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Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016
Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities
Competitive Program Project
Selections
Federal Transit Administration.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the
selection of projects with Fiscal Year
(FY) 2016 appropriations for the Grants
for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive
Program (Bus Program), as authorized
by Federal transit law. A total of
$210,990,000 is available for
competitive allocations in FY 2016. On
March 29, 2016, FTA published a Notice
of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR
17553) announcing the availability of
Federal funding for the Bus Program.
These program funds will provide
financial assistance to states and eligible
public agencies to replace, rehabilitate
and purchase buses and related
equipment and to construct bus-related
facilities, including technological
changes or innovations to modify low or
no emission vehicles or facilities.
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.fta.dot.gov. Unsuccessful
applicants may contact Sam Snead,
Office of Program Management at (202)
366–1089, email: Samuel.Snead@
dot.gov, to arrange a proposal debriefing
within 30 days of this announcement. A
TDD is available at 1–800–877–8339
(TDD/FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
response to the NOFO, FTA received
284 project proposals from 47 states
requesting $1.64 billion in Federal
funds, or nearly eight dollars requested
for each dollar available, indicating
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significant demand for funding for buses
and bus facility projects. Project
proposals were evaluated based on each
applicant’s responsiveness to the
program evaluation criteria outlined in
the NOFO.
FTA is funding 61 projects, as shown
in Table 1, for a total of $210,990,000.
Recipients selected for competitive
funding should 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.
Funds must be used consistent with the
competitive proposal and for the eligible
capital purposes established in the
NOFO and described in the FTA
Circular 9030.1E.
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, for
example due to a cap on the award
amount, 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 are reminded that program
requirements such as cost sharing or
local match can be found in the NOFO.
A discretionary project identification
number has been assigned to each
project for tracking purposes and must
be used in the TrAMs application.
Selected projects are eligible to incur
costs under pre-award authority no
earlier than the date projects were
publicly announced, September 8, 2016.
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
FTA Fiscal Year 2016 Apportionments,
Allocations, and Program Information
and Interim Guidance found in 81 FR
7893 (February 16, 2016). Post-award
reporting requirements include
submission of the Federal Financial
Report and Milestone progress reports
in TrAMs as appropriate (see
FTA.C.5010.1D and C9030.1E).
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
guidance, as described in
FTA.C.4220.1F. Funds allocated in this
announcement must be obligated in a
grant by September 30, 2019.
Technical Review and Evaluation
Summary: FTA assessed all project
proposals that were submitted under the
FY 2016 Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities competition according to the
following evaluation criteria. The
specific metrics for each criterion were
described in the March 29, 2016 Notice
of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):
1. Demonstration of Need
2. Demonstration of Benefits
3. Project Implementation Strategy
4. Planning/Local Prioritization
5. Local Financial Commitment
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 the
Demonstration of Need and
Demonstration of Benefits criteria and at
least four categories overall, with no
‘‘Not Recommended’’ ratings. Projects
were assigned a final overall rating of
Recommended if the project had no
more than one Not Recommended rating
among the six criteria and at least
Recommended for Demonstration of
Need and Demonstration of Benefits.
Projects were assigned a rating of a Not
Recommended if they received Not
Recommended rating in two or more
criteria, or received a rating of Not
Recommended for any one among the
Demonstration of Need, Demonstration
of Benefits, or Technical/Financial/
Legal Capacity criteria. A summary of
the overall scores is shown in the table
below.
Overall Project Ratings (All
Submissions):
Highly Recommended ..........
Recommended .....................
Not Recommended ...............
Ineligible ................................
36 projects
158
77
13
Total ...............................
284
As outlined in the NOFO, FTA made
the final selections based on the
technical ratings as well geographic
diversity, diversity in the size of the
transit systems, 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. FTA was able to fund all the
Highly Recommended projects,
excluding applicants that already
received FY 2016 Low and No Emission
Grant Funding awarded under this
NOFO. None of the projects that
received an overall rating of Not
Recommended or Ineligible were
selected for funding.
In the interest of geographic diversity,
FTA awarded funding to at least one
project in each state that submitted a
project rated at least recommended.
These projects were selected based on
their technical rating, while also
considering the amount requested and
directing at least 10% of the program
funding to projects in rural areas, as
required by law.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5339(b).
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
TABLE 1—FY 16 GRANTS FOR BUSES AND BUS FACILITIES COMPETITION PROJECT SELECTIONS
State
Recipient
Project ID
Project description
Renovate and expand bus
maintenance and storage
facility.
Purchase compressed natural gas (CNG) bus.
Purchase CNG buses .........
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AK .................
Fairbanks North Star Borough.
D2016–BUSP–001 ....
AL .................
Birmingham-Jefferson
County Transit Authority.
Central Arkansas Transit
Authority dba Rock Region METRO.
N. Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority.
D2016–BUSP–002 ....
AR .................
AZ .................
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D2016–BUSP–003 ....
D2016–BUSP–004 ....
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Purchase hybrid dieselelectric buses.
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Allocation
12,800,000
Project rating
Highly Recommended.
405,000
Recommended.
1,653,498
Recommended.
2,202,522
Highly Recommended.
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TABLE 1—FY 16 GRANTS FOR BUSES AND BUS FACILITIES COMPETITION PROJECT SELECTIONS—Continued
State
Recipient
Project ID
Project description
AZ .................
Yavapai-Apache Nation ......
D2016–BUSP–005 ....
CA .................
California Department of
Transportation.
Foothill Transit ....................
D2016–BUSP–006 ....
Purchase 15-passenger
van; construct bus stop
shelters.
Construct new bus maintenance facility.
Design and construct transit
center at Mount San Antonio College.
Purchase CNG replacement
buses, install related
CNG infrastructure, workforce development.
Design and construct vehicle maintenance and storage facility; workforce development.
Purchase replacement
buses; workforce development and training.
Purchase CNG fueled replacement buses.
Replace CNG fueling equipment at bus maintenance
facility.
Purchase replacement hybrid diesel-electric buses.
Design and construct new
downtown transit center
to replace current facility.
Purchase replacement
buses.
Purchase replacement
buses.
Purchase CNG buses .........
CA .................
D2016–BUSP–007 ....
CA .................
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
D2016–BUSP–008 ....
CA .................
Marin County Transit District.
D2016–BUSP–009 ....
CA .................
Monterey-Salinas Transit ....
D2016–BUSP–010 ....
CA .................
Sacramento Regional Transit District.
Sacramento Regional Transit District.
D2016–BUSP–011 ....
San Joaquin Regional Transit District.
San Luis Obispo Regional
Transit Authority.
D2016–BUSP–013 ....
Santa Barbara Metropolitan
Transit District.
Mesa County .......................
D2016–BUSP–015 ....
CA .................
CA .................
CA .................
CA .................
CO ................
FL ..................
GA .................
HI ..................
IA ..................
IL ...................
IN ..................
KY .................
MA ................
MD ................
ME ................
MI ..................
MN ................
MO ................
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MO ................
MT .................
NC .................
ND .................
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Hillsborough Transit Authority.
Chatham Area Transit Authority.
State of Hawaii, Department
of Transportation.
Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rock Island Co. Metropolitan Mass Transit District.
City of Columbus ................
D2016–BUSP–012 ....
D2016–BUSP–014 ....
D2016–BUSP–016 ....
D2016–BUSP–017 ....
D2016–BUSP–018 ....
D2016–BUSP–019 ....
D2016–BUSP–020 ....
D2016–BUSP–021 ....
D2016–BUSP–022 ....
Kentucky Transportation
Cabinet.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
D2016–BUSP–023 ....
Maryland Department of
Transportation.
Maine Department of Transportation.
Mass Transportation Authority (Flint, MI).
D2016–BUSP–025 ....
Metropolitan Council Metro
Transit.
City Utilities of Springfield,
Missouri.
Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.
Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes.
City of Greensboro .............
D2016–BUSP–028 ....
North Dakota Department of
Transportation.
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D2016–BUSP–024 ....
D2016–BUSP–026 ....
D2016–BUSP–027 ....
D2016–BUSP–029 ....
D2016–BUSP–030 ....
D2016–BUSP–031 ....
D2016–BUSP–032 ....
D2016–BUSP–033 ....
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Allocation
Project rating
105,000
Highly Recommended.
4,280,512
Highly Recommended.
7,240,000
Highly Recommended.
10,500,000
Highly Recommended.
4,400,000
Highly Recommended.
3,687,100
Highly Recommended.
695,088
Highly Recommended.
400,000
Highly Recommended.
8,284,000
Highly Recommended.
4,000,000
Highly Recommended.
5,680,905
Highly Recommended.
208,000
Highly Recommended.
4,273,771
Recommended.
Purchase paratransit vehicles.
Purchase replacement transit vehicles.
Purchase transit vehicles
for rural operators.
Purchase CNG buses .........
1,608,880
Highly Recommended.
Purchase of small heavy
duty transit vehicles.
Purchase transit vehicles
for rural service.
Construct New Quincy Center bus terminal and intermodal enhancements.
Rehabilitate transit buses;
workforce training.
Purchase replacement
buses.
Purchase CNG transit
buses; workforce development.
Purchase low floor buses ...
960,000
Recommended.
4,273,771
Recommended.
391,000
Recommended.
728,000
Recommended.
5,823,974
Highly Recommended.
4,273,771
Recommended.
533,575
Recommended.
1,441,600
Recommended.
12,800,000
103,515
Highly Recommended.
Recommended.
Purchase buses; workforce
development.
Purchase buses ..................
3,870,960
Highly Recommended.
8,986,350
Highly Recommended.
Purchase buses and vans;
workforce development.
Renovate ticketing, call center, and waiting areas at
the J. Douglas Galyon
Depot.
Purchase replacement rural
transit vehicles and two
intercity bus vehicles.
681,450
Highly Recommended.
960,000
Recommended.
844,000
Recommended.
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TABLE 1—FY 16 GRANTS FOR BUSES AND BUS FACILITIES COMPETITION PROJECT SELECTIONS—Continued
State
Recipient
Project ID
Project description
NE .................
Transit Authority of the City
of Omaha.
D2016–BUSP–034 ....
NH .................
New Hampshire Department of Transportation.
New Jersey Transit Corporation.
City of Las Cruces ..............
D2016–BUSP–035 ....
Purchase low floor, CNG
buses and maintenance
equipment; workforce development.
Purchase heavy-duty transit
bus.
Construct new bus terminal
NJ .................
NM ................
Recommended.
382,500
Recommended.
2,656,452
Recommended.
1,134,750
Recommended.
4,273,771
Recommended.
6,691,634
Highly Recommended.
1,932,000
Highly Recommended.
Purchase replacement ADA
transit vehicles.
Purchase low-floor 30-foot
replacement bus.
Purchase CNG replacement
buses.
Rehabilitate Wissahickon
Transit Center.
3,590,154
Highly Recommended.
320,000
Highly Recommended.
2,040,000
Highly Recommended.
4,000,000
Highly Recommended.
D2016–BUSP–045 ....
Purchase replacement transit buses.
864,000
Highly Recommended.
D2016–BUSP–046 ....
Construct New Goff Avenue
bus hub and passenger
facility and transit corridor
improvements.
Purchase 40ft low-floor
commuter style coaches
and related equipment.
Rehabilitate downtown transit station.
Purchase replacement transit buses.
Purchase replacement transit vehicles.
Rehabilitate El Metro Administration Facility.
Purchase replacement
buses.
Purchase replacement
buses.
Purchase heavy duty transit
buses.
5,636,745
Highly Recommended.
6,153,600
Highly Recommended.
1,145,850
Highly Recommended.
4,273,771
Recommended.
D2016–BUSP–036 ....
D2016–BUSP–037 ....
New York City Department
of Transportation.
D2016–BUSP–038 ....
OH ................
Ohio Department of Transportation.
D2016–BUSP–039 ....
OK .................
Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority.
Oklahoma Department of
Transportation.
City of Wilsonville—SMART
Transit.
River Valley Transit (Williamsport, AA).
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority
(SEPTA).
Transportation and Motor
Buses for Public Use Authority (Altoona, PA).
Rhode Island Public Transit
Authority.
D2016–BUSP–040 ....
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments.
City of Sioux Falls ...............
D2016–BUSP–047 ....
OR ................
PA .................
PA .................
PA .................
RI ..................
SC .................
SD .................
TN .................
D2016–BUSP–041 ....
D2016–BUSP–042 ....
D2016–BUSP–043 ....
D2016–BUSP–044 ....
D2016–BUSP–048 ....
TX .................
Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
City of Laredo & Laredo
Transit Management Inc.
City of Wichita Falls ............
D2016–BUSP–052 ....
UT .................
Utah Transit Authority .........
D2016–BUSP–053 ....
VA .................
D2016–BUSP–054 ....
WA ................
Transportation District Commission of Hampton
Roads.
Virgin Islands Department
of Public Works.
Vermont Agency of Transportation.
City of Longview .................
D2016–BUSP–057 ....
WA ................
City of Longview .................
D2016–BUSP–058 ....
WA ................
Clark County Public Transportation Benefit Area.
D2016–BUSP–059 ....
WA ................
Spokane Transit Authority ..
D2016–BUSP–060 ....
TX .................
TX .................
VI ..................
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Project rating
2,424,240
NY .................
OK .................
Allocation
D2016–BUSP–049 ....
D2016–BUSP–050 ....
D2016–BUSP–051 ....
D2016–BUSP–055 ....
D2016–BUSP–056 ....
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Purchase buses for vehicle
replacement and service
expansion.
Construct a combination of
bus lanes, stations, refurbished bus stops and
transfer points, safety improvements, and transit
signal priority and signal
timing changes.
Purchase replacement transit vehicles for rural service.
Purchase CNG replacement
buses.
Rehabilitate La Reine Bus
Facility.
Purchase heavy-duty transit
buses.
Construct expansion of
downtown transit center.
Purchase low-floor biodiesel
buses.
Purchase low floor hybrid
diesel-electric replacement buses.
Construct multimodal transit
center.
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11,249,240
Highly Recommended.
9,875,083
Highly Recommended.
1,376,000
Highly Recommended.
4,273,770
Recommended.
1,257,393
Recommended.
1,696,405
Recommended.
3,924,000
Recommended.
2,784,000
Highly Recommended.
832,000
Highly Recommended.
6,080,000
Highly Recommended.
1,000,000
Highly Recommended.
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TABLE 1—FY 16 GRANTS FOR BUSES AND BUS FACILITIES COMPETITION PROJECT SELECTIONS—Continued
State
WI .................
Total .......
Recipient
Project ID
D2016–BUSP–061 ....
Purchase replacement for
side loading accessible
mini-van.
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with NMTC Program evaluation efforts.
Affected Public: Private Sector:
Business or other for-profits, Not-forprofit institutions); State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 5,940.
Dated: October 5, 2016.
Brenda Simms,
Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.
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other Federal agencies to comment on
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.
Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016 Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities Competitive Program Project Selections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal
Year (FY) 2016 appropriations for the Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities Competitive Program (Bus Program), as authorized by Federal
transit law. A total of $210,990,000 is available for competitive
allocations in FY 2016. On March 29, 2016, FTA published a Notice of
Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 17553) announcing the availability of
Federal funding for the Bus Program. These program funds will provide
financial assistance to states and eligible public agencies to replace,
rehabilitate and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct
bus-related facilities, including technological changes or innovations
to modify low or no emission vehicles or facilities.
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.fta.dot.gov. Unsuccessful applicants may
contact Sam Snead, Office of Program Management at (202) 366-1089,
email: Samuel.Snead@dot.gov, to arrange a proposal debriefing within 30
days of this announcement. A TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/
FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the NOFO, FTA received 284
project proposals from 47 states requesting $1.64 billion in Federal
funds, or nearly eight dollars requested for each dollar available,
indicating
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significant demand for funding for buses and bus facility projects.
Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's
responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria outlined in the NOFO.
FTA is funding 61 projects, as shown in Table 1, for a total of
$210,990,000. Recipients selected for competitive funding should 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. Funds must be used consistent with the competitive
proposal and for the eligible capital purposes established in the NOFO
and described in the FTA Circular 9030.1E.
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, for example due to a cap on
the award amount, 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 are reminded that program requirements such
as cost sharing or local match can be found in the NOFO. A
discretionary project identification number has been assigned to each
project for tracking purposes and must be used in the TrAMs
application.
Selected projects are eligible to incur costs under pre-award
authority no earlier than the date projects were publicly announced,
September 8, 2016. 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 FTA Fiscal Year 2016 Apportionments, Allocations, and
Program Information and Interim Guidance found in 81 FR 7893 (February
16, 2016). Post-award reporting requirements include submission of the
Federal Financial Report and Milestone progress reports in TrAMs as
appropriate (see FTA.C.5010.1D and C9030.1E). 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 guidance, as described in
FTA.C.4220.1F. Funds allocated in this announcement must be obligated
in a grant by September 30, 2019.
Technical Review and Evaluation Summary: FTA assessed all project
proposals that were submitted under the FY 2016 Grants for Buses and
Bus Facilities competition according to the following evaluation
criteria. The specific metrics for each criterion were described in the
March 29, 2016 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):
1. Demonstration of Need
2. Demonstration of Benefits
3. Project Implementation Strategy
4. Planning/Local Prioritization
5. Local Financial Commitment
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 the Demonstration of Need and
Demonstration of Benefits criteria and at least four categories
overall, with no ``Not Recommended'' ratings. Projects were assigned a
final overall rating of Recommended if the project had no more than one
Not Recommended rating among the six criteria and at least Recommended
for Demonstration of Need and Demonstration of Benefits. Projects were
assigned a rating of a Not Recommended if they received Not Recommended
rating in two or more criteria, or received a rating of Not Recommended
for any one among the Demonstration of Need, Demonstration of Benefits,
or Technical/Financial/Legal Capacity criteria. A summary of the
overall scores is shown in the table below.
Overall Project Ratings (All Submissions):
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Highly Recommended...................................... 36 projects
Recommended............................................. 158
Not Recommended......................................... 77
Ineligible.............................................. 13
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Total............................................... 284
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As outlined in the NOFO, FTA made the final selections based on the
technical ratings as well geographic diversity, diversity in the size
of the transit systems, 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. FTA was able to fund all the
Highly Recommended projects, excluding applicants that already received
FY 2016 Low and No Emission Grant Funding awarded under this NOFO. None
of the projects that received an overall rating of Not Recommended or
Ineligible were selected for funding.
In the interest of geographic diversity, FTA awarded funding to at
least one project in each state that submitted a project rated at least
recommended. These projects were selected based on their technical
rating, while also considering the amount requested and directing at
least 10% of the program funding to projects in rural areas, as
required by law.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5339(b).
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
Table 1--FY 16 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competition Project Selections
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State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation Project rating
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AK.................... Fairbanks North Star D2016-BUSP-001................. Renovate and expand 12,800,000 Highly Recommended.
Borough. bus maintenance and
storage facility.
AL.................... Birmingham-Jefferson D2016-BUSP-002................. Purchase compressed 405,000 Recommended.
County Transit natural gas (CNG)
Authority. bus.
AR.................... Central Arkansas D2016-BUSP-003................. Purchase CNG buses.. 1,653,498 Recommended.
Transit Authority
dba Rock Region
METRO.
AZ.................... N. Arizona D2016-BUSP-004................. Purchase hybrid 2,202,522 Highly Recommended.
Intergovernmental diesel-electric
Public buses.
Transportation
Authority.
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AZ.................... Yavapai-Apache D2016-BUSP-005................. Purchase 15- 105,000 Highly Recommended.
Nation. passenger van;
construct bus stop
shelters.
CA.................... California D2016-BUSP-006................. Construct new bus 4,280,512 Highly Recommended.
Department of maintenance
Transportation. facility.
CA.................... Foothill Transit.... D2016-BUSP-007................. Design and construct 7,240,000 Highly Recommended.
transit center at
Mount San Antonio
College.
CA.................... Los Angeles County D2016-BUSP-008................. Purchase CNG 10,500,000 Highly Recommended.
Metropolitan replacement buses,
Transportation install related CNG
Authority. infrastructure,
workforce
development.
CA.................... Marin County Transit D2016-BUSP-009................. Design and construct 4,400,000 Highly Recommended.
District. vehicle maintenance
and storage
facility; workforce
development.
CA.................... Monterey-Salinas D2016-BUSP-010................. Purchase replacement 3,687,100 Highly Recommended.
Transit. buses; workforce
development and
training.
CA.................... Sacramento Regional D2016-BUSP-011................. Purchase CNG fueled 695,088 Highly Recommended.
Transit District. replacement buses.
CA.................... Sacramento Regional D2016-BUSP-012................. Replace CNG fueling 400,000 Highly Recommended.
Transit District. equipment at bus
maintenance
facility.
CA.................... San Joaquin Regional D2016-BUSP-013................. Purchase replacement 8,284,000 Highly Recommended.
Transit District. hybrid diesel-
electric buses.
CA.................... San Luis Obispo D2016-BUSP-014................. Design and construct 4,000,000 Highly Recommended.
Regional Transit new downtown
Authority. transit center to
replace current
facility.
CA.................... Santa Barbara D2016-BUSP-015................. Purchase replacement 5,680,905 Highly Recommended.
Metropolitan buses.
Transit District.
CO.................... Mesa County......... D2016-BUSP-016................. Purchase replacement 208,000 Highly Recommended.
buses.
FL.................... Hillsborough Transit D2016-BUSP-017................. Purchase CNG buses.. 4,273,771 Recommended.
Authority.
GA.................... Chatham Area Transit D2016-BUSP-018................. Purchase paratransit 1,608,880 Highly Recommended.
Authority. vehicles.
HI.................... State of Hawaii, D2016-BUSP-019................. Purchase replacement 960,000 Recommended.
Department of transit vehicles.
Transportation.
IA.................... Iowa Department of D2016-BUSP-020................. Purchase transit 4,273,771 Recommended.
Transportation. vehicles for rural
operators.
IL.................... Rock Island Co. D2016-BUSP-021................. Purchase CNG buses.. 391,000 Recommended.
Metropolitan Mass
Transit District.
IN.................... City of Columbus.... D2016-BUSP-022................. Purchase of small 728,000 Recommended.
heavy duty transit
vehicles.
KY.................... Kentucky D2016-BUSP-023................. Purchase transit 5,823,974 Highly Recommended.
Transportation vehicles for rural
Cabinet. service.
MA.................... Massachusetts Bay D2016-BUSP-024................. Construct New Quincy 4,273,771 Recommended.
Transportation Center bus terminal
Authority. and intermodal
enhancements.
MD.................... Maryland Department D2016-BUSP-025................. Rehabilitate transit 533,575 Recommended.
of Transportation. buses; workforce
training.
ME.................... Maine Department of D2016-BUSP-026................. Purchase replacement 1,441,600 Recommended.
Transportation. buses.
MI.................... Mass Transportation D2016-BUSP-027................. Purchase CNG transit 12,800,000 Highly Recommended.
Authority (Flint, buses; workforce
MI). development.
MN.................... Metropolitan Council D2016-BUSP-028................. Purchase low floor 103,515 Recommended.
Metro Transit. buses.
MO.................... City Utilities of D2016-BUSP-029................. Purchase buses; 3,870,960 Highly Recommended.
Springfield, workforce
Missouri. development.
MO.................... Kansas City Area D2016-BUSP-030................. Purchase buses...... 8,986,350 Highly Recommended.
Transportation
Authority.
MT.................... Confederated Salish D2016-BUSP-031................. Purchase buses and 681,450 Highly Recommended.
and Kootenai Tribes. vans; workforce
development.
NC.................... City of Greensboro.. D2016-BUSP-032................. Renovate ticketing, 960,000 Recommended.
call center, and
waiting areas at
the J. Douglas
Galyon Depot.
ND.................... North Dakota D2016-BUSP-033................. Purchase replacement 844,000 Recommended.
Department of rural transit
Transportation. vehicles and two
intercity bus
vehicles.
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NE.................... Transit Authority of D2016-BUSP-034................. Purchase low floor, 2,424,240 Recommended.
the City of Omaha. CNG buses and
maintenance
equipment;
workforce
development.
NH.................... New Hampshire D2016-BUSP-035................. Purchase heavy-duty 382,500 Recommended.
Department of transit bus.
Transportation.
NJ.................... New Jersey Transit D2016-BUSP-036................. Construct new bus 2,656,452 Recommended.
Corporation. terminal.
NM.................... City of Las Cruces.. D2016-BUSP-037................. Purchase buses for 1,134,750 Recommended.
vehicle replacement
and service
expansion.
NY.................... New York City D2016-BUSP-038................. Construct a 4,273,771 Recommended.
Department of combination of bus
Transportation. lanes, stations,
refurbished bus
stops and transfer
points, safety
improvements, and
transit signal
priority and signal
timing changes.
OH.................... Ohio Department of D2016-BUSP-039................. Purchase replacement 6,691,634 Highly Recommended.
Transportation. transit vehicles
for rural service.
OK.................... Central Oklahoma D2016-BUSP-040................. Purchase CNG 1,932,000 Highly Recommended.
Transportation and replacement buses.
Parking Authority.
OK.................... Oklahoma Department D2016-BUSP-041................. Purchase replacement 3,590,154 Highly Recommended.
of Transportation. ADA transit
vehicles.
OR.................... City of Wilsonville-- D2016-BUSP-042................. Purchase low-floor 320,000 Highly Recommended.
SMART Transit. 30-foot replacement
bus.
PA.................... River Valley Transit D2016-BUSP-043................. Purchase CNG 2,040,000 Highly Recommended.
(Williamsport, AA). replacement buses.
PA.................... Southeastern D2016-BUSP-044................. Rehabilitate 4,000,000 Highly Recommended.
Pennsylvania Wissahickon Transit
Transportation Center.
Authority (SEPTA).
PA.................... Transportation and D2016-BUSP-045................. Purchase replacement 864,000 Highly Recommended.
Motor Buses for transit buses.
Public Use
Authority (Altoona,
PA).
RI.................... Rhode Island Public D2016-BUSP-046................. Construct New Goff 5,636,745 Highly Recommended.
Transit Authority. Avenue bus hub and
passenger facility
and transit
corridor
improvements.
SC.................... Berkeley-Charleston- D2016-BUSP-047................. Purchase 40ft low- 6,153,600 Highly Recommended.
Dorchester Council floor commuter
of Governments. style coaches and
related equipment.
SD.................... City of Sioux Falls. D2016-BUSP-048................. Rehabilitate 1,145,850 Highly Recommended.
downtown transit
station.
TN.................... Memphis Area Transit D2016-BUSP-049................. Purchase replacement 4,273,771 Recommended.
Authority. transit buses.
TX.................... Capital Metropolitan D2016-BUSP-050................. Purchase replacement 11,249,240 Highly Recommended.
Transportation transit vehicles.
Authority.
TX.................... City of Laredo & D2016-BUSP-051................. Rehabilitate El 9,875,083 Highly Recommended.
Laredo Transit Metro
Management Inc. Administration
Facility.
TX.................... City of Wichita D2016-BUSP-052................. Purchase replacement 1,376,000 Highly Recommended.
Falls. buses.
UT.................... Utah Transit D2016-BUSP-053................. Purchase replacement 4,273,770 Recommended.
Authority. buses.
VA.................... Transportation D2016-BUSP-054................. Purchase heavy duty 1,257,393 Recommended.
District Commission transit buses.
of Hampton Roads.
VI.................... Virgin Islands D2016-BUSP-055................. Rehabilitate La 1,696,405 Recommended.
Department of Reine Bus Facility.
Public Works.
VT.................... Vermont Agency of D2016-BUSP-056................. Purchase heavy-duty 3,924,000 Recommended.
Transportation. transit buses.
WA.................... City of Longview.... D2016-BUSP-057................. Construct expansion 2,784,000 Highly Recommended.
of downtown transit
center.
WA.................... City of Longview.... D2016-BUSP-058................. Purchase low-floor 832,000 Highly Recommended.
biodiesel buses.
WA.................... Clark County Public D2016-BUSP-059................. Purchase low floor 6,080,000 Highly Recommended.
Transportation hybrid diesel-
Benefit Area. electric
replacement buses.
WA.................... Spokane Transit D2016-BUSP-060................. Construct multimodal 1,000,000 Highly Recommended.
Authority. transit center.
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WI.................... Wisconsin Department D2016-BUSP-061................. Purchase replacement 26,400 Recommended.
of Transportation. for side loading
accessible mini-van.
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Total............. .................... ............................... .................... * 210,990,000
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