Assistance program
Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs
$10.7 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Transit Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 20.526
- What it does
- Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emissions bus projects.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries of funding include states and designated recipients. After allocation of funds, fixed-route bus operators, the general public, both users and non-users of public transportation, public agencies, and private transportation companies may benefit.
- Who applies
- Eligible recipients include designated recipients, States (including territories and Washington, DC), local governmental authorities, and Indian tribes. For the Bus Formula and Competitive Programs, eligible recipients must allocate funds to or operate fixed-route bus service. For the Bus Formula and Competitive Programs, eligible subrecipients include public agencies and private nonprofit organizations engaged in public transportation. Interested applicants should refer to the current year's NOFO for more information.
- Authorized by
- 49 U.S.C. § 5339
- 49 U.S.C. § 5339
- 49 U.S.C. § 5339
- Program site
- http://www.transit.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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments