Competitive Funding Grants

Funding: $1,000,000,000

Description: Provides funding for projects to 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 Recipients: States; Local and Tribal governments; Metropolitan planning organizations; Nonprofit organizations; Other transportation facility owners

Eligible Uses: Grants (≥$5 million) for capital construction projects, including the removal and replacement of eligible facilities. Planning grants (≤$2 million).

Deadline: October 13, 2022

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Funding: $3,000,000,000

Description: To provide funds for the mitigation or elimination of hazards at railway highway crossings. 

Eligible Recipients: 

• States, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions;

• Political subdivision of a state;

• Federally recognized Indian Tribe;

• A unit of local government or a group of local governments;

• A public port authority;

• A metropolitan planning organization;

• A group of the entities described above.

Eligible Uses: 

• Grade separation or closure, including through the use of a bridge, embankment, tunnel, or combination thereof;

• Track relocation;

• Improvement or installation of protective devices, signals, signs, or other; 

• Measures  to improve safety related to a separation, closure, or track relocation project;

• Other means to improve the safety if related to the mobility of people and goods at highway-rail grade crossings (including technological solutions);

• The planning, environmental review, and design of an eligible project type.

Deadline: October 4, 2022

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Funding: $2,250,000,000

Description: Grants to invest in the modernization and expansion of U.S. ports to remove bottlenecks, ensure long-term competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability while reducing impacts to the environment and neighboring communities. 

Eligible Recipients: A port authority, a commission or its subdivision or agent under existing authority, a State or political subdivision of a State or local government, an Indian Tribe, a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States, a special purpose district with a transportation function, a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities, or a lead entity described above 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).

Eligible Uses: Projects that improve the resiliency of ports to address sea-level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, earthquakes, and tsunami inundation, as well as projects that reduce or eliminate port-related criteria pollutant or greenhouse gas emissions, including projects for:

1. Port electrification or electrification master planning;

2. Harbor craft or equipment replacements/retrofits;

3. Development of port or terminal micro-grids;

4. Providing idling reduction infrastructure;

5. Purchase of cargo handling equipment and related infrastructure;

6. Worker training to support electrification technology;

7. Installation of port bunkering facilities from ocean-going vessels for fuels;

8. Electric vehicle charge or hydrogen refueling infrastructure for drayage, and medium or heavy-duty trucks and locomotives that service the port and related grid upgrades;

9. Other related to port activities including charging infrastructure, electric rubber-tired gantry cranes, and anti-idling technologies;

10. Activities to ensure the cybersecurity of information technology and operational technology of port systems;

11. As well as projects under 46 U.S.C. 50302 which States Funds for the Port Infrastructure Development Program 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.

Deadline for FY22: May 16, 2022

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Funding: $68,864,631 

Description: Provides funding for comprehensive or site-specific planning projects to examine ways to improve economic development and ridership potential, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations. Planning projects must be associated with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit project.

Eligible Recipients: State or local governmental authorities. Applicants and eventual grant recipients under this program must be FTA grantees as of the publication date of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). A proposer must either be the project sponsor of an eligible transit capital project as defined above or an entity with land use planning authority in an eligible transit capital project corridor.

Eligible Uses: Grants are available to assist in financing comprehensive or site-specific planning associated with eligible projects that seek to:

• Enhance economic development, ridership, and other goals established during the project development and engineering processes

• Facilitate multimodal connectivity and accessibility

• Increase access to transit hubs for pedestrian and bicycle traffic

• Enable mixed-use development

• Identify infrastructure needs associated with the eligible project

• Include private sector participation

Deadline: July 25, 2022

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