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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 31 / Thursday, February 18, 2021 / Notices
Additional funds made available prior to project selection may be allocated to eligible projects.
In FY 2020, the program received applications for 147 projects requesting a total of $513 million. Forty-one projects were funded at a total of $130
million. FTA may cap the amount a single recipient or State may receive as part of the selection process. In FY
2020, for example, the largest amount awarded to a single applicant was approximately $7 million and no State received more than 5.4 percent of the total funding available.
FTA will grant pre-award authority to incur costs for selected projects beginning on the date FY 2021 project selections are announced on FTAs website. Funds are available for obligation for three fiscal years after the fiscal year in which the competitive awards are announced. Funds are only available for projects that have not incurred costs prior to the announcement of project selections.

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C. Eligibility Information 1. Eligible Applicants Eligible applicants include designated recipients, States, local governmental authorities, and Indian Tribes. Proposals for funding projects in rural nonurbanized areas may be submitted as part of a consolidated State proposal. To be considered eligible, applicants must be able to demonstrate the requisite legal, financial, and technical capabilities to receive and administer Federal funds under this program.
States and other eligible applicants may submit consolidated proposals for projects in urbanized areas. Proposals may contain projects to be implemented by the recipient or its eligible subrecipients. Eligible subrecipients are entities that are otherwise eligible recipients under this program.
As permitted by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, applicants to the Low-No Program may submit applications that include partnerships with other entities that intend to participate in the implementation of the project, including, but not limited to, specific vehicle manufacturers, equipment vendors, owners or operators of related facilities, or project consultants. If an application that involves such a partnership is selected for funding, the competitive selection process will be deemed to satisfy the requirement for a competitive procurement under 49 U.S.C. 5325a for the named entities. Applicants are advised that any changes to the proposed partnership will require FTA
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with the scope of the approved project, and may necessitate a competitive procurement.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching The maximum Federal share for projects that involve leasing or acquiring transit buses including clean fuel or alternative fuel vehicles for purposes of complying with or maintaining compliance with the Clean Air Act is 85 percent of the net project cost.
The maximum Federal share for the cost of acquiring, installing, or constructing vehicle-related equipment or facilities including clean fuel or alternative fuel vehicle-related equipment or facilities for purposes of complying with or maintaining compliance with the Clean Air Act is 90
percent of the net project cost of such equipment or facilities that are attributable to compliance with the Clean Air Act. The award recipient must itemize the cost of specific, discrete, vehicle-related equipment associated with compliance with the Clean Air Act to be eligible for the maximum 90
percent Federal share for these costs.
The Federal share of the cost of other projects shall not exceed 80 percent.
Eligible sources of match include the following: cash from non-Government sources other than revenues from providing public transportation services; revenues derived from the sale of advertising and concessions; amounts received under a service agreement with a State or local social service agency or private social service organization;
revenues generated from value capture financing mechanisms; funds from an undistributed cash surplus; replacement or depreciation cash fund or reserve;
new capital; or in-kind contributions.
Transportation development credits or in-kind match may be used for local match if identified and documented in the application.
3. Eligible Projects Under the Low-No Program 49 U.S.C.
5339c, eligible projects include projects or programs of projects in an eligible area for: 1 Purchasing or leasing low or no emission buses; 2
acquiring low or no emission buses with a leased power source; 3 constructing or leasing facilities and related equipment for low or no emission buses;
4 constructing new public transportation facilities to accommodate low or no emission buses; 5 or rehabilitating or improving existing public transportation facilities to accommodate low or no emission buses 49 U.S.C. 5339c1B. As required by Federal public transportation law 49

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U.S.C. 5339c5, FTA will only consider eligible projects relating to the acquisition or leasing of low or no emission buses or bus facilities that make greater reductions in energy consumption and harmful emissions than comparable standard buses or other low or no emission buses and are part of the recipients long-term integrated fleet management plan.
A low or no emission bus is defined as a passenger vehicle used to provide public transportation that significantly reduces energy consumption or harmful emissions, including direct carbon emissions, when compared to a standard vehicle. The statutory definition includes zero emission transit buses, which are defined as buses that produce no direct carbon emissions and no particulate matter emissions under any and all possible operational modes and conditions. Examples of zero emission bus technologies include, but are not limited to, hydrogen fuel-cell buses and battery-electric buses. All new transit bus models must successfully complete FTA bus testing for production transit buses pursuant to FTAs Bus Testing regulation 49 CFR
part 665 in order to be procured with funds awarded under the Low-No Program. All transit vehicles must be procured from certified transit vehicle manufacturers in accordance with the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE regulations 49 CFR part 26. The development or deployment of prototype vehicles is not eligible for funding under the Low-No Program.
Recipients are permitted to use up to 0.5 percent of their requested grant award for workforce development activities eligible under Federal public transportation law 49 U.S.C. 5314b and an additional 0.5 percent for costs associated with training at the National Transit Institute. Applicants must identify the proposed use of funds for these activities in the project proposal and identify them separately in the project budget.
If a single project proposal involves multiple public transportation providers, such as when an agency acquires vehicles that will be operated by another agency, the proposal must include a detailed statement regarding the role of each public transportation provider in the implementation of the project.
D. Application and Submission Information 1. Address To Request Application Applications must be submitted electronically through GRANTS.GOV.
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