The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $13,160,021 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 and FY 2022 funding under the Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning (TOD Pilot Program).
Donor Name: DOT/Federal Transit Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/25/2022
Size of the Grant: $13,160,021
Details:
As required by Federal public transportation law and subject to funding availability, funds will be awarded competitively to support comprehensive planning or sitespecific planning associated with new fixed guideway and core capacity improvement projects. FTA may award additional funding that is made available to the TOD Pilot Program prior to the announcement of project selections.
This program supports FTA’s strategic goals and objectives through the timely and efficient investment in public transportation. The TOD Pilot Program grants are competitively awarded to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity improvement transit capital project as defined in Federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5309(a)).
Funding Information
A total of $13,160,021 will be made available through this NOFO.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants to the TOD Pilot Program must be a State or States, U.S. Territory, or local governmental authorities and FTA grant recipient (i.e., existing direct or designated recipients) as of the publication date of this NOFO. An applicant must be the project sponsor of an eligible transit capital project, subsection 3, or an entity with land use planning authority in the project corridor of an eligible transit capital project. Except in cases where an applicant is both the sponsor of an eligible transit project and has land use authority in at least a portion of the transit project corridor, the applicant must partner with the relevant transit project sponsor or at least one entity in the project corridor with land use planning authority. Documentation of this partnership must be included with the application.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
