Re: Grant applications
Author: A Transit Planner Speaks
Date: 04-06-2014 - 17:27
SP5103 Wrote:
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> Oh - I forgot that federal grants often charge a
> 15% "administrative fee" so if $100m of that was a
> federal grant they would might to give back up to
> $15 million of that.
>
I'm not sufficiently familiar with the Metrolink project to comment on the costs, but during my work as planner on transit projects in the East, I never heard of any 15% "administrative fee" charged by the Federal Transit Administration.