Overlapping federal award

flag-027 · detected Aug 4, 2026 · raised in the baseline dataset

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Automated detection, human decision

Automated checks flag applications for human review only. No application is rejected, deprioritized, or scored by an automated process. Every status below was set by a named analyst, with a written basis, and is recorded in the audit trail.

Confidence

0.62

Fires at An awarded application within 10.0 miles of the same scope

Requested amount

$272.3M

LoNo · FTA

Application stage

TECHNICAL REVIEW

26 days in stage

Times reopened

0

Not yet adjudicated

What the check looked at

Other federal funding declared at intake against awarded applications at the same project location.

The overlapping federal award check compares other federal funding declared at intake against awarded applications at the same project location. It fired on this application at a confidence of 0.62. The structured evidence below is everything the check looked at; the determination is the analyst's.

Evidence	Detail
Prior obligated award	FY2025 RAISE award
Overlapping scope	Shared limits of construction on the same facility

Confidence describes how strongly this deterministic check fired against local data. It is not an applicant risk score and is never used to rank or filter applications.

Application under review

This check evaluated a single application against reference data.

Application	OST-27-81553
Applicant	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Project	Rural Transit Battery-Electric Bus Replacement (Segment 166)
Requested	$272,300,000
Program	Low or No Emission Vehicle Program · FTA

Adjudication

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Decision

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Applicant history

Context on the organization, so the decision is not made on one signal alone.

Organization	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Applications	7
Total requested	$923.9M
Prior awards	0
Flags cleared	0
Flags substantiated	0
Flags still open	1

Recent audit entries

This flag and its application.

SELECTION_RATIONALE_RECORDED

Jul 21, 2026 · Elaine Salazar

INTEGRITY_FLAG_RAISED

Jun 22, 2026 · Jonathan Yamashita

INTEGRITY_FLAG_RAISED

Apr 25, 2026 · Angela Strickland