Mass Transit: FTA's Progress in Developing and Implementing a New Starts Evaluation Process
RCED-99-113
Published: Apr 26, 1999. Publicly Released: Apr 26, 1999.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) efforts to develop and implement evaluation and rating processes and procedures for evaluating new start transit projects for federal funding, focusing on: (1) the status of FTA's efforts; (2) how FTA implemented the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) requirements for evaluating, rating, and recommending projects; and (3) open issues that FTA needs to resolve to fully satisfy TEA-21 requirements.
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