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<br />5 <br />5 <br />Robert Peterson: When you hear about a 250 million dollar bridge in Alaska, do they <br />have a billion dollar portion and 250 million dollars had to go to that project? <br /> <br />Mike Stanley: Earmarks can be referred to as below the line or above the line. They <br />(Congress) start with a gross revenue number, and set aside money for administration <br />and other purposes. Then they may take money off the top for what is earmarked. We <br />treat that as new money because we have no way of knowing how much we could get. <br />Then they apportion money to the states. <br /> <br />Interstate maintenance money, 12% of the Federal Surface Transportation Program, <br />can only be used for pavement repairs but you cannot add capacity. <br /> <br />Randy Marshall: Why is that federal money not used for funding the widening of <br />Highway I-85 in Orange County? <br /> <br />Mike Stanley: We have a source of federal aid money for that, which is based on the <br />functional classification of a road, and we have federal money for other projects. <br /> <br />Mike noted the slide of System Eligibility by Funding Source and pointed out that of the <br />80,000 miles of the State Maintained System, about 60,000 miles are not eligible for <br />Trust Fund or federal aid funds. <br /> <br />Nancy Baker: What would be an example of a road that is not eligible for Trust Fund <br />dollars or federal aid dollars? <br /> <br />Mike Stanley: Rogers Road. I think Homestead would be eligible. <br /> <br />Jan Grossman: Eubanks would not be eligible? <br /> <br />Mike Stanley: I am not sure; I would need to look at the map. Weaver Diary would be a <br />minor arterial. <br /> <br />Pascale Mittendorf: Do you have NC routes that are not federally owned? <br /> <br />Mike Stanley: A number of secondary roads such as Estes, Homestead and Weaver <br />Diary are numbered as State secondary roads but are still classified in the federal <br />functional classification. <br /> <br />Now that we have our TIP budget, the state law says the funding should be distributed <br />geographically across the state and they established a formula to do that. The state is <br />divided into funding regions. Orange County is located in Region B. Whether you are <br />talking about regions or divisions 50% of the money is distributed proportionally to the <br />percentage of the State population in that division or region. 25% of the money is <br />distributed evenly to every. The remaining 25% of the funds are distributed based on <br />the number of miles remaining in State Highway Trust Fund Urban Loop projects in that