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On Thursday, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board will consider a proposed $1.36 billion budget for fiscal-year 2012 that includes seat-replacement, elevator/escalator maintenance and noise abatement projects.

The spending plan includes $35.1 million in new budget initiatives targeting priority areas, however a “a big chunk of that ($24.2 million) is being put on hold until BART knows the outcome of State Transit Assistance (STA) funding,” BART officials said in a prepared statement.

The amount of STA funding won’t be known until the California state budget is passed, officials said.

Still, the agency intends to pursue $10.9 million in “highest-priority initiatives,” including $1.8 million for seat replacement, $500,000 for Title VI compliance, $300,000 for an attendance management program, $300,000 for elevator/escalator maintenance, $200,000 for rail noise abatement and $2.7 million for the Business Advancement Program transition.

The seat replacement and noise abatement projects aim to make current BART trains more comfortable riders until the entire BART fleet can be replaced with next-generation trains, officials said.