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Notice
Subject
$250 Million Rescission of Federal-aid Apportionments
Classification Code Date Office of Primary Interest
N 4510.508 June 10, 2003 HABF-10

  1. What is the purpose of this Notice?This Notice is to notify the States of a rescission of $250 million of unobligated Federal-aid highway funds apportioned to States, as required by the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 (P.L. 108-7).

  2. What apportioned funds are being rescinded? Unobligated balances of funds apportioned to States under the following five core programs are being rescinded: Interstate Maintenance (IM), section 1101(a)(1); National Highway System (NHS), section 1101(a)(2); Surface Transportation Program (STP), section 1101(a)(4); Bridge Program, section 1101(a)(3); and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ), section 1101(a)(5); of Public Law 105-178, as amended.

  3. How are the apportioned funds being rescinded? The rescission is being applied proportionately to States based upon the total fiscal year (FY) 2003 apportionments to the States for the five core apportioned programs. Table 1 shows each State´s share of the total rescinded amount based upon FY 2003 apportionments for the IM, NHS, STP, Bridge and CMAQ Programs, inclusive of funds programmatically distributed from Minimum Guarantee and penalties pursuant to title 23, USC, section 154 (Open Container Requirement), section 164 (Minimum penalties for Repeat Offenders) and State Planning and Research, which are separate from but added to the core programs by operation of law. Not later than 30 days after the date of this Notice, the States must identify the amounts to be rescinded from each of the five core programs, as well as the categories within the STP and Bridge Programs, based on the amounts shown on Table 1. The States should ensure that a sufficient amount of unobligated funds are available within each program and category that affects the rescission.The information should be submitted on the attached Table 2 to the Budget Division´s official mailbox, BudgetDivision FHWA.

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

 Signature: Mary E. Peters
Mary E. Peters
Administrator

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Attachments:
Table 1
Table 2

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