[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14612-14613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05466]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration

[FTA-2021-0010]


Notice of Availability of Initial Guidance Proposals for the 
Capital Investment Grants Program

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of availability of initial guidance proposals for the 
capital investment grants program.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) invites public 
comment on initial guidance proposals to implement changes made to the 
Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program by the Infrastructure and 
Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) (also known as the ``Bipartisan 
Infrastructure Law''). The proposed guidance has been placed in the 
docket and posted on the FTA website. This policy guidance continues to 
complement FTA's regulations that govern the CIG program.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 14, 2022. Late-
filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to DOT docket number FTA-2021-0010 
by any of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and 
follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
    U.S. Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.
    Fax: 202-493-2251.
    Instructions: You must include the agency name (Federal Transit 
Administration) and docket number (FTA-2021-0010) for this notice at 
the beginning of your comments. You must submit two copies of your 
comments if you submit them by mail. If you wish to receive 
confirmation FTA received your comments, you must include a self-
addressed, stamped postcard. Due to security procedures in effect since 
October 2001, mail received through the U.S. Postal Service may be 
subject to delays. Parties submitting comments may wish to consider 
using an express mail firm to ensure prompt filing of any submissions 
not filed electronically or by hand.
    All comments received will be posted, without charge and including 
any personal information provided, to http://www.regulations.gov, where 
they will be available to internet users. You may review DOT's complete 
Privacy Act Statement published in the Federal Register on April 11, 
2000, at 65 FR 19477. For access to the docket and to read background 
documents and comments received, go to http://regulations.gov at any 
time or to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Docket Management Facility, West Building Ground Floor, Room 
W12-140, Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Day, FTA Office of Planning 
and Environment, telephone (202) 366-5159 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FTA is seeking comment on three initial 
proposed changes to FTA's CIG Final Interim Policy Guidance last issued 
in June 2016. (https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-investments/final-capital-investment-grant-program-interim-policy). The proposals relate to changes made in the Infrastructure and 
Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub. L. 117-58, also known as the 
``Bipartisan Infrastructure Law'') to 49

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U.S.C. 5309 and cover three topics: Eligibility as a Core Capacity 
project; how FTA will determine that a CIG project sponsor has 
demonstrated progress on meeting Transit Asset Management targets; and 
how bundles of CIG projects can enter the Project Development phase of 
the program. The proposals being made today are available on the 
agency's public website at https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-investments/capital-investment-grants-program-regulations-guidance and in the docket to this notice.
    After review and consideration of the comments provided on the 
three initial CIG proposals in this document, FTA will issue a final 
notice and incorporate these changes into the existing CIG Policy 
Guidance. No other changes to the CIG Policy Guidance are being 
proposed at this time. Instead, FTA intends in the future to propose a 
more comprehensive update of the CIG Policy Guidance for notice and 
comment, incorporating feedback FTA received in response to its Request 
for Information published in the Federal Register in July 2021 (86 FR 
37402). The three initial topics covered in this document are intended 
to assist FTA in managing the CIG program in the near term while the 
more comprehensive CIG policy guidance changes are developed and 
proposed.

Nuria I. Fernandez,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2022-05466 Filed 3-14-22; 8:45 am]
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