Assistance program
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in the Parks
-$672,803 committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Transit Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.520
- What it does
- The Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program was established to address the challenge of increasing vehicle congestion in and around our national parks and other federal lands The Transit in Parks Program was repealed by Congress under MAP-21, and FTA announced the final selection of competitive project awards on February 18, 2013. Alternative transportation projects formerly eligible under Transit in Parks are now eligible under the Federal Highway Administration’s Federal Lands Transportation Program and the Federal Lands Access Program.
- Who benefits
- The program has been repealed however when active the end user was the public and beneficiary of the new alternatives in transportation in each park.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are:(1) The following Federal land management agencies: The National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land management, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation; and (2) State, tribal and local governments with jurisdiction over land in the vicinity of an eligible area acting with the consent of a Federal land management agency, alone or in partnership with a Federal land management agency or other governmental or non-governmental participant.
- Authorized by
- Section 3021 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) enacted August 10, 2005 [Public Law 109-59], established the Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands program. The name of the program was changed to…
- Program site
- https://www.transit.dot.gov/ ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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