CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY SIXTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-25-202 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Klarissa J. Peña, by request
RESOLUTION
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Approving The Transit Department’s 2025 Updated Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (Peña, by request)
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APPROVING THE TRANSIT DEPARTMENT’S 2025 UPDATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AGENCY SAFETY PLAN.
WHEREAS, the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) final rule (49 C.F.R. Part 673) of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires certain operators of public transportation systems that are recipients or sub-recipients of FTA grant funds to develop safety plans that include the processes and procedures necessary for implementing Safety Management Systems (SMS); and
WHEREAS, as a recipient of FTA funds and meeting the applicability standards of the regulation, the Transit Department complied with the requirements of this regulation by developing a PTASP by July 20, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the rule requires that the Transit Department review the PTASP annually and make updates as needed; and
WHEREAS, the Transit Department has conducted that review after this fifth year of implementation and FTA’s 49 CFR Part 673’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), found a need to make changes to the plan; and
WHEREAS, the Transit Department is required to submit its updated PTASP to its governing entity for approval; and
WHEREAS, the Council has considered and determined to approve the Transit Department’s PTASP as set forth in the attached Exhibit A entitled “City of Albuquerque 2025 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan.”
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
Section 1. That the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan as set forth in the attached Exhibit A entitled “City of Albuquerque 2025 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan” is approved.
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