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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...

FY 2011 Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information - CR

Overview

Please note that formatting errors occurred in tables that were published with Federal Register, February 8, 2011 , Volume 76, No. 26, which may be confusing. Please reference the Excel spreadsheets below for complete information on Fiscal 2011 Continuing Resolution...