Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016 Low or No Emission Grant Program Project Selections |
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Carolyn Flowers
Federal Transit Administration
7 September 2016
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61731-61733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21430]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016 Low or No Emission Grant Program
Project Selections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal
Year (FY) 2016 appropriations for the Low or No Emission Grant Program
(Low-No Program), as authorized by the Fixing America's Surface
Transportation Act (FAST) Act. The FAST Act authorized $55 million for
competitive allocations in FY 2016. On March 29, 2016, FTA published a
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 17553) announcing the
availability of Federal funding for the Low-No Program. These program
funds will provide financial assistance to states and eligible public
agencies for the purchase or lease of low or no emission vehicles that
use advanced technologies and for related equipment or facilities use
for transit revenue operations.
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
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at www.fta.dot.gov. Unsuccessful applicants may contact Tara Clark,
Office of Program Management at (202) 366-2623, email:
Tara.Clark@dot.gov, to arrange a proposal debriefing within 30 days of
this announcement. A TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the NOFO, FTA received 101
proposals from 32 states requesting $446 million in Federal funds,
indicating significant demand for funding for low or no emission
capital projects. Project proposals were evaluated based on each
applicant's responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria outlined
in the NOFO.
FTA is funding 20 projects as shown in Table 1 for a total of $55
million. Recipients selected for competitive funding should work with
their FTA Regional Office to finalize the 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
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 established in the NOFO
and described in the FTA Circular 9030.1E.
In cases where the allocation amount is less than the proposer's
total requested amount, recipients must fund the scalable project
option as described in the application. If the award amount does not
correspond to the scalable option, for example due to a cap on the
award amount, the recipient should work with the Regional Office to
reduce scope or scale of the project such that a complete phase or
project is accomplished. Recipients are reminded that program
requirements such as cost sharing or local match can be found in the
NOFO. 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,
July 26, 2016. 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 FTA Fiscal Year 2016 Apportionments, Allocations, and
Program Information and Interim Guidance found in 81 FR 7893 (February
16, 2016). Post-award reporting requirements include submission of the
Federal Financial Report and Milestone progress reports in TrAMs as
appropriate (see Grant Management Requirements FTA.C.5010.1D and
Urbanized Area Formula Program: Program Guidance and Application
Instructions C9030.1E). 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. For selected projects that involve partnerships, the
competitive selection process will be deemed to satisfy the requirement
for a competitive procurement under 49 U.S.C. 5325(a). All other
recipients must follow all third-party procurement guidance as
described in FTA.C.4220.1F. Funds allocated in this announcement must
be obligated in a grant by September 30, 2019.
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
TABLE 1--FY 16 Low or No Emission Project Selections
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State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation
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CA................... Central Contra Costa D2016-LWNO-001 County Connection $2,684,311
Transit Authority. Battery Electric
Bus Project.
CA................... Long Beach Public D2016-LWNO-002 LBT 30-foot Battery 1,172,867
Transportation Electric Bus
Company. Project.
CA................... Santa Clara Valley D2016-LWNO-003 VTA Battery-Electric 2,458,305
Transportation Zero Emission Bus,
Authority (VTA). Charging and
maintenance
Facility Project.
CA................... Santa Cruz D2016-LWNO-004 Santa Cruz METRO 3,810,348
Metropolitan Electric Bus
Transit District. Deployment.
CA................... SunLine Transit D2016-LWNO-005 SunLine Center of 1,519,855
Agency. Excellence in Zero
Emission Technology
(Fuel Cell/Electric
Bus Maintenance
Facility).
DE................... Delaware Transit D2016-LWNO-006 Delaware Transit 2,029,300
Corporation. Corporation
Deployment of
Battery Electric
Buses.
FL................... Miami-Dade County... D2016-LWNO-007 Miami-Dade 2,357,143
Department of
Transportation and
Public Works
Electric Bus
Purchase for Bus
Replacement Program.
IL................... Chicago Transit D2016-LWNO-008 Chicago Transit 3,620,000
Authority. Authority (CTA)
Electric Bus
Program--Purchase
Electric Buses and
Charging Stations.
KY................... Transit Authority of D2016-LWNO-009 Lextran Zero- 683,400
Lexington-Fayette Emission Electric
Urban Co Govt. Bus Fleet Expansion
Project.
LA................... City of Shreveport.. D2016-LWNO-010 City of Shreveport 3,905,377
Electric Bus
Deployment Project.
MO................... The City of Columbia D2016-LWNO-011 City of Columbia 1,712,300
Zero Emission Bus
Deployment Project.
NY................... Capital District D2016-LWNO-012 Expanding CDTA's 767,500
Transportation Clean, Greener
Authority. footprint Purchase
Zero Emission
Electric Buses and
Associated Support
Equipment.
OR................... Lane Transit D2016-LWNO-013 Lane Transit 3,479,675
District. District Zero
Emission Bus
Project (LTD-ZEB).
OR................... Tri-County D2016-LWNO-014 TriMet Zero Emission 3,405,750
Metropolitan Bus Project (TriMet-
Transportation ZEB).
District of Oregon.
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SC................... City of Clemson dba D2016-LWNO-015 Clemson Area Transit 3,905,378
Clemson Area Zero Emission Bus
Transit. Project.
(CAT-ZEB Project)...
TX................... Port Arthur Transit. D2016-LWNO-016 Port Arthur Transit 3,905,377
Zero Emission Bus
Deployment.
UT................... Utah Department of D2016-LWNO-017 Support 3,905,378
Transportation. Implementation of
Zero Emission BRT
Route to Better
Serve the Park City
Communities.
WA................... City of Everett, D2016-LWNO-018 Replacement of 3,358,459
Everett Tramsot. Diesel Buses with
No emission
Electric Buses.
WA................... Pierce County Public D2016-LWNO-019 Pierce Transit 2,550,788
Transportation Electric Bus
Benefit Area Deployment.
Corporation.
WA................... The Chelan Douglas D2016-LWNO-020 Electrification of 3,768,489
Public Link Transit's
Transportation Urban Bus Fleet
Benefit Area. Using High Power On-
Route Wireless
Charging.
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Total............ .................... ............................. .................... 55,000,000
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