87 FR 53 pgs. 15489-15491 - Announcement of Fiscal Year 2021 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program Project Selections
Type: NOTICEVolume: 87Number: 53Pages: 15489 - 15491
Pages: 15489, 15490, 15491FR document: [FR Doc. 2022-05734 Filed 3-17-22; 8:45 am]
Agency: Transportation Department
Sub Agency: Federal Transit Administration
Official PDF Version: PDF Version
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Announcement of Fiscal Year 2021 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program Project Selections
AGENCY:
Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION:
Notice; announcement of project selections. Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program.
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the allocation of $409,274,220 to projects under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program (Buses and Bus Facilities Program) and provides administrative guidance on project implementation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Successful applicants should contact the appropriate FTA Regional Office for information regarding applying for the funds or program-specific information. A list of Regional Offices can be found at www.transit.dot.gov/. Unsuccessful applicants may contact Tom Wilson, Office of Program Management at (202) 366-5279, email: Thomas.Wilson@dot.gov within 30 days of this announcement to arrange a proposal debriefing. A TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5339(b)) authorizes FTA to make competitive grants for buses and bus facilities. Federal public law (49 U.S.C. 5338(a)(2)(M)) authorized $289,044,179 in FY 2021 funds for the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, appropriated an additional $125,000,000 for the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program. After the oversight takedown of $4,455,331, FTA is announcing the availability of $409,588,848 for the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program.
On September 20, 2021, FTA published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (86 FR 52291) announcing the availability of $409,588,848 in competitive funding under the Buses and Bus Facilities Program. These funds will provide financial assistance to states and eligible public agencies to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses, vans, and related equipment, and for capital projects to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. In response to the NOFO, FTA received 303 eligible project proposals totaling approximately $2.56 billion in Federal funds. Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria outlined in the NOFO.
Based on the criteria in the NOFO, FTA is funding 70 projects, as shown in Table 1, for a total of $409,274,220. Recipients selected for competitive funding are required to work with their FTA Regional Office to submit a grant application in FTA's Transit Award Management System (TrAMS) for the projects identified in the attached table to quickly obligate funds. Grant applications must only include eligible activities applied for in the original project application. Funds must be used consistent with the competitive proposal and for the eligible capital purposes described in the NOFO.
In cases where the allocation amount is less than the proposer's total requested amount, recipients are required to fund the scalable project option as described in the application. If the award amount does not correspond to the scalable option, the recipient should work with the Regional Office to reduce scope or scale the project such that a complete phase or project is accomplished. Recipients may also provide additional local funds to complete a proposed project. A discretionary project identification number has been assigned to each project for tracking purposes and must be used in the TrAMS application.
[top] Selected projects are eligible to incur costs under pre-award authority no earlier than the date projects were publicly announced. Pre-award authority does not guarantee that project expenses incurred prior to the award of a grant will be eligible for reimbursement, as eligibility for reimbursement is contingent upon other requirements, such as planning and environmental requirements, having been met. For more about FTA's policy on pre-award authority, please see the current FTA Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information and Interim Guidance at https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/apportionments. Post-award reporting requirements include submission of Federal Financial Reports and Milestone Progress Reports in TrAMS (see FTA Circular 5010.1E). Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, FTA circulars, and other Federal requirements in carrying out the project supported by the FTA grant. FTA emphasizes that recipients must follow all third-party procurement requirements set forth in Federal public
Technical Review and Evaluation Summary: The FTA assessed all project proposals that were submitted under the FY 2021 Buses and Bus Facilities Program competition according to the following evaluation criteria. The specific metrics for each criterion were described in the September 20, 2021, NOFO:
1. Demonstration of Need
2. Demonstration of Benefits
3. Planning/Local Prioritization
4. Local Financial Commitment
5. Project Implementation Strategy
6. Technical, Legal, and Financial Capacity
For each project, a technical review panel assigned a rating of Highly Recommended, Recommended, or Not Recommended for each of the six criteria. The technical review panel then assigned an overall rating of Highly Recommended, Recommended, Not Recommended, or Ineligible to the project proposal.
Projects were assigned a final overall rating of Highly Recommended if they were rated Highly Recommended in at least four categories overall, with no Not Recommended ratings. Projects were assigned a final overall rating of Recommended if the projects had three or more Recommended ratings and no Not Recommended ratings. Projects were assigned a rating of Not Recommended if they received a Not Recommended rating in any criteria. A summary of the final overall ratings for all 303 eligible project proposals is shown in the table below.
| Highly Recommended | 166 |
| Recommended | 95 |
| Not Recommended | 42 |
| Total | 303 |
As outlined in the NOFO, FTA made the final selections based on the technical ratings as well as geographic diversity, diversity in the size of transit systems receiving funding, Administration priorities including climate change, and/or receipt of other recent competitive awards.
As further outlined in the NOFO, in some cases, due to funding limitations, proposers that were selected for funding received less than the amount originally requested.
Nuria I. Fernandez,
Administrator.
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| State | Recipient | Project ID | Project description | Allocation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | City and Borough of Juneau, Capital Transit | D2022-BUSC-001 | On-route electric bus charging infrastructure | $1,446,827 |
| AL | City of Mobile | D2022-BUSC-002 | Bus replacement | 4,850,535 |
| AR | City of Jonesboro | D2022-BUSC-003 | Bus stop technology upgrades | 752,000 |
| AZ | Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-004 | Electric buses and charging equipment procurement; bus storage facility construction | 1,292,118 |
| CA | Eastern Contra Costa Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-005 | Zero-emission bus infrastructure | 3,998,543 |
| CA | Sacramento Regional Transit District | D2022-BUSC-006 | Bus replacement | 5,250,000 |
| CA | City of Torrance Transit Department | D2022-BUSC-007 | Transit fleet modernization | 6,280,000 |
| CA | Napa Valley Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-008 | Zero-emission bus electrification | 8,455,856 |
| CA | Riverside Transit Agency | D2022-BUSC-009 | Construction of hydrogen fueling stations and workforce training | 8,787,846 |
| CA | San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-010 | Zero-emission bus replacement | 8,799,979 |
| CA | SunLine Transit Agency | D2022-BUSC-011 | Zero-emission bus procurement and bus refurbishment for the Coachella Valley | 8,409,070 |
| CA | City of Norwalk: Norwalk Transit System | D2022-BUSC-012 | Zero-emission battery electric bus replacement | 3,530,822 |
| CA | City of Santa Rosa | D2022-BUSC-013 | Replacing diesel buses with battery electric and supporting infrastructure | 4,288,300 |
| CA | North County Transit District (NCTD) | D2022-BUSC-014 | Hydrogen electric bus replacement | 4,800,000 |
| CA | City of Cerritos | D2022-BUSC-015 | Electric bus procurement and fleet replacement | 4,378,140 |
| CA | Foothill Transit | D2022-BUSC-016 | Zero-emission double deck bus procurement | 7,942,200 |
| CA | California DOT on behalf of the City of Arvin | D2022-BUSC-017 | Rural battery electric bus replacement | 2,922,550 |
| CA | California DOT on behalf of Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS) | D2022-BUSC-018 | Improving bus system inter-modal connectivity to Yosemite National Park | 4,600,625 |
| CO | State of Colorado, Department of Transportation (CDOT) | D2022-BUSC-019 | Snowmass Multimodal Transit Station | 13,500,000 |
| CO | State of Colorado, Department of Transportation (CDOT) | D2022-BUSC-020 | Rural regional transit center renovations and expansion | 9,350,000 |
| CT | Connecticut Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-021 | Zero-emission bus procurement | 11,446,538 |
| DE | Delaware Transit Corporation | D2022-BUSC-022 | Rehoboth Transit Center modernization | 5,400,000 |
| FL | City of Gainesville Dept of Transportation & Mobility, Regional Transit System | D2022-BUSC-023 | Bus replacement and East Gainesville transfer station construction | 10,660,817 |
| FL | Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-024 | Electric bus and charging expansion | 18,399,000 |
| GA | Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) | D2022-BUSC-025 | Clayton County Multipurpose Operations and Maintenance Facility | 15,000,000 |
| HI | Honolulu, City and County of | D2022-BUSC-026 | Battery electric bus acquisition and service expansion | 4,711,900 |
| IA | Ames Transit Agency, d/b/a CyRide | D2022-BUSC-027 | Articulated electric bus procurement | 3,185,374 |
| ID | Valley Regional Transit | D2022-BUSC-028 | Transit vehicle replacement and electrification | 1,920,000 |
| IL | Madison County Mass Transit District | D2022-BUSC-029 | Bus replacement | 2,700,000 |
| IN | South Bend Public Transportation Corporation | D2022-BUSC-030 | Bus replacement | 4,327,304 |
| IN | Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation | D2022-BUSC-031 | Enhanced bus stops | 2,346,658 |
| KS | Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation | D2022-BUSC-032 | Rural accessible van procurement | 52,972 |
| KY | Transit Authority of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government | D2022-BUSC-033 | Bus replacement | 4,107,642 |
| LA | City of Shreveport | D2022-BUSC-034 | City-wide bus shelter improvements | 1,948,000 |
| MA | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-035 | Maintenance facility replacement and electrification | 5,000,000 |
| MD | MDOT-MTA on Behalf of Harford County | D2022-BUSC-036 | Bus replacement | 1,498,000 |
| ME | Greater Portland Transit District | D2022-BUSC-037 | Bus replacement | 1,887,000 |
| MI | Michigan Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-038 | Bus replacement and fleet expansion in the State of Michigan | 6,199,631 |
| MI | Michigan Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-039 | Bus facility replacement, expansion, and rehabilitation for four rural transit systems | 7,391,200 |
| MN | Minnesota Valley Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-040 | Burnsville bus garage modernization | 4,960,000 |
| MN | City of Rochester | D2022-BUSC-041 | Bus Stop improvement and 75th St. Park and Ride construction | 4,339,344 |
| MO | Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District | D2022-BUSC-042 | Battery electric bus deployment in DeBaliviere | 4,098,410 |
| MT | City of Billings, MET Transit Division | D2022-BUSC-043 | Bus replacement and facility refurbishment | 3,028,000 |
| NC | City of Greensboro | D2022-BUSC-044 | Replacing diesel buses with zero-emission buses and infrastructure in the City of Greensboro | 3,008,800 |
| NC | City of Concord | D2022-BUSC-045 | Bus replacement | 3,966,318 |
| NC | City of Durham | D2022-BUSC-046 | Durham Station renovation | 10,800,000 |
| NM | City of Albuquerque | D2022-BUSC-047 | Bus wash system | 1,161,100 |
| NV | Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada | D2022-BUSC-048 | Hydrogen fuel cell bus procurement and solar lighting for bus stops | 4,870,000 |
| NY | Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-049 | Battery electric bus deployment | 4,844,000 |
| NY | Metropolitan Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-050 | Bus depot renovation | 12,337,280 |
| OH | Laketran | D2022-BUSC-051 & D2022-BUSC-052 | Bus facility renovation and expansion | 7,233,149 & 7,448,832 |
| OH | Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-053 | Bus replacement | 1,514,888 |
| OH | Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-054 | Bus facility renovation and safety improvements | 2,307,200 |
| OH | Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) | D2022-BUSC-055 | Bus replacement with new green diesel and electric buses | 10,134,960 |
| OH | Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) | D2022-BUSC-056 | Bus facility roofing improvement | 4,000,000 |
| OK | Oklahoma Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-057 | Rural bus facility rehabilitation | 914,725 |
| OR | Rogue Valley Transportation District | D2022-BUSC-058 | Bus facility expansion | 12,552,523 |
| OR | Lane Transit District | D2022-BUSC-059 | Zero-emission bus replacement | 4,891,676 |
| OR | Oregon Department of Transportation, Public Transportation Division | D2022-BUSC-060 | Bus fleet expansion | 244,800 |
| PA | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-061 | South Philadelphia Transportation Center | 9,800,000 |
| SC | City of Rock Hill | D2022-BUSC-062 | Transit fleet and facilities expansion | 2,832,848 |
| TX | Galveston, City of | D2022-BUSC-063 | Low-emission fleet replacement | 1,060,000 |
| TX | Fort Worth Transportation Authority | D2022-BUSC-064 | Bus facility improvements | 6,484,320 |
| TX | Texas Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-065 | Rural transit asset replacement & modernization | 22,850,000 |
| UT | Utah Department of Transportation | D2022-BUSC-066 | Rural bus transit expansion project | 2,389,699 |
| VA | Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission | D2022-BUSC-067 | Bus transit hub rehabilitation | 916,500 |
| WA | Clark County Public Transportation Benefit Area | D2022-BUSC-068 | Bus replacement | 2,742,600 |
| WA | Kitsap Transit | D2022-BUSC-069 | Battery-electric buses and charging infrastructure procurement | 10,400,000 |
| WA | Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority | D2022-BUSC-070 | Bus procurement and station construction for I-405 Bus Rapid Transit Service | 12,924,801 |
| WI | City of Madison | D2022-BUSC-071 | Bus maintenance and administrative facility improvements | 6,400,000 |
| Total | 409,274,220 |
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