Competitive Funding Grants

Funding: $500,000,000  

Description: To provide federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques. 

Eligible Recipients: Industry Partner 

Eligible Uses: (A) Increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from clean hydrogen technology components and systems; (B) minimizing environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (C) addressing any barriers to the research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling; (D) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of clean hydrogen technologies; (E) developing alternative disassembly and resource recovery processes that enable efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, clean hydrogen technologies; and (F) developing strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of fuel cells. 

Deadline: TBA. Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022.

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Funding: $1,250,000,000 

Description: Program funds will be made available each fiscal year for Community Grants, to install electric vehicle charging and alternative fuel in locations on public roads, schools, parks, and in publicly accessible parking facilities. These grants will be prioritized for rural areas, low-and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with low ratios of private parking, or high ratios of multiunit dwellings.

Eligible Recipients: State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory

Eligible Uses: Acquisition and installation of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging or alternative fueling infrastructure, operating assistance (for the first 5 years after installation), acquisition and installation of traffic control devices 

Deadline: TBA. Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in Winter 2022.

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Funding: $2,100,000,000 

Description: To establish and carry out a carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program

Eligible Recipients: State / Local / Public Authority 

Eligible Uses: Projects that-- (A) are large-capacity, common carrier infrastructure; (B) have demonstrated demand for use of the infrastructure by associated projects that capture carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources or ambient air; (C) enable geographical diversity in associated projects that capture carbon dioxide from anthropogenic sources or ambient air, with the goal of enabling projects in all major carbon dioxide-emitting regions of the United States; and (D) are sited within, or adjacent to, existing pipeline or other linear infrastructure corridors, in a manner that minimizes environmental disturbance and other citing concerns

Deadline: TBA. Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Funding: $1,000,000,000

Description: Provides funding to state and local governments to help reduce the overall risk to the population and structures from future hazard events

Eligible Recipients: States, local, Tribal, and territorial governments.  Notably, the State Emergency Management Agency, coordinated by the State Hazard Mitigation Officer (SHMO), receives and applies to FEMA for funding. This means that communities may apply for the BRIC program through their state’s emergency management agency rather than applying to FEMA directly.  States review all projects within their state and develop a priority order for applications in the state allocation project pool and the national mitigation project competition pool. 

Eligible Uses: Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide financial assistance to eligible Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities applicants for the following activities: 

• Capability and Capacity-Building – Activities, which enhance the knowledge, skills, expertise, etc., of the current workforce to expand or improve the administration of mitigation assistance. This includes activities in the following sub-categories: building codes activities, partnerships, project scoping, mitigation planning and planning-related activities, and other activities; 

• Mitigation Projects – Cost-effective projects designed to increase resilience and public safety; reduce injuries and loss of life; and reduce damage and destruction to property, critical services, facilities, and infrastructure from natural hazards and the effects of climate change; and 

• Management Costs – Financial assistance to reimburse the recipient and subrecipient for eligible and reasonable indirect costs, direct administrative costs, and other administrative expenses associated with a specific mitigation measure or project in an amount up to 15 percent of the total amount of the grant award, of which not more than 10 percent of the total award amount may be used by the recipient and 5 percent by the subrecipient for such costs generally.

Deadline: December 2, 2022 (for CT DEMHS)

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