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MAP -21 OVERVIEW <br />On July 6, 2012 President Obama signed into law a new two -year transportation authorization, <br />entitled Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP -21). The new law authorizes <br />$10.6 billion in FY 2013 and $10.7 billion in FY 2014 for public transportation. <br />MAP -21 furthers several important goals, including safety, state of good repair, performance, <br />and program efficiency. MAP -21 gives FTA significant new authority to strengthen the safety of <br />public transportation systems throughout the United States. The act also puts new emphasis on <br />restoring and replacing our aging public transportation infrastructure by establishing a new <br />needs -based formula program and new asset management requirements. In addition, it <br />establishes performance -based planning requirements that align Federal funding with key goals <br />and tracks progress towards these goals. Finally, MAP -21 improves the efficiency of <br />administering grant programs by consolidating several programs and streamlining the major <br />capital investment grant program known as "New Starts." These, and other important changes, <br />are summarized in this document. <br />While this summary focuses on the transit title (Division B, including amendments to chapter 53 <br />of title 49, United States Code), several provisions that reside in the highway title (Division A, <br />including amendments to title 23, United States Code) also affect transit. These provisions <br />include performance measures in transportation planning, the Transportation Infrastructure <br />Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), the Surface Transportation Program (STP), the Congestion <br />Management and Air Quality program (CMAQ), and acceleration of project delivery through <br />streamlining environmental reviews. A summary of these provisions can be found at <br />httl2://www.ffiwa.dot.gov/mal221/summaryinfo.cfm <br />4 <br />Attachment number 1 <br />G -1 Page 55 <br />