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Joint Development

What's New In January 2025, FTA updated the form for project sponsors to submit joint development requests. FTA grantees wishing to use FTA grant funds or FTA-assisted property for joint development must electronically submit the updated FTA Joint Development Project Request Form...

Capital Leasing

Capital leasing is a contractual agreement in which a grantee acquires the right to use a capital asset for a specified period of time without obtaining full ownership, in exchange for a periodic payment regardless of the tax status of the transaction. A capital lease is an eligible...

Debt Service Reserve

Debt service reserves are cash assets that are designated by a borrower to ensure full and timely payments to bond holders. Debt Service Reserve Funds (DSRF) have been used for many years by private businesses and public entities to support debt issues. 

The reserve funds provide...

Flexible Funding for Transit and Highway Improvements

Federal law (23 U.S.C. § 104(f); 49 U.S.C. § 5334(i)(1)) allows Federal-Aid Highway Program funding made available for public transportation projects to be flexed (or transferred) to be administered by FTA for public transportation projects. 

See potentially eligible programs at...

Formula Apportionments Data

This page provides links to data from the National Transit Database (NTD) and the U.S. Census that FTA used to calculate the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 formula apportionments. Beginning in FY 2024, FTA has used 2020 Census data in its apportionment calculations.

National Transit Database (NTD...

Archived Apportionments - prior to 2009

Apportionment TablesFY 2008 Apportionments, Allocations, Program InformationFTA Fiscal Year 2007 Apportionments and Allocations and Program InformationSAFETEA-LU Implementation Federal Register NoticeFTA Fiscal Year 2006 Apportionments and Allocations Changes and Corrections; Announcement of States...

FY 2009 Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information - CR

Overview

The following is an extract from the FTA Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information; Notice published in the Federal Register, Dec. 18, 2008, Vol. 73, No. 244.

Division A of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing...

FY 2010 Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information - CR

The following is an extract from the FTA Fiscal Year 2010 Apportionments, Allocations and Program Information published in the Federal Register, February 16, 2010, Vol. 75, No. 30 (PDF) [Federal Register text version].

This notice apportions or allocates available FY 2010...