Federal Earmark Appropriations

The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission works with other organizations throughout the Miami Valley to identify projects that may be eligible for federal funding. Through a committee decision, the top projects are forwarded on to federal elected officials for deliberation. The purpose of this process is to establish a list of projects which benefit the Dayton Region to be submitted as requests for federal earmarked appropriations.

The partnership of MVRPC and other regional agencies has successfully obtained over $59 million dollars in federal funding, through the earmark process. Click for a list of regionally significant projects awarded over the last several years.

MVRPC is the lead agency for Transportation projects and Government Services projects. The Transportation projects and Government Services projects are reviewed by review panels which rank proposed projects by the importance of the project and the impact the proposed project will have in the overall area. The list of recommended priorities is then sent to the MVRPC Board structure for final review and adoption and submittal to the Dayton Regional Priority and Advocacy Committee.

The Dayton Regional Priority Development and Advocacy Committee presents the approved project list to the Dayton region federal legislative delegations. Project sponsors who agree to participate in the process are expected to support overall priority rankings.

FY2011 Federal Earmark Project Applications

November 16, 2009

On October 1, 2009 MVRPC's Board of Directors Authorized MVRPC staff to solicit for new FY2011 Federal Earmark projects. Subsequently, staff solicited MVRCP area jurisdictions beginning on October 1, 2009.

MVRPC closed the requests for funding applications on November 6, 2009. Summary lists of FY2011 Federal Earmark Transportation and Governments Services project applications are available for review online.

 

Results of the FY2011 Transportation and Government Services Earmark Process

Eight FY2011 Federal Earmark Transportation project applications, totaling $27 million, and seven FY2011 Federal Earmark Government Services project applications, totaling $11.3 million, (full FY2011 project application list (Adobe Acrobat Reader:20 kb) is available) were received by the deadline of November 6, 2009. Following staff scoring of the applications, an Earmark project sponsor's meeting was held on November 23, 2009 in order to reach consensus on the individual project rankings.

The Transportation and Government Services projects were then evaluated by a review panel on December 8, 2009. The panel reviewed and concurred with Staff ranking of the proposed projects by the importance of the project and by the impact the proposed project will have in the region. The MVRPC Review Panel recommended five Transportation “Traditional” (Roadway) projects, one Transportation "Non-Traditional" (Transit project) and five Government Services projects for submittal to the Dayton Region Priority Development and Advocacy Committee (PDAC). The MVRPC Review Panel further recommended that the Dayton Region Priority Development and Advocacy Committee also support that the top 2 Traditional (roadway) projects be submitted for consideration as High Priority Projects in the upcoming Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill. The MVRPC Board adopted the regional priorities as recommended by the Project Review Panel on January 7, 2010 and the ranked list of projects (Adobe Acrobat Reader:12 kb) was submitted to the PDAC on January 6, 2010. The Dayton Region Priority Development and Advocacy Committee will present the approved project list to the Dayton region federal legislative delegations on March 2, 2010.

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