[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 211 (Monday, November 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58808-58809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29302]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation; Public
Meeting
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21),
Public Law 105-178, 112 Stat. 107 (1998) established a new Federal
credit program for surface transportation projects. The Transportation
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), Title I, Subtitle E,
Chapter 1 was established to provide up to $10.6 billion of Federal
assistance in the form of credit (direct loans, loan guarnatees, and
standby line of credit) to major surface transportation projects of
critical national importance, such as intermodal facilities, border
crossing infrastructure, trade corridors and other investments
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generating substantial regional and national economic and other
benefits.
Prior to implementation, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),
acting on behalf of the United States Department of Transportation
(USDOT) will conduct a focus group session regarding work-to-date in
the development of preliminary programmatic structure for TIFIA. This
notice serves to invite public officials, potential project sponsors,
the financial community, and other interested parties to attend a
meeting at which proposed features of the TIFIA program will be
discussed and a summary of findings from a pervious TIFIA focus group
session held in New York on September 14, 1998 will be presented.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 1998
from 9:30 a.m. until approximately 2:00 p.m. Interested parties are
requested to RSVP to the FHWA by facsimile at (202) 366-7493 by Monday,
November 23, 1998.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Center for Infrastructure
Finance Studies, Copley International Conference Center, Institute of
the Americas/University of California-San Diego, 10111 North Torrey
Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Seltzer at (202) 366-0397, or Bryan Grote, at (202) 366-5785,
Office of Budget and Finance, Federal Highway Administration, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, D.C. 20590. Office hours are from 8:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic Access
An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded using a modem
and suitable communications software from the Government Printing
Office's Electronic Bulletin Board Service at (202) 512-1661. Internset
users may reach the Federal Register's home page at: http://
www.nara.gov/fedreg and the Government Printing Office's web page at:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara. A copy of the TEA-21 legislation and
conference report containing the TIFIA program is available on the FHWA
home page at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/legis.htm.
Authority: 23 U.S.C. 181; 23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.45(a)(1), 49
CFR 1.48.
Dated: October 27, 1998.
George S. Moore, Jr.,
Associate Administrator for Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-29302 Filed 10-30-98; 8:45 am]
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