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File ID: 2023-00874 7/25/2023 Consent Item 10.
2023 California Transportation Commission (CTC) Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program Grant Application
File ID: 2023-00874
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to: 1) submit an application for the CTC Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program grant funding; 2) accept and execute the grant agreement and any related documents necessary to support the grant application and award; 3) if awarded, include the necessary match funds from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program in its annual resolution as required by SB 1.
Contact: Rachel Patten, Sustainability Analyst, (916) 808-5016, [email protected], Department of Public Works; Greg Smith, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-8364, [email protected], Department of Public Works; Lucinda Willcox, Assistant Director, (916) 808-5052, [email protected], Department of Public Works Presenter: None.
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The California Transportation Commission (CTC) has released a Call for Projects for the Local Transportation Climate Adaption Program’s initial funding cycle. The initial programming cycle will provide a total of $296.5 million in funding from a one-time appropriation of $148 million from the State Highway Account and approximately $49.5 million per year for three years from the Federal PROTECT (Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Savings Transportation) Formula Program established through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This grant is available for investments that help make surface transportation more resilient to natural hazards and disasters, including climate change, and can be used to support resiliency improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-threat coastal infrastructure.
Grant applications are due July 31, 2023. The maximum funding request allowed for a single project is $50 million. The grant requires a 20% non-federal match.
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Flooding is among the most significant risks facing the City. With climate change and increased intensity of storms, despite ongoing investments in strengthening the levee system, this risk increases as levees will face greater loads and varying water levels, as well as being exposed to more extreme heat in summer months. In addition to the primary levees on the American River, the City has long maintained a secondary levee system south of the river with development on both sides. Where roadways intersect this system, there are floodgates that were designed to be closed in the event of a catastrophic breach in the American River levee. By closing these floodgates, the secondary levee can contain the water and reduce damage to life and property for areas south of the levee.
These floodgates are many decades old and in need of substantial repair to remain effective.
Based upon the stated goals and requirements of the grant program, policy objectives of the City, and desired outcomes for community benefits, staff has scoped a project application to implement needed capital improvements to the eleven floodgates within the secondary levee system. An assessment conducted in 2017 found many of the floodgates in the secondary levee system have significant issues with their design, condition, or operations, with critical deficiencies that would render the floodgates inoperable or ineffective in a flood situation. To adapt to the increasing climate change related threat of flooding and improve community level resilience, updating the floodgate system would ensure that in the event of primary levee failure, significant flooding impacts to the city and critical transportation corridors could be minimized, preventing property damage, death and injuries, and retaining critical transportation corridors to allow for commerce, evacuation, and other services.
Policy Considerations: This project is consistent with a variety of City policies to protect life and property from flooding, including the following general plan policies listed below:
EC 2.1.3 Interagency Levee Management. The City shall work with local, regional, State, and Federal agencies to ensure new and existing levees are adequate in providing flood protection. (IGC) EC 2.1.4 200-year Flood Protection. The City shall work with local, regional, State, and Federal agencies to achieve by 2025 at least 200-year flood protection for all areas of the city. (RDR, MPSP) EC 2.1.5 Funding for 200-year Flood Protection. The City shall continue to cooperate with local, regional, State, and Federal agencies in securing funding to obtain the maximum level of flood protection that is practical, with a minimum goal of achieving at least 200-year flood protection as quickly as possible. (FB/IGC)
This effort is also intended to address City policies to promote Climate Action and Adaptation.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations: Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines, continuing administrative activities such as grant applications do not constitute a project and are therefore exempt from review. Any projects awarded grant funding will undergo necessary environmental review. With federal funding, programs will also need to be consistent with the
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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Sustainability: This grant is intended to adapt our transportation network and levee floodgates to increase resilience to climate change.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: The primary objective of the Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program grant is to provide support for eligible applicants as they develop and implement local surface transportation infrastructure projects to climate change effects, improve transportation and community resiliency to natural hazards and disasters, and advance environmental justice by directly benefitting climate-vulnerable, underserved, and under-resourced communities. The areas south of the secondary levee that are at risk of flooding inundation in the event of a levee failure include many under-resourced communities with significant vulnerabilities in the event of flooding.
The project identified in this report meets the objective of the grant program and addresses key City policy objectives. Securing this grant funding would support the cost-effective implementation of important safeguards and support the City’s climate resilience and adaptation goals.
Financial Considerations: Final estimates are still being developed, but the grant request is estimated to be about $5-10 million. The grant requires a non-federal match of 20% of the project budget (estimated at $1-2 million) is required. If the City is successful in securing this grant, funding from the Corridor Program (R15200000) (Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, Fund 2036) has been identified to utilize as match.
If grant funding is awarded, staff will return to the City Council to accept the funding and establish the project and budget.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Background: The map below shows the location of the secondary levee system.
File ID: 2023-00874 7/25/2023 Consent Item 10.
RESOLUTION NO.
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
2023 California Transportation Commission
Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program Grant Application
BACKGROUND
A. The California Transportation Commission (CTC) has released a Call for Projects for the Local Transportation Climate Adaption Program’s initial funding cycle of $296.5 million in funding from the State Highway Account and Federal PROTECT Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Savings Transportation) Formula Program. Applications are due July 31, 2023.
B. The CTC Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program grant is available for investments that help make surface transportation more resilient to natural hazards and disasters, including climate change, and can be used to support resiliency improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at -threat coastal infrastructure.
C. City staff has reviewed the guide lines, criteria, and requirements for the grant, and prepared a grant application to support the implementation of needed capital improvements to floodgates within the secondary levee system.
D. The CTC Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program requires 20% non -federal match.
E. Senate Bill 1 (SB1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Chapter 5, Statutes of 2017), was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor in April 2017 in order to address the significant multi -modal transportation funding shortfalls statewide. SB 1 includes accountability and transparency provisions that will ensure the residents and businesses of the City of Sacramento are aware of the projects proposed for funding in the community and which projects have been completed each fiscal year. The City must adopt by resolution a list of projects proposed to receive fiscal year funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA).
F. The FY2023/24 Capital Improvement Program allocates $12.5 million in budget for RMRA funds (Fund 2036) in the Transportation Corridor Program (R15200000).
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Th e City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to submit an application for the 2023 CTC Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program.
Section 2. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to submit any and all related documents necessary to support the grant application.
Section 3. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to execute grant agreements and any related grant documents upon award by the CTC.
Section 4. If awarded grant funding through the 2023 CTC Local Transportation Climate Adaptation Program, the City Council intends to include the necessary match funds from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program in its annual resolution as required by SB1.