For more information about modifying the TIP, contact Marc Hansen or Ron Achelpohl at 816/474-4240.
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Modifying the Transportation Improvement Program
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Formal amendments
Administrative modifications
Declared emergencies
From time to time, the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) must be updated to add, modify or delete individual projects. Modifications to the TIP can be made through two methods: formal amendment and administrative modification.
Formal amendments
Formal amendments are proposed TIP changes that meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Addition or deletion of any project (except as noted in administrative modifications).
- Substantial changes to the scope of a project (e.g., changing the number of through traffic lanes or removal of bicycle/pedestrian elements).
- Financial changes in a project’s total programmed amount of federal funds greater than 25%.
- Changes to any project that would affect the approved air quality analysis.
- Any changes projects using suballocated federal funds.
- Schedule changes that move a project into or out of the first four federal fiscal years of the approved TIP.
Suballocated federal funds are those that MARC has primary authority to determine or select projects that will receive federal funding according to federal rules or state policy.
Formal amendments are processed quarterly and must be submitted by January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year. Formal amendments will be acted upon by the Total Transportation Policy Committee and the MARC Board of Directors. Revisions that affect an approved air quality analysis for the region will also be subject to review and approval by the Air Quality Forum.
When MARC receives your request to modify the TIP, along with necessary supporting information, staff will analyze the impacts of proposed changes on air quality conformity, environmental justice and financial constraint. The information will be shared with MARC committees and the public according to the Public Participation Plan. MARC will also provide information about TIP modifications to all appropriate state and federal agencies.
Administrative modifications
Administrative modifications include all revisions that are not formal amendments. These modifications usually involve, but are not limited to:
- Minor description or termini changes (minor changes are those which do not impact travel demand models or an approved air quality analysis).
- Shifting funds between years within the first four federal fiscal years of the approved TIP.
- Changing the federal funding source program (e.g., changing the source of federal funds from NHS to STP). This does not apply to projects utilizing sub-allocated funds.
- Splitting an entry already in the TIP, or breaking out another project or phase from the original entry. The intent of these adjustments is not to add a new project that is inconsistent with the will of the MPO, as evidenced by the original TIP entry, but to facilitate the implementation of the original TIP entry
- Removing a project reported as obligated or completed.
Administrative revisions are processed by MARC staff within two weeks of receiving all necessary information. Administrative revisions are subject to approval by the MARC director of transportation and do not require committee review or approval.
To process administrative modifications, MARC staff will:
- Enter the requested modifications into the project database and map as necessary .
- Prepare and publish an updated TIP project listing.
- Notify the Kansas Department of Transportation and Missouri Department of Transportation and request that modifications be included in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.
- Prepare a summary of administrative modification activity to present to the Total Transoprtation Policy Committee along with the quarterly TIP amendment
MARC retains the right to require a formal amendment for any proposed modification to the TIP that, in the opinion of staff, requires public review and the formal endorsement of the Total Transportation Policy Committee, Air Quality Forum (if necessary), and the MARC Board of Directors.
Declared emergencies
In the event of a declared state or federal emergency, or at the discretion of MARC’s executive director, MARC may elect to process emergency-related TIP revisions as administrative modifications. Emergency related revisions for which a formal amendment, as documented above, would be required under normal circumstances will also be processed as a formal amendment at the next scheduled opportunity.