CERTS Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services

Agency: Department of the Treasury

21.028 -- Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services Act

Archived opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

Description

Division N, Title IV, Section 421 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), Pub. L. No. 116-260 (December 27, 2020) authorized the $2 billion Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) program to provide grants to eligible motorcoach companies, school bus companies, passenger vessel companies, and pilotage companies that have experienced annual revenue losses of 25 percent or more as result of COVID-19 directly or indirectly. The priority use of grant funds must be for payroll costs, though grants may be used for operating expenses and the repayment of debt accrued to maintain payroll.

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has posted program guidelines on the CERTS webpage on treasury.gov:

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-american-industry/coronavirus-economic-relief-for-transportation-services

The guidelines address the overall CERTS grant process, eligibility standards, grant amounts and payments, eligible uses of grant funds, and how to prepare for the grant application.

Treasury will open a web-based application portal accessible through the CERTS webpage on treasury.gov. Once the application portal is made available, it will be open for 4 weeks. Interested companies should check the web page to see when the application portal opens and closes.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Miscellaneous

Other

Additional information

The following types of private sector companies are eligible: Motorcoach transportation service providers School bus transportation service providers Passenger vessel transportation service providers Pilotage vessel transportation service providers

Grantor contact information

Description

CERTS@treasury.gov

Email

CERTS Program Inquiries Email Address

CERTS@treasury.gov

Documents

No documents are currently available.

Link to additional information

CERTS Homepage on U.S. Treasury's Website

Archived: July 16, 2021

Application process

This site is a work in progress. Go to www.grants.gov to apply, track application status, and subscribe to updates.

Award

$2,000,000,000

Program Funding

5000

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$--

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

TREAS-CERTS-2021

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

Category of Funding Activity:

Transportation

Category Explanation:

History

Version:

Posted date:

May 6, 2021

Archive date:

July 16, 2021