Federal Funding and Policy

2007 fiscal year (10/1/06 – 9/30/07)

Update: USDOT expects to announce the ’07 grant awards by mid-August.

The 2007 federal transportation budget was signed into law in February, and provides the funding levels authorized by SAFETEA-LU. The bill did not include earmarks; that funding will instead be allocated by USDOT through a competitive grant process.

2008 fiscal year (10/1/07 – 9/30/08)
The full House passed its bill (PDF 6.07 mb) in late July.  The full Senate is tentatively scheduled to debate the committee bill (PDF 1.64 mb) in September.  Both bills contained earmarks for Washington State projects.  These earmarks (PDF 30.1 kb) still must be approved by the full Senate, survive a Senate-House conference to finalize the legislation, and then be signed into law by the President.

The White House has threatened to veto Congress' draft FFY '08 transportation budget because of the bill's "irresponsible and excessive" spending levels. (July 23, 2007) 

2009 fiscal year (10/1/08 – 9/30/09)
Project earmark requests will likely be due to Congressional offices in late February/early March 2008.
 

• SAFETEA-LU Commission
• Federal Highway Administration
• Federal Transit Administration
• National Highway Traffic Safety Admin.
• American Association of State Highway Officials
• American Public Transit Association
• League of American Bicyclists
• Defenders of the Wildlife
• Transportation Research Board
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