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Description of Modification
Document Type:
Modification to Previous
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
FTA-2010-006-TPM-SGR
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
May 07, 2010
Creation Date:
May 07, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 18, 2010
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jun 18, 2010
Archive Date:
Jul 18, 2010
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Transportation
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
$775,000,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
20.500
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Federal Transit_Capital Investment Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Only public transportation agencies or State DOTs may apply.Eligible proposers and eventual grant applicants under this initiative are Direct Recipients under the Section 5307 Urbanized Area Formula program, States, and Indian Tribes. Proposals for funding eligible projects in rural (nonurbanized) areas must be submitted as part of a consolidated State proposal with the exception of nonurbanized projects to Indian Tribes. Tribes, States, and Direct Recipients may also submit consolidated proposals for projects in urbanized areas.Proposals shall contain projects to be implemented by the Recipient or its subrecipients. Eligible subrecipients include public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and private providers engaged in public transportation.
Agency Name
DOT/Federal Transit Administration
Description
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of discretionary Section 5309 Bus and Bus Facilities grant funds in support of its ‘‘State of Good Repair’’ initiative. The State of Good Repair (SGR) Bus initiative will be funded with up to $775 million in unallocated Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 discretionary Bus and Bus Facilities Program funds, authorized by 49 USC 5309(b) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users (SAFETEA–LU), Public Law 109–59, August 10, 2005. FTA may use additional Bus and Bus Facilities program funding that becomes available in the future to further support this initiative.The SGR Bus initiative will make funds available to public transit providers to finance capital projects to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct/rehabilitate bus-related facilities, including programs of bus and bus related projects which may include assistance to subrecipients that are public agencies, private companies engaged in public transportation, or private non-profit organizations. This Notice includes priorities established by FTA for these discretionary funds, the criteria FTA will use to identify meritorious projects for funding, and describes how to apply.This announcement is available on the FTA Web site at: http://www.fta.dot.gov. FTA will announce final selections on the Web site and in the Federal Register. SAFETEA–LU grants authority to the Secretary to make grants to assist State and local governmental authorities in financing capital projects to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct or rehabilitate bus-related facilities, including programs of bus and bus related projects for assistance to subrecipients that are public agencies, private companies engaged in public transportation, or private non-profit organizations. Projects eligible for funding under the SGR Bus initiative are capital projects such as: purchase, replacement, or rehabilitation of, buses and vans and related equipment (including Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), fare equipment, communication devices that are FCC mandatory narrow-banding compliant); replacement or the modernization of bus maintenance and revenue service (passenger) facilities; and the development and implementation of transit asset management systems, that address the objectives identified.
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Darren Jaffe
Office of Program Management
(202) 366-4008
darren.jaffe@dot.gov
TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/FIRS)
Federal Transit Administration
Synopsis Modification History
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