Assistance program
State of Good Repair Grants Program
$30.9 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Transit Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.525
- What it does
- The State of Good Repair Program (49 U.S.C. 5337) provides formula funding to assist in financing capital projects for existing fixed guideway systems (including rail, bus rapid transit, and passenger ferries) and high intensity motorbus systems (buses operating in high-occupancy vehicle [HOV] lanes) to maintain public transportation systems in a state of good repair and to ensure public transit operates safely, efficiently, reliably, and sustainably so that communities can offer balanced transportation choices that helps to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and encourage economic development. Capital projects must be in a Transit Asset Management (TAM) plan and this funding source can be used to develop a Transit Asset Management (TAM) plan. The Competitive Rail Vehicle Replacement Grant (49 U.S.C. 5337(f)) is a discretionary grant program to assist in financing the replacement of rail rolling stock.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries of funding include states and designated recipients. Public agencies may apply for funding and are beneficiaries, although private transportation companies may participate through contractual arrangements with public agency grantee. After allocation of funds, fixed-route operators, the general public, both users and non-users of public transportation, public agencies, and private transportation companies may benefit.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are state and local governmental authorities in urbanized areas. FTA will apportion funds to designated recipients in the urbanized areas with fixed guideway and high intensity motorbus transportation systems operating at least 7 years. The designated recipients will then allocate funds as appropriate to recipients that are state and local governmental authorities in the urbanized areas. Applicants should review the published Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for specific eligibility for the Competitive Rail Vehicle Replacement Grant Program.
- Authorized by
- Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
- Program site
- http://www.fta.dot.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* 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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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments