Caltrans Division of Local Assistance released Office Bulletin DLA-OB 18-03 on November 29, 2018, introducing a new dynamic form, LAPM 3-A, Project Authorization/Adjustment Request, to request authorizations and adjustments for federal-aid projects. This form was created to streamline the request process and consolidate multiple forms into one dynamic form.
Mandatory Use of LAPM 3-A after April 1, 2019
Beginning April 1, 2019, project sponsors must use LAPM 3-A to request authorizations and adjustments for their non-emergency relief federal-aid projects. On the LAPM Forms page of our Local Assistance website, we have rolled out LAPM 3-A and have relegated the prior duplicative forms to the “Superseded by LAPM 3-A” section in the right column. These prior forms continue to be made available to ensure our local and regional agencies don’t get caught in the middle of their Requests for Authorization process; however, our current plan is to remove these prior forms from the LAPM Forms page and archive them by June 1. As of July 1, Requests for Authorizations received using the prior forms will be returned to the project sponsor for resubmittal using LAPM 3-A.
For more information, see Office Bulletin DLA-OB-18-03, Authorization/Adjustment Requests on the Caltrans LAPM Office Bulletin website, and form LAPM 3-A on the Caltrans LAPM Forms page.
Please make sure to right-click on the form, save to your computer, then open it from Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Otherwise, by just clicking the link, the form may not appear or work properly.
For questions, please contact your District Local Assistance Engineer.