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Home My WebLink About1973-1128 1973 HIGHWAY ACT 1973 Highway Act CHANGES PERTINENT TO EOCAL GOVERNMEt~TS SUMMARY OF CHANGES: 1. Federal Aid Systems Realignment. 2. increased Federal Share Payable. 3. Amended Definition of "Urban Area" and "Urbanized Area." 4. Changed Funding Levels and Programs. 5. Funds Limited to Either Rural or Urban Areas. 6. Expansion of Federal Aid Urban System Program. Federal Aid System Realignment. The 1973 Act requires a comprehensive realignment of the Federal Aid systems by June 30, 1976, based upon the anticipated functional usage in the year 1980. The realignment wilt basically result from new definitlons of the varlous systems. FAP "The Federal Aid Primary system shall consist of an adequate system of connected main roads important to interstate, stateWide, and regional travel, consisting of rural arterial routes and their extensions into or through urban areas." We estimate that approximately 75 miles of existing 5tare FAP routes in urban areas will be deleted from the FAP system by the required realignment. We anticipate that these facilities will be placed on the FAU system. FA$ ~'The Federal Aid Secondary system shall consist of rural major collector routes." The realignment of the FAS system will delete all FAS routes within urban areas and may possibly reduce the mileage in rural areas, We estimate that approximately 150 miles of existing State FA5 routes in urban areas will be deleted from ~e FAS system by the required realignment. Again we anticipate these faci~itles will be placed on the FAU system. Approximately 360 miles of Rev. Sheet 1, 11128/73 existing local (Co.) FAS routes in urban areas will be deleted from the FAS system, We assume the bulk of these local FAS routes will be placed on the FAU system. FAU "The Federal Aid Urban system shall be located in each urbanized area and such other urban areas as the State Highway Departments may designate and shall consist of arterial routes and collector routes, exclusive of urban extensions of the Federal Aid Primary System," Presently there are approximately 140 miles of FAU routes in the State. AS previously mentioned, approximately 75 miles of existing FAP routes and 510~ miles of existing FAS routes will most likely be placed on the FAU system, This totals approximately 725 miles of FAU routes from these three areas. In addition to this mileage, there will be a sizable number of major FAP Type II (TOPICS) routes that should logically be placed on the future FAU system. The FAP system is to be designated by the State and approved by FHWA. The FAS system is to be designated by the State and local officials in cooperation with each other and approved by FHWA. The FAU system is to be designated by local officials, concurred in by State, and approved by FHWA. Those portions of the FAP Type II (TOPICS) System that are not incorporated into the FAU system will be deleted from Federal Aid system status on June 30, 1976. II. Increased Federal Share Payable. The Federal share of all obligations incurred after dune 30, 1973 increased from SO~ to 70~. In Oregon, because of the high ~ of designated public land areas, the increase is from approximately 63~ to 78~. Historically in the past, the HIghway Division has provided one-half of the match money for Federal Aid highway programs avail.able to local governments. Due -2- to increased obligations placed on the Highway Fund, the State may discontinue providing match funds for local Federal Aid highway programs. Ill. Amended Definition of "Urban Area" and "Urbanized Area." The new definition of these terms is somewhat confusing. The confusion apparentiy is created by using two separate meanings of the term urbanized area in the same paragraph while defining the term "Urban Area". In any case, the boundaries of both of these areas are now required to be fixed by responsible State and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by FHWA. The new authority permits the boundaries to'be so drawn as to smooth out irregularities, maintain route continuity, and include areas undergoing urban development. An Urbanized Area must as a minimum encompass the entire urbanized area as designated by the Bureau of the Census (central city over 50,000 pop.). Outside of Urbanized Areas, an Urban Area must as a minimum encompass the entire urban place (over 5,000 pop.) as designated by the Bureau of the Census. IV. Changed Funding Levels and Programs. The following tabulation illustrates funding changes: FUND FY 1973 FY 1974 DIFFERENCE Interstate Primary Rural Primary Priority Primary Secondary Rural Secondary Urban Extensions Urban System TOPICS Metro Planning *Rail-Highway X-ings *High-hazard Locati'ons *Roadside Obstacles *Safer Roads 85,680,O28 7,585,563 1,154,762 5,300,542 807,255 2,392,188 794,697 869,887 $62,683,559 -$22,996,469 -- 7,585,563 10,740,142 + 9,585,380 1,310,407 + 1,310,407 -- 5,300,542 6,159,788 + 5,352,533 2,484,445 + 92,257 6,438,042 + 5,643,345 -- 869,887 182,564 + 182,564 305,000 + 305,000 648,000 + 648,000 322,000 + 322,000 648,000 + 648,000 $104,584,922 $91.,921,947 *Approxhllate amounts for Highway Safety. -$12,662,975 -3- V. Funds Limited to Either Rural or U~ban Areas. One effect of the 1973 Highway Act was the placing of most funds into either a rural or urban category. This has a profound effect, especially on the FAP and FAS programs. The following, exclusive of Interstate and Safety funds, illustrates this point: FY 1973 (1970 Hwy. Act) FUND RURAL URBAN OPTIONAL Primary Secondary Urban Extensions TOPICS Urban System Rural Primary Rural Secondary -- $ -- $ 7,585,563 .... 5,300,542 -- 2,392,188 -- -- 869,887 -- -- 794,697 -- 1,154,762 .... 807,255 $1,962,017 $4,056,772 $12,886,105 FY 1974 (1973 Hwy. Act) FUND RURAL URBAN OPTIONAL $ .... 6,438,042 -- 2,484,445 -- 1,310,407(?) (?) 182,564 -- Rural Primary $10,740,142 Rural Secondary 6,159,788 Urban System '- Urban Extensions -- Priority Primary -- Metro Planning -- $16,899,930 $10,415,458 Vl. Expansion of Federal Aid Urban System Program. The changes related to the Federal Aid Urban System are numerous. The result of these changes is that the FAU program has emerged as the major program, exclusive of the Interstate program, for Public Transportation improvements in urban areas. There has been an eight-fold increase in the funding level. Provisions have been provided for extending the program from urbanized areas down into the smaller urban areas. A portion of the second year (FY 1975) funds of the Act can -4- be used for the purchase of buses. The entire amount of the third year (FY 1976) funds may be used for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of fixed ral] facilities, including the purchase of rolling stock. Along with the increased FAU funding level has been an ~ncreased demand upon these funds to finance projects which were .previously financed under the FAP, FAS, and TOPICS programs, As can be seen, these demands plus the mass transit provisions will result in a program where the needs will far outweigh the resources. Another provision of the Act provides that FAU funds shall be made avaliable for expenditure in urbanized areas of 200,000 o__rmore population (Portland) in accordance with a fair and equitable formula developed by the State. It goes on further to provide than any incorporated municipalities of 200,000 or more population (City of Portland) within such an urbanlzed area, shal] also be given fair and equitable treatment. $6,438,042 in FY 1974 FAU Funds are available for allocation. These Federal funds when matched will amount to approximately $8,238,000 in total project potential. We have done some pre]iminary work on several proposals for the allocation of FY 1974 FAU Funds. Basic to these allocations is the proposed State policy that all urban areas of the State (28) will be eligible for FAU projects. Our thinking has also been along the lines of providing a basic distribution of the funds in direct relation to the Federal allocation to the States; that is, in accordance with an urban population ratio formula. This formula will satisfy the requirements for the fair and equitable treatment of the Portland urbanized area. Attachment #1 shows a basic urban populatlon ratio percentage distribution. Attachment #2 shows the basic allocation of FY 1974 FAU funds when the percentages from Attachment #l are applied to the available funds. Attachment #3 shows a further use of the basic urban population ratio formula to make direct allocations to each of the 25 small urban areas in the State. We feel that the direct allocation of Attachment #3 may present one of the basic problems we are experiencing under the TOPICS program. Direct allocation of funds to small urban areas result in considerable fragmentatlon of funds. The trouble with fragmentation of funds is that some areas with no pressing problems will tend to "sit on" their funds, while-other areas with critical problems will not have sufficient funds to correct their problems. An alternate to the direct allocation shown on attachment #3 would be to retain the funds allocated for small urban areas in a pool from which priority projects could be funded. This alternate would eliminate funds from lying around idle and would make it possible to fund some larger projects which my have critical needs. Attachment #4 information. is a 1972 Oregon Mileage Report and is attached for general Prepared by: Richard Unrein Urban Engineer County & City Section Oregon State Highway Division 11/23/73 -6- ATTACHMENT #1 I. POPULATION Eugene Urbanized Area Portland Urbanized Area Salem Urbanlzed Area Urban Areas (25) STATE TOTAL 139,255 751,756 93,041 315,722 $1,299,774 II. BASIC DISTRIBUTION Eugene Urbanized Area 139,255 1,299,774 Portland Urbanized Area 751,756 1,299,774 Salem Urbanized Area 93,041 1,299,774 Urban Areas (25) 315,722 1,299,774 TOTAL 10.7138% 57.8374% 7.1583% 24.2905% 100.0000% Ill. CITY OF PORTLAND'S FAIR & EQUITABLE ALLOCATION OF PORTLAND URBAN I ZED AREA ALLOCAT I ON. City of Portland Population 382,619 = 50.8967% Portland Urbanized Area Population 751,756 ATTACHMENT #2 TENTATIVE DISTRIBUTION URBAN SYSTEMS FUND FISCAL 1974 ALLOCATIONS A. Eugene UrSanized Area 10.7138 % x $6,438,042 ~MOUNT 689,759 Portland Urbanized Area 57.8374 % x $6,438,042 (1) Portland's Share 50.8967% x $3,723,596 (2) Balance ~596 - $1,895,187 $1,895,187 $1,828,409 3,723,596 Salem Urbanized Area 7.1583% x S6,483,042 460,854 Urban Areas (25) 24.2905% x $6,438,042 Total 1,563,833 $6,438,042 ATTACHMENT #3 URBAN AREA ALLOCATIONS Urban Area 1970 Population Albany Ashland Astoria Baker Bend Coos 3ay Corvallis Cottage Grove Dallas Forest Grove Grants Pass Klamath Falls La Grande Lebanon McMinnville Medford Monmouth Newberg Newport Ontario Pendleton Roseburg St. Helens The Dalles Woodburn 18,181 12,342 10,244 9,354 13,710 22,019 35,153 6,004 6,361 8,275 12,455 31,521 9,645 6,636 10,125 28,454 5,237 6,507 5,188 6,523 13,197 14,461 6,212 10,423 7,495 % of Total 5.7585 3.9091 3.2446 2.9627 4.3424 6.9742 11.1342 1.9017 2.0147 2.6210 3.9449 9.9838 3.0549 2.1018 3.2069 9.0124 1.6588 2.0610 1.6433 2.0661 4.1799 4.5803 1.9676 3.3013 2.3739 Amount 90,053 61,132 50,740 46,332 67,908 109,065 174,120 29,739 31,506 40,988 61,692 156,130 47,773 32,869 50,151 140,939 25,941 32,231 25,698 32,310 65,367 71,628 30,770 51,627 37,124 Total 315,722 lO0.O000 $1,563,833 N ATTACHMENT #4 u~ c~ ~m N N N