Transportation infrastructure : review of project selection process for five FHWA discretionary programs

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Government Funding Project Management
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO/RCED-98-14
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. General Accounting Office
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Funding
• Abstract:
  DOT uses a two-phase process for selecting and funding transportation
  
  projects for the five discretionary programs we reviewed. In the first
  
  phase, FHWA program staff in the field and headquarters compile and
  
  evaluate the applications that states submit for discretionary funding.
  
  Program staff screen the applications by applying eligibility criteria
  
  established by statute or administratively. On the basis of written criteria,
  
  program staff group the projects into four categories that range in priority
  
  from most promising to not qualified and submit the groupings to the
  
  Office of the Administrator. The submission to the Office of the
  
  Administrator provides information on each candidate project, data on
  
  discretionary funds that each state received during prior years, and the
  
  current level of congressional interest. In the second phase, the Office of
  
  the Administrator uses the information submitted by the program staff, as
  
  well as other factors, to evaluate the projects and make the final
  
  selections. According to FHWA’s Acting Deputy Administrator, the Office of
  
  the Administrator has tried to ensure that the dollars are spread fairly
  
  among all the states and that the interests of Members of Congress are
  
  addressed. In contrast to the analyses that the program staff complete in
  
  the first phase, the Office of the Administrator does not document the
  
  factors it uses to select the final projects or its rationale for making the
  
  final selections.
  
  
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  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/22000/22400/22492/ADA332633.pdf
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:909b9d4c03501a704e02fbfa82009cf6341a42e66beb84e68baadd76a626e48e
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