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The Department will also consider whether projects enhance personal mobility and <br /> accessibility. Such projects include, but are not limited to, investments that better connect <br /> people to essential services such as employment centers, health care, schools and education <br /> facilities, healthy food, and recreation; remove physical or operational barriers to access; <br /> strengthen communities through neighborhood redevelopment; mitigate the negative impacts of <br /> freight movement on communities—such as road or railroad crossing congestion; and support <br /> workforce development, particularly for disadvantaged groups, which include low-income <br /> groups, persons with visible and hidden disabilities, elderly individuals, and minority persons <br /> and populations. The Department may consider whether a project's design is likely to generate <br /> benefits for all users of the proposed project, including non-driving members of a community <br /> adjacent to or affected by the project. <br /> B. Federal Award Information <br /> 1. Amount Available <br /> The FAST Act authorizes the FASTLANE program at$4.5 billion for fiscal years <br /> (FY) 2016 through 2020, including $850 million for FY 2017 to be awarded by <br /> USDOT on a competitive basis to projects of national or regional significance that <br /> meet statutory requirements. The funding described in this notice is authorized for <br /> FY 2017 in FAST Act Section 1101(a)(5). The amount that will be available for <br /> awards is uncertain because the Department is issuing this notice before full-year <br /> 3 Funds are subject to the overall Federal-aid highway obligation limitation,and funds in excess of the obligation <br /> limitation provided to the program are distributed to the States.While$850 million is authorized for FY 2017,DOT <br /> estimates that approximately$787 million will be available for award For additional information see FAST Act§ <br /> 1102(f)and the Transportation,Housing and Urban Development,and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,2016, <br /> Pub.L. 114-113,div.L§ 120.Applicants should note that the provisions of the FY2016 appropriations act are only <br /> illustrative and may differ from what will be enacted in a full year FY 2017 appropriations act. <br /> Page 7 of 48 <br />