The linked sections below provide information about each of the discretionary grant programs that USDOT offers, organized by USDOT’s operating administrations (OAs or “modes”).
Descriptions of these grant programs are also available in the DOT Discretionary Grants Dashboard....
Agency Description
The Federal Transit Administration supports programs and activities that plan, build, and operate transit systems.
FTA makes public transit on buses, trains, and even ferryboats safer through program implementation and oversight, policy development, hazard...
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is acting on the third request from United Airlines for exemption from the CARES Act airline service obligations announced in Order 2020-4-2. After the Department denied its previous requests for limited relief to Sun Valley, Idaho, United...
The U.S. Department of Transportation today issued a show-cause order pursuant to the Notice of Adjustments to Service Obligations issued May 12, 2020. This order tentatively grants exemptions to 15 Covered Carriers from the Coronavirus Aid, Recovery, and Economic Security Act (the CARES...
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today issued an Order finalizing procedures to distribute public charter flights between the United States and Havana, Cuba. The Order also grants an initial allocation of charters to the carriers Swift Air and World Atlantic Airlines for U.S.-...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike...