Federal Transportation Enhancement Funding
Legislation
• Authorized in 1991 with passage of ISTEA (intermodal surface transportation efficiency act)
• Mandated that every state must reserve 10 percent of surface trans. funds for enhancement activities
• Reauthorized in 1998 through 2003 with TEA-21 (transportation equity act for the 21st century)
Funding
• Funded through taxes on motor fuel and vehicles
• These are put in to the Highway Trust Fund and distributed to the states through the Federal Highway Program
• 10% of the state's surface transportation funds are reserved for enhancement activities
Eligibility
•Projects must relate in some way to transportation
•Projects must provide for public access
•Projects must fit one or more of 12 enhancement activities:
- Pedestrian and bicycle facilities
- Pedestrian and bicycle safety and education activities
- Acquisition of scenic or historic easements and sites
- Scenic or historic highways programs including tourist and welcome centers
- Landscaping and scenic beautification
- Historic preservation
- Rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings, structures or facilities
- Conversion of abandoned railway corridors to trails
- Control and removal of outdoor advertising
- Archaeological planning and research
- Environmental mitigation of runoff pollution and provisions of wildlife connectivity
- Establishment of transportation museums
Michigan Transportation Enhancement Funding
Must have a sponsor (can be anyone) however, the applicant must be a governmental unit that receives fuel tax revenues such as cities, villages, road commissions, public transit agencies, or MDOT.
Eligibility
Must meet at least one of the following qualifications:
•Must be on or next to a highway, street or road that is eligible for federal aid
•Must be a historic facility or a historic site that is significant to transportation but has current transportation use
•Must provide a service related to transportation
Eligible Activities
Same as federal (above) except does not include:
- Pedestrian and bicycle safety activities and education
- Transportation museums
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National Visual Enhancement Links
American Planning Association
www.planning.org
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse
www.enhancements.org
Scenic America
www.scenic.org
Department of Transportation
www.dot.gov
Context Sensitive Design
www.fhwa.dot.gov/csd
Michigan Visual Enhancement Links
Michigan Department of Transportation
www.michigan.gov/mdot
Michigan Society of Planning
www.planningmi.org
Scenic Michigan
www.scenicmichigan.org
More Information to Download
Michigan Transportation Enhancement Program
MDOTEnhancements.pdf
Michigan Transportation Enhancement Program-Instructions for Applicants
MDOTEnhancementsApp.pdf
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse-Communities Benefit!
TE_benefits_US.pdf
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse-A Guide To Transportation Enhancements
TE_Intro_US.pdf
Deleware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission-An Enhancement Plan for the McGalliard Road/State Road 332 Corridor
McGalliard_Rd_DE.pdf
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