Fiscal Year 2016 Funding Resources Provided by the FAST Act.

Organized into five areas:

– Highway Formula Funding

– Highway Discretionary Funding

– Mass Transit Formula Funding

– Mass Transit Discretionary Funding

– Other FAST Act Grant Programs

Highway Formula Funding

• Supplementary tables showing set-asides and sub-allocations for FY 2016. (February 17, 2016)
• Computational tables showing the detailed calculations and formulas underlying the apportionments – in PDF or Excel format. (February 17, 2016)
• Apportionment Notice for $39.728 billion in FY 2016 federal-aid highway formula contract authority. (January 8, 2016)
• Sequestration Notice canceling $43.5 million of that $39.728 billion. (January 8, 2016)
• Notice distributing $42.361 billion in FY 2016 obligation limitation for the Federal-aid Highway Administration. (January 8, 2016)
• Notice redistributing $118 million in allocated FY 2016 highway contract authority to formula programs per the Omnibus Appropriations Act. (January 8, 2016)
• Notice to Governors of border states allowing them to designate up to 5 percent of of their FY 2016 Surface Transportation Block Grant Program funds for use on border infrastructure projects. (January 5, 2016)
• Notice to States of the procedures to opt out of the recreational trails program set-aside for FY 2016. (January 5, 2016)

Highway Discretionary Funding

• Notice of Funding Availability for $15 million in FY 2016 Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives funding (studies of user fees as an alternative to fuel taxes). (March 29, 2016)
• Notice of Funding Availability for $60 million in FY 2016 Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) funding. (March 29, 2016) DEADLINE Extended to June 24, 2016.
• Solicitation of Letters of Interest for TIFIA credit assistance for FY 2016. (March 11, 2016)
• Notice of Funding Availability for $759 million in FY 2016 Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects grants. (March 2, 2016)

Mass Transit Formula Funding

Federal Register Notice of all FY 2016 FTA apportionments and allocations. (February 16, 2016)

Links to Excel spreadsheets of funding apportionment tables for FY 2016

Mass Transit Discretionary Funding

• Announcement of Project Selections for the FY 2015-2016 Passenger Ferry Grant Program. (Corrected version with table – May 31, 2016.)
• Notice of Funding Availability for $20.49 million in funding for the Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning. (April 14, 2016.)
• Notice of Funding Availability for $211 million in FY 2016 Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grants and for $55 million in FY 2016 Rides to Wellness Demonstration and Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants. (March 29, 2016) Corrected with this notice issued April 11, 2016.
• Notice of Funding Availability for $5.3 million in FY 2016 Rides to Wellness Demonstration and Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants. (March 29, 2016)
• Notice of Funding Availability for FY 2016 Public Transportation on Indian Reservations and Tribal Transit program funding. (March 14, 2016)
• Federal Register Notice of all FY 2016 FTA apportionments and allocations. (See section 7 of the Notice for information on all FY 2016 discretionary FTA grant programs.) (February 16, 2016)

Links to Excel spreadsheets of funding allocation tables for FY 2016

Other FAST Act Grant Programs

Office of the Secretary – Notice of Funding Availability for up to $500 million in FY16 National Infrastructure Investment (“TIGER”) Grants. (This is not actually a FAST Act program – TIGER grants are not authorized by the FAST Act and indeed are not authorized at all – but are included here because people will complain if we don’t include them.) (February 26, 2016).

Office of the Secretary – Advance notice of funding availability for up to $72.5 million in University Transportation Center grant awards. (February 2, 2016)