NORTHERN VIRGINIA — NVTA staff told the Technical Advisory Committee on Sept. 17 that the application window for the FY2026–31 six‑year program closed on Aug. 1 and that the authority has received 27 applications from eight applicants requesting about $1.3 billion in NVTA funding. Staff said the aggregate total project cost associated with those requests is approximately $2.3 billion.

“We the deadline for submitting applications to our FY2026 to 2031 six year program… it closed on August 1,” an NVTA presenter said during the meeting. Staff said the next administrative deadline is Oct. 31, the cutoff for jurisdictions to submit governing‑body resolutions authorizing the funding requests; projects without the required governing‑body resolutions by Oct. 31 will be removed from consideration.

Staff briefed the committee on the mode composition of the application pool. By project count, 13 of the 27 applications were bicycle and pedestrian projects (the largest single mode group); six were roadway projects; three each were interchange/intersection and bus/BRT projects; and there was one rail and one technology/ITS project. By funding-request dollars, staff reported the largest shares were for roadway and bus/BRT requests, followed by bicycle and pedestrian projects.

Staff characterized the pool of requests as large compared with recent cycles. Members noted that NVTA’s available revenue for the program will not be known until later in the process and that the program has been competitive in prior cycles, typically funding on the order of several hundred million dollars per cycle. NVTA staff said they will begin eligibility checks and request additional project information to enable modeling and evaluation in the months ahead.

No formal committee vote was taken on programming decisions at the Sept. 17 meeting. Staff reiterated deadlines and the procedural next steps: confirming eligibility, running modeling and evaluation, and eliminating any projects that lack governing‑body resolutions by Oct. 31.