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funding from certain FHWA funding
sources. The FY 2004 Appropriations
Act similarly included transit projects
among projects designated to receive
funding from certain FHWA sources in
Section 115, the FY 2005
Appropriations Act included a set of
designations under Section 117, and the
FY 2006 Appropriations Act included
designations under Section 112, which
may include some projects that FHWA
will identify to be administered by FTA.
For those projects identified by FHWA
as transit in nature, FHWA allots the
funds to FTA to administer. The funds
are available for the designated project
until obligated and expended. Some of
these FY 2002-2006 designations for
transit projects have not yet been
obligated. However, because these are
FHWA funds, funds for projects
unobligated at the end of the FY are not
automatically available as carry over in
the following fiscal year. Instead, FHWA
re-allots obligation authority to FTA
annually, after reconciling account
balances. Because the requirements and
procedures associated with these
projects differ in some cases from those
for the FTA programs that FTA grantees
are familiar with, and the availability of
funds for obligation by FTA depends on
allotments from FHWA, transit
applicants seeking funding under these
miscellaneous FHWA designations must
work closely with the appropriate FTA
regional office and FHWA Division
Office when applying for a grant under
these designations.
E. Grant Application Procedures
1. Grantees must provide a Dun and
Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal
Numbering System (DUNS) number for
inclusion in all applications for a
Federal grant or cooperative agreement.
The DUNS number should be entered
into the grantee profile in TEAM-Web.
Additional information about this and
other Federal grant streamlining
initiatives mandated by the Federal
Financial Assistance Management
Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106-
107) can be accessed on OMB's Web site
at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
grants/reform.html.
2. All applications for FTA funds
should be submitted electronically to
the appropriate FTA regional office
through TEAM-Web, an Internet-
accessible electronic grant application
system. FTA has provided limited
exceptions to the requirement for
electronic filing of applications.
3. In FY 2010, FTA remains
committed to processing applications
promptly upon receipt of a completed
application by the appropriate regionaloffice. In order for an application to be
considered complete, with the
exception of Recovery Act grants, and
for FTA to assign a grant number,
enabling submission in TEAM-Web, the
following requirements must be met:
a. The project is listed in a currently
approved Metropolitan Transportation
Plan, Metropolitan Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP); FTA
approved Statewide Transportation
Improvement Program (STIP), or
Unified Planning Work Program
(UPWP).
b. All eligibility issues have been
resolved.
c. Required environmental findings
have been made.
d. The project budget's Activity Line
Items (ALI), scope, and project
description meet FTA requirements.
e. Local share funding source(s) have
been identified.
f. The grantee's required Civil Rights
submissions are current.
g. Certifications and assurances are
current and properly submitted.
h. Funding is available, including any
flexible funds included in the budget.
i. For projects involving new
construction (using at least $100 million
in New Starts or formula funds), FTA
engineering staff has reviewed the
project management plan and given
approval.
j. When required for grants related to
New Starts projects, entry into PE and/
or FD has been approved.
k. Milestone information is complete,
or FTA determines that milestone
information can be finalized before the
grant is ready for award. The grant must
include sufficient milestones
appropriate to the scale of the project to
allow adequate oversight to monitor the
progress of projects from the start
through completion and closeout.
4. Under most FTA programs, grants
involving funding related to transit
capital and operations must be
submitted to the Department of Labor
(DOL) for certification of labor
protective arrangements before grant
award. Grants under the Nonurbanized
Area Formula Program, Tribal Transit
Program, and Over-the-Road Bus
Program are covered under the special
warranty provision and do not require
certification.
In addition, before FTA can award
grants for discretionary projects and
activities designated by Congress using
FY 2010 or prior funds, notification
must be given to members of Congress.
FTA must give the House and Senate
authorizing and appropriations
committees three days notice before
issuing letters of intent, discretionary
grants, or full funding grant agreementstotaling $500,000 in FY 2009 and FY
2008 funds or totaling $1 million or
more in FY 2010 funds.
5. Other important issues that impact
FTA grant processing activities are
discussed below.
a. Change in Budget Structure
Because SAFETEA-LU restructured
FTA's accounts from split funded
accounts to one solely trust funded
account and three general funded
accounts, FTA does not mix funds from
years before FY 2006 in the same grant
with funds appropriated in FY 2006 and
beyond (except for New Starts and
research grants). Before FY 2006, all
programs were funded approximately 80
percent from MTA of the Highway Trust
Fund and 20 percent from the General
Funds U.S. Treasury. The trust funds
were transferred into the general funded
accounts at the beginning of the year.
Under SAFETEA-LU most programs are
funded entirely from trust funds derived
from the MTA, while the New Starts
and Research programs are funded with
general funds. For a New Starts or
research project, any prior year funds
currently available for obligation and FY
2010 funds may be included in an
amendment to an existing grant.
For formula programs funded solely
from trust funds beginning in FY 2006,
grantees may not combine funds
appropriated since FY 2006 in the same
grant with FY 2005 and prior year
funds. Grant amendments cannot be
made to add FY 2006 and later year
funds to a grant that includes FY 2005
or prior funds. However, grantees are
able to amend new grants established
with FY 2006 or later year funds to add
funds made available after FY 2006. We
regret any inconvenience this
accounting change may cause as we
implement new statutory requirements
under SAFETEA-LU. We encourage
grantees to spend down and close out
old grants as quickly as possible to
minimize the inconvenience.
b. Grant Budgets-SCOPE and Activity
Line Item (ALI) Codes
FTA uses the SCOPE and Activity
Line Item (ALI) Codes in the grant
budgets to track program trends, to
report to Congress, and to respond to
requests from the Inspector General and
the Government Accountability Office
(GAO), as well as to manage grants. The
accuracy of the data is dependent on the
careful and correct use of codes. As
needed, we revise the SCOPE and ALI
table to include new codes for newly
eligible capital items, to better track
certain expenditures, and to
accommodate new or modified
programs. We encourage grantees toreview the table before selecting codes
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