PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To improve, initiate, or continue public transportation service in nonurbanized areas by providing financial assistance for operating and administrative expenses and for the acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment. Also to provide technical assistance for rural transportation providers.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Construction, Renewal and Operations;
- Rural Community Development;
2. TRANSPORTATION;
- Urban Mass Transit;
- Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Anyone/general public;
- American Indian;
- Rural;

 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);
- Sponsored organization;
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Other public institution/organization;
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments;
- Profit organization;
- Other private institutions/organizations;