
- Guidance on increased Federal share for freight projects
- Tolling and innovative finance
- Accomplished to date
- Outreach on MAP-21's TIFIA, tolling, and P3 provisions
- TIFIA NOFA; responses to letters of interest
- Report to Congress on TIFIA
applications
- Interim tolling guidance
- FR notice for input into P3 model contracts
- Interim guidance on major project financial plans
- Up next
- Revised TIFIA program guide
- Additional tolling guidance
- P3 model contracts provisions posted for review
- Final guidance on major project financial plans
- Planning and performance management
- Accomplished to date
- Regional workshops on performance-based planning and programming
- Strategy, schedule, and outreach on performance management
- Up next
- General Q&As on performance mgmt.
- NPRM on safety measures
- NPRM on metro and statewide planning
- Project delivery
- Accomplished to date
- Interim guidance on accelerated environmental decision-making
- Final rule on CEs in emergencies
- NPRM on CEs for projects with few Federal $ or in operational ROW
- Report to Congress on accelerated decision-making
- Up next
- Guidance on:
- Efficient environmental reviews and accelerated decision-making
- State assumption of CEs & NEPA
- NPRMs on:
- NEPA assumption program
- Programmatic agreements; new CEs
- Advance acquisition of real property
- Final rule on CE for projects with few Federal $ or in operational ROW
- Report on environmental review of pre-2005 projects
- Other areas
- Accomplished to date
- Shift to formula-based funding allocation for OJT-SS and DBE-SS
- Monthly civil rights webinars
- Other guidance:
- Value engineering, CM/GC
- Buy America
- Stewardship and oversight
- Up next
- Guidance on revised stewardship & oversight process
- Revised guidance on OJT-SS and DBE-SS programs
For more information: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/map21
Acronyms used in this document
Access Program |
Federal Lands Access program |
ADHS |
Appalachian Development Highway System |
BIA |
Bureau of Indian Affairs |
BLM |
Bureau of Land Management |
CE |
Categorical exclusion |
CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
CM/GC |
Construction manager / general contractor |
CMAQ |
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement program |
DBE-SS |
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Supportive Services program |
EDC |
Every Day Counts |
ER |
Emergency Relief program |
FAQ |
Frequently asked questions |
FLTP |
Federal Lands Transportation program |
FR |
Federal Register |
FS |
U.S. Forest Service |
HSIP |
Highway Safety Improvement program |
NEPA |
National Environmental Policy Act |
NHPP |
National Highway Performance program |
NHS |
National Highway System |
NOFA |
Notice of funding availability |
NPRM |
Notice of proposed rulemaking |
OJT-SS |
On-the-Job Training Supportive Services program |
P3 |
Public-private partnerships |
ROW |
Right-of-way |
RT&E |
Research, training, and education |
SHRP2 |
Strategic Highway Research program 2 |
SHSP |
Strategic highway safety plan |
SNPRM |
Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking |
SPR |
State Planning and Research program |
STP |
Surface Transportation program |
TAP |
Transportation Alternatives program |
Territorial & PR |
Territorial and Puerto Rico Highways program |
TIPD |
Technology and Innovation Deployment program |
TIFIA |
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act |
TTP |
Tribal Transportation program |
USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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