Transportation Enhancement Activities
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Transportation Enhancement Activities
California will receive about $60 million per year for six years, starting in 1997. A local funding share is required in each reimbursed phase of work. TEA is a reimbursable capital-improvement program. Projects must comply with federal environmental requirements and other federal regulations, including those for considering disadvantaged business enterprises in consultant selection and for paying prevailing wages during construction.
Transportation enhancement activities must have a direct relationship - by function, proximity or impact - to the surface transportation system. Activities must be over and above normal projects, including mitigation.
This list is exclusive. Only these activities are eligible to be accounted for as transportation enhancement activities. They are:
1. Provision of facilities for pedestrians and bicycles.
2. Provision of safety and educational activities for pedestrians and bicyclists.
3. Acquisition of scenic easements and scenic or historic sites.
4. Scenic or historic highway programs (including the provision of tourist and welcome center facilities).
5. Landscaping and other scenic beautification.
6. Historic preservation.
7. Rehabilitation and operation of historic transportation buildings, structures or facilities (including historic railroad facilities and canals).
8. Preservation of abandoned railway corridors (including the conversion and use thereof for pedestrian or bicycle trails).
9. Control and removal of outdoor advertising.
10. Archaeological planning and research.
11. Environmental mitigation to address water pollution due to highway runoff or reduce vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while maintaining habitat connectivity
12. Establishment of transportation museums.
California's TEA dollars are divided into four places:
1) Regional Transportation Planning Agencies select three quarters of the projects. Deadlines for application vary by Region.
2) Conservation Lands Program (selected by Caltrans and the Resources Agency).
3) Statewide Transportation Enhancement (second cycle in spring 2001).
4) Caltrans share.
Call (916) 654-2477, FAX: (916)654-3770
Howard Reynolds, Chief, Transportation
Enhancement Activities Branch
California Department of Transportation
1120 'N' Street, Mail Station 28
Sacramento, California 95814
Applicants must check with their Regional Transportation Plannning Agency to obtain the deadline for application. Dates vary by Region.