Charter Service Operations

The Charter Service regulation ensures that private charter bus providers (who register on FTA's Charter Registration Website) are given the first opportunity to provide charter bus service and protects them from unauthorized competition from public transit providers that receive federal funding from FTA. This is a voluntary collection of information from private charter bus companies and transit agencies. The collection of information from private charter bus companies is conducted during their initial registration on FTA’s Charter Service Registration website. Registration allows the company to be notified of third-party charter service request in their geographic region that are submitted to FTA grantees. The companies are requested to update their information every two years. Although, private charter companies are given priority, an FTA grant recipient may provide charter service and is required to electronically report such information on a quarterly basis. The Charter Service program was unchanged with the passing of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST) however, this information collection request reflects an increase of 41 additional respondents from the total reported in 2013 which is changed from 1,428 to 1,469. The 41 respondents are new private bus registrants into the program since 2013. Although the number of respondents increased the actual burden per respondent remained the same.

The latest form for Charter Service Operations expires 2021-01-31 and can be found here.