Federal Highway Administration September 18, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions on Proposed Highway in Delaware
Document Number: E8-21855
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-09-18
Agency: Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation
This notice announces actions taken by the FHWA and other Federal agencies that are final within the meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The actions relate to: a proposed highway project, the U.S. 301: MD/DE Line to SR1, South of the C&D Canal, New Castle County, Delaware, including the new 13 mile long U.S. 301 mainline on new alignment between the Delaware/Maryland state line and State Route (SR) 1, and the new 3.5 mile long Spur Road, on new alignment from proposed U.S. 301 in the vicinity of Armstrong Corner Road to the Summit Bridge, south of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal, State of Delaware. Those actions grant approvals for both parts of the proposed project.
Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects; Expedited Process for Execution of TIFIA Loans
Document Number: E8-21783
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-09-18
Agency: Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation
In order to more efficiently facilitate innovative financing transactions, the DOT intends to develop an expedited process for execution of TIFIA loans for certain eligible highway projects developed pursuant to concession agreements with senior bank and/or bond debt facilities. To the extent applicants choose to take advantage of the expedited process, utilizing standardized documents and terms, as well as meet standard closing conditions, the DOT will commit to execute a final loan agreement within 45 days of the applicant's agreement to all of the terms and conditions contained in a template term sheet and a template loan agreement, drafts of which are published for comment on the docket for this notice and at the TIFIA Web site listed below. In addition, the DOT seeks comment regarding which term sheet and loan terms would need to be amended to provide an expedited process and which terms need to be amended for eligible transit projects developed pursuant to concession agreements.
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