Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission Program

Award ceiling
Not stated
Closes
Sep 21, 2026
Last verified
2026-10-18

Per-recipient award not stated for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), state governments, closing Sep 21, 2026.

City or township governmentsCounty governmentsNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)State governmentsTransportation

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Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission Program does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$588,971,305
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
Not confirmed
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Sep 21, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jul 27, 2026
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · State governments
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
purchase or lease of low-emission and zero-emission transit buses · acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$588,971,305
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
Not stated

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), State governments
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities, purchase or lease of low-emission and zero-emission transit buses
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Eligible applicants for the Low- or No-Emission Program include designated recipients, States (including territories and Washington D.C.), local governmental authorities, and Indian Tribes. Except for projects proposed by Indian tribes,…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Sep 21, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

Proposals must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov website by 11:59 PM Eastern Time September 21, 2026.

What can the money be used for?

2 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
purchase or lease of low-emission and zero-emission transit busesacquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

Who has received this funding?

2932 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

2932 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
DENTON COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITYNot stated$02021
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANot stated$02022
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANot stated$02022
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANot stated$02022
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02015
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02014
MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02025
NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02020
NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02021
PACE, THE SUBURBAN BUS DIVISION OF THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITYNot stated$02015
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICTNot stated$02020
ROCK HILL, CITY OFNot stated$02020
SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN TRANSITNot stated$02014
SARASOTA, COUNTY OFNot stated$02015
TOLEDO AREA REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITYNot stated$02015
TRANSPORTATION, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OFNot stated$02015
TRANSPORTATION, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OFNot stated$02020
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated$02022
TRANSPORTATION, MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION DIVSIONNot stated-$12014
PIONEER VALLEY TRANSIT AUTHORITYNot stated-$92015
BREVARD COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERSNot stated-$2852015
TRANSIT AUTHORITY OF RIVER CITYNot stated-$2882015
CITY OF KNOXVILLENot stated-$6252015
CITY OF PETERSBURGNot stated-$6842015
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated-$2,1762013
GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITYNot stated-$2,4342015
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNot stated-$7,0032015
CITY OF MONTGOMERYNot stated-$9,1382015
TRANSPORTATION, HAWAII DEPARTMENT OFNot stated-$14,8702014
TRANSPORTATION , MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OFNot stated-$78,3042015
REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONNot stated-$102,8432015
OLD DOMINION TRANSIT MANAGEMENT CONot stated-$127,9532014

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

8 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Sample too small. 8 open records stored under Transportation state an award ceiling, and no figures are shown below 10. Three records do not have a middle, and a median drawn from them would be read as a benchmark.

Who has won this programme before?

2932 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

2932 federal awards on file under assistance listing 20.526, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

6 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much funding is available in total?
$588,971,305 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Sep 21, 2026. Proposals must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov website by 11:59 PM Eastern Time September 21, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), State governments.
What can the funding be used for?
purchase or lease of low-emission and zero-emission transit buses, acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
Has this programme funded anyone before?
2932 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by DOT - Federal Transit Administration. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-18
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-04
Assistance listing20.526

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.