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Carolyn Flowers
Federal Transit Administration
1 August 2016
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 147 (Monday, August 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50597-50598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18045]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Fiscal Year 2015 Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment (LoNo)
Program
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT. Funding Opportunity
Number: FTA-2015-006-TRI Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
Number: 20.514
ACTION: Announcement of project selections.
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SUMMARY:
Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announced the selection of Fiscal Year (FY) 2015
Low or No Emissions Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo) projects on April
19, 2016, (see Table 1). The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century Act (MAP-21), Public Law 112-141, July 6, 2012, amended 49
U.S.C. 5312 to add a new paragraph (d)(5) authorizing FTA to make
grants to finance eligible projects under the LoNo Program. The
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public
Law 113-235, December 16, 2014, made available $22,500,000 in FY 2015
funds to carry out the LoNo Program. Of that amount, a maximum of
$19,500,000 was available for transit buses and a minimum of $3,000,000
was available for supporting facilities and related equipment.
On September 24, 2015, FTA published a Notice of Funding
Availability (NOFA) (80 FR 57656) announcing the availability of
funding for the LoNo Program. The purpose of the LoNo Program is to
deploy the cleanest and most energy efficient U.S.-made transit buses
that have been largely proven in testing and demonstrations but are not
yet widely deployed in transit agency fleets. The LoNo Program provides
funding for transit agencies for capital acquisitions and leases of
zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition,
construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities such as
recharging, refueling, and maintenance facilities.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The appropriate FTA Regional Office
will contact successful applicants regarding the next steps in applying
for funds (see Table 1). Unsuccessful LoNo Program applicants may
contact Sean Ricketson, Office of Research Demonstration, and
Innovation at email address sean.ricketson@dot.gov to arrange a
proposal debriefing within 30 days of this announcement.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the LoNo NOFA, FTA received
63 project proposals requesting $247,631,499 in Federal funds. Project
proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's responsiveness to
the program evaluation criteria published in the NOFA. FTA is funding
seven LoNo Program projects, as shown in Table 1, for a total of
$22,500,000. Grantees selected for the LoNo Program should work with
their FTA Regional Office to complete the grant applications.
Grant applications must only include eligible activities applied
for in the original project application. Project partner organizations
identified as team members or sub-recipients in the original project
application must be identified and included in the grant application in
the capacity as originally
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proposed. Funds must be used consistent with the competitive proposal
and for the eligible purposes established in the NOFA and described in
the FTA Circular 6100.1E and/or FTA Circular 9030.1E. In cases where
the allocation amount is less than the proposer's requested amount,
grantees should work with the FTA Regional Office is coordination with
the Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation to reduce scope
or scale the project such that a complete phase or project is
accomplished. Grantees are reminded that program requirements such as
cost sharing or local match can be found in the NOFA. A discretionary
research project identification number will be assigned to each project
for tracking purposes and must be used in the Transit Award Management
System (TrAMS) application.
All projects are granted pre-award authority with an effective date
of April 19, 2016, so long as all required conditions for pre-award
authority have been met and the activities undertaken in advance of
federal funding are contained in the approved project plan or statement
of work. Post-award reporting requirements include submission of the
Federal Financial Report and Milestone reports in TrAMS as appropriate
(FTA Circular 6100.1E, Circular 5010.1D and Circular 9030.1E). The
grantees must comply with all applicable Federal statutes, regulations,
executive orders, FTA circulars, and other Federal requirements
detailed in the most recent Master Agreement in carrying out the
project supported by the FTA research grant. The FY16 Master Agreement
can be found at the following Internet address: https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grantee-resources/sample-fta-agreements/sample-fta-agreements-october-1-2015.
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
Table 1--Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program Project Selections
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Discretionary ID State Project sponsor Project Amount
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D2016-LONO-001................... CA LACMTA under Deploy 5 battery- $4,275,000
Southern California electric buses.
Association of
Governments (SCAG).
D2016-LONO-002................... CA Foothill Transit Deploy charging 1,310,000
under Southern infrastructure for
California an existing fleet
Association of of battery-
Governments (SCAG). electric buses.
D2016-LONO-003................... CA AC Transit Under the Deploy 5 battery- 1,551,611
Metropolitan electric buses.
Transportation
Commission.
D2016-LONO-004................... OH Stark Area Regional Deploy 3 additional 4,015,174
Transit Authority. buses to SARTA's
fleet of fuel cell
electric buses.
D2016-LONO-005................... PA Southeastern Deploy 25 battery- 2,585,075
Pennsylvania electric buses.
Transportation
Authority (SEPTA).
D2016-LONO-006................... UT Utah Transit Deploy 5 battery- 5,427,100
Authority (UTA). electric buses.
D2016-LONO-007................... WA King County......... Deploy 8 additional 3,336,040
buses to King
County's fleet of
battery-electric
buses.
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Total........................ .................. .................... ................... 22,500,000
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