[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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