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MAP -21 & FAST Act OVERVIEW On July 6, 2012 President Obama signed into law a new two -year transportation authorization, entitled Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP -21). MAP -21 furthers several important goals, including safety, state of good repair, performance, and program efficiency. MAP -21 gives FTA significant new authority to strengthen the safety of public transportation systems throughout the United States. The act also puts new emphasis on restoring and replacing our aging public transportation infrastructure by establishing a new needs -based formula program and new asset management requirements. In addition, it establishes performance -based planning requirements that align Federal funding with key goals and tracks progress towards these goals. Finally, MAP -21 improves the efficiency of administering grant programs by consolidating several programs and streamlining the major capital investment grant program known as "New Starts." These, and other important changes, are summarized in this document. While this summary focuses on the transit title (Division B, including amendments to chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code), several provisions that reside in the highway title (Division A, including amendments to title 23, United States Code) also affect transit. These provisions include performance measures in transportation planning, the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), the Surface Transportation Program (STP), the Congestion Management and Air Quality program (CMAQ), and acceleration of project delivery through streamlining environmental reviews. A summary of these provisions can be found at httl2://www.ffiwa.dot.gov/mal221/summaryinfo.cfm. On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, reauthorizing surface transportation programs through Fiscal Year 2020. 27