Safety and Compliance Flashcards
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Which US DOT program requires recipients of federal transportation funds to set goals for contracting participation by small firms owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals?
Answer: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
The DBE program in 49 CFR Part 26 requires federal-aid recipients to set and monitor DBE participation goals, including on P3 projects.
A P3 transit project receives FTA funding. Which requirement governs whether steel, iron and manufactured products must be produced domestically?
Answer: Buy America requirements
FTA and FHWA Buy America provisions require domestic content for steel, iron and manufactured products on federally funded projects.
Which statute requires that new P3-built public facilities, such as transit stations, be accessible to people with disabilities?
Answer: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Title II of the ADA requires state and local public entities' facilities and services, including those delivered through P3s, to be accessible.
Which federal law prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs that receive federal financial assistance, including federally funded P3 projects?
Answer: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in any federally assisted program.
In a P3, which party generally keeps ultimate accountability to the public for safety, even when design, construction and operations are transferred?
Answer: The public sponsor
The public agency can transfer delivery risk but not its statutory and political accountability for public safety, so it keeps oversight rights.
A concessionaire repeatedly breaches safety performance standards. What does a typical P3 agreement let the public sponsor do before terminating?
Answer: Issue default notices and allow lenders step-in rights to cure
Direct agreements give lenders notice and step-in rights to cure concessionaire defaults before the public sponsor can terminate.
What is the main compliance purpose of a quality management plan (QMP) in a design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) P3?
Answer: To describe how the concessionaire will control and verify that work meets contract requirements
Under a QMP, the concessionaire runs quality control and assurance, and the public sponsor audits that system.