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Paul Meissner on July 20, 2017 at 2:19 pm

Re: Purple Line

In the draft transportation budget, every transit project that doesn't have a Full Funding Grant Agreement in place has been dropped.  And the DOT / FTA decided not to sign a FFGA because of the litigation.

So the DC Circuit would have to reverse the Judge Leon's ruling first.  Then it goes to DOT / Secretary Chao to sign the FFGA.  Secretary Chao could refuse to sign the FFGA, or a Congress could pass an amendment that would prohibit her from signing the FFGA.  I imagine that the FFGA is what Maryland and PLP are waiting for to begin heavy construction.

I may be missing a step.

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