Competitive Funding Grants

Flood Mitigation Assistance

Funding: $3,500,000,000

Description: Provides funding to state and local governments for projects that reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured by the National Flood Insurance Program (i.e., the goal of this program is to decrease claim payouts). 

Eligible Recipients: State and local governments. Notably, local governments submit mitigation planning and project applications to their state during the open application cycle. After reviewing applications, the state prioritizes and forwards the applications to their FEMA Regional Office. Local governments should contact their State Hazard Mitigation Officer here.

Eligible Uses: These grants are focused on projects that reduce flood risks posed to repetitively flooded properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program. Federal Emergency Management Agency is distributing Fiscal Year 2021 Flood Mitigation Assistance funding amount as follows: 

  • Project scoping (previously advance assistance) to develop community flood mitigation projects and/or individual flood mitigation projects that will subsequently reduce flood claims against the National Flood Insurance Program. 

  • Projects that address community flood risk for the purpose of reducing National Flood Insurance Program flood claim payments. 

  • Technical assistance to maintain a viable Flood Mitigation Assistance program over time.

  • Planning sub-applications for the flood hazard component of State, Local, Territory, and Tribal Hazard Mitigation Plans and plan updates. 

Deadline: TBA. Applications for Fiscal Year 2022 will open in Fall 2022.

Learn More: Here and here

Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants

Funding: $36,000,000,000

Description: To fund capital projects that reduce the state of good repair backlog, improve performance, or expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service, including privately operated intercity passenger rail service if an eligible applicant is involved.

Eligible Recipients: States, including the District of Columbia; A group of States; An InterState Compact; A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States; A political subdivision of a State; Amtrak, acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with one or more States; Federally recognized Tribe; Any combination of the entities above.

Eligible Uses: (1) Projects to replace, rehabilitate, or repair infrastructure, equipment, or a facility used for providing intercity passenger rail service to bring such assets into a State of good repair; (2) projects to improve intercity passenger rail service performance, including reduced trip times, increased train frequencies, higher operating speeds, improved reliability, expanded capacity, reduced congestion, electrification, and other improvements, as determined by the Secretary; (3) projects to expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service; and (4) a group of related projects described previously. The planning, environmental review, and final design of an eligible project or group of projects is also eligible. Preference to eligible projects: (1) for which Amtrak is not the sole applicant; (2) the improve the financial performance, reliability, service frequency, or address the State of good repair of an Amtrak route; and (3) that are identified in, and consistent with, a corridor inventory prepared under the Corridor Identification and Development Program pursuant to section 25101.

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: Here

Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot Program

Funding: $50,000,000 

Description: To provide grants to supply nonprofit buildings with energy-efficiency materials. 

Eligible Recipients: Non-Profit Organizations 

Eligible Uses: To provide non-profits with energy efficiency materials including (i) a roof or lighting system or component of the system; (ii) a window; (iii) a door, including a security door; and (iv) a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system or component of the system (including insulation and wiring and plumbing improvements needed to serve a more efficient system)

Deadline: TBA. Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023

Learn More: Here

 

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program

Funding: $550,000,000  

Eligible Recipients: State and local governments

Description: Provides funding for projects that reduce energy use, increase energy efficiency, and cut pollution. 

Eligible Uses: 

  • Developing and implementing an energy efficiency and conservation strategy; 

  • Conducting residential and commercial building energy audits; 

  • Establishing financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements; 

  • Developing and implementing energy efficiency and conservation programs for buildings and facilities; 

  • Developing and implementing programs to conserve energy used in transportation (e.g. flex time for employees; satellite work centers; zoning guidelines or requirements that promote energy efficient development; infrastructure, such as bike lanes, pathways and pedestrian walkways; and synchronized of traffic signals); 

  • Developing and implementing building codes and inspection services to promote building energy efficiency; 

  • Developing and implementing programs to increase participation and efficiency rates for recycling programs;  

  • Replacing traffic signals and street lighting with energy-efficient lighting technologies;  

  • Purchasing and implementing technologies to reduce and capture methane and other greenhouse gases generated by landfills or similar sources; 

  • Developing, implementing and installing on or in any government building onsite renewable energy technology that generates electricity from renewable resources, such as solar and wind energy, fuel cells and biomass; and 

  • Financing energy efficiency, renewable energy and zero-emission transportation (and associated infrastructure), capital investments, projects and programs for leveraging of additional public and private sector funds.

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: Here and Here

Discretionary Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Grants

Funding: $1,400,000,000

Description: Funding for evacuation routes, coastal resilience, making existing infrastructure more resilient, or efforts to move infrastructure to nearby locations not continuously impacted by extreme weather and natural disasters

Eligible Recipients: States, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local governments, Special purpose districts or public authorities with a transportation function, Tribes, Federal land management agencies (applying jointly with State(s))

Eligible Uses: Conduct resilience planning studies, 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. 

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: TBA. Contact my office with questions.

Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program

Funding: $1,250,000,000

Description: Helps accelerate the adoption of broadband through digital literacy training, workforce development, devices access programs, and other digital inclusion measures.

Eligible Recipients: Local Education Agency; State Governments, including any political subdivisions of the State; Tribal/Native American Governments; Alaska Native Entities; and Native Hawaiian Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations; Community Anchor Institutions; and Work Force Development Programs

Eligible Uses: Broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support, digital equity programs

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: Here and Here

Cost-effective Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience ('Building Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience')

Funding: $225,000,000

Description: Provides funding to state energy agencies, in partnership with local building code agencies, codes and standards developers, utilities, and other entities, to enable sustained, cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes to save customers money on their energy bills.

Eligible Recipients: States and State Partnerships 

Eligible Uses: (A) To create or enable State or regional partnerships to provide training and materials to—(i) builders, contractors and subcontractors, architects, and other design and construction professionals, relating to meeting updated building energy codes in a cost-effective manner; and (ii) building code officials, relating to improving implementation of and compliance with building energy codes; (B) to collect and disseminate quantitative data on construction and codes implementation, including code pathways, performance metrics, and technologies used; (C) to develop and implement a plan for highly effective codes implementation, including measuring compliance; (D) to address various implementation needs in rural, suburban, and urban areas; and (E) to implement updates in energy codes for— (i) new residential and commercial buildings (including multifamily buildings); and (ii) additions and alterations to existing residential and commercial buildings (including multifamily buildings).

Deadline: TBA. Applications for funding are expected to be open by the end of 2022.

Learn More: Here and Here

Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Grants

Funding: $5,000,000,000

Description: To fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail.

Eligible Recipients: State; group of states; interstate compact; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states; political subdivision of a state; 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.

Eligible Uses: Eligible projects include a wide range of freight and passenger rail capital, safety technology deployment, planning, environmental analyses, research, workforce development, and training projects. New eligibilities include: (1) measures to prevent trespassing on railroad property; (2) preparation of emergency plans for communities through which hazardous materials are transported by rail; (3) research, development, and testing to advance innovative rail projects; and (4) rehabilitating, remanufacturing, procuring, or overhauling locomotives to reduce emissions.

Deadline: October 4, 2022

Learn More: Here

Congestion Relief Program

Funding: $250,000,000

Description: Grants for projects in large cities that advance innovative and multimodal (like transit, biking, walking, or buses) solutions to relieve traffic congestion. These projects can help reduce highway congestion, lower economic and environmental costs related to congestion, and optimize the capacity of existing highway and transit systems

Eligible Recipients: States (for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000), Metropolitan Planning organizations (for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000), cities or municipalities (in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000)

Eligible Uses: Planning, design, implementation, and construction activities to achieve the program goals, including: deployment and operation of integrated congestion management systems, systems that implement or enforce high occupancy vehicle toll lanes or pricing strategies, or mobility services; and incentive programs that encourage carpooling, nonhighway travel during peak periods, or travel during nonpeak periods. 

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: TBA

Coastal Zone Management Habitat Protection and Restoration Grants

Funding: $207,000,000

Eligible Recipients: Coastal Zone Management programs must serve as the primary applicant. However, funding can be passed through to other non-federal public partners. Projects must be within the coastal zone management boundary or coastal watershed county.

Eligible Uses: Habitat restoration; habitat restoration planning, engineering, and design; ecosystem conservation. The majority of infrastructure funding will support competitively selected projects. However, non-competitive funds to support program capacity will be available up to $150,000 per year for each coastal zone management program to support a work plan focused on the Infrastructure Act.

Deadlines: Letters of intent are due July 29, 2022, and full proposals will be due October 14, 2022.

Learn More: Here and Here
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