8. Resultado y Discusión
8.1 Metodología del diagnóstico
8.1.1 Matriz Causa Efecto que determino las relaciones y causalidad de la baja adopción
PROGRAM STATUS: ACTIVE PROGRAM CODE: LY40, L990
FEDERAL SHARE: 80% subject to sliding scale
PERIOD AVAILABLE: Until expended and not transferable FUND: Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund FUND DISTRIBUTION METHOD: Allocation
AUTHORITY: Contract
SUBJECT TO OBLIGATION LIMITATION: PNRS program is subject to obligation limitation that is set aside specifically for this program. The limitation is special no year limitation that remains available until used.
STATUTORY REFERENCE: MAP-21 §1120; SAFETEA-LU Sections: 1101(a)(15), 1102, 1301 (as amended by MAP-21); 1935; 1936; 1953; 1959; 1964
CFR REFERENCE: 23 CFR Part 505 (some changes will be required pursuant to MAP-21)
ELIGIBILITY: An eligible project is any surface transportation project eligible for assistance under 23 USC, including a freight railroad project eligible under that title, that has a total eligible cost greater than or equal to the lesser of (1) $500,000,000 or (2) 50 percent of the amount of Federal highway funds apportioned to the State in which the project is located for the most recently completed fiscal year. BACKGROUND : The Projects of National and Regional Significance Program provides funding beyond the State apportionment levels for high cost transportation infrastructure facilities for critical national economic and transportation needs that are not adequately funded within existing surface transportation program categories. The program seeks to improve economic productivity, facilitate international trade, relieve congestion, and enhance movement of passengers and freight.
Applications for funding will be solicited by the Secretary of Transportation and funding for projects will be awarded competitively through an evaluation process modeled on the Transit New Starts program and based on the results of preliminary engineering. The Secretary will designate a project as of national and regional significance only if the Secretary determines, based upon information submitted by the survey responder, that the project:
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increases access to jobs, labor, and other critical economic inputs•
reduces long-term congestion, including impacts in the State, region, and the United States•
demonstrates that the proposed project cannot be readily and efficiently realized without Federal support and participation•
garners support for non-Federal financial commitments and provide evidence of stable and dependable financing sources to construct, maintain, and operate the infrastructure facility by encouraging non-Federal contributions to the project, including contributions from public-private partnerships•
improves transportation safety, including reducing transportation accidents, injuries, and fatalities•
will significantly improve the performance of the Federal-aid highway system; nationally or regionally increase speed, reliability, and accessibility of the movement of people or freight•
addresses major bottlenecks, chokepoints, gateways, hubs, surface transportation system corridors, and, in the context of a multimodal approach, allow the use of PNRS funds on non-highway facilities provided they are eligible under Title 23, United States Code.A project financed under this program shall be carried out through a Full Funding Grant Agreement. The Secretary shall enter into a full funding grant agreement based on the evaluations and ratings of projects. Full Funding Grant Agreements provided through the PNRS program can be used for eligible project costs. Eligible costs are development phase activities (including planning, feasibility analysis, revenue forecasting, environmental review, preliminary engineering and design work, and other preconstruction activities) and the costs of construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of real property, environmental mitigation, construction contingencies, acquisition of equipment, and operational improvements.
The funds designated for a project in section 1301 are available only for that project with the following exception: Funds allocated for a project specified below may be obligated for any other of these projects in the same State:
• High Priority Projects listed in SAFETEA-LU section 1702 and numbered 3677 or higher;
• Projects of National and Regional Significance listed in SAFETEA-LU section 1301 and numbered 19 or higher;
• National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement Program projects listed in SAFETEA-LU section 1302 and numbered 28 or higher; or
• Any Transportation Improvements project listed in SAFETEA-LU section 1934; except that the amount of funds authorized for a project from the category list may not be reduced. [SAFETEA-LU Section 1935]
PNRS projects may be advanced with funds apportioned under 23 U.S.C. 104(b) from a program under which the project would be eligible, and the funds are to be restored from future allocations of the PNRS project funds for the project. [SAFETEA-LU Section 1936]
For SAFETEA-LU, all of the funds authorized for this program from the Highway Trust Fund were designated for projects listed in section SAFETEA-LU Section 1301(m). Notwithstanding the selection process defined in section 1301 and described above, for each project designated in section 1301(m), the Secretary was required to allocate a portion of the amount designated for that project: 10% in 2005, 20% for 2006, 25% for 2007, 25% for 2008 and 20% for 2009. The allocation of SAFETEA-LU authorized funding for the 25 projects designated in Section 1301(m) of SAFETEA-LU is not subject to the criteria that will be established and these projects will not be subject to the evaluation and rating to receive this directed funding.
The SAFETEA-LU §1301program required the Secretary of Transportation to submit an annual report to Congress' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Environment and Public Works in February of each year. The report included a proposal on the allocation of amounts to be made available to finance grants under this section and recommendations of projects for funding based on the evaluations and ratings required under this program and on existing commitments and anticipated funding levels for the next 3 fiscal years and for the next 10 fiscal years based on information currently available to the Secretary.
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21, P.L. 112-141) §1120 amended §1301 of SAFETEA-LU. The funding is now provided for eligible applicants, which are defined as State
department of transportation or a group of State departments of transportation; a tribal government or consortium of tribal governments; a transit agency; or a multi-State or multi-jurisdictional group of these agencies. Provision is made for joint resolution of disapproval of individual projects by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate. MAP-21 also revised the above noted report requirements and provided an authorization of $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2013 for the program.