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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: $7,500,000,000

Description: Provides supplemental funding for grants to the State and local entities listed above on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant local/regional impact.

Eligible Recipients:(A) a State; (B) the District of Columbia; (C) any territory or possession of the United States; (D) a unit of local government; (E) a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more States; (E) a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; (F) a Tribal government or a consortium of Tribal governments; (G) a partnership between Amtrak and 1 or more entities described in (A) through (F); and (H) a group of entities described in (A) through (G).

Eligible Uses: Projects eligible under RAISE include— 

  • a highway or bridge project eligible for assistance under title 23, United States Code; 

  • a public transportation project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code; 

  • a passenger rail or freight rail transportation project eligible for assistance under title 49, United States Code; a port infrastructure investment, including inland port infrastructure and 

  • a land port-of-entry; 

  • the surface transportation components of certain eligible airport projects; 

  • a project for investment in a surface transportation facility located on Tribal land, the title or maintenance responsibility of which is vested in the Federal Government;

  • a project to replace or rehabilitate a culvert or prevent stormwater runoff for the purpose of improving habitat for aquatic species; and 

  • any other surface transportation infrastructure project that the Secretary considers to be necessary to advance the goal of the program. 

Deadline for FY22: April 14, 2022 (selections will be announced no later than August 12, 2022)

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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

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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: $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

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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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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

Funding: $5,000,000,000 

Description: Supports large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits. 

Eligible Recipients: (A) a State or a group of States; (B) a metropolitan planning organization; (C) a unit of local government; (D) a political subdivision of a State; (E) a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; (F) a Tribal government or a consortium of Tribal governments; (G) a partnership between Amtrak and 1 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (F); and (H) a group of entities described in any of subparagraphs (A) through (G)

Eligible Uses: Projects eligible under the Megaprojects program include—

  • a highway or bridge project carried out on— 

    • the National Multimodal Freight Network of title 49, United States Code; 

    • the National Highway Freight Network, United States Code; or 

    • the National Highway System, United States Code; 

  • a freight intermodal (including public ports) or freight rail project that provides a public benefit; 

  • a railway-highway grade separation or elimination project; 

  • an intercity passenger rail project; and 

  • certain public transportation projects that are eligible for Federal Transit Administration funding of title 49, United States Code 

Deadline for FY22: May 23, 2022

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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 AgencyConnecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)

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