May 2025

ATTENTION: Federal Aid Recipients

This message is to inform all Federal Aid Recipients that by accepting the Federal Aid funding, your agency is required to comply “in accordance with binding contractual agreements in the form of Federal financial assistance agreements, usually grants, cooperative agreements, and loans.” Please follow the link to Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy's press release from April 24, 2025: Follow the Law | USDOT

2025 Midwest Transit Conference - Registration Open

Early Bird registration is open for the 2025 Midwest Transit Conference in Kansas City, MO on Sept. 3-5. Save $100 by registering before July 15. See link in the Upcoming Conference Section of the newsletter.

UPDATE: Vehicle Disposition Guidelines

To align with Circular 5010.1F, MoDOT has updated how insurance funding is processed on federally funded vehicles. The updated vehicle disposition guidelines can be found on the MoDOT-Transit website. Effective immediately, if the recipient receives insurance proceeds when federally assisted property has been lost or damaged by fire, casualty or natural disaster, the federal interest due to MoDOT is based on the Actual Cash Value (ACV) or Fair Market Value (FMV) with 80% of the ACV/FMV due to MoDOT. The ACV or FMV is assessed by the insurance company, or it may be determined by MoDOT Transit staff.

ATTENTION: State Fiscal Year (FY) End Deadlines

State FY 2025 deadline for submission of any state and federal invoices/reimbursement requests is as follows:

• Federal Funds: Deadline is Wednesday, June 4. Submissions submitted after June 4 will be held until July for processing.
• State Funds: Deadline is Monday, June 2. No submissions after this date will be accepted and any unused MEHTAP or STA funds after June 2 will be re-allocated.

FTA Section 5310 Rural/Small Urban and 5311 Rural Applications

Currently, there is no federal funding application available for the Section 5310 and 5311 programs. When applications become available, a notice will be posted in this newsletter and on the MoDOT-Transit website.

Section 5310 Subrecipients

FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Virtual Training - Part 382 on July 8 - Click to enroll.

Enrolled attendees, use this link to access the webinar. Section 5310 transit agencies that have vehicles with 16 passengers or more (including the driver) can attend this training.

2025 CTAA Expo

June 2-4, 2025, in San Diego, CA

2025 Transit Retreat

June 25-26, 2025, in Des Moines, IA www.transitretreat.org

2025 Midwest Transit Conference

Sept. 3-5, 2025, in Kansas City, MO

www.midwesttransitconference.com

2025 RTAP Conference

Dec. 7-12, 2025, in Austin, TX

www.nationalrtap.org/News/Conference

For a listing of all National RTAP conferences and other national events, view our calendar. Also, see the FTA Events Calendar. To submit an event, email info@nationalrtap.org.