---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 611.207"
title: "49"
number: "611.207"
heading: "Overall New Starts project ratings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/611.207"
---

# §611.207. Overall New Starts project ratings.

- (a) [Reserved]
- (b) FTA will assign overall project ratings to each proposed project of “high,” “medium-high, “medium,” “medium-low,” or “low” as required by [49 U.S.C. 5309(g)(2)(A)](/usc/49/5309.md?p=g-2-A).
  - (1) These ratings will indicate the overall merit of a proposed New Starts project at the time of evaluation.
  - (2) Ratings for individual projects will be developed upon entry into engineering and prior to an FFGA. Additionally, ratings may be updated while a project is in engineering if the project scope and cost have changed materially since the most recent rating was assigned.
- (c) These ratings will be used to:
  - (1) Approve or deny advancement of a proposed project into engineering;
  - (2) Approve or deny projects for ESWAs and FFGAs; and
  - (3) Support annual funding recommendations to Congress in the Annual Report on Funding Recommendations required by [49 U.S.C. 5309(o)(1)](/usc/49/5309.md?p=o-1).
- (d) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5309(g)(6) and 5334(a)(11); 49 CFR 1.91.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 2031, Jan. 9, 2013, as amended at 90 FR 28231, July 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted.