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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 172 / Thursday, September 9, 2021 / Notices
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Failure to submit the required information as requested may delay review or disqualify the application.
5. Funding Restrictions ARP Additional Assistance funds may be used only for operating costs.
Allowable direct and indirect expenses must be consistent with the Governmentwide Uniform Administrative Requirements and Cost Principles 2 CFR part 200 and FTA
Circular 5010.1E. Funding is being made available for reimbursement of costs normally covered by fare revenue or other non-Federal sources of funding and is not intended to support new initiatives to reduce or eliminate fares, except for temporary fare policy changes implemented to improve safety in response to the COVID19 pandemic.
6. Other Submission Requirements FTA may award a lesser amount than the applicant requests.
All applications must be submitted via the GRANTS.GOV website. FTA
does not accept applications on paper, by fax machine, email, or other means.
For information on application submission requirements, please see Section D.1., Address to Request Application Package.
E. Application Review Information
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1. Criteria Applications will be reviewed primarily based on the responses provided in the supplemental form.
Additional information may be provided to support the responses;
however, any additional documentation must be directly referenced on the supplemental form, including the file name where the additional information can be found. FTA will review funding proposals for Additional Assistance Funding based on the criteria described in this notice.
a. Reduction in Farebox or Other Sources of Revenue Responses will be reviewed based on the extent to which the applicant has suffered a reduction in farebox revenue or other sources of revenue from any non-Federal source. Applicants must provide totals for their 2018 fare revenue and 2018 non-Federal revenue that supported operations. The narrative section should detail the sources of these funds. Applicants also must provide their actual or projected farebox and non-Federal revenue used or needed for operations for each of the given Federal fiscal years FFYs identified in the supplemental form,
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beginning with the eligible timeframe for FFY 2020 January 20, 2020, or a date later in 2020 if the applicants accounting system cannot provide the data as of January 20, 2020, through September 30, 2020 and for each FFY
for which the applicant is requesting funding, ending with FFY 2023 October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023.
Additionally, should the applicant choose to submit a request for funding for shortfalls for FFY 2024 through FFY
2029, the applicant may provide a narrative describing the anticipated reduction in revenue.
The narrative response should identify the reason for any differences between the 2018 amounts and the actual or projected amounts for the time period for which you are requesting assistance.
b. Estimate of Financial Need Responses will be reviewed based on the financial need demonstrated by the applicant, including actual or projected financial need to maintain service that has not been replaced by funds allocated to the applicant under the CARES Act, Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act CRRSAA, and other ARP funding, as a percentage of 2018 operating costs.
The applicant must provide their 2018 operating expense total as reported to the National Transit Database NTD
to establish a baseline for the request.
The applicant also must provide the amount of CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP funding allocated to it. Applicants then must provide their operating expense total for each FFY for which they are requesting funding. Applicants should also provide the amount of Federal funding used or projected to be used toward operating expenses in each year. Note that Urbanized Area providers should be sure to provide their total operating expenses from the F40 form of their NTD Report, which is inclusive of all operating expenses, including those that are not used for apportionment purposes. States should submit all relevant operating expense reports for any urbanized area or rural area subrecipients to which they would allocate Additional Assistance Funding.
The applicant must attach completed CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP split letters or allocation announcements to the application. Failure to include this information will result in the total amount of CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP funding allocated to the urbanized areas or state being considered available to the applicant or its subrecipients to address the additional funding needs identified in the application.

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In the narrative section of the report, the applicant must describe 1 how actual and/or projected revenues have fallen short of 2018 revenues, as a percentage of 2018 operating expenses;
2 how much of the lost revenues has been or will be replaced by CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP funding; 3 how the requested assistance will support unmet operating expense needs, after fully using CARES Act, CRRSAA, and ARP
funding; and 4 how the requested assistance will not displace regular formula grant assistance from FTA.
c. Demonstration of Expenditure of CARES Act Funding Per ARP, the applicant must demonstrate that it has expended 90
percent of the CARES Act funding allocated to the applicant no later than the application deadline in order to receive ARP Additional Assistance Funding. The applicant must include the amount of CARES Act funding it received or was allocated and documentation supporting disbursement of at least 90 percent of its CARES Act allocations.
d. Project Spending Plan Responses will be reviewed based on the extent to which the funding is ready to be obligated by September 30, 2023, and disbursed by September 30, 2029, as well as whether the applicants proposed spending plans are reasonable and complete.
In assessing whether the proposed spending plan is reasonable and complete, FTA will review the description of the amounts needed and activities performed in each of FFYs 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as well as the period of FFY 2024 through 2029.
Although FTA does not expect there to be sufficient funding to support shortfalls after FFY 2023, this does not preclude applicants from submitting such requests. For projects that will require formal coordination, approvals, or permits from other agencies or project partners, the applicant must demonstrate coordination with these organizations and their support for the project, such as through letters of support.
2. Review and Selection Process A technical evaluation committee will evaluate proposals based on the published criteria. Members of the technical evaluation committee and other FTA staff may request additional information from applicants, if necessary. Based on the findings of the technical evaluation committee, the FTA Administrator will determine the final allocation of funding based on the
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