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For more information, please contact Christopher Douwes.

From:
// Original signed by //
Gloria M. Shepherd
Associate Administrator for Planning, Environment, and Realty

To:
Division Administrators
Directors of Field Services

Date: May 13, 2016

Reply to: HEPH-10

On December 4, 2015, the President signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law (Pub. L. 114-94). The FAST Act replaced the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) with a set-aside of funds under the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (STBG). For administrative purposes, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will refer to these funds as the TA Set-Aside. The attached TA Set-Aside Implementation Guidance provides information on funding, eligible activities, and requirements of the TA Set-Aside, including the Recreational Trails Program (RTP).

This memorandum supersedes the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Guidance, dated March 6, 2014, and the TAP Questions and Answers Revision, dated August 17, 2015. The effective date of this TA Set-Aside Implementation Guidance is October 1, 2015. The TA Set-Aside requirements, in effect on October 1, 2015, will apply to all related funding obligated on or after that date, whether funded from new TA Set-Aside authorizations or TAP funds authorized in previous years.

This document will be accessible on the FAST Act website https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/fastact/, through the FHWA Policy and Guidance Center, the Transportation Alternatives website https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/transportation_alternatives/, and the RTP website at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/recreational_trails/.

For questions concerning the TA Set-Aside, including the RTP, please contact Mr. Christopher Douwes (202-366-5013) of the Office of Human Environment. For other questions related to the STBG, please contact Mr. David Bartz (512-536-5906) or Mr. Peter Kleskovic (202-366-4652) of the Office of Program Administration.

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