Notices. Notice of project selections and implementation guidance
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BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Transit Administration Announcement of Fiscal Year 2026 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program Project Selections AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice of project selections and implementation guidance. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's
(DOT)Federal Transit Administration
(FTA)announces the award of $388,279,883 for 34 projects under the FY 2026 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program (Bus Competitive Program). This notice 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 *https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/regional-offices/regional-offices.* For all other questions, contact Kirsten Wiard-Bauer, Office of Program Management, at *ftalownobusnofo@dot.gov* or
(202)366-2053. 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 the Bus Competitive Program. Federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5338(a)(2)(M)) authorized $408,223,797 in FY 2026 funds for the Bus Competitive Program after an oversight takedown. On May 15, 2025, FTA published a joint Notice of Funding Opportunity
(NOFO)announcing the availability of approximately $398 million in FY 2025 Bus Competitive Program funds and approximately $1.10 billion in Low or No Emission (Low-No) Program funds (90 FR 20737). FTA is electing to select additional projects from this NOFO using FY 2026 Bus Competitive Program funds, as well as available prior year funds. 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 479 eligible project proposals requesting approximately $6.8 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 34 projects, as shown in Table 1, for a total of $388,279,883. A minimum of 15 percent of the amount made available for the Bus Competitive Program is set aside for projects located in rural areas, which is reflected in FTA's joint selections across FY 2025 and FY 2026. A statutory cap of 10 percent for any one applicant in the Bus Competitive Program is reflected as well. 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. A discretionary project identification number has been assigned to each project for tracking purposes and must be used in the TrAMS application. Grant applications must include only eligible activities applied for in the original project proposal. When the allocated amount is less than the requested amount, recipients must reduce scope or scale the project so that a complete phase or a usable segment of the originally proposed project is implemented. Amounts may be reduced because they were capped or scaled due to more funding being requested than available, ineligible expenses may have been removed from the funded project scope, or funding was allocated for only the low-emission elements of a mixed-emission project. In all such cases where the amount allocated is less than the amount requested, the recipient should work with its Regional Office to reduce the scope appropriately. Recipients may also provide additional local funds to complete a proposed project. Selected projects are eligible to incur costs under pre-award authority no earlier than Friday, February 20, 2026. Pre-award costs are incurred at your own risk, and the announcement that a project was selected does not guarantee that FTA will, in fact, obligate a grant for the funding. FTA is not required to reimburse pre-award costs if you do not receive an obligated grant or if the obligated grant is less than anticipated and is inadequate to cover all pre-award costs. Eligibility for reimbursement is contingent upon planning and environmental requirements having been met, among other factors. For more about FTA's policy on pre-award authority, please see the current FTA Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information 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 5010.1F). 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 transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5325(a)) and described in the FTA Third Party Contracting Guidance Circular (FTA Circular 4220.1G). Funds allocated in this announcement must be obligated in a grant by September 30, 2029. *Technical Review and Evaluation Summary:* The FTA assessed all project proposals that were submitted under the FY 2025 Buses and Bus Facilities Program and the Low-No Program competition. For information on the evaluation criteria, please refer to **Federal Register** Notice (91 FR 1856): *https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/15/2026-00643/announcement-of-fiscal-year-2025-grants-for-buses-and-bus-facilities-program-and-fiscal-year-2025.* Matthew J. Welbes, Executive Director. Table 1—FY 2026 Buses And Bus Facilities Project Selections [Note: Some projects have multiple project IDs] State Recipient Project ID Project description Award AK Manokotak Village D2026-BUSC-100 Purchase expansion bus $205,000 AK University of Alaska Fairbanks D2026-BUSC-101 Expand and rehabilitate maintenance facility 5,440,000 CA Antelope Valley Transit Authority D2026-BUSC-102 Construct operations and maintenance facility 16,640,000 CA City of Santa Ana D2026-BUSC-103 Rehabilitate and replace bus infrastructure 3,472,000 CA Foothill Transit D2026-BUSC-104 Construct a mobility hub 20,800,000 CA Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District D2026-BUSC-105 Relocate bus transit center 25,600,000 CA Orange County Transportation Authority D2026-BUSC-106 Purchase safety and security equipment for bus facilities 960,000 CA San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
(MTS)D2026-BUSC-107 Construct bus transit center 14,680,000 DE Delaware Department of Transportation D2026-BUSC-108 Rehabilitate buses 14,260,000 FL City of Gainesville D2026-BUSC-109 Purchase replacement buses, construct bus transfer station, and improve bus stops 10,263,750 FL Florida Department of Transportation obo Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority
(LYNX)D2026-BUSC-110 Purchase replacement buses 9,270,640 HI Honolulu Department of Transportation Services D2026-BUSC-111 Purchase replacement buses and related equipment 11,569,965 IA Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority D2026-BUSC-112 Expand bus facility 20,000,000 IL Springfield Mass Transit District D2026-BUSC-113 Construct bus fueling station 6,733,300 LA New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) D2026-BUSC-114 Purchase replacement buses and rehabilitate two operations and maintenance facilities 27,200,000 MD Maryland Transit Administration obo Transit Services of Frederick County D2026-BUSC-115 Purchase replacement vehicles 336,000 MI Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority D2026-BUSC-116 Purchase new bus facility 7,220,095 MO Kansas City Area Transportation Authority D2026-BUSC-117 Purchase replacement buses and rehabilitate bus facility 13,333,000 NC City of Durham D2026-BUSC-118 Purchase replacement buses 6,142,400 NC Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority dba GoTriangle D2026-BUSC-119 Expand and rehabilitate operations and maintenance facility 17,718,750 NC Town of Chapel Hill D2026-BUSC-120 Purchase replacement vehicles and safety training equipment 8,802,268 ND North Dakota Department of Transportation D2026-BUSC-121 Purchase replacement buses 5,070,000 NV Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada D2026-BUSC-122 Purchase replacement buses and related equipment 8,843,449 NY Central New York Regional Transportation Authority (CNYRTA) D2026-BUSC-123 Construct bus maintenance, storage, and administrative facility 28,800,000 NY New York City Department of Transportation D2026-BUSC-124 Construct and rehabilitate bus stops 10,000,000 NY Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority D2026-BUSC-125 Rehabilitate three bus facilities 21,600,000 OR Salem Area Mass Transit District D2026-BUSC-126 Construct bus transit center 3,000,000 PR Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority obo Municipality of Aguada D2026-BUSC-127 Purchase expansion buses and rehabilitate bus terminal 2,477,341 PR Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority obo Municipality of San German D2026-BUSC-128 Purchase expansion buses and construct bus stops 1,182,550 TN City of Clarksville D2026-BUSC-129 and D2026-BUSC-130 Construct bus transit center 16,000,000 VA Petersburg Area Transit D2026-BUSC-131 Purchase replacement buses and construct operations and maintenance facility 23,820,750 VA Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads D2026-BUSC-132 Purchase replacement buses 10,620,000 WA Kitsap County Public Transportation Benefit Area Authority (DBA Kitsap Transit) D2026-BUSC-133 Construct bus driver training facility 15,000,000 WA Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe D2026-BUSC-134 Purchase replacement buses and construct bus facility 1,218,625 Total 388,279,883 [FR Doc. 2026-05152 Filed 3-16-26; 8:45 am]
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