Assistance program
Intercity Bus Security Grants
$8.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 97.057
- What it does
- The objective of the FY 2023 IBSGP is to provide funds to eligible private operators of intercity over-the-road bus transportation systems to protect critical transportation infrastructure and travelling public from acts of terrorism, and to increase the resilience of the transit infrastructure. Performance Measures: Performance metrics for this program are as follows: Percentage of funding allocated by the recipient to core capabilities to build or sustain the national priorities of enhancing cybersecurity, enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places, planning, training and awareness, equipment and capital projects, and exercises.
- Who benefits
- Private operators providing intercity over-the-road bus transportation that have also completed a vulnerability assessment and developed a security plan, which the Secretary of Homeland Security has approved as described in Section 1531 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (9/11 Act) (Pub. L. No. 110-53) (6 U.S.C. § 11821). Private operators are non-governmental entities that may include, but are not limited to, sole proprietorships, affiliates, parent companies and subsidiaries. This program is limited to applicants that meet one or both of the following criteria: 1) Operate fixed-route intercity bus transportation providing services to one or more historically eligible Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) jurisdictions as indicated below; or 2) Operate a charter bus service using over-the-road buses and provide a minimum of 50 trips annually to one or more historically eligible UASI jurisdictions as indicated below.
- Who applies
- For-Profit Organizations (other than small businesses)
- Program site
- http://www.fema.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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