Announcement of Fiscal Year 2020 Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program Project Selections |
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K. Jane Williams
Federal Transit Administration
18 August 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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mark.Bathrick@dot.gov, 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 [[Page 50881]] 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Highly Recommended...................................... 174 Recommended............................................. 68 Not Recommended......................................... 40 --------------- Total............................................... 282 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. [[Page 50882]] 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. [[Page 50883]] 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. ------------------ [[Page 50884]] Total:................... ..................... ................ ..................... 463,848,929 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [FR Doc. 2020-17970 Filed 8-17-20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P