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Waivers Granted

Date Waiver Summary 11/18/2024 Notice of Extension of Partial Buy America Waiver for Vans and Minivans FTA granted a five-year extension of its partial Buy America waiver for certain commercially produced vans and minivans used in public transportation...

Real Estate Information

Overview

FTA is committed to ensuring that FTA grant recipients comply with all laws, regulations, and agency policy related to the acquisition of real property for use on federally -assisted transit projects. FTA recipients must ensure all private property owners and displaced persons are...

Project Management Oversight

FTA's Project Management Oversight (PMO) is a continuous review and evaluation of grantee and FTA processes to ensure compliance with statutory, administrative, and regulatory requirements. The Office of Engineering, through the Regional Offices, performs oversight of grantee...

Annual Report on Funding Recommendations

Each year FTA is required by law to prepare an annual report to Congress recommending Capital Investment Grant projects for funding and listing the results of FTA evaluations and ratings of the projects. These reports are companion documents to the President’s budget requests to Congress...

How to Apply for a Reporting ID

To begin NTD reporting, you will need to request an ID number for your agency. You may do so by completing the information required in the NTD ID Request Application.

Background on Reporting to the NTD Who reports to the National Transit Database (NTD)?

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About the Program

Overview Discretionary & Competitive Federal Grant Program Authorized up to $4.6 billion per year, subject to Congressional appropriations Funds light rail, heavy rail, commuter rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit projects IIJA outlines: Multi-year, multi-step process...

Federal Register Notices, Rules & Regulations

This site has Final Notices, Final Rules, and Regulations for the National Transit Database (NTD), other FTA programs that have NTD requirements, such as the Transit Asset Management (TAM) Program. In addition, information from the U.S. Census Bureau...

ARRA Transit Programs

ARRA appropriated $8.4 billion for three major transit programs. ARRA funds may be used only for capital projects (as defined in 49 USC 5302(a)(1)), and no local share is required. Less than one percent of the total funding ($64 million) was made available to FTA for oversight and administration...

TERM Lite and Federal

TERM Lite is an analysis tool designed to help transit agencies assess their State of Good Repair (SGR) backlog and other items.