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Review Of Federal Transit Administration New Starts Project Funding Process, Azadeh Rahmani
Review Of Federal Transit Administration New Starts Project Funding Process, Azadeh Rahmani
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transit systems. The FTA is one of the ten modal administrations within the DOT. Headed by an administrator who is appointed by the President, the FTA functions through a Washington DC headquarters office and ten regional offices which assist transit agencies in all states, the District of Columbia, and the territories. Until 1991, it was know as the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA). The Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) discretionary New Starts program is the federal …