Action
Notice of availability of funds; solicitation for grant proposals.
Summary
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the solicitation of grant proposals for Fiscal Years (FY) 2002 and 2003 funding provided under the Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) grant program, as authorized under Section 3037 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). The FY 2002 DOT Appropriations Act provides $125 million for the JARC Program, the guaranteed funding level under TEA-21. In the FY 2002 Conference Report the appropriators indicated their desire for $109,339,000 of this amount to be awarded to specified States and localities. These congressionally-specified areas were included in FTA's 2002 Annual Apportionment Notice, published in the Federal Register on January 2, 2002. That notice can be found at: http:// www.fta.dot.gov/library/legal/federalregister/2002/fr1202a.pdf. States, localities, and private nonprofit agencies listed in the report, along with States, localities, and private nonprofit agencies not so listed, must follow the application procedures provided in this notice to apply for JARC funding. The guaranteed funding level for the JARC program is $150 million for fiscal year 2003, the final year of the program under FTA's current authorizing legislation. This announcement describes the conditions under which proposals will be received for the FY 2002 and FY 2003 JARC competitive grant program and the criteria that FTA will apply in evaluating project proposals. It includes all of the information needed to apply for JARC competitive grants. This announcement is available on the U.S. Department of Transportation's FTA website at: http://www.fta.dot.gov/wtw.