Announcement of Fiscal Year 2020 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program Project Selections
| Published date | 18 August 2020 |
| Record Number | 2020-17970 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Federal Transit Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 160 (Tuesday, August 18, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 160 (Tuesday, August 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50880-50884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17970]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Announcement of Fiscal Year 2020 Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities Program Project Selections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; Announcement of Project Selections. Grants for Buses
and Bus Facilities Program.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the allocation of $463,848,929 to
projects under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities Program (Bus 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 Mark G. Bathrick, Office of Program Management at (202)
366-9955, email: [email protected], 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 transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5338)
authorized $289,044,179 for competitive allocations in FY 2020. The
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Pub. L. 116-94) appropriated an
additional $170 million for the Buses and Bus Facilities Program for FY
2020. An additional $20,401 of unawarded FY 2019 and $9,273,773 in FY
2016 funding was also made available. After the statutory set, aside
for oversight, $463,920,522 was available for competitive grants under
the Buses and Bus Facilities Program.
On January 30, 2020, FTA published a Notice of Funding Opportunity
(NOFO) (85 FR 5538) announcing the availability of $454,626,348 in
competitive funding under the Buses and Bus Facilities Program, with
the option to award additional funds if they are made available to the
program prior to the announcement of project selections. These funds
will provide financial assistance to states and eligible public
entities 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 282 eligible project proposals from 48 States, the
District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico requesting approximately
$1.846 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 96 projects, as
shown in Table 1, for a total of $463,848,929. 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.
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, https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/fta-circulars/award-management-requirements-circular-50101e). 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 4220.1, https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/fta-circulars/third-party-contracting-guidance). Funds allocated in
this announcement must be obligated in a grant by September 30, 2023.
Technical Review and Evaluation Summary: The FTA assessed all
project proposals that were submitted under the FY 2020 Bus and Bus
Facilities Program competition according to the following evaluation
criteria. The specific metrics for each criterion were described in the
January 30, 2020, 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
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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 not rated Highly
Recommended, were assigned a final overall rating of Recommended if the
projects had no Not Recommended ratings. Projects were assigned a
rating of Not Recommended if they received a Not Recommended rating in
any criteria. The final overall ratings are summarized for 282 eligible
project proposals in the table below.
Overall Project Ratings
[Eligible submissions]
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Highly Recommended...................................... 174
Recommended............................................. 68
Not Recommended......................................... 40
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Total............................................... 282
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As outlined in the NOFO, FTA made the final selections based on the
technical ratings as well as geographic diversity, projects that
support the FTA Accelerating Innovative Mobility and/or United States
Department of Transportation Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation
for Economic Success Initiatives, percentage of local cost share,
location in or support of an opportunity zone, 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.
K. Jane Williams,
Deputy Administrator.
Table 1--FY 20 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Project Selections
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State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation
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AK........................... Fairbanks North Star D2020-BUSC-096.. Transit Facility $10,403,343
Borough. Phase 2.
AK........................... Ketchikan Indian D2020-BUSC-097.. Vehicle Procurement.. 93,000
Community (KIC).
AL........................... City of Huntsville, D2020-BUSC-098.. Multimodal Transfer 12,541,782
Alabama. Station Construction
and Operating
Facility Re-design
and Renovation.
AZ........................... City of Phoenix D2020-BUSC-099.. Bus Replacement...... 6,948,750
Public Transit
Department.
CA........................... California Department D2020-BUSC-100.. Construction of Kern 1,400,000
of Transportation on Transit Bus
behalf of Kern Maintenance Facility.
Regional Transit.
CA........................... Solano County Transit D2020-BUSC-101.. Solano County Transit 1,850,000
Electrical
Infrastructure for
Charging All-
Electric Buses.
CA........................... Butte County D2020-BUSC-102.. Purchase electric 1,767,769
Association of buses and associated
Governments. charging equipment.
CA........................... City of Davis........ D2020-BUSC-103.. Bus Replacement 3,760,000
Program--Battery
Electric Buses.
CA........................... Monterey-Salinas D2020-BUSC-104.. Transit System 2,521,984
Transit. Improvement Project
of Monterey County.
CO........................... Colorado Department D2020-BUSC-105.. Roaring Fork 11,475,000
of Transportation on Transportation
behalf of Roaring Authority Regional
Fork Transportation Transit Center
Authority. Renovation and
Expansion.
CO........................... Colorado Department D2020-BUSC-106.. Durango Transit 479,444
of Transportation on Replacement Vehicles.
behalf of Durango
Transit.
CO........................... Colorado Department D2020-BUSC-107.. ECO Transit Bus 800,000
of Transportation on Replacement Project.
behalf of ECO
Transit.
CO........................... Colorado Department D2020-BUSC-108.. Electric Trolley 300,800
of Transportation on Facility and
behalf of Estes Park. Electric Trolley
Charger for Estes
Park.
CO........................... Colorado Department D2020-BUSC-109.. Archuleta County Bus 1,812,000
of Transportation on Center and Bus
behalf of Archuleta Purchase.
County.
CT........................... Connecticut D2020-BUSC-110.. CTtransit Stamford 6,730,532
Department of Facility Upgrades to
Transportation. Deploy Battery
Electric Buses (BEB).
DC........................... District Department D2020-BUSC-111.. DC Circulator South 5,984,319
of Transportation. Capitol Street
Facility
Modernization and
Expansion Initiative.
DE........................... Delaware Transit D2020-BUSC-112.. Dover Operations 2,480,000
Corporation. Solar Power.
FL........................... Collier, County of... D2020-BUSC-113.. Collier Area Transit 9,020,000
Maintenance Facility
Enhancement and Bus
Replacement.
FL........................... Hillsborough Transit D2020-BUSC-114.. Electric Buses and 2,742,675
Authority. Infrastructure.
FL........................... Pinellas Suncoast D2020-BUSC-115.. Electric Bus 1,239,710
Transit Authority. Expansion.
FL........................... Central Florida D2020-BUSC-116.. Battery Electric Bus 2,840,000
Regional Replacements.
Transportation
Authority, dba LYNX.
FL........................... Jacksonville D2020-BUSC-117.. Replacing, 11,986,230
Transportation Rehabilitating and
Authority. Overhauling JTA's
Facilities and Buses.
GA........................... Metropolitan Atlanta D2020-BUSC-118.. Clayton County 13,000,000
Rapid Transit Multipurpose
Authority (MARTA). Operations and
Maintenance Facility.
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GU........................... Guam Regional Transit D2020-BUSC-119.. Guam Regional Transit 9,558,120
Authority. Authority's (GRTA)
purchase of Electric
Buses, Electric
Cars, Charging
Stations and new
Park and Ride
Facility Phase1.
HI........................... Hawaii Department of D2020-BUSC-120.. Purchase Hybrid Buses 9,596,669
Transportation. for Hawaii, Kauai,
and Maui.
IA........................... Iowa Department of D2020-BUSC-121.. Iowa Bus Replacement 5,541,710
Transportation. Project.
IA........................... City of Dubuque...... D2020-BUSC-122.. Fleet Replacement, 1,073,000
Improvements and New
Facility Amenities.
ID........................... Valley Regional D2020-BUSC-123.. Compressed Natural 2,140,000
Transit. Gas Fueling Island
System Renovation
and Parking Lot
Rehabilitation and
Expansion.
IL........................... Bloomington-Normal D2020-BUSC-124.. Downtown Bloomington 8,000,000
Public Transit Transportation
System (DBA Connect Center.
Transit).
IL........................... Pace Suburban Bus D2020-BUSC-125.. Lease of Bus Facility 850,464
Division of the Supporting I-90
Regional Service Expansion.
Transportation
Authority.
IL........................... Greater Peoria Mass D2020-BUSC-126.. Construction of a New 10,000,000
Transit District. Facility and
Rehabilitation of
Existing Maintenance
& Operations
Building.
IN........................... Bloomington Public D2020-BUSC-127.. Bus Replacement, 3,200,000
Transportation Fleet Transition to
Corporation. Low-No Emission
Vehicles.
IN........................... Greater Lafayette D2020-BUSC-128.. Compressed Natural 1,200,000
Public Gas Fueling Station
Transportation Expansion Project.
Corporation.
KS........................... Topeka Metropolitan D2020-BUSC-129.. Bus System 4,987,500
Transit Authority. Reliability and
Resiliency
Improvements.
KY........................... Kentucky D2020-BUSC-130.. Statewide Vehicle 3,070,671
Transportation Procurement.
Cabinet.
KY........................... Transit Authority of D2020-BUSC-131.. TACK Fleet 2,037,920
Central Kentucky. Replacement.
LA........................... New Orleans Regional D2020-BUSC-132.. Bus Replacement...... 13,916,000
Transit Authority.
MA........................... Montachusett Regional D2020-BUSC-133.. Procure Innovative 1,000,000
Transit Authority. Automated Fare
Collection System.
MA........................... Lowell Regional D2020-BUSC-134.. Bus and Lift 4,620,000
Transit Authority. Replacements.
MA........................... Worcester Regional D2020-BUSC-135.. Account-Based Mobile 722,606
Transit Authority. Fare Payment System.
MA........................... Pioneer Valley D2020-BUSC-136.. New Bus Wash Systems 1,536,000
Transit Authority. for PVTA Bus
Maintenance Garages
in Northampton and
at UMass Amherst.
MA........................... Berkshire Regional D2020-BUSC-137.. Bus Replacement...... 333,732
Transit Authority.
MD........................... MDOT Maryland Transit D2020-BUSC-138.. Carroll County, MD 118,174
Administration on Light Duty Bus
behalf of The County Replacement.
Commissioners of
Carroll County.
MD........................... MDOT Maryland Transit D2020-BUSC-139.. CNG Bus Procurement.. 3,437,370
Administration on
behalf of Harford
County Maryland.
MD........................... MDOT Maryland Transit D2020-BUSC-140.. Replacement Buses and 1,239,024
Administration on Automated Bus Stop
behalf of Howard Announcements.
County, Maryland.
ME........................... Greater Portland D2020-BUSC-141.. Bus Replacement 821,526
Transit District. Project.
ME........................... Maine Department of D2020-BUSC-142.. Acadia Gateway Center 9,000,000
Transportation. Phase 2 Completion.
ME........................... City of Bangor....... D2020-BUSC-143.. Bus Stops and 396,800
Shelters.
MI........................... Michigan Department D2020-BUSC-144.. Bus facility 2,365,600
of Transportation. rehabilitation and
expansion for rural
transit agencies.
MI........................... Michigan Department D2020-BUSC-145.. Vehicle replacements 4,924,382
of Transportation. and expansions for
rural public transit
agencies.
MI........................... Michigan Department D2020-BUSC-146.. New construction of a 13,380,000
of Transportation. Bay Area
Transportation
Authority
headquarters
facility and
transfer station.
MI........................... Battle Creek, City of D2020-BUSC-147.. Bus Replacement...... 5,340,000
Battle Creek Transit.
MI........................... Capital Area D2020-BUSC-148.. Rehabilitation and 1,824,416
Transportation Repairs to Downtown
Authority. Bus Terminal
Building.
MN........................... Minnesota State D2020-BUSC-149.. Rural Transit Bus 4,412,890
Department of Replacement Project.
Transportation.
MN........................... Metropolitan Council/ D2020-BUSC-150.. Burnsville Bus Garage 2,800,000
Metro Transit on Modernization.
behalf of Minnesota
Valley Transit
Authority.
MO........................... Kansas City Area D2020-BUSC-151.. Operations Center 7,980,000
Transportation Improvements.
Authority.
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MS........................... City of Hattiesburg.. D2020-BUSC-152.. Hub City Transit Bus 1,831,200
Stop Improvements.
MT........................... Montana Department of D2020-BUSC-153.. Bus Replacement 201,549
Transportation on Project.
behalf of
Opportunity Link,
Inc.
NC........................... Town of Chapel Hill.. D2020-BUSC-154.. Electric Buses and 5,600,000
Infrastructure.
NC........................... City of Asheville.... D2020-BUSC-155.. Bus Stop Enhancement 1,000,000
and Improvement
Project.
NC........................... City of Fayetteville. D2020-BUSC-156.. Bus Replacement...... 1,734,000
ND........................... North Dakota D2020-BUSC-157.. Statewide Bus 15,000,000
Department of Purchases.
Transportation.
NE........................... The Transit Authority D2020-BUSC-158.. Bus Procurement...... 13,558,199
of the City of Omaha.
NH........................... City of Nashua....... D2020-BUSC-159.. Safety, Security and 821,500
Passenger Technology
Enhancements.
NJ........................... New Jersey Transit D2020-BUSC-160.. Wayne Bus Garage 14,672,995
Corporation. Modernization.
NM........................... Ohkay Owingeh........ D2020-BUSC-161.. PoPay Messenger 582,664
Transit Service
Facility.
NV........................... Regional D2020-BUSC-162.. Hybrid Electric 4,080,000
Transportation Replacement Buses.
Commission of Washoe
County.
NY........................... New York City D2020-BUSC-163.. South Bronx Bx6 10,000,000
Department of Select Bus Service.
Transportation.
NY........................... County of Suffolk.... D2020-BUSC-164.. Battery Electric 1,600,000
Transit Bus Purchase.
OH........................... Greater Dayton D2020-BUSC-165.. Bus Replacement...... 4,324,608
Regional Transit
Authority.
OH........................... Butler County D2020-BUSC-166.. Chestnut Street 2,000,000
Regional Transit Multimodal Station
Authority. and Shared Services
Facility.
OH........................... Portage Area Regional D2020-BUSC-167.. CNG Bus Replacement.. 446,742
Transportation
Authority.
OK........................... Oklahoma Department D2020-BUSC-168.. Rural Transportation 9,120,000
of Transportation. Operations and
Maintenance
Facility--Phase 2 &
3.
OK........................... Oklahoma Department D2020-BUSC-169.. Ki Bois Area Transit 1,452,544
of Transportation. System--Oklahoma's
Rural and Tribal
Connection.
OK........................... Metropolitan Tulsa D2020-BUSC-170.. Bus Replacement and 3,175,604
Transit Authority. Service
Modernization.
OR........................... Rogue Valley D2020-BUSC-171.. Bus Procurement...... 2,687,000
Transportation
District.
OR........................... Lane Transit District D2020-BUSC-172.. Electric Bus 3,952,851
Procurement.
PA........................... City of Hazleton..... D2020-BUSC-173.. Bus Maintenance and 10,000,000
Storage Facility.
PA........................... Erie Metropolitan D2020-BUSC-174.. CNG Bus Procurement.. 1,466,250
Transit Authority.
PR........................... Municipio de Carolina D2020-BUSC-175.. Bus Procurement...... 2,482,880
RI........................... Rhode Island Public D2020-BUSC-176.. RIPTA Bus Procurement 8,913,508
Transit Authority. Program.
SC........................... Berkeley Charleston D2020-BUSC-177.. Hospitality on 2,777,211
Dorchester Council Peninsula (HOP) Park
of Governments. & Ride Lot and
Multimodal Transit
Hub.
SD........................... South Dakota D2020-BUSC-178.. Rural Transit 1,636,000
Department of Vehicles Procurement.
Transportation.
TX........................... Texas Department of D2020-BUSC-179.. Rural Transit 10,210,000
Transportation. Facility Development
Project.
TX........................... Metropolitan Transit D2020-BUSC-180.. Fare Collection 14,770,058
Authority of Harris System.
County.
TX........................... City of Conroe....... D2020-BUSC-181.. Conroe Connection 896,000
Transit Bus
Expansion and
Replacement.
UT........................... Cache Valley Transit D2020-BUSC-182.. Cache Valley Transit 18,000,000
District. District Bus Storage
and Maintenance
Facility.
VT........................... Vermont Agency of D2020-BUSC-183.. Statewide Small Bus 836,355
Transportation. and Sprinter
Replacement Project.
WA........................... Washington State D2020-BUSC-184.. Rural Buses and Bus 4,871,549
Department of Facilities.
Transportation.
WA........................... Intercity Transit.... D2020-BUSC-185/ Maintenance Facility 11,345,700
D2020-BUSC-186/ Renovation,
D2020-BUSC-187. Expansion, and
Modernization
Project.
WA........................... Spokane Transit D2020-BUSC-188.. Double Decker Bus 2,950,000
Authority. Procurement.
WA........................... Central Puget Sound D2020-BUSC-189.. Bus Procurement...... 4,800,000
Regional Transit
Authority (Sound
Transit).
WA........................... King County Metro D2020-BUSC-190.. HVAC Systems 4,532,400
Transit. Replacement.
WI........................... City of Madison...... D2020-BUSC-191.. Articulated Bus 4,676,760
Procurement.
WI........................... Milwaukee County..... D2020-BUSC-192.. Fleet Maintenance 3,003,628
Facility Roof
Replacement.
WY........................... Wyoming Department of D2020-BUSC-193.. Transit Maintenance 4,237,262
Transportation on and Storage Facility.
behalf of the
University of
Wyoming.
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Total:................... ..................... ................ ..................... 463,848,929
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