PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist in financing the acquisition, construction, cost-effective leasing, maintenance, planning, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use by operation, lease, contract, or otherwise in mass transportation service, and for urbanized areas with populations under 200,000, to assist with the payment of operating expenses to improve or to continue such service by operation, lease, contract or otherwise.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Economic Development;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Construction, Renewal and Operations;
3. TRANSPORTATION;
- Urban Mass Transit;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Local;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Quasi-public non-profit organization;
- Other private institution/organization;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- Intrastate;
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);