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  <accessId>GOVMAN-2014-10-06-244</accessId>
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    <Category>Executive Branch: Departments</Category>
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    <AgencyName>Federal Transit Administration</AgencyName>
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      <Address EntityAddressId="162" SortOrder="1">
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          <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov</WebAddress>
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        <Address>1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590</Address>
        <Phone>202-366-4043</Phone>
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    <LeaderShipTables>
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          <Footer>[For the Federal Transit Administration statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Part 601]</Footer>
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        <ShowFootNote>Yes</ShowFootNote>
        <ShowHeader>Yes</ShowHeader>
        <ShowHeaderParagraph>Yes</ShowHeaderParagraph>
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        <ShowTitleColumnHeader>Yes</ShowTitleColumnHeader>
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            <NameColumnValue>Peter M. Rogoff</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Administrator</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2503" SortOrder="2">
            <NameColumnValue>Therese M. McMillan</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Deputy Administrator</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2504" SortOrder="3">
            <NameColumnValue>Matthew J. Welbes</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Executive Director</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2505" SortOrder="4">
            <NameColumnValue>Matthew M. Crouch</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Administration</TitleColumnValue>
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          <Values EntityLeadershipTableValuesId="2506" SortOrder="5">
            <NameColumnValue>Robert J. Tuccillo</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Budget and Policy</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Brian D. Farber</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Communications and Congressional Affairs</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Lucy Garliauskas</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Planning</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Henrika Buchanan-Smith</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Program Management</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Vincent Valdes</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration, and Innovation</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Dorval R. Carter, Jr.</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chief Counsel</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Linda C. Ford, Acting</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Office of Civil Rights</TitleColumnValue>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="364">
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              <Paragraph>The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) (formerly the Urban Mass Transportation Administration) was established as an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation by section 1 of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968 (5 U.S.C. app. 1), effective July 1, 1968.  FTA's mission is to improve public transportation for America’s communities by assisting in developing improved public transportation and providing financial assistance to State and local governments to finance public transportation systems and carry out national transit goals and policy.</Paragraph>
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      <ProgramAndActivity ProgramAndActivitiesId="148" SortOrder="2">
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          <Email/>
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          <WebAddress/>
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        <ProgramName>Programs</ProgramName>
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          <Heading>Alternatives Analysis</Heading>
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13094_7395.html</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>This program provides grants to assist identifying public transportation needs and the costs and benefits of various transportation strategies for a defined travel corridor.  The results of such studies may be the selection of a locally preferred transportation alternative, which is the first step in the process of developing viable projects for possible future funding under the New Starts and Small Starts program.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Capital Investment</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="365">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053. Internet, http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13093_3558.html (Fixed Guideway Modernization grants),  http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13094_3559.html (New Starts and Small Starts), and http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13094_3557.html (Bus and Bus Facilities).</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>This program assists in financing the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use in public transportation service in urban areas. There are three categories of funds available under the Capital Investment program: Fixed Guideway Modernization funds for rolling stock renewal, safety-related improvements, and signal and power modernization; New Starts and Small Starts funds for construction of new fixed guideway systems or extensions to existing fixed guideway systems or corridor based rapid bus systems; and Bus and Bus Facilities funds for the acquisition of buses and rolling stock, ancillary equipment, and the construction of bus facilities.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="1168" SortOrder="3">
          <Heading>Clean Fuels Grant Program</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="2076">
              <FooterDetails>
                <Email/>
                <Footer>For more information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/cleanfuels</WebAddress>
              </FooterDetails>
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              <Paragraph>This program was developed to assist nonattainment and maintenance areas in achieving or maintaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone and carbon monoxide (CO), and it supports emerging clean fuel and advanced propulsion technologies for transit buses and markets for those technologies. Program funding is used for purchasing or leasing clean fuel buses, including buses that employ a lightweight composite primary structure and vans for use in revenue service; constructing or leasing clean fuel bus facilities (including electrical recharging facilities and related equipment); and projects relating to clean fuel, biodiesel, hybrid electric, or zero emissions technology buses.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="256" SortOrder="4">
          <Heading>Elderly and Persons With Disabilities</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="366">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13093_3556.html</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>The program provides financial assistance to private nonprofit agencies to meet the transportation needs of elderly persons and persons with disabilities where services provided by public operators are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate; to public bodies approved by the State to coordinate services for elderly persons or persons with disabilities; or to public bodies which certify to the Governor that no nonprofit corporation or association is readily available in an area to provide the service. Funds are allocated by formula to the States. Local organizations apply for funding through a designated State agency.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="257" SortOrder="5">
          <Heading>Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="367">
              <FooterDetails>
                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-0176.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/funding/grants</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>This program makes funding available to public agencies and nonprofit organizations to pay the capital and operating costs of delivering new or expanded job access or reverse commute services and to promote the use of transit during nontraditional work hours, as well as encourage employer-based transportation strategies. The program provides funding for job access projects implementing new or expanded transportation services for transporting welfare recipients and low-income persons to and from jobs and needed employment support services such as child care and reverse commute projects implementing new or expanded general purpose public transportation services to transport residents of urban, rural, and suburban areas to suburban employment centers.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
        </Activity>
        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="1169" SortOrder="6">
          <Heading>New Freedom</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="2077">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13093_3549.html</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>This program makes capital and operating funding available to support new public transportation services that go beyond the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Funding is available for private nonprofit organizations, State and local governmental authorities, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services. Eligible projects must be targeted toward individuals with disabilities and meet the intent of the program by removing barriers to transportation and assisting persons with disabilities with transportation, including transportation to and from jobs and employment services.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="258" SortOrder="7">
          <Heading>Non-Urbanized Area Assistance</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="368">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13093_3555.html</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>This program provides funds for public transportation in areas outside urbanized areas  by formula to the States. Funding may be used for capital, operating, and administrative expenses for public transportation projects that meet the needs of rural communities, and  15 percent of annual funds may be used for intercity bus service.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
        </Activity>
        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="1170" SortOrder="8">
          <Heading>Over-the-Road Bus Program</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="2078">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13094_11856.html</WebAddress>
              </FooterDetails>
              <Heading/>
              <Paragraph>This program makes funds available to private operators of over-the-road buses to finance the incremental capital and training costs of complying with DOT’s over-the-road bus accessibility regulation.  Accessibility projects improve mobility for individuals with disabilities by providing financial assistance to help make vehicles accessible and provide sensitivity and equipment training to drivers and other personnel.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
        </Activity>
        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="259" SortOrder="9">
          <Heading>Planning</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="369">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-4033.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/12347_4160.html</WebAddress>
              </FooterDetails>
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              <Paragraph>This program provides financial assistance in meeting the transportation planning needs of metropolitan planning organizations by allocating funds to States, which, in turn, are allocated to the metropolitan planning organizations.  Assistance is available for transportation planning, technical assistance studies, demonstrations, management training, and cooperative research.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
        </Activity>
        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="1171" SortOrder="10">
          <Heading>Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="2079">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/transitinparks</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>This program provides funding for alternative transportation projects in and around National Parks and other Federal recreation areas. Alternative transportation includes visitor shuttle bus systems, bicycle and pedestrian trails, ferries, and other forms of public or nonmotorized transportation. Projects funded through this program reduce congestion, protect sensitive natural and cultural treasures, and enhance the visitor experience. Funding is awarded through a competitive process to units of Federal land management agencies and to State, local and tribal government agencies.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="260" SortOrder="11">
          <Heading>Research and Technology</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="370">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer/>
                <WebAddress/>
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              <Paragraph>This program seeks to improve public transportation for America's communities by delivering research products and services that assist transit agencies to improve their systems. Under this program, FTA partners with the transportation industry to undertake research, development, and demonstration projects that will improve the safety, quality, efficiency, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and environmental performance of public transportation in America and that leads to increases in transit ridership.</Paragraph>
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            <Detail SortOrder="2" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="371">
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                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-4052.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/research</WebAddress>
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              <Paragraph>Transit research and technology efforts are undertaken with both public and private research organizations, universities, transit providers, and industry suppliers and manufacturers.  Projects include:  research on the state of the transit industry; public transportation services, management, and operational practices; asset management and maintenance research; advanced technologies that improve bus and rail services; standards development; bus rapid transit research; advanced propulsion systems, including fuel-cell-powered transit buses; research to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions; and international activities that promote American transit products and services overseas.</Paragraph>
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          </Details>
        </Activity>
        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="261" SortOrder="12">
          <Heading>Rural Transportation Assistance</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="372">
              <FooterDetails>
                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-2053.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/13093_3554.html</WebAddress>
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              <Heading/>
              <Paragraph>This program allocates funds annually to the States to provide assistance for transit research, technical assistance, training, and related support activities for transit providers serving nonurbanized areas. Additional funds are used at the national level to develop training materials, develop and maintain a national clearinghouse on rural transit activities and information, and provide technical assistance through peer practitioners to promote exemplary techniques and practices.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="262" SortOrder="13">
          <Heading>Safety</Heading>
          <Details>
            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="373">
              <FooterDetails>
                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-4020.</Footer>
                <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov/about/12419.html</WebAddress>
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              <Heading/>
              <Paragraph>FTA's safety program supports State and local agencies in fulfilling their responsibility for the safety of public transportation facilities and services, through the encouragement and sponsorship of safety and security planning, training, information collection and analysis, drug control programs, system/safety assurance reviews, generic research, and other cooperative government/industry activities.</Paragraph>
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        <Activity ProgramAndActivitiesId="263" SortOrder="14">
          <Heading>Training and Technical Assistance</Heading>
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            <Detail SortOrder="1" TypeOfProgramAndActivitiesDetailsId="374">
              <FooterDetails>
                <Email/>
                <Footer>For further information, call 202-366-6635.</Footer>
                <WebAddress/>
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              <Paragraph>Through the National Transit Institute (NTI), FTA develops and offers training courses for improving transit planning, operations, workforce performance, and productivity. NTI courses are conducted at sites across the United States on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from multimodal planning to management development, third-party contracting, safety, and security. Current NTI course offerings are available online at www.ntionline.com.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Communications and Congressional Affairs, Federal Transit Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Phone, 202-366-4043.</Footer>
      <Email/>
      <WebAddress>http://www.fta.dot.gov</WebAddress>
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