81 FR 61731 - Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016 Low or No Emission Grant Program Project Selections
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 173 (September 7, 2016)
Federal Transit Administration
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 173 (September 7, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-21430 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 7, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 61731-61733] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-21430] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Transit Administration Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016 Low or No Emission Grant Program Project Selections AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects with Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 appropriations for the Low or No Emission Grant Program (Low-No Program), as authorized by the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST) Act. The FAST Act authorized $55 million for competitive allocations in FY 2016. On March 29, 2016, FTA published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 17553) announcing the availability of Federal funding for the Low-No Program. These program funds will provide financial assistance to states and eligible public agencies for the purchase or lease of low or no emission vehicles that use advanced technologies and for related equipment or facilities use for transit revenue operations. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Successful applicants should contact the appropriate FTA Regional Office for information regarding applying for the funds or program-specific information. A list of Regional Offices can be found [[Page 61732]] at www.fta.dot.gov. Unsuccessful applicants may contact Tara Clark, Office of Program Management at (202) 366-2623, email: [email protected], to arrange a proposal debriefing within 30 days of this announcement. A TDD is available at 1-800-877-8339 (TDD/FIRS). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to the NOFO, FTA received 101 proposals from 32 states requesting $446 million in Federal funds, indicating significant demand for funding for low or no emission capital projects. Project proposals were evaluated based on each applicant's responsiveness to the program evaluation criteria outlined in the NOFO. FTA is funding 20 projects as shown in Table 1 for a total of $55 million. Recipients selected for competitive funding should work with their FTA Regional Office to finalize the grant application in FTA's Transit Award Management System (TrAMs) for the projects identified in the attached table to quickly obligate funds. Grant applications must include eligible activities applied for in the original project application. Funds must be used consistent with the competitive proposal and for the eligible capital purposes established in the NOFO and described in the FTA Circular 9030.1E. In cases where the allocation amount is less than the proposer's total requested amount, recipients must fund the scalable project option as described in the application. If the award amount does not correspond to the scalable option, for example due to a cap on the award amount, the recipient should work with the Regional Office to reduce scope or scale of the project such that a complete phase or project is accomplished. Recipients are reminded that program requirements such as cost sharing or local match can be found in the NOFO. A discretionary project identification number has been assigned to each project for tracking purposes and must be used in the TrAMs application. Selected projects are eligible to incur costs under pre-award authority no earlier than the date projects were publicly announced, July 26, 2016. Pre-award authority does not guarantee that project expenses incurred prior to the award of a grant will be eligible for reimbursement, as eligibility for reimbursement is contingent upon other requirements, such as planning and environmental requirements, having been met. For more about FTA's policy on pre-award authority, please see the FTA Fiscal Year 2016 Apportionments, Allocations, and Program Information and Interim Guidance found in 81 FR 7893 (February 16, 2016). Post-award reporting requirements include submission of the Federal Financial Report and Milestone progress reports in TrAMs as appropriate (see Grant Management Requirements FTA.C.5010.1D and Urbanized Area Formula Program: Program Guidance and Application Instructions C9030.1E). Recipients must comply with all applicable Federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, FTA circulars, and other Federal requirements in carrying out the project supported by the FTA grant. For selected projects that involve partnerships, the competitive selection process will be deemed to satisfy the requirement for a competitive procurement under 49 U.S.C. 5325(a). All other recipients must follow all third-party procurement guidance as described in FTA.C.4220.1F. Funds allocated in this announcement must be obligated in a grant by September 30, 2019. Carolyn Flowers, Acting Administrator. TABLE 1--FY 16 Low or No Emission Project Selections ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CA................... Central Contra Costa D2016-LWNO-001 County Connection $2,684,311 Transit Authority. Battery Electric Bus Project. CA................... Long Beach Public D2016-LWNO-002 LBT 30-foot Battery 1,172,867 Transportation Electric Bus Company. Project. CA................... Santa Clara Valley D2016-LWNO-003 VTA Battery-Electric 2,458,305 Transportation Zero Emission Bus, Authority (VTA). Charging and maintenance Facility Project. CA................... Santa Cruz D2016-LWNO-004 Santa Cruz METRO 3,810,348 Metropolitan Electric Bus Transit District. Deployment. CA................... SunLine Transit D2016-LWNO-005 SunLine Center of 1,519,855 Agency. Excellence in Zero Emission Technology (Fuel Cell/Electric Bus Maintenance Facility). DE................... Delaware Transit D2016-LWNO-006 Delaware Transit 2,029,300 Corporation. Corporation Deployment of Battery Electric Buses. FL................... Miami-Dade County... D2016-LWNO-007 Miami-Dade 2,357,143 Department of Transportation and Public Works Electric Bus Purchase for Bus Replacement Program. IL................... Chicago Transit D2016-LWNO-008 Chicago Transit 3,620,000 Authority. Authority (CTA) Electric Bus Program--Purchase Electric Buses and Charging Stations. KY................... Transit Authority of D2016-LWNO-009 Lextran Zero- 683,400 Lexington-Fayette Emission Electric Urban Co Govt. Bus Fleet Expansion Project. LA................... City of Shreveport.. D2016-LWNO-010 City of Shreveport 3,905,377 Electric Bus Deployment Project. MO................... The City of Columbia D2016-LWNO-011 City of Columbia 1,712,300 Zero Emission Bus Deployment Project. NY................... Capital District D2016-LWNO-012 Expanding CDTA's 767,500 Transportation Clean, Greener Authority. footprint Purchase Zero Emission Electric Buses and Associated Support Equipment. OR................... Lane Transit D2016-LWNO-013 Lane Transit 3,479,675 District. District Zero Emission Bus Project (LTD-ZEB). OR................... Tri-County D2016-LWNO-014 TriMet Zero Emission 3,405,750 Metropolitan Bus Project (TriMet- Transportation ZEB). District of Oregon. [[Page 61733]] SC................... City of Clemson dba D2016-LWNO-015 Clemson Area Transit 3,905,378 Clemson Area Zero Emission Bus Transit. Project. (CAT-ZEB Project)... TX................... Port Arthur Transit. D2016-LWNO-016 Port Arthur Transit 3,905,377 Zero Emission Bus Deployment. UT................... Utah Department of D2016-LWNO-017 Support 3,905,378 Transportation. Implementation of Zero Emission BRT Route to Better Serve the Park City Communities. WA................... City of Everett, D2016-LWNO-018 Replacement of 3,358,459 Everett Tramsot. Diesel Buses with No emission Electric Buses. WA................... Pierce County Public D2016-LWNO-019 Pierce Transit 2,550,788 Transportation Electric Bus Benefit Area Deployment. Corporation. WA................... The Chelan Douglas D2016-LWNO-020 Electrification of 3,768,489 Public Link Transit's Transportation Urban Bus Fleet Benefit Area. Using High Power On- Route Wireless Charging. --------------- Total............ .................... ............................. .................... 55,000,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [FR Doc. 2016-21430 Filed 9-6-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P
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Decision.
Agency Clearance Officer no later than the General Study Area. A complete list
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ADDRESSES: Requests for information, Administration (FAA) is issuing this EA and FONSI/ROD is available online:
including copies of the information notice to advise the public that it has http://
collection proposed and supporting published a Final Environmental www.metroplexenvironmental.com/
documentation, should be directed to Assessment and Finding of No socal_metroplex/socal_
the Senior Privacy Program Manager: Significant Impact/Record of Decision introduction.html.
Christopher A. Marsalis, Tennessee for the Southern California Metroplex Issued in Washington, DC on August 31,
Valley Authority, 400 W. Summit Hill project. 2016.
Dr. (WT 5D), Knoxville, Tennessee FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Norek,
37902–1401; telephone (865) 632–2467 Ryan Weller, Environmental Specialist, Director, Airspace Services, AJV–1.
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telephone (865) 632–8370 or by email at SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
jllloyd@tva.gov; or to the Agency has prepared a Final Environmental
Clearance Officer: Philip D. Propes, Assessment (EA) to assess the potential Federal Transit Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority, 1101 environmental impacts of the SoCal
Market Street (MP 2C), Chattanooga, Announcement of Fiscal Year 2016
Metroplex project in compliance with Low or No Emission Grant Program
Tennessee 37402–2801; telephone (423) the National Environmental Policy Act
751–8593 or email at pdpropes@tva.gov. Project Selections
of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. This
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: notice announces that based on the AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration
Type of Request: Reauthorization. information and analysis contained in ACTION: Notice.
Title of Information Collection: the EA, the FAA is issuing a Finding of
Employment Application. No Significant Impact and Record of SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Frequency of Use: On Occasion. Decision (FONSI/ROD) for the project. Transportation’s Federal Transit
Type of Affected Public: Individuals. Administration (FTA) announces the
The EA and FONSI/ROD document the
Small Businesses or Organizations selection of projects with Fiscal Year
FAA’s determination that the project, as
Affected: No. (FY) 2016 appropriations for the Low or
Federal Budget Functional Category proposed, would not significantly affect
the quality of the human environment No Emission Grant Program (Low-No
Code: 999. Program), as authorized by the Fixing
Estimated Number of Annual and that an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) is therefore not America’s Surface Transportation Act
Responses: 50,102. (FAST) Act. The FAST Act authorized
Estimated Total Annual Burden necessary. The FONSI/ROD documents
the FAA’s decision to proceed with the $55 million for competitive allocations
Hours: 45,913.
preferred alternative detailed in the EA. in FY 2016. On March 29, 2016, FTA
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
The SoCal Metroplex project will published a Notice of Funding
Response: .92.
Need For and Use of Information: improve the efficiency of the national Opportunity (NOFO) (81 FR 17553)
Applications for employment are airspace system in the Southern announcing the availability of Federal
needed to collect information on California area by optimizing aircraft funding for the Low-No Program. These
qualifications, suitability for arrival and departure procedures at 21 program funds will provide financial
employment, and eligibility for Southern California airports. assistance to states and eligible public
veteran’s preference. The information is Availability: The EA and FONSI/ROD agencies for the purchase or lease of low
used to make comparative appraisals are available for public review at: (1) or no emission vehicles that use
and to assist in selections. The affected Online at: http:// advanced technologies and for related
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public consists of individuals who
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introduction.html. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Philip D. Propes, (2) Hard-copies are available at these Successful applicants should contact
Director, Enterprise Information Security and libraries: the appropriate FTA Regional Office for
Policy. —Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. information regarding applying for the
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TABLE 1—FY 16 LOW OR NO EMISSION PROJECT SELECTIONS—Continued
State Recipient Project ID Project description Allocation
SC ................ City of Clemson dba Clemson Area Transit D2016–LWNO–015 Clemson Area Transit Zero Emission Bus 3,905,378
Project.
(CAT–ZEB Project) .....................................
TX ................. Port Arthur Transit ...................................... D2016–LWNO–016 Port Arthur Transit Zero Emission Bus De- 3,905,377
ployment.
UT ................ Utah Department of Transportation ............ D2016–LWNO–017 Support Implementation of Zero Emission 3,905,378
BRT Route to Better Serve the Park City
Communities.
WA ............... City of Everett, Everett Tramsot ................. D2016–LWNO–018 Replacement of Diesel Buses with No 3,358,459
emission Electric Buses.
WA ............... Pierce County Public Transportation Ben- D2016–LWNO–019 Pierce Transit Electric Bus Deployment ..... 2,550,788
efit Area Corporation.
WA ............... The Chelan Douglas Public Transportation D2016–LWNO–020 Electrification of Link Transit’s Urban Bus 3,768,489
Benefit Area. Fleet Using High Power On-Route Wire-
less Charging.
Total ...... ..................................................................... ..................................................................... 55,000,000
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U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
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motivating force for a submission of a appropriate, seeking safety recalls.
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comment. The notice describes the
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seeks a ‘‘safe harbor’’ from potential burden hours on the public per year is
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