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3 LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR THE NEW STARTS PROCESS By Daniel Duff, Edward J
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4 Starts project justification criteria or multiple-measure project evaluation process, it did make a number of critical changes to the overall process. FTA was now to create overall project ratings of Highly Recommended, Recommended, or Not Recommended.
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5 Following enactment of SAFETEA-LU, FTA published Guidance on New Starts Policies and Procedures in 2006.20 It also published an Advance NRPM on Small Starts.21 These approaches were consolidated into FTA's August 3, 2007, NRPM to implement the provisions of SAFETEA-LU.22 That rulemaking proposed a number of significant policies; among other things, the NPRM proposed to weight cost-effectiveness within the project justification rating at 50 percent and to require that a project be rated Medium on cost effectiveness to obtain a funding recommendation. This was the first time many of these policies would be embodied in a regulation rather than in guidance.
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6 entry into PE. Once that phase and federal environmental requirements are completed, the project sponsor seeks FTA approval to proceed into Final Design and, as the project's cost and budget become fixed, the sponsor seeks approval to enter into an FFGA and proceed to construction.
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7 • Enforcement of policies across the program is inconsistent. • Grantees generally deem FTA staff knowledgeable, dedicated, and professional -- but understaffed.
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8 4. Congressional Action Finally, as noted above in the section on "Statutory and Regulatory History of the New Starts Program," congressional legislation put on hold FTA's New Starts rulemaking, which has since been withdrawn by FTA.
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