What's New

• Allocations of Emergency Relief funding for 2018 Disasters have been posted.

Overview

Extreme weather and other destructive events occurring during calendar year 2018 resulted in the President declaring 62 major disasters across the United States. Transit systems in some of those disaster-affected areas provided emergency transportation services or sustained damage to capital assets.

The Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Disaster Relief Act) (Pub. L. 116-20), signed into law on June 6, 2019, appropriated $10,542,000 for FTA's Emergency Relief Program (49 U.S.C. § 5324) for transit systems affected by major declared disasters occurring in calendar year 2018.

A Notice of Availability of Emergency Relief Funding for this appropriation was published December 3, 2019, with a closing date of January 17, 2020.

FTA's Emergency Relief Program provides FTA with primary responsibility for reimbursing public transportation emergency response and recovery costs after an emergency or major disaster that affects public transportation systems. As such, public transportation agencies, States, Territories, local governmental authorities, Indian tribes, and other FTA grant recipients that provide or fund public transportation service in the affected areas are eligible for Emergency Relief funding under the program.

Eligible Events

The following tables include the disasters for which eligible transit providers may request funding. The name of each disaster links to more information on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website.

Region 1 - Region 2 - Region 3 - Region 4 - Region 5 - Region 6 - Region 7 - Region 8 - Region 9 - Region 10

Region 1

Region 2

Region 3

Region 4

 Region 5

Region 6

Region 7

Region 8

Region 9

 * This event occurred in an insular area, making it eligible for 100% federal funding.

Region 10