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T HE BUDGET

President's Message Department of Transportation

The Budget
Overview
Terminations, Reductions,
and Savings
Analytical Perspectives Media contact: 202-366-4750
Department of the Transportation FY2012 Request: $128 billion
Historical Tables FY2011 Request: $79 billion
Supplemental Materials FY2010 Enacted: $77 billion

Appendix A well-functioning transportation system is critical to the Nation’s prosperity. Whether it is by road, transit, aviation,
Supplementals, rail, or waterway, we rely on our transportation system to move people and goods safely, facilitate commerce, attract
Amendments, and and retain businesses, and support jobs. The President’s Budget provides $128 billion to support these efforts,
Releases including $13 billion in discretionary budget authority, $109 billion in obligation limitations and $6 billion in
OMB Contributors to the mandatory budget authority. Increases are made to enable the Department to deliver on its core safety mission and
Budget support economic growth. The Budget also features reforms to surface transportation programs, including a
consolidation of 55 duplicative, often-earmarked highway programs into five streamlined ones.
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Invests in Infrastructure Critical for Long Term Growth and Job Creation
Fact Sheets on Key
Issues
Proposes $556 billion for a six-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal that invests in America’s
Past Budgets future, creates jobs, and reforms how Federal dollars are spent. It reflects a need to balance fiscal discipline
with efforts to expedite our economic recovery and job creation.
As part of the surface transportation plan, boosts funding by $50 billion in the first year to create hundreds of
thousands of jobs in industries suffering from protracted unemployment.
Provides $8 billion in 2012 and $53 billion over six years to improve passenger rail service and expand
capacity toward reaching the President’s goal of providing 80 percent of Americans with convenient access to
a passenger rail system, featuring high-speed service, within 25 years.
Invests $30 billion in a National Infrastructure Bank to provide loans and grants for projects of regional and
national significance, supporting economic competitiveness.
Supports implementation of the NextGen Air Traffic Control System at $1.24 billion to improve efficiency,
safety, capacity, and environmental performance of the aviation system.

Reduces Costs to Taxpayers and Improves Services through Reform

Adopts a “Fix-It-First” approach for highway and transit grants, which will emphasize improving the condition
of existing infrastructure. Consolidates 55 highway programs into five, to give States and localities greater
flexibility to direct resources to their highest priorities and simplify operations.
Provides $32 billion for a competitive grant program designed to create incentives for State and local partners
to adopt critical reforms in safety, livability and demand management.
Reduces guaranteed funding for large airports, allows them more flexibility to generate their own revenue,
and focuses federal grants on small commercial and general aviation airports.
Commits to work with Congress to ensure that the funding increases for surface transportation do not
increase the deficit, following a suggestion by the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and
Reform.
Contains no earmarks and seeks to cancel long-dormant ones.

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