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This step-by-step video provides an overview of everything there is to know about the Federal Transit Administration’s Core Capacity Improvement Program. Core Capacity projects, which fund substantial, corridor-based...
Translating Your Cost Estimate into the SCC Format
FTA publishes templates for project applicants to develop and report necessary information to FTA. These templates are used for developing the evaluation criteria and ratings.
These reporting instructions for the Core Capacity (Section 5309) Program inform applicants of the information they must provide so FTA may undertake the legislatively required evaluation and rating of project merit.
General templates for Small Starts Projects.
Supplemental Land Use and Economic Development Information and Supporting Documentation templates for Small Starts Projects.
These reporting instructions for the Section 5309 Small Starts Criteria inform sponsors of proposed Small Starts projects of the information they must provide to FTA so that it may undertake the legislatively required evaluation and rating of project merit.
New Starts Reporting Instructions (2015) (MS Word)
New Starts Templates Part 1 (2015) (Excel)
New Starts Templates Part 2 (2015) (MS Word)
Standard Cost Categories (SCC) for Capital Projects
Documenting existing ridership to qualify for warrants (MS Word)