Infrastructure Funding

Funding: $1,440,000,000 

Description: Provides funding to states and other entities to ensure that states have the capacity to promote the achievement of digital equity and support digital inclusion activities. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is required to begin distributing the State Digital Equity Capacity Grants within two years of the distribution of the planning grants. States must apply for the grants and provide a description of the state’s administering entity, its Digital Equity Plan, and certification that the state will implement that plan to NTIA.

Eligible Recipients: Formula funding to States, Territories, District of Columbia

Eligible Uses: Planning (e.g. feasibility), broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support 

State Administering Agency: TBA

Learn More: Here. View webinars on this program and other broadband programs here

Funding: $6,000,000,000

Description: To provide funding for capital projects to eliminate Amtrak's backlog of obsolete assets and deferred maintenance of rolling stock, facilities, stations, and infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor.

Eligible Recipients: Amtrak

Eligible Uses: (1) acquiring new passenger rail rolling stock to replace Amtraks aging and obsolete passenger equipment fleet (and related facilities); (2) bringing Amtrak-served stations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; (3) eliminating the backlog of deferred capital work on sole-benefit Amtrak-owned assets located on the Northeast Corridor; and (4) carrying out Northeast Corridor capital renewal backlog projects. Funds may also be used as the non-Federal match for projects under the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program.

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: Here

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.

Funding: $350,000,000 

Description: Supports projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity 

Eligible Recipients: State highway agency (or equivalent), Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local government, Regional transportation authority, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Federal land management agency

Eligible Uses: Projects to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions 

Deadline: TBA

Funding: $11,713,000,000

Description: A federal-state program that provides funding and financing to wastewater and storm water systems for a wide range of infrastructure projects.

Eligible Recipients: States initially receive funding, then provide funds to Water Utilities and/or Municipal and Other Eligible Entities. Communities submit applications to state agencies for financial assistance from the State Revolving Fund. States score each application to determine which projects receive funding.

Eligible Uses: Provide financial assistance to local communities and publicly owned treatment systems for construction of wastewater and stormwater treatment facilities and collection systems; nonpoint source pollution management; construction, repair, or replacement of decentralized wastewater treatment systems; construction of nature-based infrastructure solutions; and other uses associated with the management of wastewater and stormwater.

State Administering Agency: CTDEEP

Deadline: TBA

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Funding: $5,000,000,000 

Description: To make grants to eligible entities, States, and Tribes to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electric grid

Eligible Recipients: Electric Grid Operators, Electricity Storage Operators, Electricity Generators, Transmission Owners and Operators, Distribution Providers, Fuel Suppliers, States, Tribes 

Eligible Uses: To carry out activities that are supplemental to existing hardening efforts and reduce the risk of power lines causing a wildfire; or reduce the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events. 

Deadline: TBA. Estimated application opening date, 3th quarter 2022

Learn More: Here 

Funding: $15,750,000,000

Description: To provide funding for capital projects to eliminate Amtrak's backlog of deferred maintenance of rolling stock, facilities, stations, and infrastructure on the National Network

Eligible Recipients: Amtrak

Eligible Uses: (1) Acquiring new passenger rail rolling stock to replace Amtraks aging and obsolete passenger equipment fleet (and related facilities); (2) bringing Amtrak-served stations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; (3) eliminating the backlog of deferred capital work on Amtrak-owned railroad assets not located on the Northeast Corridor; and (4) projects to eliminate the backlog of obsolete assets associated with Amtraks national rail passenger transportation system, such as systems for reservations, security, training centers, and technology.

Deadline: TBA

Learn More: Here

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