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Extract of the Uniform Act

To provide for uniform and equitable treatment of persons displaced from their homes, businesses, or farms by Federal and federally assisted programs and to establish uniform and equitable land acquisition policies for Federal and federally assisted programs.Be it enacted by the Senate and House...

Proposed New Starts and Small Starts Policy Guidance

This document describes the measures and methods for calculating the project justification and local financial commitment criteria required by statute for New and Small Starts projects and included in the Final Rule. The regulation and its appendix act as a framework for the New and Small Starts...

Streamlining the Federal New Starts/Small Starts Program

1/25/2012

Dear Colleague:

Last night, President Obama presented a blueprint for an economy built to last over the long term and called on the federal government to do its part to deliver solutions to expand opportunities for all Americans while cutting red tape.

The Federal Transit...

Travel Forecasts

Several FTA project-evaluation measures rely on travel forecasts prepared by sponsors of proposed New Starts and Small Starts projects. In its reviews to ensure their usefulness in project evaluation, FTA considers five aspects of the forecasts:

The properties of the forecasting methods;The...

Quality Management System Guidelines

These Quality Management System Guidelines are for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grantees that are undertaking design, construction, or equipment acquisition programs. They may also be used as a guideline for grantees in establishing a Quality Management System (QMS) related to their...

National Transit Reporting Tool

To access the NTD Reporting Tool log in using your Login.gov information which matches your email address associated with NTD.  When logging in, please click on "If you are an External User, click this link to log in" from the landing page.

On Sept. 10, 2021, FTA began using...