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Table FA-4A - Finance - Highway Statistics 2005 - FHWA
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APPORTIONMENT FORMULAS - FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM
ENACTED IN SAFETEA-LU

OCTOBER 2006 Table FA-4A
FUND FACTORS WEIGHT STATUTE 1/ MINIMUM APPORTIONMENT
Interstate Maintenance (IM) Interstate System lane miles
Vehicle miles traveled on the Interstate System
Annual contributions to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund attributable to commercial vehicles
33 1/3%
33 1/3%
33 1/3%
104(b)(4) 1/2 percent of Interstate Maintenance and National Highway System apportionments combined
National Highway System (NHS) Remainder apportioned as follows:
Lane miles on principal arterial routes (excluding the Interstate System)
Vehicle miles traveled on principal arterial routes (excluding the Interstate System)
Diesel fuel used on highways
Total lane miles on principal arterials divided by the State's total population

25%
35%

30%
10%
104(b)(1) 1/2 percent of Interstate Maintenance and National Highway System apportionments combined
Surface Transportation Program (STP) Total lane miles of Federal-aid highways
Total vehicle miles traveled on Federal-aid highways
Estimated tax payments attributable to highway users paid into the Highway
Account of the Highway Trust Fund
25%
40%
35%
104(b)(3) 1/2 percent
Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (BRR) Relative share of total cost to repair or replace deficient bridges 100% 144(e) 1/4 percent
(10 percent maximum)
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program (CMAQ)
Weighted nonattainment and maintenance area population 100% 104(b)(2) 1/2 percent
Recreational Trails Program (RT) Equal shares to each eligible State
Nonhighway recreational fuel use during the preceding year
50%
50%
104(h) None
Metropolitan Planning (MP) Urbanized area population 2/ 100% 104(f)(2) 1/2 percent
Equity Bonus Each State's share of apportionments from the Interstate Maintenance, National Highway System, Bridge, Surface Transportation Program, Highway Safety Improvement Program, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement, Metropolitan Planning, Appalachian Development Highway System, Recreational Trails, Safe Routes to School, Rail-Highway Grade Crossing, Coordinated Border Infrastructure programs, the Equity Bonus itself, along with High Priority Projects will be at least a specified percentage of that State's contributions to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund. The specified percentge, referred to as a relative rate of return, is 90.5% for 2005 and 2006, 91.5% for 2007, and 92% for 2008 and 2009. 100% 105 None
State and Community Highway Safety Grants Total population
Public road mileage
75%
25%
402(c) 1/2 percent, 1/4 percent for American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 3/4 percent for Secretary of the Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs)
Highway Safety Improvement Program Total lane-miles of Federal-aid highways
Total vehicle miles traveled on lanes on Federal-aid highways
Total fatalities on the Federal-aid system
33.33%
33.33%
33.33%
148 1/2 percent

Footnotes

1/ Denotes appropriate section in title 23 U.S. Code.

2/ Usually places of 50,000 or more persons. Definition contained in 23 U.S.C. 101(a).


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