Appropriation: Half of the program is funded under Formula and Half under Capital Investment Grants
Description: The Clean Fuels Formula Grant Program is designed to accelerate the deployment of advanced bus technologies. The program offers an opportunity to incorporate low-emission vehicles into the mainstream of the nation’s transit fleets and supports FTA’s efforts to advance emerging clean-fuel technologies. Additionally, this program was developed to assist transit systems in purchasing low emissions buses and related equipment, constructing alternative fuel fueling facilities, modifying existing garage facilities to accommodate clean fuel vehicles and assisting in the utilization of biodiesel fuel.
Statutory Reference: 49USC5308
Eligible Recipients: Public transit operators in clean air non-attainment or maintenance areas, both urbanized and nonurbanized, may apply.
Eligible Purposes: Purchase or lease of clean fuel buses, the construction or lease of clean fuel electrical recharging facilities, improvement of existing facilities to accommodate clean fuel buses, the re-power of pre-1993 engines with clean fuel technology and the retrofit or rebuild of pre-1993 engines if before a mid-life rebuild.
Allocation of Funding: Funds are allocated according to a legislative formula based on the number of vehicles in the bus fleet and the number of bus passenger miles as weighted by severity of nonattainment for either ozone or carbon monoxide.
Match: 80 percent Federal and 20 percent local
Funding Availability: Year appropriated plus one year (total of two years)
For More Information Contact: The Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation, (202) 366-4052
