operating assistance. FTA defines infrastructure to include all eligible capital activities. Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale Purpose This is a conditional You must complete this field if The transit agency’s This is a This is for grants and loans only and rationale of funds received for infrastructure field. If reporting you report infrastructure Recovery Act grant conditional field. investment with funds made available under the infrastructure expendidures in the line above. was used to purchase If reporting Recovery Act. Identify the purpose and explain investment, a All reports submitted by FTA six low-floor, hybrid infrastructure how the infrastructure investment will contribute rationale/explanation grantees should include electric buses, to investment, a to one or more purposes of the Recovery Act: has to be provided. purpose #4, invest in modernize and expand “to Purposes: transportation, environmental two of its three bus has to be (1) To preserve and create jobs and promote protection, and other depots, to conduct provided. economic recovery. infrastructure that will provide preventive (2) To assist those most impacted by the long-term economic benefits.” maintenance on 40 recession. Reports may also include one or existing buses, and to (3) To provide investments needed to increase more of the other five purposes install automatic stop economic efficiency by spurring technological of the Recovery Act. announcement advances in science and health. systems on 50 of its (4) To invest in transportation, environmental . buses. As such, the protection, and infrastructure that will projects funded under provide long-term economic benefits. this grant will invest in (5) To stabilize State and local government transportation, budgets, in order to minimize and environmental avoid reductions in essential services and protection, and other counterproductive state and infrastructure that will local tax increases. provide long-term economic benefits. These investments will also contribute to preserving and maintaining jobs and promoting economic recovery in the vehicle manufacturing and construction industry.
operating assistance. FTA defines infrastructure to include all eligible capital activities. Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale This is for grants and loans only Purpose and rationale of funds received for infrastructure investment with funds made available under the Recovery Act. Identify the purpose and explain how the infrastructure investment will contribute to one or more purposes of the Recovery Act: Purposes: (1) To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3) To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. This is a conditional field. If reporting infrastructure investment, a rationale/explanation has to be provided. You must complete this field if you report infrastructure expendidures in the line above. All reports submitted by FTA grantees should include purpose #4, “to invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits.” Reports may also include one or more of the other five purposes of the Recovery Act. . The transit agency’s Recovery Act grant was used to purchase six low-floor, hybrid electric buses, to modernize and expand two of its three bus depots, to conduct preventive maintenance on 40 existing buses, and to install automatic stop announcement systems on 50 of its buses. As such, the projects funded under this grant will invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. These investments will also contribute to preserving and maintaining jobs and promoting economic recovery in the vehicle manufacturing and construction industry. This is a conditional field. If reporting infrastructure investment, a has to be provided.
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