To construct a bus garage/vehicle maintenance facility to house transit equipment and to provide sheltered indoor space for vehicle maintenance and repair

Active Project Grant Awarded

Award ID
AK2025022
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$1,638,786

Award facts

Assistance listing
20.509 Formula Grants for Rural Areas and Tribal Transit Program
Completion date 82% complete
Funding
  • $1,607,986.00 Federal
  • $30,800.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Alaska, USA

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Description

As the agency reported it.

Activities
Purchasing a 60 by 80 metal building package from a steel manufacturer in the lower 48 and ship to unalakleet via barge from seattle. The building will be heated and connected to existing electric and water lines. The project will also purchase a shop truck lift and shop equipment for vehicle servicing and repair. The building will include a smaller second story loft area to serve as the transit maintenance office and to provide sleeping quarters to accommodate itinerant motor vehicle mechanics flown in from anchorage or nome for needed repair services.
Expected outcomes
Vehicles stored in the new facility will lengthen their useful life. This will enable more reliable services to our riders and provide continual access to needed community services the post office grocery stores health clinic tribal city and corporation offices and to the airport for scheduled or emergency medical flights to nome and anchorage.
Intended beneficiaries
Riders are unalakleet residents visitors from the surrounding sub-regional villages itinerant regional health and public safety providers and federal state and regional government officials. Transit vehicles transport tribal elders to the NVU memorial hall for the daily congregate meal for socialization to decrease isolation and for interactions with NVU elder staff for information sharing and referrals to available services. Transit services are further used for the delivery of a meal and food boxes to homebound residents to decrease food insecurity and to conduct senior safety checks.

Quick answers

Who received award AK2025022?

AK2025022 was awarded to Native Village Of Unalakleet by Federal Transit Administration (Department of Transportation) on July 30, 2025.

How much is award AK2025022 worth?

$1,638,786 has been obligated on AK2025022: $1,607,986 in federal funding and $30,800 in non-federal funding.

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