Discretionary Grant opportunities offered by the federal agencies can be found on the Grants.gov website
http://grants.gov/. FTA publishes all discretionary funding opportunities in grants.gov and in many instances also announces them in the Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/browse.html and on the FTA website as “notices of funding availability” at
http://www.fta.dot.gov/funding/apportionments/grants_financing_7829.html .
FTA posts all competitive grant and cooperative agreement opportunities on Grants.gov, the comprehensive government wide website for announcing competitive grant opportunities. Grants.gov is one of 24 Federal E-government initiatives to improve access to services via the Internet. It is the single, secure Federal website unifying 1000 grant programs from 26 Federal grant-making agencies. Please follow this link to search for competitive opportunities or to find out more about Grants.gov
http://grants.gov/.