102248 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 242 / Tuesday, December 17, 2024 / Notices 

available in the docket for this notice 

and on FHWA’s, FTA’s and FRA’s 

websites. The Agencies will consider 

any substantive comments received on 

the Interim Final Guidance and will 

either revise this interim guidance based 

on comments received or will finalize 

this interim guidance. 

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139; Pub. L. 112– 

141, 126 Stat. 405; Pub. L. 114–94, 129 

Stat. 1312; Pub. L. 117–58, 135 Stat. 

429; Pub. L. 118–5, 137 Stat. 10; 23 CFR 

part 771; 40 CFR parts 1500–1508. 

Kristin White, 

Acting Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

Amitabha Bose, 

Administrator, Federal Railroad 

Administration. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator, Federal Transit 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29637 Filed 12–16–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA–2021–0010] 

Notice of Availability of Final Policy 

Guidance for the Capital Investment 

Grants Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

policy guidance for the Capital 

Investment Grants program. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) is making 

available the agency’s final policy 

guidance for the Capital Investment 

Grants (CIG) program. This version 

amends FTA’s Initial CIG Policy 

Guidance published in January 2023, 

and incorporates feedback FTA received 

from the public comment on its 

proposed Policy Guidance published in 

the Federal Register in April 2024. The 

final guidance has been placed in the 

docket and posted on the FTA website. 

The policy guidance complements 

FTA’s regulations that govern the CIG 

program. 

DATES: This final policy guidance is 

effective January 16, 2025. Companion 

documents to the CIG Policy Guidance 

such as reporting instructions, CIG 

reporting templates, and standard cost 

category worksheets will be updated on 

the FTA website prior to the effective 

date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Day, FTA Office of Planning 

and Environment, telephone (202) 366– 

5159 or Elizabeth.Day@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final 

policy guidance document contains 

binding obligations, which 49 U.S.C. 

5334(k) defines as ‘‘a substantive policy 

statement, rule, or guidance document 

issued by the Federal Transit 

Administration that grants rights, 

imposes obligations, produces 

significant effects on private interests, or 

effects a significant change in existing 

policy.’’ Under 49 U.S.C. 5334(k), FTA 

may issue binding obligations if it 

follows notice and comment rulemaking 

procedures under 5 U.S.C. 553. Prior to 

making the amendments announced 

today, FTA followed such procedures. 

The policy guidance that FTA 

periodically issues for the CIG program 

complements the FTA regulations that 

govern the CIG program, codified at 49 

CFR part 611. The regulations set forth 

the process that grant applicants must 

follow to be considered for discretionary 

funding under the CIG program, and the 

procedures and criteria FTA uses to rate 

and evaluate projects to determine their 

eligibility for discretionary CIG program 

funding. The policy guidance provides 

a greater level of detail about the 

methods FTA uses and the sequential 

steps a sponsor must follow in 

developing a project. 

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(g)(5), FTA 

is required to publish policy guidance 

on the CIG program each time the 

agency makes significant changes to the 

review and evaluation process and 

criteria, but not less frequently than 

once every two years. In April 2024, 

FTA published a notice in the Federal 

Register (89 FR 24086), seeking 

comment on proposed changes to FTA’s 

Initial CIG Policy Guidance issued in 

January 2023 (88 FR 2166), which were 

informed by feedback FTA received in 

response to its Request for Information 

published in the Federal Register in 

July 2021 (86 FR 37402). The amended 

Final CIG program policy guidance is 

being made available today on the 

agency’s public website at https://

www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grantprograms/capital-investments/capitalinvestment-grants-program-regulationsguidance, and in the docket at https:// 

www.regulations.gov/docket/FTA-2021- 

0010/. Additionally, FTA’s response to 

the comments received on the proposed 

changes are available in the docket. 

FTA is exempting certain projects 

from following the new amended Final 

CIG Policy Guidance. Specifically, 

projects already in the Project 

Development or Engineering phases of 

the CIG program as of the date of 

publication of this notice that have been 

evaluated and rated at least once by 

FTA under the January 2023 CIG Policy 

Guidance and that meet the 

requirements for receipt of a CIG 

construction grant award by the end of 

calendar year 2025 are exempt from 

following the new amended Final CIG 

Policy Guidance. These projects may 

continue to follow the January 2023 

Initial CIG Policy Guidance. To 

demonstrate a project has met the 

requirements for receipt of a 

construction grant award by the end of 

calendar year 2025, the project sponsor 

must submit a complete construction 

grant application to FTA no later than 

September 1, 2025. If a project sponsor 

desires to have an exempt project 

evaluated and rated under the new 

amended Final CIG Policy Guidance 

rather than the prior January 2023 Initial 

CIG Policy Guidance, the sponsor may 

notify FTA of this desire. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket Number: DOT–OST–2024–0120] 

RIN 2105–AF17 

USDOT Federal Flood Risk 

Management Standard (FFRMS) 

Interim Guidelines 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The impacts of flooding affect 

the environment, economic prosperity, 

and public health and safety across the 

Nation. The Federal Flood Risk 

Management Standard (FFRMS) seeks to 

improve the resilience of communities 

and Federal assets against the impacts of 

flooding from extreme events and 

climate change. DOT has developed 

these FFRMS Interim Guidelines to 

advance the goals of the FFRMS and to 

outline the steps DOT is taking to 

implement the FFRMS across the 

Department. 

DATES: Comments due by February 18, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by docket number DOT–OST– 

2024–0120 by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for sending comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Holsinger, 202–366–6263, 

Heather.Holsinger@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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