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Now accepting proposals: FTA's Transit Climate Change Adaptation Assessment pilots

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is now soliciting proposals for transit climate change adaptation assessment pilots.

By Jessica Holmberg, June 22, 2011

The pilots will fund transit agencies or partnerships with transit agencies to assess the vulnerability of transit agency assets and services to climate change hazards such as heat waves and flooding. The pilots will also assess initial adaptation strategies and link these strategies to transit agency organizational structures and activities, and one of the pilots will focus on demonstrating the integration of adaptation assessment within an asset management system.

FTA contemplates making approximately four cooperative agreement awards, ranging from $50,000 to $175,000 each. Total funding available is $525,000. Eligible recipients are either 1) a public transportation provider or, 2) a university, non-profit, private, or public entity working in partnership with a public transportation provider.

More information about the submission process is available on www.grants.gov site as opportunity DOT-FTA-2011-016-TBP. Applicants must submit proposals electronically to www.grants.gov by midnight EDT on Thursday, August 25, 2011 for consideration. Please note that applicants must register with grants.gov in order to submit an application and the registration process can take 3 to 5 days, though applicants are advised to allow four weeks for completion of all steps.

For more information, contact Tina Hodges, Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. 20590; tina.hodges dot gov; (202) 366-4287.

Crossposted from SustainableCommunities.gov