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FTA's two flagship discretionary capital programs — the Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program (49 U.S.C. 5339(b)) and the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Grant Program (49 U.S.C. 5339(c)) — jointly disbursed USD 2.03 billion on 20 November 2025 across 165 individual awards to transit agencies in 45 states and DC: USD 397.7 million for 62 bus-facility construction/rehabilitation projects and USD 1.63 billion for 103 low/zero-emission bus procurement and supporting-infrastructure projects. FTA later published the full award list and legal basis via Federal Register notice on 15 January 2026. Both programs are capital-assistance grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and, like other IIJA-funded transit and water programs already tracked in this register (EPA DWSRF lead-service-line funding), are subject to the Build America, Buy America Act's domestic-content and final-assembly requirements: buses, iron, steel, and manufactured components purchased with the funds must be produced in the United States. Global Trade Alert logs each individual award (one per recipient transit agency) as a separate "public procurement localisation" intervention; this filing consolidates the full FY2025/2026 round into a single action rather than treating each of the ~150+ per-agency awards (many under USD 50 million, largely differing only by recipient city and dollar amount) as a distinct action.
Contemporaneous reporting noted the round leaned toward hybrid and compressed-natural-gas buses over battery-electric options relative to prior Low-No rounds, and that FTA highlighted roughly 2,400 buses to be built with American parts and labor across the awards.
procurement demand toward US-based bus OEMs (e.g. New Flyer, Gillig, BYD's US-assembled lines) and domestic steel/iron component suppliers under BABA, at the exclusion of non-US-assembled buses and foreign manufactured inputs.
as the EPA DWSRF lead-service-line funding and Section 232 MHDV/bus parts action already in the register — a recurring structural feature of IIJA-authorized capital programs rather than a one-off measure.
is a secondary signal on US federal transit-electrification demand softening under the current administration relative to the prior Low-No funding cycle.
award list and Federal Register notice; not itemised here since GTA logs each as a separate intervention — downstream consumers needing agency-level detail should consult the FTA award list directly rather than expecting per-city IPTM action entries.
comparable scale given broader IIJA-era set-aside review activity flagged in the EPA DWSRF filing.