Rural Town Centers and Corridors

• Introductory Memo
• Schedule
• RTCC Eligibility           
• Evaluation Criteria
• Financial Constraint Guidance
• Equity Guidance
• Resource Document for Screening Forms
• Resource Document for Applications
• Project Selection Resource Webmap

Project sponsors can access the Formsite Screening Form and Application Portal using the same username and password used for prior PSRC funding competitions and monthly TIP amendments accessed via WebApps, provided a # symbol is added to the end of the WebApps password when signing into Formsite. If you do not have your agency's username or have forgotten your password, please contact Miles Stepleton at mstepleton@psrc.org. Additional information is provided in the two resource documents above.

Public agencies – including cities & towns, counties, transit agencies, Tribes, ports, etc. – are eligible to submit applications and be awarded grants.

However, in order to accept and manage the grant, the agency must have Certification Acceptance status.  More information on the list of approved agencies and the requirements to become Certified can be found on WSDOT’s website .

Projects eligible for the Rural Town Centers and Corridors Program include any project eligible under the broader Surface Transportation Block Grant Program. 

The particular focus of the RTCC funds are to support rural town centers, so projects must be in or support a locally designated center. Refer to the eligibility information provided in the Call for Projects for more information.

There are three primary requirements related to planning consistency that projects must meet.

• Projects must be in or consistent with the local comprehensive plan of the jurisdiction in which the project is located.
• The transportation element of the local comprehensive plan much be certified by PSRC.
• Projects must be in or consistent with the Regional Transportation Plan.  Certain types and size of projects must be listed explicitly on the Regional Capacity Projects list in order to be eligible.

Details on each of these requirements may be found in the Resource Document for Applications provided in the Call for Projects.

Project sponsors may request up to the annual amount available under the RTCC program, or $3.045 million. 

Sponsors may request funding for any single phase. Requests for more than one phase are limited to preliminary engineering plus the subsequent phase – e.g., PE + ROW, or PE + CN. Requesting funds for both the right of way and construction phases is not allowed.

All project phases will have an obligation deadline of June 1st of the year awarded.

For the phase requesting PSRC funds, full funding of that phase must be reasonably demonstrated with the combination of PSRC and all other funds. Financial Constraint Guidance on secured, reasonably expected or unsecured funds may be found on PSRC’s website.

Additional details may be found in the Resource Document for Applications document provided in the Call for Projects.