[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 17, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12902-12904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-05152]
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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.
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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 [email protected]
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
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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]
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State Recipient Project ID Project description Award
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AK............. Manokotak Village..... D2026-BUSC-100................... Purchase expansion bus $205,000
AK............. University of Alaska D2026-BUSC-101................... Expand and 5,440,000
Fairbanks. rehabilitate
maintenance facility.
CA............. Antelope Valley D2026-BUSC-102................... Construct operations 16,640,000
Transit Authority. and maintenance
facility.
CA............. City of Santa Ana..... D2026-BUSC-103................... Rehabilitate and 3,472,000
replace bus
infrastructure.
CA............. Foothill Transit...... D2026-BUSC-104................... Construct a mobility 20,800,000
hub.
CA............. Golden Gate Bridge, D2026-BUSC-105................... Relocate bus transit 25,600,000
Highway & center.
Transportation
District.
CA............. Orange County D2026-BUSC-106................... Purchase safety and 960,000
Transportation security equipment
Authority. for bus facilities.
CA............. San Diego Metropolitan D2026-BUSC-107................... Construct bus transit 14,680,000
Transit System (MTS). center.
DE............. Delaware Department of D2026-BUSC-108................... Rehabilitate buses.... 14,260,000
Transportation.
FL............. City of Gainesville... D2026-BUSC-109................... Purchase replacement 10,263,750
buses, construct bus
transfer station, and
improve bus stops.
FL............. Florida Department of D2026-BUSC-110................... Purchase replacement 9,270,640
Transportation obo buses.
Central Florida
Regional
Transportation
Authority (LYNX).
HI............. Honolulu Department of D2026-BUSC-111................... Purchase replacement 11,569,965
Transportation buses and related
Services. equipment.
IA............. Des Moines Area D2026-BUSC-112................... Expand bus facility... 20,000,000
Regional Transit
Authority.
IL............. Springfield Mass D2026-BUSC-113................... Construct bus fueling 6,733,300
Transit District. station.
LA............. New Orleans Regional D2026-BUSC-114................... Purchase replacement 27,200,000
Transit Authority buses and
(NORTA). rehabilitate two
operations and
maintenance
facilities.
MD............. Maryland Transit D2026-BUSC-115................... Purchase replacement 336,000
Administration obo vehicles.
Transit Services of
Frederick County.
MI............. Ann Arbor Area D2026-BUSC-116................... Purchase new bus 7,220,095
Transportation facility.
Authority.
MO............. Kansas City Area D2026-BUSC-117................... Purchase replacement 13,333,000
Transportation buses and
Authority. rehabilitate bus
facility.
NC............. City of Durham........ D2026-BUSC-118................... Purchase replacement 6,142,400
buses.
NC............. Research Triangle D2026-BUSC-119................... Expand and 17,718,750
Regional Public rehabilitate
Transportation operations and
Authority dba maintenance facility.
GoTriangle.
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NC............. Town of Chapel Hill... D2026-BUSC-120................... Purchase replacement 8,802,268
vehicles and safety
training equipment.
ND............. North Dakota D2026-BUSC-121................... Purchase replacement 5,070,000
Department of buses.
Transportation.
NV............. Regional D2026-BUSC-122................... Purchase replacement 8,843,449
Transportation buses and related
Commission of equipment.
Southern Nevada.
NY............. Central New York D2026-BUSC-123................... Construct bus 28,800,000
Regional maintenance, storage,
Transportation and administrative
Authority (CNYRTA). facility.
NY............. New York City D2026-BUSC-124................... Construct and 10,000,000
Department of rehabilitate bus
Transportation. stops.
NY............. Niagara Frontier D2026-BUSC-125................... Rehabilitate three bus 21,600,000
Transportation facilities.
Authority.
OR............. Salem Area Mass D2026-BUSC-126................... Construct bus transit 3,000,000
Transit District. center.
PR............. Puerto Rico Highways D2026-BUSC-127................... Purchase expansion 2,477,341
and Transportation buses and
Authority obo rehabilitate bus
Municipality of terminal.
Aguada.
PR............. Puerto Rico Highways D2026-BUSC-128................... Purchase expansion 1,182,550
and Transportation buses and construct
Authority obo bus stops.
Municipality of San
German.
TN............. City of Clarksville... D2026-BUSC-129 and D2026-BUSC-130 Construct bus transit 16,000,000
center.
VA............. Petersburg Area D2026-BUSC-131................... Purchase replacement 23,820,750
Transit. buses and construct
operations and
maintenance facility.
VA............. Transportation D2026-BUSC-132................... Purchase replacement 10,620,000
District Commission buses.
of Hampton Roads.
WA............. Kitsap County Public D2026-BUSC-133................... Construct bus driver 15,000,000
Transportation training facility.
Benefit Area
Authority (DBA Kitsap
Transit).
WA............. Sauk-Suiattle Indian D2026-BUSC-134................... Purchase replacement 1,218,625
Tribe. buses and construct
bus facility.
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Total.............. ................................. ...................... 388,279,883
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