182.7
. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 182 and 182.5, Sections 188,
188.8, and 825 do not apply to the expenditure of an amount of
federal funds equal to the amount of federal funds apportioned to the
state pursuant to Section 104(b)(4) of Title 23 of the United States
Code. These funds shall be known as the congestion mitigation and
air quality improvement program funds and shall be expended in
accordance with Section 149 of Title 23 of the United States Code,
including the requirements relating to particulate matter less than
2.5 micrometers in diameter in subsections (g) and (k) of the
section. The department, the transportation planning agencies, and
the metropolitan planning organizations may do all things necessary
in their jurisdictions to secure and expend those federal funds in
accordance with the intent of federal law and this chapter.
(b) The congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program
funds shall be apportioned by the department to the metropolitan
planning organizations designated pursuant to Section 134 of Title 23
of the United States Code and, in areas where none has been
designated, to the transportation planning agency established by
Section 29532 or 29532.1 of the Government Code. All funds
apportioned to the state pursuant to Section 104(b)(4) of Title 23 of
the United States Code shall be apportioned to metropolitan planning
organizations and transportation planning agencies responsible for
air quality conformity determinations in federally designated air
quality nonattainment and maintenance areas within the state as
follows:
(1) The department shall apportion these funds in the ratio that
the weighted nonattainment and maintenance population in each
federally designated area within the state bears to the total of all
weighted nonattainment and maintenance area populations in the state.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the weighted nonattainment and
maintenance area population shall be calculated by multiplying the
population of each area in the state that is a nonattainment area or
maintenance area as described in Section 149(b) of Title 23 of the
United States Code for ozone or carbon monoxide by the following
factors:
(A) A factor of 1.0, if, at the time of apportionment, the area is
a maintenance area.
(B) A factor of 1.0, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is classified as a marginal ozone nonattainment area under
Subpart 2 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7511 et seq.).
(C) A factor of 1.1, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is classified as a moderate ozone nonattainment area under
Subpart 2 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7511 et seq.).
(D) A factor of 1.2, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is classified as a serious ozone nonattainment area under
Subpart 2 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7511 et seq.).
(E) A factor of 1.3, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is classified as a severe ozone nonattainment area under Subpart
2 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 7511 et
seq.).
(F) A factor of 1.4, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is classified as an extreme ozone nonattainment area under
Subpart 2 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7511 et seq.).
(G) A factor of 1.0, if, at the time of the apportionment, the
area is not a nonattainment or maintenance area for ozone, but is
classified under Subpart 3 of Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act
(42 U.S.C. Sec. 7512 et seq.) as a nonattainment area for carbon
monoxide.
(H) A factor of 1.0, if, at the time of the apportionment, an area
is designated as a nonattainment area for ozone under Subpart 1 of
Part D of Title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 7512 et seq.).
(3) If, in addition to being designated as a nonattainment or
maintenance area for ozone as described in paragraph (2), any county
within the area is also classified under Subpart 3 of Part D of Title
I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 7512 et seq.) as a
nonattainment or maintenance area described in paragraph (2) for
carbon monoxide, the weighted nonattainment or maintenance area
population of the county, as determined under subparagraphs (A) to
(F), inclusive, or subparagraph (H) of paragraph (2), shall be
further multiplied by a factor of 1.2.
(4) Funds allocated under this subdivision shall remain available
for three federal fiscal years, including the federal fiscal year
apportioned.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), where county transportation
commissions have been created by Division 12 (commencing with Section
130000) of the Public Utilities Code, all congestion mitigation and
air quality improvement program funds shall be further apportioned by
the metropolitan planning organization to the county transportation
commission on the basis of relative population within the federally
designated air quality nonattainment and maintenance areas after
first apportioning to the nonattainment and maintenance areas in the
manner and in accordance with the formula set forth in subdivision
(b).
In the Monterey Bay region, all congestion mitigation and air
quality improvement program funds shall be further apportioned, on
the basis of relative population, by the metropolitan planning
organization to the regional transportation planning agencies
designated under subdivision (b) of Section 29532 of the Government
Code.
(d) The department shall notify each metropolitan planning
organization, transportation planning agency, and county
transportation commission receiving an apportionment under this
section, as soon as possible each year, of the amount of obligational
authority estimated to be available for expenditure from the federal
apportionment. The metropolitan planning organizations,
transportation planning agencies, and county transportation
commissions, in cooperation with the department, congestion
management agencies, cities and counties, and affected transit
operators, shall select and program projects in conformance with
federal law. Each metropolitan planning organization and
transportation planning agency shall, not later than October 1 of
each even-numbered year, submit its Federal Transportation
Improvement Program prepared pursuant to Section 134 of Title 23 of
the United States Code to the department for incorporation into the
Federal Statewide Transportation Improvement Program. Federal
Transportation Improvement Programs shall, at a minimum, include the
years covered by the Federal Statewide Transportation Improvement
Program.
(e) Not later than July 1 of each year, the metropolitan planning
organizations and the regional transportation planning agencies
receiving obligational authority under this section, shall notify the
department of the projected amount of obligational authority that
each entity intends to use during the remainder of the current
federal fiscal year, including, but not limited to, a list of
projects that will use the obligational authority. Any federal
obligational authority that will not be used shall be redistributed
by the department to other projects in a manner that ensures that the
state will continue to compete for and receive increased
obligational authority during the federal redistribution of
obligational authority. If the department does not have sufficient
federal apportionments to fully use excess obligational authority,
the metropolitan planning organization or transportation planning
agency relinquishing obligational authority shall make sufficient
funding available to the department to fund alternate projects, when
practical, within the geographical areas relinquishing the
obligational authority. Notwithstanding this subdivision, the
department shall comply with subsection (f) of Section 133 of Title
23 of the United States Code.
(f) The department shall be responsible for closely monitoring the
use of federal transportation funds, including congestion management
and air quality improvement program funds to ensure full and timely
use. The department shall prepare a quarterly report for submission
to the commission regarding the progress in use of all federal
transportation funds. The department shall notify the commission and
the appropriate implementation agency whenever there is a failure to
use federal funds within the three-year apportionment period
established under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b).
(g) The department shall provide written notice to implementing
agencies when there is one year remaining within the three-year
apportionment period established under paragraph (4) of subdivision
(b).
(h) Within six months of the date of notification required under
subdivision (g), the implementing agency shall provide to the
department a plan to obligate funds that includes, but need not be
limited to, a list of projects and milestones.
(i) If the implementing agency has not met the milestones
established in the implementation plan required under subdivision
(h), prior to the end of the three-year apportionment period
established under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b), the commission
shall redirect those funds for use on other transportation projects
in the state.
(j) Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program
funds available under this section exchanged pursuant to Section
182.8 may be loaned to and expended by the department. The department
shall repay from the State Highway Account to the Traffic Congestion
Relief Fund all funds received as federal reimbursements for funds
exchanged under Section 182.8 as they are received from the Federal
Highway Administration, except that those repayments are not required
to be made more frequently than on a quarterly basis.
(k) Prior to determining the amount for local subvention required
by this section, the department shall first deduct the amount
authorized by the Legislature for increased department oversight of
the federal subvented program.