Are Federal funds eligible to pay for these additional, or more in depth, environmental studies in transportation planning?
Yes. For example, the following FHWA and FTA funds may be utilized for conducting environmental studies and analyses within transportation planning: • FHWA planning and research funds, as defined under 23 CFR Part 420 (e.g., Metropolitan Planning (PL), Statewide Planning and Research (SPR), National Highway System (NHS), Surface Transportation Program (STP), and Minimum Guarantee) and • FTA planning and research funds (49 U.S.C. 5303 and 49 U.S.C. 5313(b)), urban formula funds (49 U.S.C. 5307), and (in limited circumstances) transit capital investment funds (49 U.S.C. 5309). The eligible transportation planning-related uses of these funds may include: (a) conducting feasibility or subarea/corridor needs studies and (b) developing system-wide environmental information/inventories (e.g., wetland banking inventories or standards to identify historically significant sites). Particularly in the case of PL and SPR funds, the proposed expenditure must be closely related to the development of
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