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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 17, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 -j <br />SUBJECT: Resolution to Endorse Orange County's Priority Transportation Projects within <br />the Burlington- Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization ( BGMPO) Planning <br />Area <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Resolution Endorsing Projects for the Bret Martin, Transportation Planner, 245 - <br />BGMPO Regional Priority List 2582 <br />2. Draft BGMPO Priority Project Tom Altieri, Comprehensive, Planning <br />Descriptions and Staff Supervisor, 245 -2579 <br />Recommendations Abigaile Pittman, Transportation /Land <br />3. BGMPO Project List Map Use Planner, 245 -2567 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution endorsing a priority list of new transportation projects within the <br />Burlington- Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization ( BGMPO) planning area for consideration of <br />inclusion in the 2016 -2022 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). <br />BACKGROUND: Biennially, the North Carolina Board of Transportation (BOT) adopts a multi -year <br />Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) containing funding and scheduling <br />information for transportation projects throughout the state including those for highways, aviation <br />facilities, public transportation, ferry travel, freight rail, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The STIP <br />is the major tool the State uses for the implementation of locally and regionally adopted <br />transportation plans from which projects are conceived for programming consideration. In 2011 and <br />2012, the State, in conjunction with the metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and regional <br />planning organizations (RPOs) throughout the state, completed the prioritization process for the <br />2014 -2020 STIP, which was scheduled to be finalized and adopted in July 2013. <br />In May 2011, Orange County participated in this last iteration of the STIP development process by <br />submitting lists of priority transportation projects within the County's respective MPO /RPO planning <br />areas to be considered for final inclusion in the STIP. However, a completely new Federal <br />transportation authorization, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21St Century (MAP -21) legislation, <br />and pending State legislation, the Strategic Transportation Investments (STI) Act, forced the <br />cancellation of the 2014 -2020 STIP process. Consequently, none of the projects the County <br />submitted in 2011 for consideration of inclusion in the STIP were incorporated into the State's final <br />STIP. <br />The State is once again beginning the process of developing the 2016 -2022 STIP, which is <br />scheduled to be finalized and adopted in July 2015, and will be requesting local input for <br />transportation project priorities to be submitted through each local government's respective MPO or <br />