California will receive about $60
million per year for six years, starting in 1997.
This is divided into four shares:
- Regional
- Conservation Lands
- Caltrans
- Statewide Environmental Enhancement
Here’s a little bit about each
program. A flowchart
in Canvas 5.0 shows the four tea pots. You can click
on these links to go to the respective guidelines
for that share:
TEA
Shares
Which pot of
TEA funding should we apply for?
The Regional Share
Regional Transportation Planning
Agencies receive 75 percent of TEA funds. All may
choose when and how they will select projects. Funds
are divided by formula between counties. Most counties
will have two cycles of funding. Some rural counties
may "punt" the TEA program, exchanging TEA dollars
for other transportation dollars (these decisions
are being made now for the first two years
of TEA funding.) All programming decisions for TEA
are to be made in public forums.
Contact your Regional Transportation
Planning Agency if your project is within a single
Region. (In northern California, Sacramento Area Council
of Governments [SACOG] includes Sacramento, Yolo,
Sutter and Yuba counties. In the Bay Area, Metropolitan
Transportation Commission includes San Francisco,
San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano,
Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties. [Contact each congestion
management agency in the Bay Area, as well.] The rest
are single-county Regional Transportation Planning
Agencies, usually, the County Transportation Commission.)
The Statewide Environmental Enhancement
Share
These projects will receive $20 or
$30 million of federal funds. This is not to be confused
with the State-funded Environmental Enhancement and
Mitigation (EEM) program. Funds will be available
for the Resources Agency to select projects in two
rounds, beginning in 2002.
Statewide Environmental Enhancement
Projects may be proposed by state agencies (except
Caltrans), federal agencies and regional, local and
other (private/non-profit, and Caltrans) agencies
with a state agency partner. The Resources Agency
will develop guidance.
The Conservation Lands Share
This pot of TEA will receive $11
million plus dollars from failed TEA projects programmed
before 1998 and from rural county exchanges. These
are acquisitions of scenic lands having high habitat
conservation value. Sites must enhance transportation
mitigation bank lands. Conservation Lands projects
may be brought forward from Caltrans and a public
resources or private non-profit agency. The Resources
Agency and Caltrans will approve these projects. Contact
Howard Reynolds at 916-654-2477.
The Caltrans Share
Caltrans will program stand-alone
TEA projects and enhancements to its own normal transportation
projects. Caltrans may fund projects by local agencies,
however, the Caltrans share will not supplant regional
TEA dollars on a given project. Contact Howard Reynolds
at 916-654-2477.
