The Biden Infrastructure Law will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and rails, deliver clean drinking water, ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind.
CompeteRI is designed to ensure that the Ocean State is positioned to capture the full once-in-a-generation opportunity presented by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and is a collaboration between the McKee Administration and the Partnership for Rhode Island, a nonprofit CEO roundtable representing Rhode Island’s largest private employers.
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See below for a full list of IIJA programs.
IIJA Programs
Program Name | Funding Mechanism | Funding Amount | Application Timing | Application Link | Recipients | Program Description | Eligible Uses | Period of Availability | Next Program Milestone |
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Coastal Zone Management | Grant | 207,000,000.00 | States (Includes Public Institutions Of Higher Education And Hospitals) | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management will implement these funds through Coastal Zone Management competitive and noncompetitive grants with the purpose of restoring and protecting coastal ecosystems through direct investment by coastal states and territories in ecologically significant habitats. | The Coastal Zone Management Act established a national system of state and territorial Coastal Zone Management Programs. These Programs work with coastal states and territories to address urgent coastal issues including climate change, ocean planning, and planning for energy facilities and development. This funding will enable approved coastal programs to protect and restore ecologically significant habitats, including conserving lands that play a critical role in helping communities become more resilience to natural hazards including storms, flooding, inundation, erosion, tsunamis, sea level rise and lake level changes. | 2 years for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Regional Ocean Partnerships | Contract, Cooperative Agreement | 56,000,000.00 | States, Territories, Tribal Governments | Regional Ocean Partnerships are regional organizations voluntarily convened by governors working in collaboration with other governments (including Tribal, federal, and local) and stakeholders to address ocean and coastal issues of common concern in that region. Regional Ocean Partnerships, along with equivalent organizations such as Integrated Ocean Observing System Regional Associations, also serve to enhance associated sharing and integration of Federal and non-federal data. | Implementation of Regional Ocean Partnership priority actions identified in Regional Ocean Partnership work plans; regional capacity for sharing and integration of Federal and non-federal data | 2 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Superfund Remedial | Contract, Cooperative Agreement, Interagency Agreements | 3,500,000,000.00 | Industry Partners, Federal, States, Local Governments, Special Districts, Tribal Governments | Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land. To protect public health and the environment the Superfund program focuses on making a visible and lasting difference in communities, ensuring that people can live and work in healthy, vibrant places. | Environmental Protection Agency enters contracts and interagency agreements to conduct work at Superfund sites. Environmental Protection Agency can also award Superfund cooperative agreements with states, tribes, or local governments to lead or support work in the Superfund program. | Available until expended | |||
Brownfields Categorical Grants | Cooperative Agreement | 300,000,000.00 | July of 2022 | States, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized) | Unlike many Environmental Protection Agency cleanup programs States and Tribal Nations are responsible for developing brownfields cleanup standards and policy and conducting or overseeing the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites within their jurisdictions. This funding is intended for states and tribes that have the required management and administrative capacity within their government to administer a federal grant. The primary goal of this funding is to ensure that state and Tribal response programs include, or are taking reasonable steps to include, certain elements of an environmental response program and that the program establishes and maintains a public record of sites addressed. | Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, the following: Developing legislation, regulations, procedures, ordinances, guidance, etc. that establish or enhance the administrative and legal structure of a response program; Establishing and maintaining the required public record described in Section V of this guidance;Operation, maintenance and long-term monitoring of institutional controls and engineering controls;Conducting limited site-specific activities, such as assessment or cleanup, provided such activities establish and/or enhance the response program;Purchasing environmental insurance; and Capitalizing revolving loan funds for cleanup.program. | Available until expended | Estimated 3rd quarter 2022. | |
Brownfields Projects | Cooperative Agreement | 1,200,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities/Townships, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Public Housing Authorities, Indian Housing Authorities, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status | Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. Environmental Protection Agency provides technical and financial assistance for brownfields activities that protect human health and the environment, encourage sustainable reuse, promote partnerships, strengthen local economies, and create jobs. By providing funds and technical assistance to assess, cleanup, and plan for site reuse, Environmental Protection Agency enables communities to overcome the environmental, legal, and fiscal challenges associated with brownfields properties. Environmental Protection Agency’s investments in communities across the country help local leaders eliminate uncertainties, clean up contaminated properties, and transform brownfield sites into community assets. | Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, conducting community engagement and planning at one or more brownfield sites, site assessments, site cleanup planning and direct site cleanup. | Available until expended | Additional competitive funding opportunities will be announced this Fall. | ||
Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account | Credit Assistance | 75,000,000.00 | State, local government, public utility or private primary owners of dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams, where the Federal Government is not a joint owner (pursuant to PL 116-260; Water Resources Reform and Development Act 2014, as amended; and 85 FR 39189) | Federal credit program to provide credit assistance to creditworthy borrowers for projects to maintain, upgrade and repair dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams owned by non-federal entities | All qualifying non-federal dam safety projects under the Army Corps Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account program. | Available until expended | |||
Dam Safety Program | Direct Federal Spending | 500,000,000.00 | State, Local government | Reclamation's Dam Safety Program is in place to ensure Reclamation dams do not present unreasonable risk to people, property, and the environment. | Project work at identified dams needing corrective action to reduce risk | Available until expended | Publication of Fiscal Year 2023 budget request/updates to Initial Spend Plan | ||
Forest Health Management on Federal Lands Program and Forest Health Management on Cooperative Lands Program | Direct Federal Spending and Grants Non-Federal | 100,000,000.00 | States, Tribes, And Other Federal Agencies | The Forest Health Management on Federal Lands program helps the National Forest System and other actively managed Federal lands to suppress forest insects and diseases. Forest Health Management on Federal Lands’ work includes technical assistance, suppression on non-Federal lands. The program helps State agencies create more fire-adapted communities by implementing pre-fire prevention and mitigation programs and emphasizing pre-fire planning and risk reduction in the Wildland Urban Interface. The program funds important training in safer initial attack responses to wildfire that are also effective. Additionally, the program improves capacity to assist other Federal, State, and local agencies in aiding communities affected by fire and non-fire emergencies, such as hurricanes and floods. | Conduct surveys to detect and appraise insect infestations and disease conditions;Determine the biological, chemical, and mechanical measures necessary to prevent, retard, control, or suppress incipient, potential, threatening, or emergency insect infestations and disease conditions affecting trees;Plan, organize, direct, and perform measures necessary to prevent, retard, control, or suppress incipient, potential, threatening, or emergency insect infestations and disease epidemics affecting trees;Provide technical information, advice, and related assistance on the various techniques available to maintain a healthy forest;Develop applied technology and conduct pilot tests of research results prior to the full-scale application of such technology in affected forests;Promote the implementation of appropriate silvicultural or management techniques that may improve or protect the health of the forests of the United States. | Each annual $20 million tranche has a four-year period of availability | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Orphaned Well Site Plugging, Remediation, And Restoration | Direct Federal Spending, Grants to States and Tribes, technical assistance Funding to Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission | 4,677,000,000.00 | Federal, State, Tribal | Funding to administer a program for plugging wells on Federal land, and for issuing grants to States and Tribes on State, private, and Tribal land. Grants to States are available through three separate programs:Initial Grants: Either $5 million or $25 million to each qualifying State that applies before May 14, 2022. Funding unobligated after 1 year must be returned.Formula Grants: $2 billion in total funding available to States that submitted a Notice of Intent to the Department of the Interior by December 30, 2021. The amount each State is eligible for under this program is determined by formula. Funding unobligated after 5 years must be returned.Performance Grants: $1.5 billion in discretionary grants to States that increase their own spending on well plugging, remediation, and reclamation, or improve the regulation of oil and gas wells within the State. | Inventory, site characterization, down-hole well plugging, surface remediation, removal of surface equipment, restoration of native species habitat impacted by orphaned wells and associated infrastructure, measurement and tracking of air and water pollution due to orphaned wells, identification and remediation of disproportionate health and environmental impacts of orphaned wells on communities of color, low-income communities, and Tribal and indigenous communities. | Through September 30, 2030, for individual grant programs, though overall appropriation is available until expended. | Estimated date for publication of state application guidance, March 2022. | ||
Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Preparedness | Direct federal spending, Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s) and/or Grant(s), possibly Contract(s) | 245,000,000.00 | Federal Agencies, State agencies, Counties, Cities/Townships, Tribal Governments, and Businesses | The Preparedness Program funds a range of actions that helps the Federal government prepare to respond to wildland fire. These include hiring people, training them, tracking their qualifications, and planning our wildland fire response ahead of time. It also provides for the purchasing of equipment for early wildfire detection, real-time monitoring and radios to support interoperability with interagency partners; financial assistance to local communities to purchase slip-on tanks; and increases in firefighter pay and other firefighter workforce reforms. | To increase the compensation and number of Federal wildland firefighters to build a permanent, year-round workforce; increase the Nation's preparedness to fight wildfires through satellite detection and the procurement and placement of early-warning wildfire detection and real-time monitoring equipment; improve radio interoperability; increase training of youth, including Native youth, to accelerate the pace and scale of hazardous fuels treatments; and to provide financial assistance to local governments to purchase slip-on tanker units to ready trucks for firefighting. | Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year) | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Wildfire Management - Fuels Management | Direct Federal spending, Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), and Contract(s) | 878,000,000.00 | Federal Agencies, State agencies, Tribal Governments, And Businesses | To protect vulnerable communities from wildfire while preparing our communities and natural landscapes for a changing climate, through hazardous fuels management strategies, including mechanical thinning, precommercial thinning in young stands, timber harvesting, prescribed fire, and installation of control locations such as fuel breaks. | Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year) | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | |||
Firewood Banks | Financial Assistance | 8,000,000.00 | State, Tribe, Local Government, Non-Government Organizations | Under development | Under development | Each annual $1.6 million tranche has a 4-yr period of availability | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023. | ||
Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For At-Risk Communities | Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | Private Forest Owners, Communities At Risk From Wildfire, Tribal Communities, State Forestry Agencies And Other Nonprofit Organizations | Provide grants to communities at risk from wildfire to develop or revise their community wildfire protection plans and carry out projects described within those plans. It will include a mix of formula and competitive funds. | Under development | Each annual $100m tranche has a 4-yr period of availability | Applications are expected to open early in 2023. | ||
Marine Debris | Grant | 50,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status, Nonprofits - Without 501(C)(3) Status, Small Businesses, Businesses (Other Than Small Businesses), And / Or Individuals | The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program is to investigate and prevent the adverse impacts of marine debris. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program envisions the global ocean and its coasts free from the impacts of marine debris. | Research (physical and social science, engineering, and legal) and increasing capacity and expertise through education to eliminate barriers to marine debris prevention and removal. | 2 years for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
National Estuarine Research Reserve System | Grant | 77,000,000.00 | State (Includes Public Institutions Of Higher Education And Hospitals) | The National Estuarine Research Reserve System consists of estuarine areas of the United States and its territories designated and managed for research and educational purposes, called Reserves. Each Reserve within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System is chosen to represent a different biogeographic region and to include a variety of ecosystem types in accordance with the classification scheme of the national program as specified in 15 CFR 921. | Coastal habitat restoration; coastal habitat restoration planning, engineering and design; land conservation | s for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Northern Border Regional Commission | Grant | 150,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than federally recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Public Housing Authorities, Indian Housing Authorities, Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status | The Northern Border Regional Commission catalyzes regional, collaborative, and transformative community economic development approaches that alleviate economic distress and position the region for economic growth. | Still pending final decisions, but may include: Transportation Infrastructure; Basic Public Infrastructure; Telecommunications Infrastructure; Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources | Available until expended | Estimated funds will be released in November 2022. | ||
Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund | Grant | 172,000,000.00 | States and Tribes | The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund was established by Congress in 2000 to reverse the declines of Pacific salmon and steelhead. The program supports conservation efforts in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. It is essential to preventing the extinction of the 28 listed salmon and steelhead species on the West Coast | Actions to support the recovery and protection of declining salmon stocks. | 2 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Grants For States And Tribes For Voluntary Restoration | Grant | 400,000,000.00 | State and Tribes | Grant programs to States, territories of the United States, and Indian Tribes for implementing voluntary restoration projects on private or public lands. | Funding is available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific Fiscal Years, each with a different period of availability. | ||||
Flood Mitigation Assistance Grants (National Flood Insurance Act Sec 1366) | Grant | 3,500,000,000.00 | States, local government, Tribal, territorial governments, and local communities | The Flood Mitigation Assistance program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized Tribal governments, and local communities to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures. | 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 FY 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. | Available until expended | Applications for Fiscal Year 2022 are expected to open no later than September 30th, 2022 | ||
Habitat Restoration | Grant | 491,000,000.00 | Non-Profit 501(C) Organizations, State And Territorial Government Agencies, Local Governments, Municipal Governments, Tribal Governments And Organizations, Educational Institutions, Or Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations. | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Habitat Conservation will implement the habitat restoration funds through a competitive grants process with the purpose of restoring marine, estuarine, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystem habitat as well as constructing or protecting ecological features that protect coastal communities from flooding or coastal storms. | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Habitat Conservation protects and restores habitat to sustain fisheries, recover protected species, and maintain resilient coastal ecosystems and communities. Typical projects include removing dams and other barriers, reconnecting coastal wetlands, and rebuilding coral and oyster reefs. The Office of Habitat Conservation will provide technical assistance from project conception to completion and explore ways in which this funding can be used to support underserved communities. | 2 years for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund | Grant | 492,000,000.00 | Non-Profit 501(C) Organizations, State And Territorial Government Agencies, Local Governments, Municipal Governments, Tribal Governments And Organizations, Educational Institutions, Or Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations | Established in 2018, the National Coastal Resilience Fund invests in conservation projects that restore or expand natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs, forests, coastal rivers and floodplains, and barrier islands that minimize the impacts of storms and other naturally occurring events on nearby communities. Geographically, the NCRF funds will focus on coastal areas of U.S. coastal states, including the Great Lakes states, U.S. territories, and coastal Tribal lands. The additional funding will enable NCRF to provide increased support for communities most vulnerable to climate impacts, including those who have been historically disadvantaged. | 2 years for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | |||
Pollution Prevention Grants | Grant | 100,000,000.00 | 11-Apr-22 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337918 | States, Tribes, State-Sponsored Institutions, Tribal Institutions | Grantees deliver technical assistance to businesses – including those communities with environmental justice concerns – to identify and adopt source reduction practices and technologies that benefit businesses, communities, and local economies. Pollution Prevention means reducing or eliminating pollutants from entering any waste stream or otherwise being released into the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal. | Specific technical assistance available to businesses seeking information about source reduction opportunities, including funding for experts to provide on-site technical advice to businesses and to assist in the development of source reduction plans; targeted assistance to businesses for whom lack of information is an impediment to source reduction; or training in source reduction techniques (where such training may be provided through local engineering schools or other appropriate means). | Available until expended | Available 1st quarter 2022 |
Restoration Projects Via States And Tribes | Grant | 160,000,000.00 | States, Tribes | This program is responsible for management of programs with authority to dispose of National Forest System timber and non-timber forest products harvested for commercial, personal, and Tribal uses. | Focus areas include sale preparation, contract administration, purchaser suspension and debarment, special forest products, and related authorities and programs. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Geographic Programs - Southeast New England Coastal Watershed Restoration Program | Grant | 15,000,000.00 | Broad Eligibilities | Our mission is to foster collaboration among regional partners across southeast New England's coastal watersheds to protect and restore water quality, ecological health, and diverse habitats by sharing knowledge and resources, promoting innovative approaches, and leveraging economic and environmental investments to meet the needs of current and future generations. By 2050, we envision a resilient ecosystem of safe and healthy waters, thriving watersheds and natural lands, and sustainable communities throughout southeast New England's coastal watersheds. | Ecosystem and wetland restoration, stormwater treatment and control, nature-based infrastructure, community resilience, resilient shorelines, and environmental education. | Funding opportunity availability date is TBD. | |||
Underground Injection Control Grants: Class VI wells | Grant | 50,000,000.00 | States and Tribes | The Underground Injection Control Grants fund federal, state, and Tribal government agencies that oversee underground injection activities to prevent contamination of underground sources of drinking water from fluid injection practices. The funding in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law targets funding to Class VI wells utilized for carbon sequestration. The law includes an additional $25 million to support the permitting of these wells on top of the $50 million in grant funding. | Eligible entities shall use grants to defray the expenses related to the establishment and operation of a Class VI primacy program. | Available until expended | More information forthcoming. | ||
National Geological And Geophysical Data Preservation Program | Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending | 23,668,000.00 | State Geological Surveys, State Universities Housing State Geological Surveys, Private Contractors, U.S. Geological Survey Science Centers And Other Department of Interior Bureaus | Implementation provides competitive grants to State Geological Surveys and funds projects executed by U.S. Geological Survey and other Department of the Interior bureaus, to preserve, modernize, and make publicly available, geological and geophysical data and assets. Asset | Archival of data, maps, logs, and samples; development and maintenance of a national catalog, technical and financial assistance related to archival material, and preservation of sample to track geochemical signature from critical mineral ore bodies. | 2 year | TBD | ||
Direct Federal Spending For Invasives | Grant, Direct Federal Spending | 100,000,000.00 | State and Tribes | Funding for invasive species detection, prevention, and eradication on private or public lands | Projects and programs for invasive species detection, prevention, and eradication, including conducting research and providing resources to facilitate detection of invasive species at points of entry and awarding grants for eradication of invasive species on non-Federal land and on Federal land | Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific Fiscal Years, each with a different period of availability | Estimated application opening date is TBD. | ||
National Seed Strategy | Grants - non federal | 60,000,000.00 | State, Tribe, Local Government, Non-Government Organizations | Under development | Under development | Each annual $12m tranche has a four-year period of availability | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Water & Groundwater Storage, And Conveyance | Project Funding/FA/etc. | 1,150,000,000.00 | State, Local government | Water Storage, Groundwater Storage, and Conveyance projects with existing feasibility study or construction authorization are eligible for funding. The project must be found feasible and with benefits proportionate to federal investment. Small Water Storage and Groundwater Storage Projects are defined in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as projects that have storage capacity between 2,000 acre-feet and 30,000 acre-feet and increase surface water or groundwater storage or convey water, directly or indirectly, to or from surface water or groundwater storage. Funding will be provided through a combination of internal formulation and competitive grant processes, and non-Federal project sponsors in Reclamation States, including Alaska and Hawaii are eligible. | Construction and grants | Available until expended | Program feasibility guidelines published January 14, 2022 per statute; Application period expected calendar 2022. | ||
Marine Debris | Various | 150,000,000.00 | Non-Profit 501(C) Organizations, State and Territorial Government Agencies, Local Governments, Municipal Governments, Tribal Governments and Organizations, Educational Institutions, Or Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations | The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program is to investigate and prevent the adverse impacts of marine debris. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program envisions the global ocean and its coasts free from the impacts of marine debris. | Removal and cleanup of significant legacy debris such as abandoned and derelict vessels and derelict fishing gear, as well other priority debris types, that pose a threat to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration trust resources, the economy or navigation safety. Prevention of the re-accumulation of marine debris, as well as preventing common consumer debris from entering the marine environment. Assessment of the scope, scale, and distribution of marine debris in the environment through marine debris monitoring and detection investments. | 2 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Flood and Inundation Mapping and Forecasting, Water Modeling, and Precipitation Studies | Various | 492,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status, Nonprofits. | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will transform water prediction by delivering operational, continental-scale coastal and inland flood models and mapping capabilities. These capabilities include flood forecasts and projections that will provide actionable decision support services equitably delivered to communities across the nation. | Coastal and inland flood and inundation mapping and forecasting and next-generation water modeling activities - including modernized precipitation frequency and probable maximum studies. | 4 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Ocean And Coastal Observing Systems | Various | 100,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits, internal. | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support and enhance various critical observing systems in the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. Many of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s observing systems have been operating for decades and require investment to maintain reliability as well as expand geographic coverage. | This funding will support a number of projects including refurbishments and technology upgrades of observing infrastructure in the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing Systems Regional Associations, support for the National Water Level Observation Network, design engineering for Airborne Phased Array Radar, and ship time for deployment and system verification of the new capitalized Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean moorings. | 2 years for each annual tranche | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Ocean And Coastal Observing Systems | Various | 50,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofit | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support and enhance two critical ocean observing systems. | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will modernize two critical ocean observing systems: The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array in the equatorial Pacific and the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami network. | 3 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Wildfire | Various | 50,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status | These funds will be used to support wildfire prediction, detection, observation, modeling, and forecasting. | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will procure mission-critical infrastructure, advanced operational systems, and accelerate the development and delivery of fire weather decision support tools, cloud-based software, and dissemination services. | 3 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Wildfire | Various | 50,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status, Nonp | These funds will be used to support wildfire prediction, detection, observation, modeling, and forecasting. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will also engage the broader wildland fire weather community and stakeholders through grants, workshops, and a few Fire Weather Testbed. | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will work with partners to improve weather, smoke, and fire behavior forecasts in order to give firefighters on the ground and in the air and first responders detection capabilities to keep communities safe. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide information for improved risk management and resource planning and research into the impact of fires on air quality and health in order to improve community preparation for and resilience to fire. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will also advance innovations in fire weather science through research, modeling, and testing | 2 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Soil Moisture and Snowpack Pilot Program | Various | 1,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), Tribal Governments (Other Than Federally Recognized), Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits With 501(C)(3) Status, Nonprofits - Without 501(C)(3) Status, Small Businesses, Businesses (Other Than Small Businesses), And / Or Individuals | The study of the soil moisture and snowpack monitoring network in the Upper Missouri River Basin pursuant to section 511(b)(3) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (division AA of Public Law 116–260) (see Provision 4 description). | The study of the soil moisture and snowpack monitoring network in the Upper Missouri River Basin | 2 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Commercial Driver's License Implementation Program | Grant and Cooperative Agreement | 297,500,000.00 | A State agency, local government, or any person | The CDLPI discretionary grant seeks to improve highway safety by supporting Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Programs on a State and National level. The funding assists grant partners in achieving compliance with the CDL regulations in 49 CFR Parts 383 and 384 by providing funding directly to States and other entities capable of executing National projects to aid States in their compliance efforts. | To assist the State in complying with the requirements of section 31311; to improve the State’s implementation of its commercial driver’s license program; research, development and testing, demonstration projects, public education, and other special activities and projects relating to commercial drivers licensing and motor vehicle safety | Mixture of available until expended and 4 year funding | Review & evaluate grant proposals and award funding in July 22 | ||
Cyber Response and Recovery Fund | Contract, Grant, Cooperative Agreement | 100,000,000.00 | Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial, Public, and private sector entities | This fund is a provision of the Cyber Response and Recovery Act (Section 70601 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law). It is based on a Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommendation, and at a high level, is a cyber Stafford Act which also establishes a fund (the Cyber Response and Recovery Fund) that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency can tap into in the event of a significant cyber incidents when other resources are insufficient. | Coordinate asset response activities and engage in response and recovery activities, including grants or cooperative agreements in response to significant cyber incidents. | 5 year | Funding is triggered by the Secretary’s determination of a significant incident. | ||
Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants | Grant | 2,250,000,000.00 | 16-May-22 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338032 | Public and Private Ports/Port Authorities | 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. | 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 loco- motives 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. 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.” | 10 Year | February 2022 The Department of Transportation expects to post a Notice of Funding Opportunity in February 2022. |
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program | Block and Competitive Grants | 550,000,000.00 | State/Local Government/Tribes | To assist states, local governments, and Tribes to reduce energy use, reduce fossil fuel emissions, and improve energy efficiency. | (1) Development and implementation of an energy efficiency and conservation strategy (2) retaining technical consultant services to assist the eligible entity in the development of such a strategy, including—(3) conducting residential and commercial building energy audits;(4) establishment of financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements;(5) the provision of grants to nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies for the purpose of performing energy efficiency retrofits;(6) development and implementation of energy efficiency and conservation programs for buildings and facilities within the jurisdiction of the eligible entity, including—(A)design and operation of the programs;(B)identifying the most effective methods for achieving maximum participation and efficiency rates;(C)public education;(D)measurement and verification protocols; and(E)identification of energy efficient technologies;(7) development and implementation of programs to conserve energy used in transportation, including—(A) use of flex time by employers;(B) satellite work centers;(C) development and promotion of zoning guidelines or requirements that promote energy efficient development;(D) development of infrastructure, such as bike lanes and pathways and pedestrian walkways;(E) synchronization of traffic signals; and(F) other measures that increase energy efficiency and decrease energy consumption;(8) development and implementation of building codes and inspection services to promote building energy efficiency;(9) application and implementation of energy distribution technologies that significantly increase energy efficiency, including—(A) distributed resources; and(B) district heating and cooling systems;(10) activities to increase participation and efficiency rates for material conservation programs, including source reduction, recycling, and recycled content procurement programs that lead to increases in energy efficiency;(11) the purchase and implementation of technologies to reduce, capture, and, to the maximum extent practicable, use methane and other greenhouse gases generated by landfills or similar sources;(12) replacement of traffic signals and street lighting with energy efficient lighting technologies, including—(A) light emitting diodes; and(B) any other technology of equal or greater energy efficiency;(13) development, implementation, and installation on or in any government building of the eligible entity of onsite renewable energy technology that generates electricity from renewable resources, including—(A) solar energy;(B) wind energy;(C) fuel cells; and(D) biomass;(14) programs for financing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and zero-emission transportation (and associated infrastructure), capital investments, projects, and programs, which may include loan programs and performance contracting programs, for leveraging of additional public and private sector funds, and programs that allow rebates, grants, or other incentives for the purchase and installation of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and zero-emission transportation (and associated infrastructure) measures. | Available until expended | The first funding opportunity is expected for release in the Fall of 2022. | ||
Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program | Cooperative Agreement | 2,537,000,000.00 | Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations. | To establish a carbon capture technology program for the development of 6 facilities to demonstrate transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use, including in manufacturing and industrial facilities. | Of the demonstration projects carried out — (i) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from a natural gas electric generation facility; (ii) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from a coal electric generation facility; and (iii) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from an industrial facility not purposed for electric generation. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Programs | Cooperative Agreement | 937,000,000.00 | Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations. | To establish a carbon capture technology program for the development of transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use, including in manufacturing and industrial facilities. | Pilot projects that—(A) represent the scale of technology development beyond laboratory development and bench scale testing, but not yet advanced to the point of being tested under real operational conditions at commercial scale;(B) represent the scale of technology necessary to gain the operational data needed to understand the technical and performance risks of the technology before the application of that technology at commercial scale or in commercial-scale demonstration; and(C) are large enough—(i)to validate scaling factors; and(ii)to demonstrate the interaction between major components so that control philosophies for a new process can be developed and enable the technology to advance from large-scale pilot project application to commercial-scale demonstration or application. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Energy Improvement in Rural and Remote Areas | Cooperative Agreement | 1,000,000,000.00 | Industry Partners, Utilities, National Laboratories, Universities, State and Local Governments, Community Based Organizations, Tribal, and Environmental Groups. | To provide financial assistance to increase environmental protection from the impacts of energy use and improve resilience, reliability, safety, and availability of energy in rural or remote areas of the United States. | (A) Overall cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems; (B) siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; (C) reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation by rural or remote areas; (D) providing or modernizing electric generation facilities; (E) developing microgrids; and (F) increasing energy efficiency. | Available until expended | Applications for funding are expected to be open in the Fall of 2022. | ||
Industrial Emission Demonstration Projects | Cooperative Agreement | 500,000,000.00 | Technology Developers, Industry, Manufacturers, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations. | To fund demonstration projects that test and validate technologies that reduce industrial emissions. | Industrial production processes, including technologies and processes that-(A) achieve emissions reduction in high emissions industrial materials production processes, including production processes for iron, steel, steel mill products, aluminum, cement, concrete, glass, pulp, paper, and industrial ceramics;(B) achieve emissions reduction in medium- and high-temperature heat generation; (C) achieve emissions reduction in chemical production processes, including by incorporating, if appropriate and practicable, principles, practices, and methodologies of sustainable chemistry and engineering;(D) leverage smart manufacturing technologies and principles, digital manufacturing technologies, and advanced data analytics to develop advanced technologies and practices in information, automation, monitoring, computation, sensing, modeling, and networking;(E) leverage the principles of sustainable manufacturing to minimize the potential negative environmental impacts of manufacturing while conserving energy and resources; (F) increase the energy efficiency of industrial processes | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
New Solar Research & Development | Cooperative Agreement | 20,000,000.00 | (A) An institution of higher education,(B) a National Laboratory;(C) a Federal research agency;(D) a State research agency;(E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state;(F) a Tribal energy development organization;(G) an Indian Tribe;(H) a Tribal organization;(I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization;(J) a nonprofit research organization;(K) an industrial entity;(L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and(M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L). | To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to advance new solar energy manufacturing technologies and techniques. | Solar energy manufacturing projects that—(i) increase efficiency and cost effectiveness in—(I) the manufacturing process; and(II) the use of resources, such as energy, water, and critical materials;(ii) support domestic supply chains for materials and components;(iii) identify and incorporate nonhazardous alternative materials for components and devices; | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2023 | ||
Solar Improvement Research & Development | Cooperative Agreement | 40,000,000.00 | (A) An Institution of Higher Education, (B) A National Laboratory;(C) A Federal Research Agency;(D) A State Research Agency;(E) A Research Agency Associated with A Territory or Freely Associated State;(F) a Tribal energy development organization;(G) an Indian Tribe;(H) a Tribal organization;(I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization;(J) a nonprofit research organization;(K) an industrial entity;(L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and(M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L). | To fund research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities to improve solar energy technologies. | Research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities, including—(i)awarding grants and awards, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis;(ii)performing precompetitive research and development;(iii)establishing or maintaining demonstration facilities and projects, including through stewardship of existing facilities;(iv)providing technical assistance;(v)entering into contracts and cooperative agreements;(vi)providing small business vouchers;(vii)establishing prize competitions;(viii)conducting education and outreach activities;(ix)conducting workforce development activities; and(x)conducting analyses, studies, and reports. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Wind Energy Technology Program | Cooperative Agreement | 60,000,000.00 | (A) An Institution of Higher Education, (B) A National Laboratory;(C) A Federal Research Agency;(D) A State Research Agency;(E) A Research Agency Associated with A Territory or Freely Associated State;(F) a Tribal energy development organization;(G) an Indian Tribe;(H) a Tribal organization;(I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization;(J) a nonprofit research organization;(K) an industrial entity;(L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and(M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L). | To fund research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities to improve wind energy technologies. | Research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities to improve wind energy technologies, including—(i)awarding grants and awards, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis;(ii)performing precompetitive research and development;(iii)establishing or maintaining demonstration facilities and projects, including through stewardship of existing facilities such as the National Wind Test Center;(iv)providing technical assistance;(v)entering into contracts and cooperative agreements;(vi)providing small business vouchers;(vii)establishing prize competitions;(viii)conducting education and outreach activities;(ix)conducting professional development activities; and(x)conducting analyses, studies, and reports. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative | Cooperative Agreement | 10,000,000.00 | Electric utilities, State Energy Offices, Tribes, Institutes of Higher Education, or consortium thereof | To provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity. | To be eligible for financial assistance, a project shall—(i) be designed to provide not less than 1,000 megawatts of storage capacity;(ii) be able to provide energy and capacity for use in more than 1 organized electricity market;(iii) be able to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable electricity projects located on Tribal land; and (iv) have received a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Solar Recycling Research & Development | Cooperative Agreement | 20,000,000.00 | (A) An institution of higher education,(B) a National Laboratory;(C) a Federal research agency;(D) a State research agency;(E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state;(F) a Tribal energy development organization;(G) an Indian Tribe;(H) a Tribal organization;(I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization;(J) a nonprofit research organization;(K) an industrial entity;(L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and(M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L). | To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies. | Eligible uses include -- (i) increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from solar energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters;(ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes;(iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of solar energy devices;(iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of solar energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, solar energy technologies; and(v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of photovoltaic devices. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Wind Energy Tech Recycling Research & Development | Cooperative Agreement | 40,000,000.00 | (A) An institution of higher education, (B) a National Laboratory;(C) a Federal research agency;(D) a State research agency;(E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state;(F) a Tribal energy development organization;(G) an Indian Tribe;(H) a Tribal organization;(I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization;(J) a nonprofit research organization;(K) an industrial entity;(L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and(M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L). | To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, and demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of wind energy technologies. | (i) Increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from wind energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters;(ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes;(iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of wind energy devices;(iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of wind energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, wind energy technologies; and(v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of wind energy technologies. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Program Upgrading Our Electric Grid and Ensuring Reliability and Resiliency | Cooperative Agreement or Grants | 5,000,000,000.00 | State, combination of 2 or more States; Indian Tribes; units of local government, and/or public utility commissions. | To provide federal financial assistance to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience. | To coordinate and collaborate with electric sector owners and operators—(A) to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and (B) to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience, implemented through States by public and rural electric cooperative entities on a cost-shared basis. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Long-Duration Energy Storage Demonstration Initiative and Joint Program | Cooperative Agreement or Other (TBD) | 150,000,000.00 | Tec Technology Developers, Industry, State and Local Governments, Tribal Organizations, Community Based Organizations, National Laboratories, Universities, and Utilities. | To establish a demonstration initiative composed of demonstration projects focused on the development of long-duration energy storage technologies. | Projects that --(i) demonstrate promising long-duration energy storage technologies at different scales; and(ii) help new, innovative long-duration energy storage technologies become commercially viable. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grants | Grant | 3,000,000,000.00 | (1) Institutions of higher education. (2) National Laboratories. (3) Nonprofit and for-profit private entities. (4) State and local governments. (5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through (4) | To provide grants to ensure that the United States has a viable domestic manufacturing and recycling capability to support a North American battery supply chain. | Demonstration projects, construction of commercial-scale facilities, and retrofit or retooling of existing facilities for battery component manufacturing, advanced battery manufacturing, and recycling. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Battery Materials Processing Grants | Grant | 3,000,000,000.00 | (1) Institutions of higher education. (2) National Laboratories. (3) Nonprofit and for-profit private entities. (4) State and local governments. (5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through (4) | To provide grants for battery materials processing to ensure that the United States has a viable battery materials processing industry. Funds can also be used to expand our domestic capabilities in battery manufacturing and enhance processing capacity. | Demonstration projects, construction of commercial-scale facilities, and retrofit or retooling of existing battery material processing facilities. | $600,000,000 appropriated annually for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended) | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Carbon Utilization Program | Grant | 310,140,781.00 | State / Local / Public Utility | To establish a grant program for state and local governments to procure and use products derived from captured carbon oxides. | An eligible entity shall use a grant received under this paragraph to procure and use commercial or industrial products that-- (i) use or are derived from anthropogenic carbon oxides; and (ii) demonstrate significant net reductions in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to incumbent technologies, processes, and products. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Grants | Grant | 5,000,000,000.00 | Electric Grid Operators, Electricity Storage Operators, Electricity Generators, Transmission Owners and Operators, Distribution Providers, Fuel Suppliers, States, Tribes | To make grants to eligible entities, States, and Tribes to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electric grid. | 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. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Energy Storage Demonstration Pilot Grant Program | Grant or Cooperative Agreement | 355,000,000.00 | Technology Developers, Industry, State and Local Governments, Tribal Organizations, Community Based Organizations, National Laboratories, Universities, and Utilities. | To enter into agreements to carry out 3 energy storage system demonstration projects. | (i) To improve the security of critical infrastructure and emergency response systems.(ii) To improve the reliability of transmission and distribution systems, particularly in rural areas, including high-energy cost rural areas.(iii) To optimize transmission or distribution system operation and power quality to defer or avoid costs of replacing or upgrading electric grid infrastructure, including transformers and substations.(iv) To supply energy at peak periods of demand on the electric grid or during periods of significant variation of electric grid supply.(v) To reduce peak loads of homes and businesses.(vi) To improve and advance power conversion systems.(vii) To provide ancillary services for grid stability and management.(viii) To integrate renewable energy resource production.(ix) To increase the feasibility of microgrids (grid-connected or islanded mode).(x) To enable the use of stored energy in forms other than electricity to support the natural gas system and other industrial processes.(xi) To integrate fast charging of electric vehicles.(xii) To improve energy efficiency. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Battery and Critical Mineral Recycling | Grants | 125,000,000.00 | (i) An institution of higher education;(ii) a National Laboratory;(iii) a Federal research agency;(iv) a State research agency;(v) a nonprofit organization;(vi) an industrial entity;(vii) a manufacturing entity;(viii) a private battery-collection e | To award grants for research, development, and demonstration projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of batteries. | Research, development, and demonstration to address (i) recycling activities; (ii) the development of methods to promote the design and production of batteries that take into full account and facilitate the dismantling, reuse, recovery, and recycling of battery components and materials; (iii) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of batteries; (iv) the extraction or recovery of critical minerals from batteries that are recycled; (v) the integration of increased quantities of recycled critical minerals in batteries and other products to develop markets for recycled battery materials and critical minerals; (vi) safe disposal of waste materials and components recovered during the recycling process; (vii) the protection of the health and safety of all persons involved in, or in proximity to, recycling and reprocessing activities, including communities located near recycling and materials reprocessing facilities; (viii) mitigation of environmental impacts that arise from recycling batteries, including disposal of toxic reagents and byproducts related to recycling processes; (ix) protection of data privacy associated with collected covered battery-containing products; (x) the optimization of the value of material derived from recycling batteries; and (xi) the cost-effectiveness and benefits of the reuse and recycling of batteries and critical minerals. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs | Grants | 8,000,000,000.00 | RFI from Industry - 3/29 | Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations. | To support the development of at least 4 regional clean hydrogen hubs to improve clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use. | Projects that demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of, clean hydrogen through regional clean hydrogen hubs, which are networks of clean hydrogen producers, potential clean hydrogen consumers, and connective infrastructure located in close proximity. | Available until expended | Applications for funding will open in the Summer of 2022. | |
Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program | Loan / Grant | 2,100,000,000.00 | State / Local government / Public Authority | To establish and carry out a carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program. | 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 siting concerns. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Middle Mile Grants Program | Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities/Townships and their subdivisions; Tribal governments; Native entities; Public Utility Districts; Economic Development Authorities, Regional Planning Councils; Technology and Telecommunications Companies; Electric Utilities; Electric Cooperatives,; and Nonprofits. | Establishes and funds a $1 billion program for the construction, improvement or acquisition of middle mile infrastructure. The purpose of the grant program is to expand and extend middle mile infrastructure to reduce the cost of connecting unserved and underserved areas to the internet backbone. Eligible applicants include States, political subdivisions of a State, Tribal governments, technology companies, electric utilities, utility cooperatives, public utility districts, telecommunications companies, telecommunications cooperatives, nonprofit foundations, nonprofit corporations, nonprofit institutions, nonprofit associations, regional planning councils, Native entities, or economic development authorities. | Broadband infrastructure deployment (e.g. construction) | Fiscal Years 2022-2026 | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
State Digital Equity Competitive Grant | Grant | 1,250,000,000.00 | 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 | As part of the Digital Equity Act programs, $2.75 billion was dedicated to establish three grant programs that promote digital inclusion and equity to ensure that all individuals and communities have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy. The goal of these programs is to promote the meaningful adoption and use of broadband services across the targeted populations in the Act, including low-income households, aging populations, incarcerated individuals, veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals with a language barrier, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural inhabitants. The Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program is a $1.25 billion discretionary grant program distributed vial annual grant programs over five years to implement digital equity projects. Eligible applicants include specific types of political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of a state; Tribal governments; nonprofit entities; community anchor institutions; local educational agencies; and entities that carry out workforce development programs. | Broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support, digital equity programs | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD. | ||
Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach Grants | Cooperative Agreements and/or Grants | 75,000,000.00 | States, a Unit of Local Government, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), A Native Hawaiian Organization, The Department of Hawaiian Homelands, The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, A Non-Profit Organization, Or A Public-Private Partnership | Communities across the country are burdened by pollution impacts from inefficient waste management systems. This historic investment will transform public education and outreach regarding how to reduce, reuse, and recycle right. | To award grants focused on improving material recycling, recovery, management, and reduction. To improve the effectiveness of residential and community recycling programs through public education and outreach. Funded projects should inform the public about residential or community recycling programs, provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted, increase collection rates and decrease contamination. | Available until expended | Stakeholder outreach and engagement to inform development of grant program to begin: (Estimated): 2nd quarter 2022 Funding Opportunity Availability: (Estimated) 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Infrastructure Grants | Cooperative Agreements and/or Grants | 275,000,000.00 | States (including the District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the United States, or any political subdivision of a State, Tribe, or territory), Tribes, InterTribal Consortia consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 35.504(A), Former Indian Reservations in Oklahoma (As Determined by The Secretary of The Interior), and Alaskan Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92–203. | Communities across the country are burdened by pollution impacts from inefficient waste management systems. This historic investment will transform recycling and solid waste management across the country while creating jobs. | Provide grants to implement a strategy to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure; support improvements to local post-consumer materials management and recycling programs; and assist local waste management authorities in making improvements to local waste management systems. | Available until expended | Stakeholder outreach and engagement to inform development of grant program to begin: (Estimated): 2nd quarter 2022 Funding Opportunity Availability: (Estimated) 4th quarter 2022 | ||
National Culvert Removal, Replacement, & Restoration Grant | Competitive Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | (1) A State; (2) a unit of local government; or (3) an Indian Tribe. | The Office of the Secretary's National Culvert Removal, Replacement and Restoration program provides supplemental funding for grants to a State, local government, or an Indian Tribe on a competitive basis for projects that replace, remove, and/or repair culverts or weirs. | Establish an annual competitive grant program to award grants to eligible entities for projects for the replacement, removal, and repair of culverts or weirs that—‘‘(1) would meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish; and (2) with respect to weirs, may include-- (A) infrastructure to facilitate fish passage around or over the weir; and (B) weir improvements. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Charging & Fueling Infrastructure Grants (Corridor Charging) | Competitive Grant | 1,250,000,000.00 | State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory | Deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen/propane/natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors and in communities. | Acquisition and installation of publicly accessible EV charging or alternative fueling infrastructure, operating assistance (for the first 5 years after installation), acquisition and installation of traffic control devices | 4 year | FHWA will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022. | ||
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants (Community Charging) | Competitive Grant | 1,250,000,000.00 | 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 | Program funds will be made available each fiscal year for Community Grants, to install EV 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. | Acquisition and installation of publicly accessible EV charging or alternative fueling infrastructure, operating assistance (for the first 5 years after installation), acquisition and installation of traffic control devices | 4 year | FHWA will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022. | ||
Railroad Crossing Elimination Program | Competitive Grant | 3,000,000,000.00 | -States, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions.-A political subdivision of a State.-Federally recognized Indian Tribes.-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. | To provide funds for the mitigation or elimination of hazards at railway-highway crossings. | (1) Grade separation or closure, including through the use of a bridge, embankment, tunnel, or combination thereof; (2) track relocation; (3) improvement or installation of protective devices, signals, signs, or other measures to improve safety related to a separation, closure, or track relocation project; (4) other means to improve the safety if related to the mobility of people and goods at highway-rail grade crossings (including technological solutions); (5) the planning, environmental review, and design of an eligible project type. | Available until expended | Estimated released date of Fiscal Year 22 funds is TBD | ||
Rail Vehicle Replacement Grants | Competitive Grant | 1,500,000,000.00 | State and local government authorities | Capital projects for the replacement of rail rolling stock. Not more than three new competitive awards to eligible projects may be announced each fiscal year. FTA may select projects for multi-year awards. | Capital | Year of Apportionment plus three years | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the spring of 2022 | ||
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) - Discretionary | Competitive Grant | 1,400,000,000.00 | State (or political subdivision of a State), MPO, local government, special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Tribe, Federal land management agency (applying jointly with State(s)); Different eligibilities apply for at-risk coastal infrastructure grants. | PROTECT Grants will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. | Highway, transit, and certain port projects are eligible. | 4 year | |||
Bridge Investment Program | Competitive Grant | 12,200,000,000.00 | State, metropolitan planning organization (representing an area with a population of more than 200,000), local government, special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, federal land management agency, Tribal government. | The Bridge Investment Program will support projects to improve bridge and culvert condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability. | Projects to replace, rehabilitate, preserve or protect one or more bridges on the National Bridge Inventory. Projects to replace or rehabilitate culverts to improve flood control and improve habitat connectivity for aquatic species. | 4 year | Forthcoming. | ||
Congestion Relief Program | Competitive Grant | 250,000,000.00 | State, Metropolitan Planning Organization, city or municipality | Advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to reduce congestion and the related economic and environmental costs in the most congested metropolitan areas with an urbanized area population of 1 million+. | 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. Subject to certain requirements and approval by the Secretary, provides for tolling on the Interstate System as part of a project carried out with a grant under the program | 4 year | TBD | ||
Grants for Planning, Feasibility Analysis, and Revenue Forecasting (Bridge Investment Program Set-aside) | Competitive Grant | 100,000,000.00 | State, Metropolitan Planning Organization (w/ population greater than 200,000), Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation functions, federal land management agency, Tribal government | The Bridge Investment Program will support projects to improve bridge (and culvert) condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability. | Projects to replace, rehabilitate, preserve or protect one or more bridges on the National Bridge Inventory. Projects to replace or rehabilitate culverts to improve flood control and improve habitat connectivity for aquatic species. | 4 year | TBD | ||
National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Megaprojects) | Competitive Grant | 5,000,000,000.00 | 23-May-22 | https://www.transportation.gov/grants/multimodal-project-discretionary-grant-notice-funding-opportunity | (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). | The National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program will support large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits. | 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 | Available until expended | February 2022 Selection criteria for the program will be posted on the Department of Transportation website in February 2022. |
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program | Competitive Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | Owner of an eligible facility (may partner with any of the eligible entities for a planning grant) | Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program will 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 | Grants (≥$5M) for capital construction projects, including the removal and replacement of eligible facilities. Planning grants (≤$2 million). | Available until expended | Department will issue Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov on a yet to be determined date. | ||
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program | Competitive Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | 23-May-22 | https://www.transportation.gov/grants/multimodal-project-discretionary-grant-notice-funding-opportunity | State, Regional transportation planning organizations, Local governments, Tribal governments | Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program will support projects to improve and expand the surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas to increase connectivity, improve the safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generate regional economic growth and improve quality of life. | Highway, bridge, or tunnel projects eligible under the National Highway Performance Program, Surface Transportation Block Grant Program, or the Tribal Transportation Program; highway freight project eligible under the National Highway Performance Program; highway safety improvement project; project on a publicly-owned highway or bridge improving access to certain facilities that support the economy of a rural area; integrated mobility management system, transportation demand management system, or on-demand mobility services | 4 year | TBD |
Local and Regional Project Assistance Grants (RAISE) | Competitive Grant | 7,500,000,000.00 | 4/14/2022 | https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/raise-nofo | (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). | The RAISE program 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. | 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; andany other surface transportation infrastructure project that the Secretary considers to be necessary to advance the goal of the program. | 4 year | Applications will open in the first quarter of 2022. |
State Incentives Pilot Program (Set-aside within Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects - INFRA) | Competitive Grant | 750,000,000.00 | States, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Tribal governments, special-purpose districts and port authorities with a transportation function, and local governments | INFRA awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people. | Projects that improve safety, generate economic benefits, reduce congestion, enhance resiliency, and hold the greatest promise to eliminate freight bottlenecks and improve critical freight movements. | 4 year | Applications will open in the first quarter of 2022. Learn more about how to apply here. | ||
Railroad Crossing Elimination Grants | Competitive Grant | 3,000,000,000.00 | -A State, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions.-A 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 entities described above. | To fund highway-rail or pathway-rail grade crossing improvement projects that focus on improving the safety and mobility of people and goods. | Eligible projects include: (1) a grade separation or closure, including through the use of a bridge, embankment, tunnel, or combination thereof; (2) track relocation; (3) the improvement or installation of protective devices, signals, signs, or other measures to improve safety, provided that such activities are related to a separation or relocation project described previously; (4) other means to improve the safety and mobility of people and goods at highway-rail grade crossings (including technological solutions); and (5) a group of related projects described previously that would collectively improve the mobility of people and goods. The planning, environmental review, and design of projects previously described are also eligible.an eligible project described in paragraphs (1) through (5). | Available until expended | First round of funds (Fiscal Year 2022) was released December 2021. Next round of funding (Fiscal Year 2023) to be released October 2022. | ||
Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects (INFRA) | Competitive Grant | 7,250,000,000.00 | 23-May-22 | https://www.transportation.gov/grants/multimodal-project-discretionary-grant-notice-funding-opportunity | (A) A State or a group of States.(B) A metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area (as defined by the Bureau of the Census) with a population of more than 200,000 individuals.(C) A unit of local government or a group of local governments.(D) A political subdivision of a State or local government.(E) A special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority.(F) A Federal land management agency that applies jointly with a State or group of States.(G) A Tribal government or a consortium of Tribal governments.(H) A multistate corridor organization.(I) A multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities described in this paragraph. | The Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects program, also known as “INFRA”, awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas. | Projects that improve safety, generate economic benefits, reduce congestion, enhance resiliency, and hold the greatest promise to eliminate freight bottlenecks and improve critical freight movements. | 4 year | Applications will open in the first quarter of 2022. Learn more about how to apply here. |
Safe Streets and Roads for All | Competitive Grant | 5,000,000,000.00 | (A) A metropolitan planning organization; (B) a political subdivision of a State; (C) a federally recognized Tribal government; and (D) a multijurisdictional group of entities described in any of subparagraphs (A) through (C). | The Office of the Secretary's Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant program provides supplemental funding to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets, commonly referred to as ‘‘Vision Zero’’ or ‘‘Toward Zero Deaths’’ initiatives. | The term ‘‘eligible project’’ means a project— (A) to develop a comprehensive safety action plan; (B) to conduct planning, design, and development activities for projects and strategies identified in a comprehensive safety action plan; or (C) to carry out projects and strategies identified in a comprehensive safety action plan. | Available until expended | Applications are expected to open in May 2022. | ||
Advanced Transportation Technologies & Innovative Mobility Deployment | Competitive Grants, Cooperative Agreements, other contracts | 900,000,000.00 | State or local government, a transit agency, metropolitan planning organization, or a multi-jurisdictional group or a consortia of research institutions or academic institutions.The term ‘‘multi-jurisdictional group’’ means any combination of State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning agencies, or transit agencies that has signed a written agreement to implement the advanced transportation technologies deployment initiative across jurisdictional boundaries. | The Advanced Transportation Technologies & Innovative Mobility Deployment program will make competitive grants to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies. | Grants should improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Growing State Apportionments | Grant | 2,055,665,467.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | An additional formula funding component that is then added to either the 5307 or 5311 formula funding. | Planning, Capital, Operating Assistance | Available until expended | |||
Growing States and High-Density States Formula | Grant | 1,822,948,622.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | An additional formula funding component that is then added to either the 5307 or 5311 formula funding. | Planning, Capital, Operating Assistance | Available until expended | |||
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program | Grant | 350,000,000.00 | 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 | The Wildlife Crossings Pilot program will support projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity | Projects to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions | 4 year | TBD | ||
Asset Concessions | Grant | 100,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than federally recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Public Housing Authorities, Indian Housing Authorities, Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status, Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses), and / or Individuals | TBD - New Program | An eligible entity may use amounts made available from a grant under this section for technical assistance to build the organizational capacity of the eligible entity to develop, review, or enter into an asset concession. | Available until expended | |||
High Priority Activities Program | Grant and Cooperative Agreement | 432,500,000.00 | 3/31/2022 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337816 | States, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, other political jurisdictions as necessary, and any person | The High Priority Activities grant program is a discretionary (competitive) grant program designed to provide Federal financial assistance to enhance states’ commercial vehicle safety plan activities, including commercial vehicle inspections, traffic enforcement, and outreach while supporting innovative technology development and/or new project(s) not included in the commercial vehicle safety plan that will have a positive impact on commercial vehicle safety. Other applicants, such as academia and safety associations are also eligible for these grants that improve safety. Overall this grant supports safety programs and innovative technology deployment with a goal of increasing efficiency improvements in exchanging commercial vehicle safety data. | The grant program provides financial assistance to carry out activities and projects that augment motor carrier safety which include: supporting participation in performance and registration information systems management; conducting safety data improvement projects; increasing public awareness and education on commercial vehicle safety; targeting unsafe driving in areas identified as high risk crash corridors; improving the safe and secure movement of hazardous materials; improving safe transportation of goods and persons in foreign commerce; demonstrating new technologies to improve commercial vehicle safety; and otherwise improving safety and compliance with commercial vehicle safety regulations ; and to support and maintain commercial safety information systems and networks. | Mixture of available until expended and 4-year funding | February 2022 will issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity for this program in February 2022. |
Highway Safety Research & Development | Grants, Cooperative Agreements, Contracts | 970,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than federally recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status, Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses), and / or Individuals | Research and development activities with respect to (1) highway and traffic safety systems and conditions, (2) human behavioral factors and their effect on highway and traffic safety, (3) evaluation of the effectiveness of countermeasures to increase highway and traffic safety, (4) development of technologies to detect drug impaired drivers, (5) driver education programs, State laws on highway and traffic safety; Cooperative research and evaluation to research and evaluate priority highway safety countermeasures; Collaborative research on in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving; Education campaign to reduce incidence of vehicular heatstroke of children; Grant program to develop and implement State processes for informing consumers of recalls; and Evaluation of innovative highway safety countermeasures. | TBD via Notice of Funding Opportunity | 4 year | Cooperative Grant for research on technologies for alcohol detection to prevent impaired driving via the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety in Fiscal Year 2022.Continuing funding for cooperative agreement with National Safety Council’s Road to Zero programs to support innovative and cross-cutting safety projects using the safe system approach in Fiscal Year 2022. | ||
Vehicle Safety and Behavioral Research | Grants, Cooperative Agreements, or Contracts | 548,500,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than federally recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status, Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses), and / or Individuals | To provide supplemental funding to accelerate vehicle and behavioral safety research. | Vehicle and behavioral safety | 4 year | Establish cooperative agreements with stakeholder agencies beginning in June 2022. | ||
Strategic Innovation for Revenue Collection (Set-aside) | Grants, Cooperative Agreements, other contracts | 75,000,000.00 | States, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and Local governments | Requires Department of Transportation to test the feasibility of a road usage fee and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms to help maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, through pilot projects at the State, local, and regional level. | Road usage fee and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms projects. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act | Loan | 1,250,000,000.00 | 11-Apr-22 | States (including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), localities, or other public authorities, as well as private entities undertaking projects sponsored by public authorities | The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program provides Federal credit assistance to eligible surface transportation projects. | Surface transportation projects, including highway, transit, intercity passenger rail, some types of freight rail, intermodal freight transfer facilities, and some modifications inside a port terminal, and electrification of buses, ferries, trains, and associated infrastructure. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law specifically provides new eligibility under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program for airport projects and expanded authority for transit-oriented development. | 4 year | Forthcoming. | |
Provide Financial Assistance To States, Indian Tribes, And Units Of Local Government To Establish And Operate Reverse-911 Telecommunication Systems | Grant | 30,000,000.00 | State and Tribes | Establishment of reserve-911 telecommunication systems. | Establishment of reserve-911 telecommunication systems. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (Robert T Stafford Act Section 203(i)) | Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | States, local, Tribal, and territorial governments | The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program makes federal funds available to states, U.S territories, federally recognized Tribal governments, and local communities for hazard mitigation activities. | 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. | Available until expended | Applications for Fiscal Year 2022 are expected to open no later than September 30th, 2022. | ||
Emergency Preparedness Grants | Grant | 234,125,000.00 | 4/14/22 - Applying | https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/raise-nofo | States, Counties, Territories, Tribes, Cities / Townships, Businesses (Not for Profit), Emergency Response Organizations, and Hazardous Materials Enforcement Organizations. | The Hazardous Materials Grants Program is comprised of the following grants:Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness;Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training;Hazardous Materials Instructor Training; and Supplemental Public Sector Training.Program also includes the publication of the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Guidebook and other outreach and training. | To develop, improve, and carry out emergency plans including ascertaining flow patterns of hazardous material; to decide on the need for regional hazardous material emergency response teams; to train public sector employees to respond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous material; and to train hazardous materials safety employees to become instructors to extend the reach of hazardous materials training. | Available until expended | February 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity will be issued in February 2022 with awards made in August 2022. |
Low or No Emission (Bus) Grants | Competitive Grant | 5,624,550,890.00 | 31-May-22 | https://www.transit.dot.gov/notices-funding/low-or-no-emission-and-grants-buses-and-bus-facilities-competitive-programs-fy2022 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emissions bus projects. | Capital | Year of Allocation + 3 | Notice of Funding Opportunity expected the first quarter of 2022 |
Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grants | Competitive Grant | 1,966,392,169.00 | 31-May-22 | https://www.transit.dot.gov/notices-funding/low-or-no-emission-and-grants-buses-and-bus-facilities-competitive-programs-fy2022 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. | Capital funding for purposes described above. | Year of Allocation plus three years | A Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Fiscal Year 2022 grant program is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2022. |
Capital Investment Grants | Competitive Grant | 8,000,000,000.00 | State and local government agencies, including transit agencies | This Federal Transit Administration discretionary grant program funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. Federal transit law requires transit agencies seeking Capital Investment Grants funding to complete a series of steps over several years. The law also requires projects to be rated by Federal Transit Administration at various points in the process according to statutory criteria evaluating project justification and local financial commitment. | Grants may be made under this program to State and local governmental authorities to assist in financing (1) new fixed guideway capital projects or small start projects, including the acquisition of real property, the initial acquisition of rolling stock for the system, the acquisition of rights-of-way, and relocation, for fixed guideway corridor development for projects in the advanced stages of project development or engineering; and (2) core capacity improvement projects, including the acquisition of real property, the acquisition of rights-of-way, double tracking, signalization improvements, electrification, expanding system platforms, acquisition of rolling stock associated with corridor improvements increasing capacity, construction of infill stations, and such other capacity improvement projects to increase the capacity of an existing fixed guideway system corridor by at least 10 percent. Core capacity improvement projects do not include elements to improve general station facilities or parking, or acquisition of rolling stock alone. | Year of Allocation to Project + 3 | TBD, pending full year Congressional appropriations. | ||
Pilot Program for Enhanced Mobility | Competitive Grant | 24,102,620.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than federally recognized), Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, Nonprofits - without 501(c)(3) status | Competitive program to improve coordinated access and mobility | Capital | Year of Allocation plus two years | TBD | ||
Pilot Program for Transit Oriented Development | Competitive Grant | 68,864,631.00 | State or local governmental authorities that are Federal Transit Administration grant recipients. | The Pilot Program for Transit Oriented Development Planning is a discretionary grant program that helps support Federal Transit Administration’s mission of improving public transportation for America’s communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit capital investment. | Grants may be made for site specific and comprehensive planning funded through the program must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, 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. | Available until expended | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected Spring 2022. | ||
Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants | Competitive Grant | 500,000,000.00 | (A) A State; (B) a political subdivision of a State; (C) a Tribal government; (D) a public transit agency or authority; (E) a public toll authority; (F) a metropolitan planning organization; and (G) a group of 2 or more eligible entities described in any | The Office of the Secretary's Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant program provides supplemental funding grants to rural, midsized, and large communities to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety. | In general, a Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation grant may be used to carry out a project that demonstrates at least one of the following:Coordinate Automation Connected VehiclesIntelligent, sensor-based infrastructureSystems integrationCommerce delivery and logisticsLeveraging use of innovative aviation technologySmart gridSmart technology traffic signals. | Available until expended | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the second or third quarter of 2022. | ||
National Rural Transportation Assistance Program | Cooperative Agreement | 13,743,783.00 | Nonprofits with 501(c)(30 status, Nonprofits without 501(3)(c) status, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Other public entities with capability to provide a service of national scope. | Supports state Rural Transportation Assistance Program and develops information resources, technical assistance, and training about rural public transportation. | Technical Assistance | Year of Apportionment plus two years | Not applicable. | ||
Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Projects (Less Set Aside) | Cooperative Agreement, Contract, Competitive Grant | 132,218,677.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized), Providers of Public Transportation, Private or Nonprofit organizations, Institutions of Higher Education, and Technical or Community Colleges. | Provides funding to assist innovative projects and activities that advance and sustain safe, efficient, equitable, climate-friendly public transportation. Eligible research and demonstrations under this program explore novel approaches to improve public transportation service – especially for transit-dependent individuals; advance vehicle and system technologies for safety, energy efficiency, and operational performance; use data for enhanced insights; and undertake other activities that help transit agencies meet equity, safety, climate change and transformation goals for a safer, environmentally cleaner, socially just and connected public transportation system. | Research, innovative development, deployment, demonstration, evaluation activities | Non-expiring, available until expended | TBD | ||
Low or No Emission (Bus) Grants | Grant | 5,624,550,890.00 | 5/31/2022 | https://www.transit.dot.gov/notices-funding/low-or-no-emission-and-grants-buses-and-bus-facilities-competitive-programs-fy2022 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emissions bus projects. | Capital | Year of Allocation + 3 | Notice of Funding Opportunity expected the first quarter of 2022 |
All Stations Accessibility Program | Grant | 1,750,000,000.00 | States and local government authorities. | Provides capital funding to upgrade the accessibility of legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems for people with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs. | Capital funding for purposes described above. | To be determined | Notice of Funding Opportunity expected the spring of 2022 | ||
Urbanized Area Passenger Ferry Program | Grant | 150,000,000.00 | States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized) | Competitive program for passenger ferry capital projects in urbanized areas. | Capital | Year of Allocation plus five years | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the spring of 2022. | ||
Clean School Bus Program | Grant, Rebate and Contract | 5,000,000,000.00 | Spring 2022 | State and Tribal Assistance Grants | State and Tribal Assistance Grants. The grants for the State would be limited to Met, Davies High School and the School for the Deaf | State or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations are authorized to receive grant funds. Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses, and 50 percent of the funds are authorized for alternative fuels and zero-emission school buses. Funds may be prioritized for rural or low-income communities and entities that have matching funds available. The EPA Administrator is authorized to provide funds to cover up to 100 percent of the costs for the replacement of the bus. | Available until expended | Applications for funding will be made available here later this spring. | |
State Fire Assistance | Grant, Financial Assistance, Technical Assistance | 88,000,000.00 | Community And State. Primary Partners Including National Association of State Foresters And State Forestry Agencies | Through the State Fire Assistance program, the Forest Service supports and assists State Foresters and local communities in building capacity for wildfire prevention, mitigation, control, and suppression on non-Federal lands. The program helps State agencies create more fire-adapted communities by implementing pre-fire prevention and mitigation programs and emphasizing pre-fire planning and risk reduction in the Wildland Urban Interface. The program funds important training in safer initial attack responses to wildfire that are also effective. Additionally, the program improves capacity to assist other Federal, State, and local agencies in aiding communities affected by fire and non-fire emergencies, such as hurricanes and floods | Supporting States and local communities. | Each annual $17.6 million tranche has a four-year period of availability | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Prioritization Process Pilot Program | Grant | 50,000,000.00 | States and Metropolitan Planning Organizations serving an urbanized area with a population of >200,000 | Pilot program to support data-driven approaches to planning that can be evaluated for public benefit. | The Prioritization Process Pilot Program will award grants to selected States and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to fund the development and implementation of publicly accessible, transparent prioritization processes to assess and score projects according to locally determined priorities, and to use such evaluations to inform the selection of projects to include in transportation plans. | 4 year | |||
Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Recycling And 2nd Life Apps | Cooperative Agreement | 200,000,000.00 | 31-May-22 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337968 | (1) Institutions of higher education. (2) National Laboratories. (3) Nonprofit and for-profit private entities. (4) State and local governments. (5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through (4) | To expand an existing program at Department of Energy for research, development, and demonstration of electric vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications for vehicle batteries. | (i) To conduct research, development, testing, evaluation of solutions to increase the rate and productivity of electric drive vehicle battery recycling; and(ii) for research, development, and demonstration projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the recycling and second-use of electric drive vehicle batteries. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening in the first quarter of 2022. |
Earth Mapping Resources Initiative | Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending | 320,000,000.00 | State Geological Surveys, Private Entities | To accelerate the U.S. Geological Survey mapping mission by providing integrated topographic, geologic, geochemical, and geophysical mapping; accelerating the integration and consolidation of geospatial and resource data; and providing an interpretation of both critical mineral resources still in the ground and critical mineral resources that may be reprocessed from legacy mine wastes. | Cooperative agreements or contracts for mapping and data. | Funding Available until expended for total amount, but portions of the total are allocated to specific Fiscal Years, each with a different period of availability | TBD | ||
Energy and Minerals Research Facility | Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending | 167,000,000.00 | State Academic Institutions | For design, construction and tenant build out of a facility to support energy and minerals research and associated structures, through a cooperative agreement with an academic partner. The new building will establish a center of excellence in minerals and energy science and providing opportunities for science collaboration that will leverage U.S. Geological Survey science; support the development of science, technology, engineering and mathematics talent by engaging students in U.S. Geological Survey science; and expand the diversity of the U.S. Geological Survey workforce. | For design, construction, and tenant build out of a new federally owned facility. | Available until expended | More information forthcoming. | ||
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, And Broadband Program: Broadband Loans | Direct Loan | 74,000,000.00 | Corporation; Limited Liability Company; Cooperative or Mutual Organization; A State or Local Unit of Government; Indian Tribe or Tribal Organization Individuals and Partnerships Are Not Eligible. | The Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Program) make loans and loan guarantees to finance construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide high speed broadband service in eligible rural areas. | Broadband infrastructure: broadband loans provide funding on a technology-neutral basis for financing: the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities required to provide broadband service, including facilities required for providing other services through the same facilities; the cost of leasing facilities required to provide service at the broadband Lending speed if such lease qualifies as a capital lease under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; and the acquisition of such facilities, under certain circumstances and with restrictions. For additional detail see 7 CFR 1738 | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date: TBD | ||
Distance Learning, Telemedicine, And Broadband Program: Reconnect Program | Direct Loan/Grant/Combo | 1,926,000,000.00 | Corporations; Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships; Cooperatives or Mutual Organizations; States or Local governments, including any agency, subdivision, instrumentality of political subdivision thereof; Territories or Possessions of The United States; and Indian Tribes, as defined in Section 4 Of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. §450B) | The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants, and loan-grant combinations to build infrastructure and install equipment that provides modern, reliable, high-speed Internet service in rural America. | ReConnect Program funds can be used to fund the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service capable of delivering 100 Mbps symmetrical service and the acquisition of an existing system not currently providing sufficient access to broadband service, under certain circumstances, and with restrictions. Up to five percent of the award may be used for preapplication expenses. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Temporary Water Crossing Structures | Grant | 50,000,000.00 | States, Tribes | Under development | Under development | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023. | |||
Financial Assistance To Facilities That Purchase And Process Byproducts For Ecosystem Restoration Projects | Grant | 400,000,000.00 | States, Tribes | This program is responsible for management of programs with authority to dispose of National Forest System timber and non-timber forest products harvested for commercial, personal, and Tribal uses. | Focus areas include sale preparation, contract administration, purchaser suspension and debarment, special forest products, and related authorities and programs. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators Grant Program | Competitive Grant | 16,500,000.00 | 3/31/2022 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=337812 | An entity that can train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles | The Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training grant program awards grants to a variety of educational institutions that provide commercial truck and bus driving training, including accredited public or private colleges, universities, vocational-technical schools, post-secondary educational institutions, truck driver training schools, associations, and state and local governments, including federally recognized Native American Tribal governments. | The purpose of this discretionary grant program is to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and prioritize grant applications for programs to train former members of the armed forces and eligible family members. | Mixture of available until expended and 4-year funding | February 2022 The agency will issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity in February 2022. |
Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities | Competitive Grant | 400,000,000.00 | None specified | Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities program will study and award competitive grants to reduce truck idling and emissions at ports, including through the advancement of port electrification. | Competitive grants are intended to test, evaluate, and deploy projects that reduce port-related emissions | 4 year | On hold, pending a full-year budget. | ||
Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Competitive | Competitive Grant | 45,812,610.00 | 25-May-22 | Federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages | Provides direct funding to federally recognized Indian tribes to provide public transportation service on and around Indian reservations or Tribal land in rural areas | Planning, Capital, Operating Assistance | Year of allocation plus two years | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the first quarter of 2022. | |
Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects | Competitive Grant | 275,000,000.00 | Any entity eligible to receive funding under the Tribal Transportation Program, Federal Lands Transportation Program, or Federal Lands Access Program. In addition, a State, county, or local government may apply if sponsored by an eligible Federal land management agency or Indian tribe. | The Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects program provides funding for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally-significant Federal lands transportation projects and Tribal transportation projects. | Eligible projects are projects that are on a Federal lands transportation facility, a Federal lands access facility, or a Tribal transportation facility. | 4 year | TBD | ||
Tribal High Priority Projects Program | Competitive Grant | 45,000,000.00 | Sovereign federally-recognized Tribal governments | The Tribal High Priority Projects Program provides funding to Indian Tribes or a governmental subdivision of an Indian Tribe whose annual allocation of funding received under the Tribal Transportation Program is insufficient to complete the highest priority project of the Tribe, or to any Tribe that has an emergency or disaster occur on a Tribal transportation facility that renders the facility impassible or unusable. | Highest priority projects, emergency or disaster related projects | 4 year | TBD | ||
Tribal Transportation Facility Bridge (Set-aside) | Competitive grant | 200,000,000.00 | Tribal government | The Bridge Investment Program will support projects to improve bridge (and culvert) condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability. | Projects to replace, rehabilitate, preserve or protect one or more bridges on the National Bridge Inventory. Projects to replace or rehabilitate culverts to improve flood control and improve habitat connectivity for aquatic species. | 4 year | TBD | ||
Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grants | Competitive Grant | 1,000,000,000.00 | Municipal or community-owned utilities (Not-for-Profit) | Grant funds will be made available to municipalities or community owned utilities (not including for-profit entities) to repair, rehabilitate, or replace natural gas distribution pipeline systems or portions thereof or to acquire equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities, and to avoid economic loss. | Cost to repair, rehabilitate, or replace natural gas distribution pipeline systems or portions thereof or to acquire equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities, and to avoid economic loss. | 11 Year | TBD | ||
Facilities and Equipment | Contract | 5,000,000,000.00 | Commercial Vendors | Federal Aviation Administration sustainment work and facilities replacements are for replacing Federal Aviation Administration-owned terminal and route air traffic control facilities; improvement of air route and terminal facilities; workplace safety and environmental standards compliance; Federal Aviation Administration-owned fuel storage tank replacement and management; unstaffed infrastructure sustainment; real property disposition; electrical power system sustain and support; energy maintenance and compliance; hazardous materials management and environmental cleanup; facility security risk management; mobile asset management program; and administrative expenses, including salaries and expenses, administration, and oversight. | Capital improvements for Federal Aviation Administration-owned and maintained facilities. The work will be awarded to commercial vendors on contract vehicles as well as with Federal Aviation Administration internal resources. Can be used for Terminal and En Route Staffed facilities that are directly manage air traffic control operations. Can also be used for sustainment activities at Federal Aviation Administration-owned unstaffed facilities and supporting infrastructure such as power systems, fuel storage tanks, facilities security risk management, environmental activities at Federal Aviation Administration-owned facilities, sustainment of Long-Range Radar facilities, and sustainment of mobile air traffic control facilities. Replacement of Federal Aviation Administration-owned Terminal and En Route facilities are eligible. | Available until expended | Each project has its own planning cycle and individual milestones. The overarching program millstones are the annual funding allocations and required spending plans as defined by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. | ||
Critical Material Supply Chain Research Facility | Contract | 75,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To support construction of a Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility. | (A) Further enable research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities throughout the supply chain for critical materials; and(B) Provide an integrated, rapidly reconfigurable research platform. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Land Port of Entry Modernization | Contract | 330,000,000.00 | Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses) | For furniture, fixtures, and equipment for the land ports of entry modernized with funding provided to the General Services Administration | Operations and Support - supports the costs incurred for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the organization, including, but not limited to, salaries, services, supplies, utilities, rent, travel, training, and transportation, as well as minor Procurement, Construction & Improvement projects. | 5 year | General Services Administration’s project plan is due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Land Port of Entry Modernization | Contract | 100,000,000.00 | Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses) | For land port of entry construction, modernization, and sustainment. | Procurement, Construction and Improvements - provides funding for activities involving the procurement, construction, or improvement of an asset to the point the asset is placed into operation. | 5 year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Countering Violent Extremism | Contract | 12,800,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | Acts of violence can pose a significant impact to American lives and Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments. This Program aims to conduct evidence-based research to meet the policy, operational, and public needs to improve effectiveness of public safety and violence prevention efforts implemented by federal, state, territorial, Tribal, local, and non-governmental stakeholders. | Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate ”soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. | Five Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research | Contract | 69,806,250.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program oversees activities performed under the Infrastructure Act and report to Congress on the progress of Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research program’s research and development activities. | Planning tools for special event risk assessments rating. Electromagnetic pulse and geo-magnetic disturbance resilience capabilities. Positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities. Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate “soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. Research supporting security testing capabilities relating to telecommunications equipment, industrial control systems, and open-source software. | 5 Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Cybersecurity | Contract | 14,500,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program researches, analyzes, and develops technologies to strengthen defensive cybersecurity capabilities in a spectrum of strategic technical areas to mitigate risk to the Nation’s critical infrastructure, Federal departments and agencies, as well as state, territorial, Tribal and local organizations | Research supporting security testing capabilities relating to telecommunications equipment, industrial control systems. | 5 year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Explosives Threat Assessment | Contract | 2,800,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program researches and identifies current and potential explosive threats to understand the risk posed to the United States, strengthens aviation security by bolstering the international aviation security system, improves security processes and technologies and encourages partnerships with industry. | Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate ”soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. | Five Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
First Responder Capability | Contract | 4,000,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program develops and transitions technologies, information, procedures, and concept of operations to aid first responders, emergency managers, and incident commanders as they respond to hazardous situations. It assists emergency response communities through test and assessment of technologies for usability and seeks to transition viable solutions to the commercial marketplace to help make them available across all first responder communities. | Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate ”soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. | 5 Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Network & System Security & Investment | Contract | 1,000,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program produces the technologies needed to secure information and software that resides on the networks and systems that make up the Internet. It provides analytic tools for the law enforcement community to investigate crimes committed in cyberspace. | Research supporting security testing capabilities relating to telecommunications equipment. | Five Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Physical Security | Contract | 38,800,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | Provides a layered and integrated capability to safely screen for potential threat items in unstructured crowds within soft-target venues and crowded spaces without impact to the speed of travel while maintaining individual privacy. | Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate ”soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. | Five Year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
Probabilistic Analysis of National Threats, Hazards and Risks | Contract | 13,400,000.00 | May include but not limited to: Academia/Centers of Excellence, Industry (Small Business Innovation Research), Department of Energy National Labs, and Federal Funded Research and Development Centers. | This program addresses biological, chemical and hazard knowledge gaps to inform defensive strategies that provide accurate, useful, and defensible knowledge and tools to stakeholders in time to enable risk-informed decision-making pertinent for defense against weapons of mass destruction threats to the homeland. | Public safety and violence prevention to evaluate ”soft target” security, including countering improvised explosive device events and protection of U.S. critical infrastructure. | Five year | Detailed spend plan due to Congress on February 13, 2022. | ||
High-Visibility Enforcement | Contract | 201,600,000.00 | Businesses (other than small businesses) and Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) | To carry out national traffic safety campaigns to reduce alcohol-impaired or drug-impaired driving and to increase the use of seatbelts. | N/A | 4 year | April 22, Distracted Driving; May 22, Click It or Ticket; July and August 22, Impaired Driving. | ||
Research Supercomputing | Contract, Cooperative Agreement | 80,000,000.00 | Pubic Higher-Ed Institutions, Federal Partners, Businesses | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Research and Development High Performance Computing funds will be used to provide computational resources to support and advance environmental modeling crucial for understanding critical Earth systems. | The research supercomputing plan will be prioritized across the focus areas of weather and climate model development to improve drought, flood, and wildfire prediction, detection, and forecasting. Funds will support high performance computing systems, associated storage devices, advanced data communications hardware and software engineering services, security, and necessary data center space. | 3 year | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | ||
Tribal Climate Resilience - Adaptation Planning | Contract/Compact | 86,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments - Recognized | Tribal Climate Adaptation programs provides support for climate resilient planning to help sustain Tribal ecosystems and natural and cultural resources, economies, infrastructure, human health, and safety. | Funds may be used for trainings and workshops, vulnerability and risk assessment, supplementary monitoring for climate-related decision-making, scoping efforts, adaptation planning, travel support, ocean and coastal management planning, capacity building for adaptation planning, relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place assessment, planning, and design; and internships and youth engagement. Funding is not for routine monitoring programs or research. | Available until expended | Announcement of funding opportunity, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Tribal Climate Resilience - Community Relocation | Contract/Compact | 130,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments - Recognized | Implementation of Community Relocation, Managed Retreat, or Protect-in-Place Actions to increase climate resilience. | Funds are designed to support tribes facing questions and decisions regarding managed retreat, expansion, protect-in-place, and relocation options due to threats from intensifying coastal or riverine erosion, flooding and permafrost degradation impacts, sea level rise, and other impacts. Assessment, monitoring, planning, design, and implementation (of actions identified in existing planning documents or with appropriate baseline data) are allowable. Activities should address climate change impacts which affect the viability of infrastructure and other resources at risk. Examples of planning activities can include vulnerability and risk assessments, design of expansion, protect-in-place or relocation activities; analysis of options; development of Tribal community mitigation efforts; design of emergency drills and exercises, and more. | Available until expended | Announcement of funding opportunity, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Safety of Dams, Water Sanitation, And Other Facilities | Contract/Compact | 200,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments - Recognized | The Bureau of Indian Affairs Safety of Dams aims to reduce the potential loss of human life and property damage caused by dam failure by making Bureau of Indian Affairs dams as safe as practically possible. Safety of Dams is responsible for dams on Indian land. These dams form a significant part of the water-resources infrastructure on Indian reservations. The water sanitation and safety program supports improvement and repair projects that address public health and safety compliance issues at Bureau of Indian Affairs-owned drinking water and sanitation systems. | Safety of Dams funding is planned to be used to accelerate rehabilitation activities using current prioritization methodology. Water sanitation, funds will address deferred maintenance and deficiencies identified in condition assessments, environmental health reviews and audit reports. | Available until expended | Announcement of initial project awards, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Tribal Irrigation and Power Systems | Contract/Compact | 50,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments - Recognized | The program addresses deferred maintenance needs at 17 congressionally authorized irrigation projects located on Indian reservations across the Rocky Mountain, Northwest, Southwest, Navajo and Western Regions. | Address deferred maintenance and deficiencies identified in condition assessments and audit reports. | Available until expended | Announcement of initial project awards, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Indian Water Rights Settlements | Contract/Compact/Trust Fund | 2,500,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments - Recognized | To satisfy Federal obligations under Indian water rights settlement enacted as of November 15, 2021. | Transfer to funds or accounts authorized to receive discretionary appropriations or to satisfy other obligations identified by the Secretary of the Interior, under an Indian water settlement approved and authorized by an Act of Congress before the date of enactment of this Act. | Available until expended | Allocation of funding among eligible projects, TBD | ||
Battery Labeling Guidelines | Contracts | 15,000,000.00 | Not specified | This investment will promote the safe handling of used batteries and improve battery recycling programs. Establishes a program to promote battery recycling through the development of voluntary labeling guidelines for batteries and other forms of communication materials for battery producers and consumers about the reuse and recycling of critical materials from batteries. The purposes of the program are to improve battery collection and reduce battery waste, including by identifying battery collection locations and increasing accessibility to those locations; promoting consumer education about battery collection and recycling; and reducing safety concerns relating to the improper disposal of batteries. | Fiscal Year 2022, to remain available until September 30, 2026. | ||||
Battery Recycling Best Practices | Contracts | 10,000,000.00 | Not Specified | This investment will promote the safe handling of used batteries and improve battery recycling programs. The Environmental Protection Agency will develop best practices that may be implemented by State, Tribal, and local governments with respect to the collection of batteries to be recycled in a manner that to the maximum extent practicable, is technically and economically feasible for State, Tribal, and local governments; is environmentally sound and safe for waste management workers; and optimizes the value and use of material derived from recycling of batteries. The Environmental Protection Agency will develop the best practices in coordination with State, Tribal, and local governments and relevant nongovernmental and private sector entities. | Fiscal Year 2022, to remain available until September 30, 2026. | (Estimated): Program development to begin in 2nd quarter 2022. | |||
Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program | Cooperative Agreement | 2,477,000,000.00 | Domestic Nuclear Industry Partners, National Laboratories, and Engineering and Construction firms. | To fund two large demonstrations of advanced nuclear reactors for electricity generation. | Funding for the existing advanced reactor demonstration program (DE–FOA–0002271). | Available until expended | Agreements went into effect on 2/21 and 5/21; NRC licensing of reactors TBD | ||
Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program | Cooperative Agreement | 1,000,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To establish a research, development, demonstration, commercialization, and deployment program for purposes of commercialization to improve the efficiency, increase the durability, and reduce the cost of producing clean hydrogen using electrolyzers. | (1) To demonstrate technologies that produce clean hydrogen using electrolyzers; and (2) to validate information on the cost, efficiency, durability, and feasibility of commercial deployment. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot Program | Cooperative Agreement | 50,000,000.00 | Non-Profit Organizations | To provide grants to supply nonprofit buildings with energy-efficiency materials. | 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). | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023. | ||
Front-End Engineering and Design Program Out Activities Under Carbon Capture Tech Program 962 Of EPA (Sec 40303) | Cooperative Agreement | 100,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | Expands the Department of Energy’s Carbon Capture Technology program to include a program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure necessary to deploy Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage technologies. | (A) Research and development; (B) large-scale pilot projects; (C) demonstration projects; (D) a front-end engineering and design program; and(E) front-end engineering and design program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure necessary to enable deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Geothermal Research & Development | Cooperative Agreement | 84,000,000.00 | National Labs, Institutes of Higher Education, Multi-institutional Collaborations, | To support a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for enhanced geothermal systems. | Eligible uses include -- (1) reservoir stimulation;(2) drilled, non-stimulated (e.g. closed-loop) reservoir technologies;(3) reservoir characterization, monitoring, and modeling and understanding of the surface area and volume of fractures;(4) stress and fracture mapping including real time monitoring and modeling;(5) tracer development;(6) three and four-dimensional seismic imaging and tomography;(7) well placement and orientation;(8) long-term reservoir management;(9) drilling technologies, methods, and tools;(10) improved exploration tools;(11) zonal isolation; and(12) understanding induced seismicity risks from reservoir engineering and stimulation. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Hydropower Research, Development, and Demonstration | Cooperative Agreement | 36,000,000.00 | Industry partners and National Labs | To fund research, development, and demonstration activities to improve hydropower technologies. | Technologies that improve the capacity, efficiency, resilience, security, reliability, affordability, and environmental impact, including potential cumulative environmental impacts, of hydropower systems | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date in 2022. | ||
Marine Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration | Cooperative Agreement | 70,400,000.00 | Industry Partner and National Labs | To fund research, development, and demonstration activities to improve marine energy technologies. | (1) Assist technology development to improve the components, processes, and systems used for power generation from marine energy resources at a variety of scales;(2) establish and expand critical testing infrastructure and facilities necessary to— (A) demonstrate and prove marine energy devices at a range of scales in a manner that is cost-effective and efficient; and(B)accelerate the technological readiness and commercial application of such devices; (3) address marine energy resource variability issues, including through the application of energy storage technologies; (4) advance efficient and reliable integration of marine energy with the electric grid, which may include smart building systems; (5) identify and study critical short-term and long-term needs to maintaining a sustainable marine energy supply chain based in the United States; (6) increase the reliability, security, and resilience of marine energy technologies; (7) validate the performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost of marine energy device designs and system components in an operating environment; (8) consider the protection of critical infrastructure, such as adequate separation between marine energy devices and submarine telecommunications cables, including through the development of voluntary, consensus-based standards for such purposes; (9) identify opportunities for crosscutting research, development, and demonstration programs between existing energy research programs; (10) identify and improve, in conjunction with the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and other relevant Federal agencies as appropriate, the environmental impact, including potential cumulative environmental impacts, of marine energy technologies, including— (A) potential impacts on fisheries and other marine resources; and (B) developing technologies, including mechanisms for self-evaluation, and other means available for improving environmental impact, including potential cumulative environmental impacts; (11) identify, in consultation with relevant Federal agencies, potential navigational impacts of marine energy technologies and strategies to prevent possible adverse impacts, in addition to opportunities for marine energy systems to aid the United States Coast Guard, such as remote sensing for coastal border security; (12) develop numerical and physical tools, including models and monitoring technologies, to assist industry in device and system design, installation, operation, and maintenance, including methods to validate such tools; (13) support materials science as it relates to marine energy technology, such as the development of corrosive-resistant materials; (14) improve marine energy resource forecasting and general understanding of aquatic system behavior, including turbulence and extreme conditions; (15) develop metrics and voluntary, consensus-based standards, in coordination with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and appropriate standard development organizations, for marine energy components, systems, and projects, including—(A)measuring performance of marine energy technologies; and (B) characterizing environmental conditions; (16) enhance integration with hybrid energy systems, including desalination; (17) identify opportunities to integrate marine energy technologies into new and existing infrastructure; and (18) to develop technology necessary to support the use of marine energy— (A) for the generation and storage of power at sea; and (B) for the generation and storage of power to promote the resilience of coastal communities, including in applications relating to— (i) desalination; (ii) disaster recovery and resilience; and (iii) community microgrids in isolated power systems. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date is TBD 2022. | ||
National Marine Energy Centers | Cooperative Agreement | 40,000,000.00 | Institutions of Higher Education | To provide grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment of new National Marine Energy Centers and the continuation and expansion of the research, development, demonstration, testing, and commercial application activities at the existing Centers. | (1) Advance research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of marine energy technologies in response to industry and commercial needs; (2) support in-water testing and demonstration of marine energy technologies, including facilities capable of testing— (A) marine energy systems of various technology readiness levels and scales; (B) a variety of technologies in multiple test berths at a single location; (C) arrays of technology devices; and (D) interconnectivity to an electrical grid, including microgrids; and (3) collect and disseminate information on best practices in all areas relating to developing and managing marine energy resources and energy systems. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date is TBD 2022. | ||
Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land | Cooperative Agreement | 500,000,000.00 | Industry Partner, Project Developers | To establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land. | (A) Solar. (B) Micro-grids. (C) Geothermal. (D) Direct air capture. (E) Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration. (F) Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and compressed air storage. (G) Advanced nuclear technologies. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2023. | ||
Activities Under Cybersecurity For The Energy Sector Research, Development, And Demonstration Program | Cooperative Agreement /Contract / Lab Calls | 250,000,000.00 | Utilities, National Labs, Manufacturers and Vendors | To support development and deployment of advanced cyber applications, technologies, and threat collaboration efforts with the U.S. energy sector. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | |||
Public Transportation Technical Assistance and Workforce Development | Cooperative Agreement or Interagency Agreement | 61,978,167.00 | National nonprofit organizations | Provides funding to support workforce development and transition, including in relation to zero-emission fleet conversion, and other technical assistance to support transit providers in enhancing safe, efficient, equitable and climate-friendly public transportation. Additionally, the program supports the development of standards for the public transportation industry. | Workforce development, technical assistance and standards development | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Low or No Emission Vehicle Component Assessment Program | Cooperative Agreement, Contract, Grant | 26,169,974.00 | Qualified "institutions of higher education” | The Federal Transit Administration will provide funds to two qualified institutions of higher education to conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission components intended for use in low- and zero emission buses used to provide public transportation. The Low and No-Emission Component Assessment Program (LoNO-CAP) is intended to test items that are separately installed in and removable from a low or no emission transit bus. | To conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission vehicle and to conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission. Vehicle components, and new and emerging technology components, intended for use in low or no emission vehicles; and to conduct directed technology research, as well as operations, maintenance, testing, and evaluation. | To be determined. | Funding allocations to be announced in Spring 2022. | ||
Civil Nuclear Credit Program | Credit allocation | 6,000,000,000.00 | Certified nuclear reactors | To establish a civil nuclear credit program for reactors that compete in a competitive electricity market. | For nuclear reactors that are projected to cease operations due to economic factors. | FY 2022 - 2026 | TBD | ||
Major Rehabilitation for Rivers and Harbors | Direct Federal | 1,500,000,000.00 | In partnership with port authorities, the Army Corps would use this funding to construct authorized coastal navigation projects such as deepening and widening of federal navigation channels. | Funds the construction of authorized coastal navigation projects at ports and harbors, such as deepening and widening of federal navigation channels. | Federal commercial navigation projects on coastal harbors | Available until expended | The Corps of Engineers will be issuing multiple contract awards during Fiscal Year 2022 | ||
Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Projects | Direct Federal | 1,900,000,000.00 | In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments the Corps would use funding to construct federally authorized aquatic ecosystem restoration projects. | This program funds the construction of authorized water resources projects to increase aquatic ecosystem restoration, including $1 billion for multi-purpose projects or programs that include aquatic ecosystem restoration as a purpose. | Authorized federal aquatic ecosystem restoration projects and programs. | Available until expended | The Army Corps will be issuing multiple contract awards during Fiscal Year 2022. | ||
Section 118 Of Water Resources Development Act of 2020 | Direct Federal | 30,000,000.00 | In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps would use funding to carryout feasibility studies | Pilot program to carry out feasibility studies for flood risk management and hurricane and storm damage risk reduction projects that incorporate natural features or nature-based features for rural communities and economically disadvantaged communities | All eligible parties requiring work for the qualifying infrastructure | Available until expended | The Army Corps will develop a spend plan allocating these funds in Fiscal Year 2023. | ||
To Complete Or Initiate And Complete Studies That Were Authorized Prior To The Date Of This Act | Direct Federal | 45,000,000.00 | In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps of Engineers would use funding to conduct feasibility studies of potential future water resources projects and design and engineering work for eligible water resources projects. | Funds studies to determine the engineering, econ feasibility of potential solutions to water and related land resources problems as well as preconstruction engineering and design | Authorized studies and pre-construction engineering and design work of authorized projects. | Available until expended | Ongoing | ||
Water-Related Environmental Infrastructure Assistance | Direct Federal | 200,000,000.00 | In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Corps would use funding to construct federally authorized environmental infrastructure projects. | The program funds engineering and construction of authorized environmental infrastructure projects which provides safe water supply, waste disposal and pollution control to cities and towns to protect human health and safeguard the environment | Authorized environmental infrastructure projects | Available until expended | The Army Corps will be issuing multiple contract awards during Fiscal Year 2022. | ||
Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Burned Area Rehabilitation | Direct federal spending, Interagency Agreement(s), Cooperative Agreement(s), Contract(s) | 325,000,000.00 | Federal Agencies, Tribal Governments, and Businesses | To mitigate the damaging effects of wildfires and set landscapes on a path towards natural recovery and climate resilience through post-fire restoration and rehabilitation activities. | Funding available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year) | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022. | |||
Hydroelectric Production Incentives | Direct Subsidy | 125,000,000.00 | Non-Federal Owners of Qualified Hydroelectric Facilities | To provide incentives for the operation of hydroelectric facilities. | Incentives for hydroelectric facilities added to an existing dam or conduit which Department of Energy determines is eligible. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2022 | ||
Tribal Transportation Facility Bridges (Bridge Formula Funding Set-Aside) | Distributed through the Tribal Transportation Program | 825,000,000.00 | Tribes | The Bridge Formula Program sets aside 3% of the funds appropriated for the program for Tribal transportation facility bridges, which shall be administered as if made available under the Tribal Transportation Program | Funds can be used to plan, design, engineer, or construct bridges; to replace and rehabilitate bridges; and to improve bridges in poor condition. | 4 year | TBD | ||
Purchase of Power and Transmission Services | Federal Expenditure at Discretion of Western Area Power Administration Administrator | 500,000,000.00 | Power Generation and Wheeling Providers | For the Western Area Power Administration to purchase power and transmission services. | To purchase power and transmission services, recover purchase power and wheeling services, and transfer to the Colorado River Basins Power Marketing Fund. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Multi-Benefit Projects To Improve Watershed Health | Financial Assistance | 100,000,000.00 | Open | Implementation of this new authority for funding of Multi-benefit Habitat projects to improve watershed health is currently under development. This funding will be allocated to projects that support habitat restoration and watershed health in basins impac | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, May 2022. | |||
Water Desalination Projects | Financial Assistance | 250,000,000.00 | Open | Water desalination projects support desalination of ocean or brackish water. | Water desalination projects | Available until expended | Funding opportunity posted January 14, 2022 to grants.gov, closes March 15, 2022. | ||
Watershed Management Projects | Financial Assistance | 100,000,000.00 | Open - must meet funding opportunity criteria | Watershed management includes water conservation and efficiency projects that increase reliability for ecological value, improvements to mitigate drought-related impacts to ecological values, and projects that improve the condition of a natural feature or nature-based feature. | Watershed management activities that include water conservation and efficiency projects that increase reliability for ecological value, improvements to mitigate drought-related impacts to ecological values, and projects that improve the condition of a natural feature or nature-based feature. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, January 2022. | ||
Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities | Formula Grant | 912,000,000.00 | Eligible ferry operations | The Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities program provides funding for ferry services which are important links in the network of Federal-aid highways, and in many cases, are the only reasonable form of transportation. | Replace or acquire new ferry boats; replace propulsion systems with newer cleaner and more energy-efficient power plants; update navigational control systems; construct new terminals; improve access for the disabled; and replace and construct new docking facilities. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Formula | Formula Grant | 183,250,437.00 | Federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages | Provides direct funding to federally recognized Indian tribes to provide public transportation service on and around Indian reservations or Tribal land in rural areas | Planning, Capital, Operating Assistance | Year of Apportionment plus two years | Formula funds are apportioned after appropriations are received. | ||
Tribal Transportation Program | Formula Grant Formula | 2,966,800,000.00 | Sovereign federally-recognized Tribal governments | The Tribal Transportation Program supports projects to provide safe and adequate multimodal transportation and public road access to and within Indian reservations, Tribal lands, and Alaska Native Village communities. | Projects that support transportation safety, access, and mobility in Tribal communities. | 4 year | Fiscal Year 2022 funds will be released with guidance on eligible uses of funds in the coming months. | ||
Good Neighbor Agreements with States and Tribes | Good Neighbor Agreements | 40,000,000.00 | As Above | Program for State and Tribes to implement restoration projects on Federal lands pursuant to "Good Neighbor Agreements" | Restoration projects on Federal lands | Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific Fiscal Years, each with a different period of availability | |||
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program | Grant | 2,000,000,000.00 | Tribal Governments, Tribal organizations, Tribal Colleges or Universities, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands on behalf of the Native Hawaiian Community, and Alaska Native Corporations. | The Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program provides grants for broadband infrastructure deployment; affordable broadband programs; distance learning, telehealth, digital inclusion efforts; and broadband adoption activities. The program was initially authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division N, Title IX, Section 905, Public Law 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides an additional $2 billion to the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. | Planning (e.g. feasibility), broadband infrastructure deployment (e.g. construction), broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support, digital skills training (e.g. science, technology, engineering, arts and math, Workforce Development), Devices/equipment (e.g. laptops, hotspots), public connectivity/computer access, research and/or evaluation, data and/or mapping, smart communities/cities/regions, telehealth | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grants | Grant | 750,000,000.00 | Manufacturing firm—(A) the gross annual sales of which are less than $100,000,000;(B) that has fewer than 500 employees at the plant site of the manufacturing firm; and(C) the annual energy bills of which total more than $100,000 but less than $2,500,000. | To provide grants to small- and medium-sized manufacturers to enable them to build new or retrofit existing manufacturing and industrial facilities to produce or recycle advanced energy products in communities where coal mines or coal power plants have closed. | To re-equip, expand, or establish a manufacturing or recycling facility for the production or recycling of advanced energy technologies (including clean electricity, industrial decarbonization, clean transportation, clean fuels, etc.); or to re-equip an industrial of manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of that facility. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Building, Training, And Assessment Centers | Grant | 10,000,000.00 | Institutions of Higher Education | To provide grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies. | (1) To identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance in buildings; (2) to promote the application of emerging concepts and technologies in commercial and institutional buildings; (3) to train engineers, architects, building scientists, building energy permitting and enforcement officials, and building technicians in energy-efficient design and operation; (4) to assist institutions of higher education and Tribal Colleges or Universities in training building technicians; (5) to promote research and development for the use of alternative energy sources and distributed generation to supply heat and power for buildings, particularly energy-intensive buildings; and (6) to coordinate with and assist State-accredited technical training centers, community colleges, Tribal Colleges or Universities, and local offices of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and ensure appropriate services are provided under this section to each region of the United States. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Career Skills Training | Grant | 10,000,000.00 | Non-Profit Partnerships | To provide grants to pay the Federal share of career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient building technologies. | To pay the Federal share of associated career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient buildings technologies. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023 | ||
Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, And Alternatives | Grant | 600,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercialization to develop alternatives to critical materials, to promote their efficient production and use, and ensure a long-term secure and sustainable supply of them. | (A) Alternative materials, particularly materials available in abundance within the United States and not subject to potential supply restrictions, that lessen the need for critical materials;(B) alternative energy technologies or alternative designs of existing energy technologies(C) technologies or process improvements that minimize the use and content, or lead to more efficient use, of critical materials across the full supply chain;(D) innovative technologies and practices to diversify commercially viable and sustainable domestic sources of critical materials(E) technologies, process improvements, or design optimizations that facilitate the recycling of critical materials(F) advanced critical material extraction, production, separation, alloying, or processing technologies that decrease the energy consumption, environmental impact, and costs of those activities(G) commercial markets, advanced storage methods, energy applications, and other beneficial uses of critical materials; and(H) advanced theoretical, computational, and experimental tools necessary to support the crosscutting research and development needs of diverse critical minerals stakeholders. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Deployment of Technologies to Enhance Grid Flexibility | Grant | 3,000,000,000.00 | Utilities | Funding and expansion of eligible activities under the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program established under section 1306 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. | Qualifying Smart Grid investments including for installation, that allow buildings to engage in demand flexibility or Smart Grid functions. | $600,000,000 appropriated annually for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended) | Applications for the Smart Grid program are expected to be open by the end of 2022. | ||
Grants for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements at Public School Facilities | Grant | 500,000,000.00 | Consortium of One Local Education Agency and one or more Schools, Non-Profits, For-Profits, and Community Partners | To provide competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools. | Energy efficiency (envelope, HVAC, lighting, controls, etc.), ventilation, renewable energy, alternative vehicles, and alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure improvements. | Available until expended | The opportunity to apply for funding is expected to be open in the Fall of 2022. | ||
Industrial Research and Assessment Center Implementation Grants | Grant | 400,000,000.00 | Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers | To fund upgrades for small- and medium-sized manufacturers that have been recommended in an assessment from an Industrial Assessment Center or Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership. | For eligible small- and medium-sized manufacturers to (i) improve energy efficiency; material efficiency; cybersecurity; or productivity; or reduce waste production; greenhouse gas emissions; or non-greenhouse gas pollution. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Industrial Research and Assessment Centers | Grant | 150,000,000.00 | Institutions of Higher Education, Community College, Trade School, Or Union Training Program | To provide funding for institutions of higher education-based industrial research and assessment centers to identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance at manufacturing and other industrial facilities. | To provide in-depth assessments of small- and medium-sized manufacturer plant sites to evaluate the facilities, services, and manufacturing operations of the plant sites; to identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance, including implementation of— (i) smart manufacturing; (ii) energy management systems; (iii) sustainable manufacturing; (iv) information technology advancements for supply chain analysis, logistics, system monitoring, industrial and manufacturing processes, and other purposes; and (v) waste management systems; to promote applications of emerging concepts and technologies in small- and medium-sized manufacturers (including water and wastewater treatment facilities and federally owned manufacturing facilities); to promote research and development for the use of alternative energy sources to supply heat, power, and new feedstocks for energy-intensive industries; to coordinate with appropriate Federal and State research offices; to provide a clearinghouse for industrial process and energy efficiency technical assistance resources; and to coordinate with State-accredited technical training centers and community colleges, while ensuring appropriate services to all regions of the United States. | Available until expended | Applications for funding are expected to be open by the end of 2022. | ||
Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility | Grant | 140,000,000.00 | 31-Mar-22 | https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338067 | Industry Partner | To demonstrate the feasibility of a full-scale integrated rare earth element extraction and separation facility and refinery. | The facility established shall-- (A) provide environmental benefits through use of feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, mine waste, or other deleterious material; (B) separate mixed rare earth oxides into pure oxides of each rare earth element; (C) refine rare earth oxides into rare earth metals; and (D) provide for separation of rare earth oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a single site. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 |
Rare Earth Security Activities | Grant | 127,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To conduct a program of research and development to improve the security of rare earth elements. | (A) Development and assessment of advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal and coal byproducts; and(B) Determine if there are, and mitigate, any potential environmental or public health impacts that could arise from the recovery of rare earth elements from coal-based resources. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023 | ||
Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program | Grant | 500,000,000.00 | TBD | The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, establishes an Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program that makes federal funding available to support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies. | Capital | To be determined | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the spring of 2022. | ||
Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program | Grant | 250,000,000.00 | TBD | The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, establishes an Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program that makes federal funding available to support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies. | Capital | To be determined | A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the spring of 2022. | ||
Highway Research & Development Program | Grant | 310,000,000.00 | Varies. | The Highway Research and Development Program performs research and development to produce transformative solutions to improve safety, foster innovation, accelerate projects, and better meet operations, policy, and infrastructure needs. | The programs under the Federal Highway Administration’s research and development portfolio cover exploratory advanced research, applied research and development, and initial testing of technological solutions that address emerging needs and support the infrastructure of the future. Federal Highway Administration’s research programs seek to improve safety, reduce congestion, enhance infrastructure design and construction, and provide data and analyses to decision-makers throughout the transportation community. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
WaterSMART Grants | Grant | 400,000,000.00 | Open - meet criteria for Grant Opportunity | This funding will be used for competitive grants through WaterSMART under the authority of Sec. 9504(a) of the SECURE Water Act for water management improvements that contribute to water supply sustainability, increase drought resilience, and that have environmental benefits. | Grant projects that support water management improvements that contribute to water supply sustainability, increase drought resilience, and that have environmental benefits | Available until expended | Estimated application opening dates in March, April and May of 2022 for three distinct opportunities under this authority | ||
Rural And Municipal Utility Advances Cybersecurity Grant And Technical Assistance Program | Grant / Cooperative Agreement / Contract | 250,000,000.00 | Rural Electric Cooperatives, Municipally-Owned Electric Utilities, Other State-Owned Utilities, Small Investor-Owned Utilities | To provide grants and technical assistance to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. | (1) To deploy advanced cybersecurity technologies for electric utility systems; and (2) to increase the participation of eligible entities in cybersecurity threat information sharing programs. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement Training & Support Grant Program | Grant and Cooperative Agreement | 25,000,000.00 | Non-profit organization with expertise in conducting training for non-Feds and the ability to reach and involve a target population of CMV safety enforcement employees | The purpose of this new discretionary grant is to train non-Feds who conduct CMV enforcement activities and to develop related training materials. | The purpose is to train non-Feds who conduct CMV enforcement activities and to develop related training materials. | Available until expended | February 2022A Notice of Funding Opportunity for the program will be released in February 2022. | ||
Carbon Storage Validation and Testing | Grant or Cooperative Agreement | 2,500,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To establish a program of research, development, and demonstration for carbon storage. | Development of new or expanded commercial large-scale carbon sequestration projects and associated carbon dioxide transport infrastructure, including funding for the feasibility, site characterization, permitting, and construction stages of project development. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Four Regional Clean Direct Air Capture Hubs | Grant or Cooperative Agreement | 3,500,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | To establish a program under which the Secretary shall provide funding for eligible projects that contribute to the development of 4 regional direct air capture hubs. | A regional direct air capture hub that-- (i) facilitates the deployment of direct air capture projects; (ii) has the capacity to capture and sequester, utilize, or sequester and utilize at least 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually from a single unit or multiple interconnected units; (iii) demonstrates the capture, processing, delivery, and sequestration or end-use of captured carbon; and (iv) could be developed into a regional or interregional carbon network to facilitate sequestration or carbon utilization. | $700,000,000 annually for the period of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended) | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Technical Assistance and Workforce Development Grants | Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Contract | 27,545,852.00 | National nonprofit organizations that have the appropriate demonstrated capacity to provide public transportation-related technical assistance; providers of public transportation; standards development organizations; workforce development entities, Tribal organizations. | The goals and objectives for Technical Assistance and Workforce Development projects vary according to the type of project. Eligible activities include: Technical assistance and Standards to more effectively and efficiently provide public transportation service; administer funds received under 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53 in compliance with federal law; and improve public transportation; address Human Resources needs, provide Training; support Innovative Public Transportation Frontline Workforce Development; and operate a National Transit Institute.Technical Assistance can support compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; compliance with human services transportation coordination requirements; meeting the transportation needs of elderly individuals; increasing transit ridership with Metropolitan Planning Organizations; addressing transportation equity; facilitating best practices to promote bus driver safety; meeting the requirements 5323(j) (Buy America) and 5323(m) (Pre and Post-Award Audits); assisting with the development and deployment of low or no emission vehicles; and any other technical assistance activities the Secretary of Transportation determines is necessary to advance the interests of public transportation. Standards programs and projects include developing voluntary and consensus-based standards and best practices by the public transportation industry, including standards and best practices for safety, fare collection, Intelligent Transportation Systems, accessibility, procurement, security, asset management to maintain a state of good repair, operations, maintenance, vehicle propulsion, communications, and vehicle electronics. Human Resources and Training programs may include: 1) Employment training programs; (2) Outreach to specific under-represented populations in the workforce; (3) Research on public transportation personnel and training needs; (4) Training and assistance for veteran and minority business opportunities; and (5) Consensus-based national training standards and certifications in partnership with industry stakeholders.The Innovative Public Transportation Frontline Workforce Development Program focuses on: (1) developing apprenticeships, on-the job training, and instructional training for public transportation maintenance and operations occupations; (2) building local, regional, and statewide public transportation training partnerships with local public transportation operators, labor union organizations, workforce development boards, and State workforce agencies to identify and address workforce skill gaps; (3) improving safety, security, and emergency preparedness in local public transportation systems through improved safety culture and workforce communication with first responders and the riding public; and (4) addressing current or projected workforce shortages by developing partnerships with high schools, community colleges, and other community organizations. The National Transit Institute will develop and conduct training and educational programs for Federal, State, and local transportation employees, United States citizens and foreign nationals engaged or to be engaged in public transportation work. | Technical assistance, standards, workforce development, and training activities. | Available until expended | |||
Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration And Protection Projects | Grant, Direct Federal Spending | 250,000,000.00 | Open | The Aquatic Ecosystem restoration program is a new program currently under development. This funding will support projects that design, study and construct aquatic ecosystem restoration and protection projects to improve habitat, including restoration, pa | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | |||
Ecosystem - Fish Passage | Grant, Direct Federal Spending | 200,000,000.00 | Open | For the removal of barriers and for technical assistance under the National Fish Passage Program. The National Fish Passage Program is an existing program that relies on a network of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists and engineers stationed throughout the country, | Funds will be distributed through a combination of competitive contracts, Tribal grants and other grants, and co-operative agreements. | Available until expended | |||
Research And Development Via Joint Fire Science Program Partnership With Department Of Interior | Grant, facilitated through interagency agreement with Department of Interior (Bureau of Land Management). | 10,000,000.00 | Institutions Of Higher Education | The Joint Fire Science Program funds scientific research on wildland fires and distributes results to help policymakers, fire managers and practitioners make decisions. | Uses are determined by the Department of the Interior | Each annual $2 million tranche has a five-year period of availability | Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. | ||
Water Recycling | Grant, Financial Assistance | 1,000,000,000.00 | Open | Projects that reclaim and/or reuse municipal, industrial, and agricultural wastewater; or impaired ground and surface waters. Large Scale Water Recycling Program is defined in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as projects that reclaim and reuse municipal, industrial, domestic, or agricultural wastewater; or impaired groundwater or surface water with a total project cost of $500 million or more and located in a Reclamation state. | Water recycling and reuse projects and large water reuse projects in Reclamation states | Available until expended | Funding opportunities posted January 14, 2022 to grants.gov, closes March 15, 2022, additional program criteria for large projects to follow during 2022. | ||
Bioproduct Pilot Program | Grants - Non-Federal | 10,000,000.00 | Bioproduct Research Facilities That: A) Is Funded in Part by A State; B) Is Located Within 3 Miles from Residence Halls of An Institution of Higher Education; C) Provides Opportunities for Student Involvement in Research; D) Collaborates with An Institution of Higher Education. | Determine the economic, social, and environmental benefits of using materials derived from agricultural commodities (bioproducts) in the development and manufacturing of construction or consumer products. | Bioproduct research facilities that: a) is funded in part by a State; b) is located within 3 miles from residence halls of an institution of higher education; c) provides opportunities for student involvement in research; d) collaborates with an institution of higher education. | Available until expended - $5 million in 2022 and $5 million in 2023 | |||
Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing Recycling | Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements, and any other agreements authorized under this Act or other Federal law | 500,000,000.00 | 29-Mar-22 | https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaIda1255029-22c4-4c18-9e90-356e92cbb795 | Industry Partner | To provide federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques. | (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. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 |
Hydroelectric Incentives | Incentive Payments | 553,600,000.00 | Non-Federal owners of qualified hydroelectric facilities | To make incentive payments to the owners or operators of qualified hydroelectric facilities for capital improvements. | (1) Improving grid resiliency;(2) improving dam safety to ensure acceptable performance under all loading conditions (including static, hydrologic, and seismic conditions); and (3) environmental improvements. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Indian Health Service Sanitation Facilities Construction Program | Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Agreements, Direct Federal Spending | 3,500,000,000.00 | Federally recognized Tribal governments. | is the environmental engineering component of the Indian Health Service health delivery system. To support the Indian Health Service mission, the Sanitation Facilities Construction Program provides technical and financial assistance to American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages for the cooperative development and construction of safe drinking water supply, sewage, and solid waste disposal facilities, and related support facilities. | Available until expended | ||||
Advanced Energy Security Program | Interagency Agreement with Commerce, National Laboratory funding | 50,000,000.00 | Utilities, National Labs, Bulk Power System Vendors | To increase the functional preservation of electric grid operations or natural gas and oil operations in the face of threats and hazards. | (A) Develop capabilities to identify vulnerabilities and critical components that pose major risks to grid security if destroyed or impaired;(B) provide modeling at the national level to predict impacts from natural or human-made events;(C) add physical security to the cybersecurity maturity model;(D) conduct exercises and assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities to the electric grid, including providing mitigation recommendations;(E) conduct research on hardening solutions for critical components of the electric grid;(F) conduct research on mitigation and recovery solutions for critical components of the electric grid; and(G) provide technical assistance to States and other entities for standards and risk analysis. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Wildfire Management - Joint Fire Science Program | Interagency agreements, cooperative agreements | 10,000,000.00 | Science And Research Organizations/Entities, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions | Support science and research on wildland fire management issues that mitigate wildfire risk. | Priority research to better understand wildfire risk and inform land practitioners on critical wildland fire management issues. | Funding Available until expended (but portions made available by fiscal year) | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. | ||
Transmission Facilitation Program | Loan, Direct Financing, or Capacity Purchase | 2,500,000,000.00 | Transmission Developers | To facilitate the construction of electric power transmission lines and related facilities to enable greater clean energy growth and provide low-cost clean energy to more Americans. | To facilitate eligible projects, the Secretary may-- (A) enter into a capacity contract with respect to an eligible project with the objective of reselling that capacity once the financial viability of the project has been established; (B) issue a loan to an eligible entity for the costs of carrying out an eligible project; or (C) participate with an eligible entity in designing, developing, constructing, operating, maintaining, or owning an eligible project. | Available until expended | TBD | ||
Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyber Resilience Program | National Laboratory Funding | 50,000,000.00 | Small Electric Utilities, National Labs | To support a program to build energy sector operational support for cyber resilience. | Enhance and periodically test--the emergency response capabilities of the Department; and the coordination of the Department with other agencies, the National Laboratories, and private industry;Expand cooperation of the Department with the intelligence community for energy sector-related threat collection and analysis;Enhance the tools of the Department and Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center for monitoring the status of the energy sector;Expand industry participation in Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center; and Provide technical assistance to small electric utilities for purposes of assessing and improving cyber maturity levels and addressing gaps identified in the assessment. | Available until expended | Applications for the Smart Grid program are expected to be open in the Summer of 2022. | ||
National Driver Register | Notice of Funding Opportunity and Competitive Contracts | 36,000,000.00 | Businesses (other than small businesses) and Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) | The NDR maintains the Problem Driver Pointer System (PDPS), a computerized database containing information on individuals whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been revoked, suspended, canceled or denied or who have been convicted of serious traffic-related offenses. | The purpose is to cover the NDR and PDPS operational costs. | 4 year | Continued operations of the NDR and PDPS in Fiscal Year 2022. | ||
Commercial Direct Air Capture Technology Prize Competition | Prize | 100,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | Reauthorization of program to support large-scale pilot projects and demonstration projects and test carbon capture technologies. | Projects that demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions released from coal electric generation facilities and natural gas electric generation facilities for commercial deployment. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022 | ||
Lithium-Ion Recycling Prize | Prize | 10,000,000.00 | Prize dependent | To provide a prize for recycling of lithium ion batteries and convene a task force on battery producer requirements. | (i) To increase the number of winners of Phase III of the prize competition; (ii) to increase the amount awarded to each winner of Phase III of the competition; and (iii) to carry out any other activity that is consistent with the goals of Phase III of the competition, as determined by the Secretary. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Pre-Commercial Direct Air Capture Prize Competitions | Prize | 15,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | Reauthorization of program to advance research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of carbon capture technologies. | Projects that demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions released from coal electric generation facilities and natural gas electric generation facilities for commercial deployment. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, TBD | ||
Energy Efficient Transformer Rebates | Rebate/Grant | 10,000,000.00 | Owners of industrial or manufacturing facilities, commercial buildings, or multifamily residential buildings, a utility, or an energy service company that purchase a qualified transformer to replace an energy-inefficient transformer | To provide rebates to industrial or manufacturing facility owners, commercial building owners, multifamily building owners, utilities, or energy service companies for the replacement of a qualified energy inefficient transformer with a qualified energy efficient transformer. | Rebate for the replacement of a qualified energy inefficient transformer with a qualified energy efficient transformer. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Extended Product System Rebates | Rebate/Grant | 10,000,000.00 | Purchaser of the qualified extended product system or manufacturer of commercial or industrial machinery or equipment that incorporates the qualified extended product system | To provide rebates for qualified extended product systems (i.e., electric motor, electronic control, and driven load). | Rebate for expenditures made by qualified entities for the purchase or installation of a qualified extended product system. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022 | ||
Aging Infrastructure Account | Spend Plan/Application | 3,200,000,000.00 | Transferred Works Operators and Reserved works Project beneficiaries (districts, power customers, cost share partners) | The Aging Infrastructure/XM authority is used to fund extraordinary maintenance work on Reclamation project facilities. | Repair, rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructure assets for reserved or transferred works | Available until expended | First Application period opened December 17, 2021, closes January 31, 2022. | ||
Affordable Connectivity Program | Subsidies provided directly to internet service providers to apply to consumers' monthly internet bill | 14,200,000,000.00 | Internet Service Providers (Who Then Apply the Benefit to Consumers' Monthly Bills) | The Affordable Connectivity Program is a Federal Communications Commission benefit program that helps ensure that low-income households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more. | The Affordable Connectivity Program helps low income households afford home broadband service by providing up to a $30 monthly benefit on a household's monthly internet bill. For low-income households on Tribal lands the benefit is up to $75. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if the household contributes more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price. The Affordable Connectivity Program is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household. | Available until expended | The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on: How best to structure a grant program focused on outreach to households eligible to participate in the Affordable Connectivity Plan; Whether to launch a potential pilot program focused on increasing the awareness and enrollment in the Affordable Connectivity Program of eligible households participating in Federal Public Housing Assistance Programs; and Establishment of a mechanism by which a participating provider in a high-cost area may receive an enhanced benefit of up to $75 per month for broadband service. | ||
Funding to Support Orphan Well Plugging | TBD | 30,000,000.00 | Industry Partner | Funding to support the Department of Interior’s effort to establish a program to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells located on Federal land. | The Department is working through a number of options to use these funds to conduct scientific research on methane emissions and other hazards associated with orphan oil and gas wells. | Available until expended | More information will be released Spring of 2022. | ||
Watershed Rehabilitation Program | Technical and Financial Assistance | 118,000,000.00 | Local Sponsor or Legal Subdivision of State or Tribal Government. Eligible Sponsors Include Cities, Counties, Towns, Conservation Districts, Or Any Federally-Recognized Native American Tribe or Tribal Organization. | Provides planning, design and construction for Department of Agriculture assisted dams to extend their service life and meet current safety requirements. | Rehabilitate high hazard watershed dams previously installed under the following four authorities: PL 83-566, PL 78-534, RC&D, Pilot Program. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2022 | ||
Emergency Watershed Protection Program | Technical and Financial Assistance | 300,000,000.00 | Local sponsor representing owners, managers, and users of public, private, or Tribal lands are eligible for Emergency Watershed Protection Assistance if their watershed area has been damaged by a natural disaster. | Provides for design and construction of measures to help repair damages from a recent disaster to safeguard life and property. | Reduce threats to life or property by repairing severe soil erosion and impairments or restoring the hydraulic capacity to the natural environment in an economically/environmentally defensible & technically sound manner. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2022. | ||
Watershed And Flood Prevention Operations | Technical and Financial Assistance | 500,000,000.00 | Local Sponsor Or Legal Subdivision Of State Or Tribal Government. Eligible Sponsors Include Cities, Counties, Towns, Conservation Districts, Or Any Federally-Recognized Native American Tribe Or Tribal Organization. | Provides planning, design and construction of measures that address resource concerns in a watershed. | Flood Prevention, Watershed Protection, Public Recreation, Public Fish and Wildlife, Agricultural Water Management, Municipal and Industrial Water Supply, or Water Quality Management. | Available until expended | Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2022. | ||
Affordable Connectivity Program - Outreach Grants | The Federal Communications Commission may provide grants to outreach partners to educate consumers about the Affordable Connectivity Program | 0.00 | TBD, Pending Rulemaking | To help inform and educate consumers about the Affordable Connectivity Program, the Commission may provide grants to outreach partners. | Available until expended |