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Illinois, Tennessee Achieve SSO Certification
FTA announced that Illinois and Tennessee have obtained federal certification of their rail transit State Safety Oversight (SSO) Program in advance of the April 15, 2019, deadline, becoming the 23rd and 24th states out of 30 to achieve this certification.
Illinois DOT is responsible for providing safety oversight of the Chicago Transit Authority heavy rail system and is jointly responsible, with Missouri DOT, for providing safety oversight of the Bi-State Development Agency St. Louis Metro light rail system.
Tennessee DOT is responsible for providing safety oversight of the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority Lookout Mountain inclined railway and the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system.
Federal law requires states with rail transit systems to obtain FTA certification of their SSO Programs by April 15, 2019. By federal law, the deadline cannot be waived or extended, and if a state fails to meet the deadline, FTA is prohibited by law from awarding any new federal transit funds to transit agencies within the state until certification is achieved.
An SSO certification status table is available here.
To achieve FTA certification, an SSO Program must meet several federal statutory requirements, including establishing an agency that is financially and legally independent from the rail transit agencies it oversees. In addition, a state must ensure that its agency adopts and enforces relevant federal and state safety laws, has investigatory authority and has appropriate financial and human resources for the number, size and complexity of the rail transit systems within the state’s jurisdiction.
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