OconeeCountyEDC posted on November 28, 2011 11:30
From November 17, 2011
As a follow-up to the advanced notification received earlier this week, today U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 46 transit projects were chosen nationally to share $112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under their Fiscal Year 2011 Clean Fuels and the TIGGER III (Transit Investment in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction) Grant Programs. SCDOT, applying on behalf of Seneca, was awarded $4,118,000 under the TIGGER III program.
FTA received 266 project applications under both grant programs with funding requests totaling more than $1 billion. From the requests, a combined total of $112,527,126 for 46 projects was awarded nationally under both programs through a competitive selection process. While the Seneca project was the only one of the three projects from South Carolina selected for funding, South Carolina was one of only four states in the southeast and one of only 22 nationally to receive an award. The average award was $2.4 million, with the largest award of $6.7 million going to Long Beach, CA. At $4.1 million the Seneca project represented the 8th highest funding award nationally.