Appendix A to Part 624 - Pre-Application Worksheet

The following are instructions for completing the pre-application worksheet:

(1) Requesting Agency. Fill in the name of the applicant. The applicant must be a designated recipient.

(2) UZA (or Urban Area). List the name of the urbanized area if the applicant is located in an urbanized area. Otherwise, indicate the name of the city or town.

(3) Nonattainment or Maintenance Area Name. List the name of the nonattainment or maintenance area in which your agency provides service.

(4) Classification for Ozone. List the current EPA nonattainment classification for your service area. (The classification must be of the following terms: marginal, moderate, serious, severe, or extreme.)

(5) Classification for Carbon Monoxide. List the current EPA nonattainment classification for your service area. (The classification must be either moderate or serious.)

I. Proposed activity.

(1) New Bus Purchase/Lease. Enter the number of vans or buses by fuel category in the pre-application. For hybrid electric vehicles, include fuel types. Indicate whether the structure is lightweight composite or traditional structure and weight. Enter the total and Federal amount for each fuel type.

(2) Construct/Lease New Clean Fuel Facility and Related Equipment. Indicate the Federal and total amount for a clean fuels facility, related equipment or electrical recharging facility. Enter any descriptive or explanatory information on the lines for additional information, including what fuel type is being accommodated. Facilities to accommodate clean diesel are not eligible.

(3) Indicate the Federal amount and total amount for improvements to existing facilities to accommodate clean fuel buses. Enter any descriptive or explanatory information on the line for additional items, including what fuel type is being accommodated.

(4) Indicate the Federal amount and total amount for repowering/replacing pre-1993 engines with engines that meet current emissions standards when installed. Please include a separate entry for each fuel type. For the purposes of this program, repowering/replacement means the removal of an engine from the bus followed by the installation of another engine. This applies to engines that are replaced with new, previously unused engines, as well as those exchanged from an inventory of rebuilt engines.

(5) Enter a quantity, Federal amount, and total amount by fuel type for retrofit/rebuild of pre-1993 engines to comply with latest EPA-certified emissions standards. For the purposes of this program, “retrofit” means the use of the latest after-market technology such as “upgrade kits,” or after-treatment device(s) that treat the exhaust after it has left the engine, such as catalytic converters or particulate filters. “Before the half-life rebuild” means that the retrofitting would need to occur before the bus is six years old. Since this provision applies to pre-1993 engines, this provision is of limited time availability.

(6) This section should describe any proposed clean fuel project not included in the categories above. Since any project not included above requires approval at the discretion of FTA, projects included here should also be described in the letter of interest. Include the Federal amount and total.

(7) Summary. Indicate the Totals for the Federal and Total Amounts requested for all projects listed in this Section I.

II. Data

This section contains the active bus fleet and annual bus passenger miles information that is required to run the Clean Fuels formula.

(1) Enter the number of buses in the active fixed route fleet. For this purpose, “bus” includes articulated motorbus, Class A bus (>35 seats), Class B bus (25-35 seats), Class C bus (<25 seats), double-decked bus, school bus, and electric trolley bus. Use NTD data that was reported 2 years prior (e.g., if applying in FY 2003, use data from FY 2001). For UZAs that have already submitted information to the National Transit Database (NTD), add the data from column H of Form 408 for the following vehicle types: AB, BA, BB, BC, DD, SB, and TB. (These vehicle types are defined in reporter's guidance for the NTD.)

(2) Enter the fixed route annual bus passenger miles for 2 years prior (e.g., if applying in FY 2003, use data from FY 2001. This may include motorbus (see types above) or trolley bus. For UZAs that have submitted NTD data, add the information from column I of line 25 of Form 406 for the modes MB and TB.

III. Projects Subject to Minimum/Maximum Apportionments

This section provides a dollar total for the areas that are affected by either maximum or minimum constraints. These constraints apply to the entire program and not to individual applicants. However, in order to comply with these constraints, FTA must know how much each applicant is applying for in each of these areas.

(1) Enter the total Federal dollar amount for the purchase/lease of clean diesel vehicles.

(2) Enter the total Federal dollar amount for project elements that fall into the category of purchasing hybrid electric or battery-powered buses or constructing facilities designed to service them.

(3) Enter the total Federal dollar amount for project elements that fall into the category of retrofitting or replacing bus engines that do not meet the clean air standards of the EPA.

Note:

Because of the uncertainty of how many grantees will apply, the actual amount that a grantee receives in an apportionment may be different from the amount requested in the application that was submitted. Furthermore, because clean diesel and retrofit/replacement of bus engines are subject to maximum constraints, the amounts specifically apportioned for those purposes may not resemble the proportionality of the application. For example, suppose Grantee A's application included $500,000 for clean diesel and $100,000 for a compressed natural gas bus. If the 35 percent ceiling for clean diesel is exceeded by the total applications, Grantee A may only be allowed $50,000 to be used specifically for clean diesel because of the ceiling. The remainder of the funds apportioned to Grantee A (say, $300,000) would have to be used in areas without a maximum constraint, i.e., in areas other than clean diesel or retrofit/replacement of bus engines if applied for.

IV. Certification

The chief executive officer or the general manager of the transit agency should sign this certification.

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