Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs
Department Of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration
Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emissions bus projects.
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Helps transit agencies buy or upgrade buses and build bus facilities. It also supports zero-emission and low-emission bus purchases.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Formula and competitive grants for modernizing and expanding public transportation systems, with a specific focus on bus systems, including low or no emission buses and facilities. The program aims to strengthen the American bus manufacturing industry and offers technical assistance, procurement guidance, and best practices to recipients. A total of $10.7 billion is allocated through 2026 for the Buses and Bus Facilities Program and Low or No Emission Bus Grants.
Who Is Eligible?
Industries: public transportation, bus manufacturing
Region: United States nationwide
Other Criteria: state, local, and tribal transit agencies, public transit systems (including those operating buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, trolleys, and ferries), organizations established in FTA's Transit Award Management System (TrAMS) to receive funding
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Access the Transit Award Management System (TrAMS)
- Create a user account in TrAMS if not already established
- Prepare the grant application according to FTA guidelines
- Submit the application through TrAMS
- 🌐Application Portal
- http://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grants/applying/applying-fta-funding
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- Indirect cost rate agreement
- Environmental review
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- purchase of modern American-made transit buses
- upgrade fueling and maintenance infrastructure
- 💳Payment Model
- mixed
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
- 🔀Matching Required
- Yes
- 📊Matching Ratio
- 25% minimum
- 🏦Eligible Matching Sources
- cash
- in-kind contributions
- 📚Stacking Rules
- Cumulative government assistance is allowed
- 🛡️Proof of Matching Required
- Documentation of matching funds required
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- SF-425 Federal Financial Report
- performance progress report
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Acknowledgment of federal funding is required
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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