Provide the guam regional transit authority with a year of operating assistance funds funding for the nepa categorical exclusion determination including the AE design of the dededo park and ride…

The Federal Transit Administration awarded the Guam Regional Transit Authority $7.584 million on August 18, 2026, under the Formula Grants for Rural Areas and Tribal Transit Program (CFDA 20.509) for a year of operating assistance, capital improvements, and administrative funding through September 30, 2027.

The award funds operating expenses including salaries and fringe benefits for bus operators, dispatchers, schedulers, and maintenance personnel; fuel and supplies; preventive maintenance and third-party repair contracts for rolling stock and related equipment; acquisition of revenue vehicles; and transit-associated bus enhancement projects including construction of bus shelters. GRTA will also use the award to complete the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review and architectural and engineering design of the Dededo Park and Ride Northern Terminal project, and to fund state program administration costs including drug and alcohol testing, off-island travel and training, Federal Transit Administration–sponsored training participation, and office supplies and equipment. The funding supports paratransit, fixed-route, and southern shuttle mobility-on-demand operations across rural and urban areas of Guam.

Place of performance is Guam. The assistance type is a formula grant.

Purpose

The purpose of this award is to provide the guam regional transit authority with a year of operating assistance funds funding for the nepa categorical exclusion determination including the AE design of the dededo park and ride northern terminal project a year of preventive maintenance major and minor repair service third party contracts of all rolling stock and related equipment the acquisition of revenue vehicles and to fund the transit-associated bus enhancement projects construction of bus shelters and a year of state or programs administration funds to assist the paratransit fixed route and southern shuttle (mobility-on-demand) operations from october 01 2026 to september 30 2027.

Activities

Grta will utilize these funds to cover eligible operating expenses such as: 1.) bus operators dispatchers/schedulers and vehicle maintenance personnel salaries fringe benefits overtime hazard and night differential pays fuel oil items having a useful life of less than one year such as rolling stock and transit shelter cleaning supplies and equipment. 2.) to fund the nepa review and AE design of the dededo park and ride northern terminal. 3.) preventive maintenance major and minor repair service third party contracts for all rolling stock and related equipment for continued transit operations. 4.) acquisition of revenue vehicles and to fund the transit-associated bus enhancement projects. 5.) state or programs administration to fund the costs of administering the drug and alcohol testing off-island travel and training to participate in FTA-sponsored training and purchase of office supplies and equipment and 6.) to fund the construction of bus shelters.

Expected outcomes

The funding will allow the guam regional transit authority to continue the safe and effective operation of transit services for both rural and urban areas of the territory of guam to complete the nepa review and AE design to meet the preventive maintenance standards and keep the rolling stock in a state of good repair to enable to acquire revenue vehicles for the efficient transit operations and the implementation of the transit-associated bus enhancement projects to fund the administrative expenses such as the drug and alcohol testing program off-island travel and training to participate in FTA-sponsored training to purchase office supplies and equipment and to construct transit shelters island wide.

Intended beneficiaries

The grant award intended beneficiaries are the territory of guam transit agencies and citizens that rely on public transit services in the rural and urbanized areas of the territory for the public transit systems continued operations.

Subrecipient activities

Since grta has no subrecipients grta has received and expended annually non-urbanized and urbanized formula grant funds from FTA directly.