Fiscal Year 2019 Tribal Transit Projects
| State | Project Sponsor | Project Description | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK | Bristol Bay Native Association | The Bristol Bay Native Association will receive funding for a planning study to develop a public ferry/barge service. This study area will include several communities in the Nushagak River and Igushik River drainages. | $25,000 |
| AK | Gulkana Village Council | The Gulkana Village Council, which operates Soaring Eagles Transit, will receive funding to replace transit vehicles that have exceeded their useful life. This project will improve safety, mobility and service reliability for residents who use the service for local and intercity travel to surrounding communities in the region. | $165,000 |
| AK | Nome Eskimo Community | The Nome Eskimo Community (NEC) will receive funding to update their Tribal Transit Plan. NEC provides transit services to low-income, youth, seniors and people with disabilities in Nome. This project will help NEC continue to provide access to essential services that are critical to its tribal members. | $9,450 |
| AK | Noorvik Native Community (NNC) | The Noorvik Native Community (NNC) will receive funding to purchase a new vehicle. This vehicle will provide tribal members with reliable and safe transportation. Currently there are no transit services provided for community or tribal members in Noorvik. | $90,100 |
| AK | Noorvik Native Community (NNC) | The Noorvik Native Community (NNC) will receive funding to initiate transit service. This project will improve safety, reliability and mobility for its tribal members in Noorvik. | $96,055 |
| AK | Nulato Village | The Nulato Village will receive funding to initiate transit service to provide residents with greater access to jobs, school, healthcare and other services in and around Nulato. | $69,903 |
| AK | Petersburg Indian Association | The Petersburg Indian Association will receive funding to initiate paratransit service to provide greater access to jobs, healthcare and other services for tribal members residing in Petersburg Borough. | $26,053 |
| AZ | Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians | The Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians will receive funding to replace a transit vehicle that has exceeded its useful life. This project will help residents access healthcare and other services in northern Mohave and Coconino Counties and nearby southern Utah. | $25,800 |
| AZ | San Carlos Apache Tribal Council | The San Carlos Apache Tribal Council will receive funding to purchase vehicles to replace older vans that have exceeded their useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs and help tribal members in Graham, Gila and Pinal counties access jobs, healthcare and other services. | $439,398 |
| CA | Blue Lake Rancheria, California | The Blue Lake Rancheria tribe will receive funding to update their tribal transit plan to ensure a continuation of services for its tribal members in the foothills of the Coastal Range of Humboldt County. | $25,000 |
| CA | Susanville Indian Rancheria | The Susanville Indian Rancheria will receive funding to replace a vehicle that has exceeded its useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs and ensure continued safe and reliable service for tribal members who need access to jobs, healthcare and other services in Northern California. | $54,000 |
| FL | Seminole Tribe of Florida | The Seminole Tribe of Florida will receive funding to initiate a tribal transit plan. The development of a tribal transit program will be tailored to serve the unique needs and resources of the Seminole Tribe to ensure a continuation of coordinated services for its tribal members throughout Central and Southeast Florida. | $25,000 |
| KS | Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation | The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation will receive funding to replace a vehicle that has exceeded its useful life, and funding to expand its current operations facility. This project will address state of good repair needs and improve safety, reliability and mobility for tribal members in Jackson County and surrounding areas. | $593,010 |
| KS | Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska | The Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri will receive funding to continue operations and maintenance of its transit service. The project will ensure safe, reliable, and economical transit services for tribal residents. | $249,999 |
| LA | Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana | The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe will receive funding to conduct a feasibility study for future transit service. This project will help determine the future transportation needs of tribal members throughout Central Louisiana. | $25,000 |
| ME | Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians | The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians (HBMI) in Maine will receive funding to purchase a loader and plow to maintain its transit facilities and routes to ensure continued services for its tribal members in Aroostook County. The equipment will be used to remove snow and debris from transportation facilities and transit routes through the winter months and for materials movement at facilities in Spring, Summer and Fall. | $245,000 |
| MI | Bay Mills Indian Community | The Bay Mills Indian Community will receive funding to replace two vehicles that have exceeded their useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs and ensure continued safe and reliable service for tribal members in rural Brimley, Michigan. | $90,000 |
| MN | Bois Forte Band of Chippewa | The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa will receive funding to purchase two vehicles that meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, improving access and mobility for tribal residents. The vehicles will be used to provide and support non-emergency medical transportation in the Arrowhead region of northern Minnesota. | $135,000 |
| MN | Bois Forte Band of Chippewa | The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa will receive funding to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of a maintenance facility. Their fleet is stored outdoors and subject to significant weather elements. | $25,000 |
| MN | Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa | The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will receive funding to modernize and update an existing maintenance facility. The tribe operates Fond du Lac Transit, which provides service to connect tribal members to jobs, education, healthcare and other services on the reservation in Northeastern Minnesota and surrounding communities. | $178,963 |
| MN | Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians | The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians will receive funding to purchase new vehicles that meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, improving access and mobility for tribal residents. The new vehicles will help the tribe expand transit service and ensure safe and reliable travel for tribal residents in Northwest Minnesota. | $324,000 |
| MN | The Prairie Island Indian Community | The Prairie Island Indian Community will receive funding to create a tribal transit plan to serve the reservation, which is located along the banks of the Mississippi River in Red Wing, Minnesota. Plans for the transit service call for routes that connect residents with healthcare, education and other community services. | $24,895 |
| MS | Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians | The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will receive funding to conduct a feasibility study for a central call center and/or maintenance facility. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) Choctaw Community Regional Transportation provides transit service within the Choctaw Indian Reservation in Meridian, Mississippi. | $25,000 |
| MT | Blackfeet Nation | The Blackfeet Nation will receive funding to develop a master tribal transit plan. The proposed plan will explore additional routes and services throughout the Blackfeet Reservation and neighboring areas in Northwest Montana to promote economic development and enhance the health and welfare of the Blackfeet Nation. | $25,000 |
| MT | Chippewa Cree Tribe | The Chippewa Cree Tribe will receive funding to deploy a technology-based risk data management system to their vehicle fleet. The project will incorporate technological enhancements including real-time driver monitoring, scheduling of maintenance and advanced trip and route planning to ensure continued reliable services for tribal members throughout the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. | $35,550 |
| MT | Fort Belknap Indian Community | The Fort Belknap Indian Community will receive funding to replace a vehicle that has exceeded its useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs and ensure continued safe and reliable services for tribal members of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and surrounding communities. | $120,000 |
| NC | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians | The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will receive funding to replace vehicles that have exceeded their useful life and purchase a new vehicle for service expansion. This project will address state of good repair needs and help the tribe continue to provide safe and reliable transit service for residents to access jobs, school and community services. | $280,800 |
| NE | Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska | The Winnebago Tribe will receive funding to purchase a vehicle for a new transit route. This project will address state of good repair needs and help the tribe continue to provide safe and reliable transit service to help residents access jobs, school and community services in Sioux City and South Sioux City, along with coordinated trips with Sioux City Transit and the Omaha Tribal Shuttle. | $32,207 |
| NM | Pueblo of Santa Clara | The Pueblo of Santa Clara, which is served by North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD), will receive funding to replace a vehicle that has exceeded its useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs and help the Pueblo continue to provide safe and reliable transit service to help tribal residents access jobs, school and community services. | $126,000 |
| NV | Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe | The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, served by Courtesy Transit, will receive funding for operating assistance to continue services for tribal members that live within the boundaries of the Fallon Reservation, located in rural Northern Nevada. | $137,180 |
| OK | Cherokee Nation | The Cherokee Nation will receive funding to replace vehicles that have exceeded their useful life. This project will help the tribe address state of good repair needs and continue safe and reliable transit services for residents traveling to jobs, healthcare and other community services. | $170,100 |
| OR | Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation | The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will receive funding to purchase and install security infrastructure at several facilities. This project will improve safety and ensure continued service for tribal members that rely on transit services in Northeastern Oregon, and Southeastern Washington. | $36,593 |
| SD | Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe | The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) will receive funding to replace vehicles that have exceeded their useful life and funding to support service facilities. This project will address state of good repair needs and will assist members for this federally recognized tribe, located in North Central South Dakota, in reaching healthcare, employment and education opportunities. | $293,150 |
| SD | Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate | The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (partnering with Community Transit, Inc.) will receive funding to purchase vehicles for service expansion, providing additional transit service and connections to the Lake Traverse Reservation, located in Northeastern South Dakota. | $481,761 |
| WA | Cowlitz Indian Tribe | The Cowlitz Indian Tribe will receive funding for a feasibility study to develop cost-effective, fixed-route service for its tribal members and rural residents in Southwest Washington. Currently, Cowlitz Tribal Transit Services provides a demand response service for its tribal community in a largely rural, low-density service area. | $25,000 |
| WA | Cowlitz Indian Tribe | The Cowlitz Indian Tribe will receive funding to replace a vehicle that has exceeded its useful life. This project will address state of good repair needs continuing a program to support access to jobs, healthcare and community services. | $77,385 |
| WA | Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation | The Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation will receive funding to implement GPS tracking of Lummi Transit vehicles and new bus shelters. This project will address state of good repair needs and ensure a program to support access to jobs, healthcare and community services for tribal residents. | $82,112 |
| WA | Quinault Indian Nation | The Quinault Indian Nation will receive funding to develop a public transit plan. This will allow the Tribe to initiate transit service in the Quinault Indian Reservation, located near the base of the Olympic Peninsula in Southwestern Washington. | $25,000 |
| WI | Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians | The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians will receive funding to construct a facility to store their vehicles. This project will address state of good repair needs and ensure a continuity of services especially needed during winter weather conditions. | $39,614 |
Total:
$4,954,078
Last updated: Monday, November 16, 2020