Transportation

Surface Transportation Program (STP) Transportation Enhancements Grants

Applications due: November 1, 2005

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is offering grants to enhance non-motorized transportation related projects such as: 1) corridor beautification, scenic highway projects; 2) historic preservation; 3) pedestrian and bicycle paths, and 4) rail corridor preservation.

Projects must relate to surface transportation, and include at least one of the twelve (12) qualifying activities listed below:

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.

There is no match requirement.

Certification Acceptance (CA) Requirement
Certification Acceptance (CA) is a program in which the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) delegates authority to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for approving project development and construction administration on federal-aid projects. WSDOT has the option of further delegating this authority to qualified agencies.

All federal-aid projects must be administered by a CA agency. Non-CA agencies can apply for Intersection and Corridor safety funding, but they must have a CA agency sponsor the project. This sponsorship must be in place prior to applying for funds. All 39 counties in Washington State have CA status, as well as approximately 60 cities, and the six WSDOT Region Local Programs offices.

For more information go to: www.infrafunding.wa.gov/details.asp?GRANTINDEX=182 or contact: Dave Kaiser at (360) 705-7381, or email to: kaiserd@wsdot.wa.gov.

Information is also available at: www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/ProgMgt/Grants/Enhance.htm.

 
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