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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 172 / Thursday, September 9, 2021 / Notices level of financial need demonstrated by an eligible recipient or subrecipient, including projections of future financial need to maintain service, as a percentage of the 2018 operating costs, that has not been replaced by the funds made available from CARES Act, CRRSAA, or ARP to the eligible recipient or subrecipient for the operating expenses of transit agencies.
FTA intends to fund projects with financial needs before September 30, 2023, before funding projects with needs after that date. In determining the allocation of funds, FTA may consider geographic diversity, diversity in the size of the transit systems receiving funding, and an applicants immediate funding need.
Prior to making an award, FTA is required to review and consider any information about the applicant that is in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information Systems accessible through SAM. An applicant may review and comment on information about itself that a Federal awarding agency previously entered.
FTA may consider any comments by the applicant, in addition to the other information in the designated integrity and performance system, in making a judgment about the applicants integrity, business ethics, and record of performance under Federal awards when completing the review of risk posed by applicants as described in the Office of Management and Budgets Uniform Requirements for Federal Awards 2 CFR 200.205.
F. Federal Award Administration Information
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1. Federal Award Notices Final project allocations will be posted on the FTA website. Only proposals from eligible applicants for eligible activities will be considered for funding. There is no minimum or maximum grant award amount;
however, FTA intends to fund as many meritorious projects as possible. Due to funding limitations, projects that are selected for funding may receive less than the amount originally requested.
Recipients should contact their FTA
regional offices for additional information regarding allocations for projects under the Additional Assistance Funding.
2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements i. Pre-Award Authority At the time the project selections are announced, FTA will extend pre-award authority for the selected projects back to January 20, 2020. For more
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information about FTAs policy on preaward authority, please see the FTA
Fiscal Year 2021 Apportionments, Allocations and Program Information Notice at https www.transit.dot.gov/
regulations-guidance/notices/202115576.
ii. Grant Requirements If selected, awardees will apply for a grant through FTAs Transit Award Management System TrAMS. All Additional Assistance Funding recipients are subject to the grant requirements of the Urbanized Area Formula Grant program 49 U.S.C.
5307, including those of FTA Circular Urbanized Area Formula Program:
Program Guidance and Application Instructions FTA.C.9030.1E, or the Rural Area Formula Grant program 49
U.S.C. 5311, including those of FTA
Circular Formula Grants for Rural Areas FTA.C.9040.1G. All recipients must also follow FTA Circular Award Management Requirements FTA.C.5010.1E and the labor protections required by Federal public transportation law 49 U.S.C. 5333b.
Technical assistance regarding these requirements is available from each FTA
regional office.
iii. Buy America FTA requires that all procurements meet FTAs Buy America requirements 49 U.S.C. 5323j, which require all iron, steel, and manufactured products be produced in the United States.
Applicants should read the policy guidance carefully to determine the applicable domestic content requirement for their projects. Any proposal that will require a waiver must identify the items for which a waiver will be sought in the application.
Applicants should not proceed with the expectation that waivers will be granted.
iv. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Projects that include acquisitions are subject to the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise DBE program regulations 49 CFR part 26. FTA will provide additional guidance as grants are awarded. For more information on DBE
requirements, please contact Monica McCallum, Office of Civil Rights, 206
2207519, email: Monica.McCallum@
dot.gov.
v. Planning FTA encourages applicants to notify the appropriate State Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations in areas likely to be served by the project funds made available under these initiatives and programs.

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vi. Standard Assurances The applicant assures that it will comply with all applicable Federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, directives, FTA circulars, and other Federal administrative requirements in carrying out any project supported by the FTA grant. The applicant acknowledges that it is under a continuing obligation to comply with the terms and conditions of the grant agreement issued for its project with FTA. The applicant understands that Federal laws, regulations, policies, and administrative practices might be modified from time to time and may affect the implementation of the project.
The applicant agrees that the most recent Federal requirements will apply to the project, unless FTA issues a written determination otherwise. The applicant must submit the Certifications and Assurances before receiving a grant if it does not have current certifications on file.
3. Reporting Post-award reporting requirements include the electronic submission of Federal Financial Reports and Milestone Progress Reports. Applicant should include any goals, targets, and indicators referenced in their application to the project in the Executive Summary of the TrAMS
application. Recipients of funds made available through this NOFO are also required to regularly submit data to the NTD.
As part of completing the annual Certifications and Assurances required of FTA grant recipients, a successful applicant must report on the suspension or debarment status of itself and its principals. If the award recipients active grants, cooperative agreements, and procurement contracts from all Federal awarding agencies exceeds $10,000,000 for any period of time during the period of performance of an award made pursuant to this Notice, the recipient must comply with the Recipient Integrity and Performance Matters reporting requirements described in Appendix XII to 2 CFR part 200.
G. Federal Awarding Agency Contacts For further information concerning this notice, please contact FTAarpassistance@dot.gov. If you require immediate assistance please contact the Additional Assistance Program manager, Sarah Clements, by phone at 202 3663062. A TDD is available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing at 8008778339. In addition, FTA will post additional
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