Federal brief
Notice of Availability of Proposed Policy Guidance for the Capital Investment Grants Program
Publisher-desk brief on Federal Transit Administration FR 2026-20179 (2026-10-01). Use the filing for dates and comment paths.
FTA put proposed Capital Investment Grants policy guidance out for comment — the rulebook transit agencies use when they chase New Starts and Small Starts money.
CIG guidance shapes how cities score ridership, cost-effectiveness, and local match. A wording change can reorder who wins a Full Funding Grant Agreement.
Filing abstract (agency text): This notice requests comment on FTA's revised policy guidance for the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program. The CIG Policy Guidance provides an overview of CIG project types and the CIG process from project initiation to construction grant award. The proposed revisions are intended to streamline the CIG process, improve accountability of CIG project sponsors, and improve overall readability of the policy guidance…
Transit board members, MPO planners, and city grant writers: download the proposed guidance and map it to your current CIG pipeline.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/01/2026-20179/notice-of-availability-of-proposed-policy-guidance-for-the-capital-investment-grants-program
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.
Source: the official public federal record 2026-20179 · Federal Register · 2026-20179 · 2026-20179.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.