Infrastructure Law Grants
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program ($195M)
Oct 13 2022
- Description: The Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program will restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development.
- Eligible Applicants: State; local government; tribal government; metropolitan planning organization; nonprofit organizations are eligible for “Planning Grants” under the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program. Any of the above listed entity may partner with the owner of the eligible transportation facility to apply for capital construction grant funding.
- Application Deadline: October 13, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
All Stations Accessibility Program (343M)
Sep 20 2022
- Description: he Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $343 million in competitive grants under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP). As required by Federal public transportation law, funds will be awarded competitively to eligible designated recipients that operate or allocate funds to inaccessible pre-ADA—or “legacy” — rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, and States (including territories and Washington, D.C.) and local governmental entities that operate or financially support legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems and corresponding legacy stations/facilities for capital projects to repair, improve, modify, retrofit, or relocate infrastructure of stations or facilities for passenger use, including load-bearing members that are an essential part of the structural frame; or (2) for planning projects to develop or modify a plan for pursuing public transportation accessibility projects, assessments of accessibility, or assessments of planned modifications to stations or facilities for passenger use projects; or programs of projects in an eligible area.
- Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients that operate or allocate funds to inaccessible pre-ADA rail fixed guideway transportation systems, state and local governments
- Application Deadline: September 20, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Safe Streets and Roads for All ($1B)
Sep 15 2022
- Description: This program will provide funding directly to local and tribal governments to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets, especially for cyclists and pedestrians, commonly referred to as “Vision Zero” or “Towards Zero Deaths” initiatives.
- Eligible Applicants: Metropolitan planning organization; political subdivision of a state; tribal government; multijurisdictional group of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: September 15, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This new competitive grant program will assist state, local, federal, and tribal entities in rehabilitating or replacing bridges, including culverts. Large projects and bundling of smaller bridge projects will be eligible for funding. This funding is in addition to $27.5 billion directed to states for bridge repair and construction provided through the Bridge Formula Program, of which Virginia will receive approximately $537 million.
- Eligible Applicants: State or group of states; metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area (as defined by the Bureau of the Census) with a population of more than 200,000 individuals; unit of local government or group of local governments; political subdivision of a state or local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities.
- Application Deadline: August 9, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: Local government, tribal governments, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Application Deadline: August 8, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or learn more about the opportunity, CLICK HERE
- Description: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the opportunity to apply for approximately $1.5 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 discretionary grants under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). FAA will award these annually appropriated discretionary funds through the FAA's long-standing iterative, competitive grant process. Prior to the publication of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the FAA identified eligible applicants in its National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) and compiled potentially eligible projects through the 3-year Airports Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP). Both of these processes are described in FAA Order 5090.5, Formulation of NPIAS and ACIP that authorizes discretionary funds. The AIP funds airport capital improvements and rehabilitation projects. All discretionary grant funding is subject to appropriations, statutory requirements, and related program funding availability.
- Eligible Applicants: State and local government entities.
- Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This program provides competitive funding to states and direct recipients to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, including technological changes or innovations to modify low- or no-emission vehicles or facilities.
- Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients that allocate funds to fixed route bus operators, states or local governmental entities that operate fixed route bus service, and Indian tribes. Eligible subrecipients include all otherwise eligible applicants and private nonprofit organizations engaged in public transportation.
- Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: IIJA expands this competitive program which provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low- emission transit buses as well as acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
- Eligible Applicants: State; Local government; Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function; tribal government.
- Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: The National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program will support large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.
- Eligible Applicants: a State or group of States; metropolitan planning organization; local government; political subdivision of a State; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function including a port authority; tribal government; a partnership between Amtrak and another entity listed above; and any group of entities listed above.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply or funding or learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: The Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects program, also known as “INFRA”, awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas.
- Eligible Applicants: State or group of states; metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area (as defined by the Bureau of the Census) with a population of more than 200,000 individuals; unit of local government or group of local governments; political subdivision of a state or local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program ($2B)
May 23 2022
- Description: This new competitive grant program will improve and expand surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas, increasing connectivity, improving safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generating regional economic growth.
- Eligible Applicants: State; regional transportation planning organization; a unit of local government; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multijurisdictional group of entities.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply or funding or learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Port Infrastructure Development Program ($2.25B)
May 16 2022
- Description: IIJA increases investment in America’s coastal ports and inland waterways, helping to improve the supply chain and enhancing the resilience of our shipping industry. IIJA overall doubles the level of investment in port infrastructure and waterways, helping strengthen our supply chain and reduce pollution. The Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) is a discretionary grant program administered by the U.S. Maritime Administration. Funds for the PIDP are awarded on a competitive basis to projects that improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port.
- Eligible Applicants: State, political subdivision of a State or a local government; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more states; special purpose district with a transportation function; Federally recognized Indian Tribes or a consortium of Indian Tribes; a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities that are separately eligible; One of the aforementioned entities jointly with a private entity or group of private entities, including the owners or operators of a facility, or collection of facilities at a port.
- Application Deadline: May 16, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Marine Highway Program ($25M)
Apr 29 2022
- Description: Grants through the program are distributed for projects that mitigate landside congestion, expand transportation options, and realize public benefit and external cost savings by awarding Marine Highway grants to qualified applicants to implement designated Marine Highway projects.
- Eligible Applicants: State governments (including State departments of transportation), metropolitan planning organizations, port authorities, and tribal governments, or private sector operators of marine highway services within designated Marine Highway Projects.
- Application Deadline: April 29, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grants ($7.5B)
Apr 14 2022
- Description: RAISE grants support surface transportation projects of local and/or regional significance.
- Eligible Applicants: States and the District of Columbia; any territory or possession of the United States; a unit of local government; a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States; a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; a federally recognized Indian Tribe or a consortium of such Indian Tribes; a transit agency; and a multi-State or multijurisdictional group of entities that are separately eligible. Federal agencies are not eligible applicants for the RAISE FY 2022 program.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on April 14, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
High Priority Activities ($432.5 M)
Mar 31 2022
- Description: The High Priority Activities grant program is a discretionary (competitive) grant program designed to provide Federal financial assistance to enhance states’ commercial vehicle safety plan activities, including commercial vehicle inspections, traffic enforcement, and outreach while supporting innovative technology development and/or new project(s) not included in the commercial vehicle safety plan that will have a positive impact on commercial vehicle safety. Other applicants, such as academia and safety associations are also eligible for these grants that improve safety. Overall this grant supports safety programs and innovative technology deployment with a goal of increasing efficiency improvements in exchanging commercial vehicle safety data.
- Eligible Applicants: States, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, other political jurisdictions as necessary, small businesses, institutions of higher education, and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: The Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training grant program awards grants to a variety of educational institutions that provide commercial truck and bus driving training. The purpose of this discretionary grant program is to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and prioritize grant applications for programs to train former members of the armed forces and eligible family members.
- Eligible Applicants: An entity that can train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. Such entities include accredited public or private colleges, universities, vocational-technical schools, post-secondary educational institutions, truck driver training schools, associations, and state and local governments, including federally recognized Native American Tribal governments.
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program CLICK HERE
- Description: This discretionary grant program will provide funding for airport terminal development and other landside projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Public agency; Private entity; state and Tribal Government owning a public use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems airport; Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island Airport; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau.
- Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: IIJA provides planning and construction funds for states, local governments, tribes, and Amtrak to expand the intercity passenger rail system in the United States through improvements to existing routes and the creation of new ones.
- Eligible Applicants: States (including the District of Columbia); group of states; interstate compact; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states; political subdivision of a state; Amtrak, acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with one or more states; any combination of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on March 7, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This discretionary grant seeks to improve highway safety by supporting Commercial Driver's License Programs on a State and National level. The funding assists grant partners in achieving compliance with the commercial driver's license regulations in 49 CFR Parts 383 and 384 by providing funding directly to States and other entities capable of executing National projects to aid States in their compliance efforts.
- Eligible Applicants: Eligible Applicants include agencies in each State, including the District of Columbia, responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of all or part of the CDL program or that have a direct impact on a State’s compliance with the provisions of 49 CFR Parts 383 and 384. For High Priority and Emerging Issues funding, eligible Applicants include State (including the District of Columbia) agencies, local governments, tribes, For-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on February 28, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This Federal Transit Administration discretionary grant program funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. Federal transit law requires transit agencies seeking Capital Investment Grants funding to complete a series of steps over several years.
- Eligible Applicants: Public entities (transit authorities and other state and local public bodies and agencies thereof) including states, municipalities, other political subdivisions of states; public agencies and instrumentalities of one or more states; and certain public corporations, boards, and commissions established under state law.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This competitive grant program provides funding for passenger ferry capital projects in urbanized areas.
- Eligible Applicants: State; Local government; Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function; tribal government.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Ferry Service for Rural Communities ($2B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will ensure that basic essential ferry service continues to be provided to rural areas by providing funds to States to support this service.
- Eligible Applicants: States
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities program will study and award competitive grants to reduce truck idling and emissions at ports, including through the advancement of port electrification.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The purpose of this new discretionary grant is to train non-Feds who conduct commercial motor vehicle enforcement activities and to develop related training materials.
- Eligible Applicants:Non-profit organization with expertise in conducting training for non-Federal stakeholders and the ability to reach and involve a target population of commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement employees.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: In addition to formula grants to States, PROTECT will provide $1.4 billion in competitive grants to eligible entities to increase the resilience of our transportation system. PROTECT Grants will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: State or political subdivision of a state; metropolitan planning organization; unit of local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities. In order to receive an “At-risk Coastal Infrastructure Grant” within the PROTECT program, the applicant must also border the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This new grant program will provide states, tribes, and local governments planning and construction funds for highway-rail grade crossing separation projects that will improve safety and mobility.
- Eligible Applicants: State, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions; political subdivision of a state; federally recognized Indian tribe; unit of local government or a group of local governments; public port authority; metropolitan planning organization; group of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
FTA All Station Accessibility Program ($1.75B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will provide funding to legacy transit and commuter rail authorities to upgrade existing stations to meet or exceed accessibility standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Eligible Applicants: State or local government authority.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) grants will fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expands eligibility for applicants and uses of funds.
- Eligible Applicants: State; group of states; interstate compact; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states; political subdivision of a state; Federally recognizde Indian Tribes; Amtrak or another rail carrier that provides intercity rail passenger transportation; Class II railroad or Class III railroad; rail carrier or rail equipment manufacturer in partnership with at least one of these earlier entities; Transportation Research Board and any entity with which it contracts in the development of rail-related research, including cooperative research programs; university transportation center engaged in rail-related research; non-profit labor organization representing a class or craft of employees of rail carriers or rail carrier contractors.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Crash Data Modernization Grants ($750M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This program provides funding to modernize state and federal crash databases to enable better data sharing and research into motor vehicle crashes. Crash data funding will also be utilized to update the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria, collect additional data elements related to vulnerable road users, expand the Crash Investigation Sampling System, and coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a national database of pedestrian injuries and fatalities.
- Eligible Applicants: States (including the District of Columbia); territories; and the Secretary of the Interior (acting on behalf of Federally-recognized tribes).
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This new grant program will fund states, tribes, and local governments for culvert replacement and removal projects. Priority would be given to projects aimed to improve fish passage for anadromous fish.
- Eligible Applicants: State; unit of local government; tribes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: State or local government, a transit agency, metropolitan planning organization, or a multi-jurisdictional group or a consortia of research institutions or academic institutions. The term ‘‘multi-jurisdictional group’’ means any combination of State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning agencies, or transit agencies that has signed a written agreement to implement the advanced transportation technologies deployment initiative across jurisdictional boundaries.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The new Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant program provides grants to rural, midsized, and large communities to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety.
- Eligible Applicants: State; political subdivision of a state; tribal government; public transit agency or authority; public toll authority; metropolitan planning organization; two or more eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: These grants will help community owned utilities to replace outdated gas pipelines in order to reduce injuries and fatalities and prepare our pipeline infrastructure for cleaner fuels.
- Eligible Applicants: Municipality or community-owned utility (not including for-profit entities).
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program CLICK HERE.
Congestion Relief Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This new competitive grant program will provide grants in large urban areas (population of more than 1 million people) for projects to advance innovative, multimodal solutions to relieve congestion and improve transportation operations and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: A state, for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000; a metropolitan planning organization, city, or municipality, for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This discretionary program provides funding for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally-significant projects within, adjacent to, or accessing Federal and tribal lands. IIJA amends this program to allow smaller projects to qualify for funding and allows 100% federal share for tribal projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Any entity eligible to receive funding under the Tribal Transportation Program; Federal Lands Transportation Program; or Federal Lands Access Program. In addition, a State; county; or local government may apply if sponsored by an eligible Federal land management agency or Indian tribe.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This discretionary grant program will provide $2.5 billion in for electric vehicle charging and alternative fueling infrastructure. Half of the funds will be devoted for charging infrastructure along designated alternative fueling corridors, and the other half will go directly towards communities, with preference given to rural and low-income areas. This funding is in addition to $5 billion which will be distributed to states to invest in EV charging infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: State or political subdivision of a state; metropolitan planning organization; unit of local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; a territory of the United States; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program ($350M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This new competitive grant program will provide grants for projects designed to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and improve habitat connectivity.
- Eligible Applicants: State highway agency, or an equivalent of that agency; a metropolitan planning organization; local government; regional transportation authority; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; federal land management agency; groups of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program ($500M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
