Congressman Jim Himes

Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $13,200,000,000

Description: Provides a flexible funding source to state and local governments for transportation projects and programs to help meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Funding is available to reduce congestion and improve air quality for areas that do not meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone, carbon monoxide, or particulate matter (nonattainment areas) and for former nonattainment areas that are now in compliance (maintenance areas).

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, District of Columbia

Eligible Uses: Transportation projects that reduce congestion and reduce the mobile source emissions for which an area has been designated nonattainment or maintenance for ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter by the Environmental Protection Agency. There are many types of eligible projects and programs, including congestion reduction and traffic flow improvements, transit services, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs.

State Administering Agency: Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)

Learn More: Here and Here. Municipalities should contact their Regional Councils of Governments (COGs) with questions.

Surface Transportation Block Grant Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $72,000,000,000

Description: Provides funding to States and local governments for a wide range of eligible surface transportation improvements, with flexibility to best address State and local transportation needs.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, District of Columbia

Eligible Uses: The Surface Transportation Block Grant Program is available for the roughly one million miles of Federal-aid highways, for bridges on any public road, and for transit capital projects. This includes projects such as federal-aid bridge repair; highway and bridge rehabilitation and construction; off-system bridge repair; pedestrian, bicycle, and recreational trails; and other activities.

State Administering Agency: Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)

Learn More: Here and Here. Municipalities should contact their Regional Councils of Governments (COGs) with questions.

Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) - Formula Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $7,299,999,998 (Connecticut is expected to receive $90,034,870 over five years)

Description: Supports planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States (including District of Columbia)

Eligible Uses: States may use PROTECT Formula Program funds to conduct resilience planning, strengthen and protect evacuation routes, and increase the resilience of surface transportation infrastructure from the impacts of sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters. Highway, transit, and certain port projects are eligible.

State Administering Agency: CT Department of Transportation

Learn More: Here and Here

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $11,615,000,000

Description: Included under Corps construction are specific funding set-asides for Navigation, Inland Waterways, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental Infrastructure, Continuing Authorities Program, Shore Protection, and Remote and Subsistence Harbor Projects. Please review these resources – here, here, and here – for more information about accessing funding for these different purposes.

Learn More: Contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Investigations

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $150,000,000

Description: Most U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) projects start with a feasibility study (i.e., an investigation) of the water resource issue and an evaluation of the alternatives to address the issue. The purpose of the USACE study process is to inform federal decisions on whether there is a federal interest in authorizing a USACE construction project. USACE generally requires two types of congressional action to initiate a study—study authorization and then appropriations. Congress generally authorizes USACE studies in Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) legislation. Please review this resource here for more information about accessing funding for this purpose.

Learn More: Contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District

Highway Safety Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $1,992,000,000

Description: Provides grants to States to improve driver behavior and reduce deaths and injuries from motor vehicle-related crashes. Grant funds can be used for programs to reduce drug- and alcohol-impaired driving, improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, and encourage seat belt use, among other uses.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, the Secretary of Interior for the Indian tribes, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here

National Priority Safety Programs

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $1,874,500,000

Description: To encourage States to address national priorities for reducing highway deaths and injuries through occupant protection programs, state traffic safety information system improvements, impaired driving countermeasures, passage of effective laws to reduce distracted driving, implementation of motorcyclist safety programs, and non-motorist safety programs. Two new grant programs were introduced to improve roadside safety and driver and officer safety grants.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands for most grants.

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here

Carbon Reduction Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $6,419,999,998

Description: Supports projects to reduce transportation emissions or the development of carbon reduction strategies

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States (including District of Columbia)

Eligible Uses: Provides funds for projects that support the reduction of transportation emissions, including: the construction, planning, and design of trail facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and other non motorized forms of transportation; public transportation projects; and congestion management technologies.

State Administering Agency: Connecticut Deptartment of Transportation (CTDOT)

Learn More: Here and Here

National Highway Freight Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $7,150,000,000

Description: The National Highway Freight Program provides funds to the States, by formula, to improve the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States (including District of Columbia)

Eligible Uses: Projects that contribute to the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network and are identified in a freight investment plan included in the State’s freight plan. A range of activities are eligible for these funds, such as projects to reduce the environmental impacts of freight movement, adding road capacity to address highway freight bottlenecks, or a highway or bridge project to improve the flow of freight on the national highway freight network. In addition, a State may use not more than 30 percent of its total National Highway Freight Program funds each year for freight intermodal or freight rail projects, subject to certain restrictions

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here. On February 2, DOT also released “Highway Safety Improvement Program Eligibility Guidance,” which you may review here. Municipalities should contact their Regional Councils of Governments (COGs) with questions.

National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $5,000,000,000

Description: Strategically deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States (including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)

Eligible Uses: The acquisition and installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure to serve as a catalyst for the deployment of such infrastructure and to connect it to a network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability; proper operation and maintenance of electric vehicle charging infrastructure; data sharing about electric vehicle charging infrastructure to ensure the long-term success of investments.

State Administering Agency: CT Department of Transportation

Learn More: Here and Here

Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $2,193,105,343

Description: To provide financial assistance in meeting the transportation needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities where public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient or inappropriate. The Section 5310 program is designed to supplement the Federal Transit Administration’s other capital assistance programs by funding transportation projects for seniors and individuals with disabilities in all areas - large urban, small urban, and rural.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status

Eligible Uses: Capital, Operating Assistance and Planning

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here and Here

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $4,000,000,000

Description: For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor commercial navigation, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration and related projects; providing security for infrastructure owned or operated by the Corps, including administrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining harbor channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public agency that serve essential navigation needs of general commerce, where authorized by law; surveying and charting northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening channels; and removing obstructions to navigation

Learn More: Contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District

Railway-Highway Crossings Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $1,225,000,000

Description: Supports projects with the goal of reducing the number of fatalities, injuries, and crashes at public railway-highway grade crossings.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to states (including District of Columbia)

Eligible Uses: Railway-highway crossing projects

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here

National Highway Performance Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $148,000,000,000

Description: Provides support for the condition and performance of the National Highway System (NHS); to support for the construction of new facilities on the National Highway System; to ensure that investments of federal-aid funds in highway construction are directed to support progress toward the achievement of performance targets established in a state's asset management plan for the National Highway System; to provide support for activities to increase the resiliency of the National Highway System to mitigate the cost of damages from sea level rise, extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires, or other natural disasters.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, District of Columbia

Eligible Uses:

Subject to the general eligibility requirements described in 23 U.S.C. 119(d)(1), the following activities are listed as eligible in 23 U.S.C. 119(d):

a. Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, preservation, or operational improvement of segments of the NHS. The terms “Construction” and “Operational improvement” are defined in 23 U.S.C. 101(a).

b. Construction, replacement (including replacement with fill material), rehabilitation, preservation, and protection (including scour countermeasures, seismic retrofits, impact protection measures, security countermeasures, and protection against extreme events) of bridges on the NHS.

c. Construction, replacement (including replacement with fill material), rehabilitation, preservation, and protection (including impact protection measures, security countermeasures, and protection against extreme events) of tunnels on the NHS.

d. Inspection and evaluation, as described in 23 U.S.C. 144 as amended by the BIL, of bridges and tunnels on the NHS, and inspection and evaluation of other highway infrastructure assets on the NHS. This includes, but is not limited to, signs, retaining walls, and drainage structures.

e. Training of bridge and tunnel inspectors, as described in 23 U.S.C. 144, as amended by the BIL.

f. Construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of existing ferry boats and ferry boat facilities, including approaches that connect road segments of the NHS. Eligible ferry approaches are described in 23 U.S.C. 129(b). Eligible ferry boats and facilities are described in 23 U.S.C. 129(c), as amended by the BIL.

g. Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of, and operational improvements for, a Federal-aid highway not on the NHS, and construction of a transit project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of Title 49, U.S.C., if:

(i) The highway project or transit project is in the same corridor as, and in proximity to, a fully access-controlled highway on the NHS;

(ii) The construction or improvements will reduce delays or produce travel time savings on the fully access-controlled highway described in clause (i) and improve regional traffic flow; and

(iii) The construction or improvements are more cost-effective, as determined by benefit-cost analysis, than an improvement to the fully access-controlled highway on the NHS.

h. Bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 217, as amended by the BIL. The project or activity must be associated with an NHS facility (See 23 U.S.C. 217(b)).

i. Highway safety improvements on the NHS. The term "Safety improvement project" is defined in 23 U.S.C. 101(a), as amended by the BIL.

j. Capital and operating costs for traffic and traveler information monitoring, management, and control facilities and programs. The project or activity must be associated with an NHS facility.

k. Development and implementation of a State asset management plan for the NHS, including data collection, maintenance, and integration and the cost associated with obtaining, updating, and licensing software and equipment required for risk-based asset management and performance-based management.

l. Infrastructure-based intelligent transportation systems capital improvements, including the installation of vehicle-to-infrastructure communication equipment. The project or activity must be associated with an NHS facility.

m. Environmental restoration and pollution abatement in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 328. The project must be associated with an NHS facility.

n. Control of noxious weeds and aquatic noxious weeds and establishment of native species in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 329. The project or activity must be associated with an NHS facility.

o. Environmental mitigation efforts related to projects funded with NHPP, as described in 23 U.S.C. 119(g). The project or activity must be associated with an NHS facility.

p. Construction of publicly owned intracity or intercity bus terminals servicing the NHS.

BIL § 11105(2) amended 23 U.S.C. 119(d)(2)(q) through (s), to make three new categories of activities eligible under NHPP:

q. Undergrounding public utility infrastructure carried out in conjunction with a project otherwise eligible under NHPP.

r. Resiliency improvements on the NHS (and in some cases on facilities off the NHS), including protective features described in 23 U.S.C. 119(k)(2) as amended by section 11105(4) of BIL

s. Implement activities to protect segments of the NHS from cybersecurity threats.

The following activities are made eligible by other subsections of 23 U.S.C. 119:

t. Upon request of a State and subject to the approval of the Secretary, if Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) credit assistance is approved for an NHPP-eligible project, the State may use NHPP funds to pay the subsidy and administrative costs associated with providing Federal credit assistance for the project (See 23 U.S.C. 119(h)).

u. Reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, or preservation of a bridge on a Federal-aid highway that is not on the NHS. To use this provision, States must ensure any obligations required under 23 U.S.C. 119(f) are satisfied.

v. A State may use NHPP funds for projects intended to reduce the risk of failure of critical infrastructure in the State. In this subsection, the term “critical infrastructure” means those facilities the incapacity or failure of which would have a debilitating impact on national or regional economic security, national or regional energy security, national or regional public health or safety, or any combination of those matters. This eligibility is limited to NHS facilities that are eligible under 23 U.S.C. 119(j).

The following activities are made eligible by other sections of 23 U.S.C.:

w. Workforce development, training, and education activities under 23 U.S.C. 504(e).

x. Preferential parking for carpools associated with an NHS facility, including the addition of electric vehicle charging stations or natural gas vehicle refueling stations, as provided for in 23 U.S.C. 137(f).

y. Public transportation projects: 1) as described in 23 U.S.C. 142(a)(1), (b), and (c); and 2) meeting the requirements contained in 23 U.S.C. 142(d) through (f), and in 23 U.S.C. 119(d)(2)(G).

State Administering Agency: Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)

Learn More: Here, Here, and Here. Municipalities should contact their Regional Councils of Governments (COGs) with questions.

Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $912,000,000

Description: Provides funding for ferry services which are important links in the network of Federal-aid highways, and in many cases, are the only reasonable form of transportation.

Eligible Recipients: Eligible ferry operations

Eligible Uses: Replace or acquire new ferry boats; replace propulsion systems with newer cleaner and more energy-efficient power plants; update navigational control systems; construct new terminals; improve access for the disabled; and replace and construct new docking facilities.

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here

Highway Safety Improvement Program

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $15,557,499,996

Description: The Highway Safety Improvement Program provides States with critical safety funding that is used to save lives and prevent serious injuries on all public roads. The Highway Safety Improvement Program is based on a performance-driven process that identifies and analyzes highway safety problems and advances highway safety improvement projects that have the greatest potential to reduce fatalities and serious injuries.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States (including District of Columbia)

Eligible Uses: Safety projects on all public roads. HSIP supports projects that improve the safety of road infrastructure by correcting hazardous road locations, such as dangerous intersections, or making road improvements, such as adding striping or rumble strips.

Learn More: Here and Here. Municipalities should contact CTDOT's Office of Highway Safety with any questions.

State of Good Repair Grants (Sec. 5337)

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $21,640,412,832

Description: To assist in funding capital projects for existing fixed guideway systems (including rail, bus rapid transit, and passenger ferries) and high intensity motorbus systems (buses operating in high-occupancy vehicle lanes) to maintain public transportation systems in a state of good repair and to ensure public transit operates safely, efficiently, reliably, and sustainably so that communities can offer balanced transportation choices that helps to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and encourage economic development.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

Eligible Uses: Capital

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here and Here

Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $3,161,294,400

Description: Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

Eligible Uses: Capital funding for purposes described above.

State Administering Agency: CT Department of Transportation (CTDOT)

Learn More: Here and Here

Urbanized Area Formula (Sec. 5307) Grants

Thu, 365 Dec 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $33,390,947,107

Description: Makes federal resources available to urbanized areas and to governors for transit capital and operating assistance in urbanized areas and for transportation-related planning.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

Eligible Uses: Planning, Capital, Operating Assistance

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here and Here

Bridge Formula Program

Sat, 304 Oct 2026 12:00:00 EST

Funding: $26,675,000,000

Description: Provides funding to States and Tribal governments to repair and rebuild bridges in poor condition. There are approximately 250 bridges in Connecticut in this condition (detailed here). To help local governments that struggle to pay for costly bridge projects, 15% of funds will be set- aside for “off-system bridges” including projects on locally-owned facilities that are not on the National Highway System. Off-System Bridges are on a road that is not part of the designated state highway system and is under the direct jurisdiction of the local government.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico

Eligible Uses: Replace, rehabilitate, preserve, protect, and construct bridges on public roads.

State Administering Agency: CTDOT

Learn More: Here. Municipalities should contact their Regional Councils of Governments (COGs) with questions.