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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), is the largest long-term investment in infrastructure in nearly a century. It provides funding in five key areas: Transit, Climate, Maintenance of Roadways and Bridges, Water, and Broadband and Cybersecurity. Federal guidelines emphasize equity, safety, sustainability, and reliability throughout all project phases.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Local governments are eligible for this new program to improve bridge and culvert condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
New grants will improve/expand infrastructure in rural areas to increase connectivity, improve the safety/reliability of people & freight movement & generate regional economic growth/improve quality of life.
Bureau/Account: Office of Secretary
This new program is for projects to replace, remove, and/or repair culverts or weirs.
Eligible Applicants: State, units of local government, or an Indian Tribe. [§ 21203(a); 49 U.S.C. 6703(c)]
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Formerly known as ATCMTD. Local governments can apply for competitive grants to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
A new planning grant or capital funds are granted to the owner of a facility to restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, mobility, access, or economic development.
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Bureau/Account: FHWA
A city or municipality can apply to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to reduce congestion & economic & environmental costs in the most congested metropolitan areas with an urbanized area population of 1 million+.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Local governments may have the opportunity to participate in testing the feasibility of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms to help maintain long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Eligible ferry operations can replace/acquire new ferry boats or propulsion systems; update navigational control systems; construct new terminals; improve access for the disabled; and replace/construct new docking facilities. Eligible uses include operating costs and shuttle vehicles.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
This new competitive grant is to test, evaluate, and deploy projects that reduce port-related emissions.
Bureau/Account: Office of Secretary
A political subdivision of a State is eligible for new funding to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets. This new solicitation will fund projects to support planning, infrastructure, behavioral, and operational initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Competitive grants for local governments to install electric vehicle charging and alternative fuel infrastructure in locations on public roads, schools, parks, and in publicly accessible parking facilities.
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Bureau/Account: Office of Secretary
The RAISE Grant Program helps communities build transportation projects that have significant local or regional impact and improve safety and equity. State and local municipalities, Tribal governments, and counties can apply.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Local governments can compete for grants to support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience/evacuation routes & at-risk coastal infrastructure.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Competitive grants for multimodal freight & highway projects of regional significance to improve safety, efficiency & reliability of freight & people movement.
Bureau/Account: Office of Secretary
This competitive program supports large, complex projects that are difficult to fund & likely to generate regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
See INFRA opportunity.
Bureau/Account: FTA
Local government agencies, including transit agencies can compete for grants to fund transit capital investments.
Bureau/Account: FTA
Competitive grants are available for Counties & Cities/Townships to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emission bus projects.
Bureau/Account: FTA
These grants provide capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, contruct, or lease bus-related facilities for counties and cities/townships.
Bureau/Account: FTA
Counties, Cities/Townships can compete for funding for passenger ferry capital projects in urbanized areas.
Bureau/Account: FTA
Competitive grants for Counties, Cities/Townships to research and demonstrate novel approaches to improve public transportation service for a safer, environmentally cleaner, socially just and connected public transportation system.
Bureau/Account: FAA
Owners can apply for Airport Infrastructure Grants including Primary airports, certain cargo airports, and most general aviation/commercial service airports that are not primary airports but in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.
Bureau/Account: FAA
This new program is open to a Public Agency owning a public use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems airport. Grants are for capital improvements for airport terminal development.
Bureau/Account: Maritime Administration
Public and Private Ports/Port Authorities can improve the resiliency of ports or reduce/eliminate port-related criteria pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions.
Bureau/Account: FRA
Local governments are eligible to compete for this new competitive grant to fund rail crossing improvement projects that focus on improving the safety and mobility of people and goods.
Bureau/Account: Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
New competitive grants for municipal or community-owned utilities (Not-for-Profit) will be made available to repair, rehabilitate, or replace natural gas distribution pipeline or to acquire equipment to reduce incidents and economic loss.
Bureau/Account: NHTSA
Counties, Cities/Townships may be eligible for a number of research and development activities with respect to safety, human factors, countermeasures, detection of drug impaired drivers, driver education & State laws on safety.
Bureau/Account: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Local governments can apply for grant program designed to carry out activities and projects that augment motor carrier safety.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Local governments can apply for projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions and improve habitat connectivity.
Bureau/Account: FHWA
Competitive grants for local governments to deploy electric vehicle charging and hydrogen/propane/natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated corridors and in communities.
Bureau/Account: FTA
This Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program that makes federal funding available to support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies.
Provides technical assistance, planning, and capacity building support to communities that may lack the staffing or technical expertise to advance infrastructure projects with broader community goals. Provides 2 years of deep-dive assistance and 3 years of facilitated peer learning support to selected communities to help them plan and develop a pipeline of comprehensive transportation, housing, and community revitalization activities.
Prospective applicants should register at Grants.gov before applying. Do this well in advance of the application due date. For more information on how to apply please visit How to Navigate Grants.gov.
The process is currently taking 4 weeks.
Any federal funding received through Local Aid requires an Eligibility Assessment. If your Local Public Agency receives a federal grant through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, FHWA will provide guidance regarding its assessment of your eligibility.