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Transportation Enhancements
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Economic recovery funding process
Program
description
Eligible projects
Selection process
Timeline for Missouri Enhancements 2007 project round
Kansas Enhancements FY 2009–2010 project round
Program description
The Transportation Enhancements (TE) program was created to support projects that expand travel choices and enhance the transportation experience through improvements to the cultural, aesthetic, historic and environmental aspects of the transportation network.
Eligible projects
The following types of projects are eligible for Kansas and Missouri TE funding, provided that they relate to surface transportation:
- Provision of facilities for pedestrians and bicycles
- Provision of safety and educational activities for pedestrians and bicycles
- Acquisition of scenic easements and scenic or historic sites (including historic battlefields)
- Scenic or historic highway programs (including the provision of tourist and welcome center facilities)
- Landscaping and other scenic beautification
- Historic preservation
- Preservation of abandoned railway corridors (including the conversion and use of the corridors for pedestrian or bicycle trails)
- Rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings, structures or facilities (including historic railroad facilities and canals)
- Inventory, control, and removal of outdoor advertising
- Archaeological planning and research
- Environmental mitigation to address water pollution due to highway runoff, or to reduce vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while maintaining habitat connectivity
- Establishment of transportation museums
Selection process
Kansas and Missouri have different selection criteria and committees that select projects to receive TE funding. The Kansas Transportation Enhancements Committee and the Missouri Transportation Enhancements Committee oversees TE program funds which are awarded to sponsors of transportation projects that expand travel choice and enhance the transportation experience. These committee review, score, and recommend project applications to the Total Transportation Policy Committee.
Economic recovery funding process
The Missouri TE Committee will meet on April 3, 2009, at 8 a.m. to review and recommend projects for ARRA funding. This list will be sent to the Total Transportation Policy Committee on April 21, and the MARC Board of Directors on April 28, for approval. All meetings will be held in the MARC offices at 600 Broadway, Suite 200, in Kansas City, Mo.
Once projects are approved, they will be added to the region's Transportation Improvement Program, and project sponsors will coordinate with the Missouri Department of Transportation to complete agreements, finalize plans and bid projects for construction or implementation. Missouri TE projects selected to receive ARRA funding must be obligated by March 10, 2010, or they will be redistributed to other states that have fully obligated their funds. These funds will be subject to the provisions of the existing Transportation Enhancements Program.
| DATE | ACTIVITY |
| March 20, 2009 | Noon – Deadline to submit or update Transportation Enhancements projects |
| April 3, 2009 | 8 a.m. – Missouri Transportation Committee reviews and recommends projects for ARRA funding |
| April 21, 2009 | 9:30 a.m. – Total Transportation Policy Committee |
| April 28, 2009 | 12:15 p.m. – MARC Board of Directors |