{"id":135209838,"date":"2009-04-14T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135209838"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:17:18","slug":"federal-state-matching-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135209838","title":{"rendered":"Federal\/State Matching Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[I have been struggling with the problems associated with the State requiring a 50% match in local funds for bike\/ped projects note the the Feds allow for a 5% local share!]<br \/>\nIn general, the Federal share of the costs of transportation projects is 80 percent with a 20 percent State or local match. However, there are a number of exceptions to this rule.<br \/>\n    *       Bicycle-related Transit Enhancement Activities are 95 percent Federally funded.<br \/>\n    *       Hazard elimination projects are 90 percent Federally funded. Bicycle-related transit projects (other than Transit Enhancement Activities) may be up to 90 percent Federally funded.<br \/>\n    *       Individual Transportation Enhancement Activity projects under the STP can have a match higher or lower than 80 percent. However, the overall Federal share of each State&#8217;s Transportation Enhancement Program must be 80 percent.<br \/>\nAlso in Title 23: Highways:<br \/>\nFederally aided bicycle and pedestrian projects implemented within urbanized areas **must** be included in the transportation improvement program\/annual (or biennial) element unless excluded by agreement between the State and the metropolitan planning organization.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/environment\/bikeped\/bp-broch.htm\">https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/environment\/bikeped\/bp-broch.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.gpoaccess.gov\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;rgn=div5&amp;view=text&amp;node=23:1.0.1.7.30&amp;idno=23\">https:\/\/ecfr.gpoaccess.gov\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;rgn=div5&amp;view=text&amp;node=23:1.0.1.7.30&amp;idno=23<\/a>oldId.20090414221718510<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I have been struggling with the problems associated with the State requiring a 50% match in local funds for bike\/ped projects note the the Feds allow for a 5% local share!] In general, the Federal share of the costs of transportation projects is 80 percent with a 20 percent State or local match. However, there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135209838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal\/State Matching Requirements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135209838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135209838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135209838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135209838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135209838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135209838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135209838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}