The CHBP Grant Program is a discretionary grant program that provides funding towards highway bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads that demonstrate cost savings by bundling at multiple highway bridge projects.
Donor Name: Department of Transportation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/13/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Competitive Highway Bridge Program is designed to provide grants to States that have a population density of less than 115 individuals per square mile and less than 26 percent of total bridges classified as in good condition or greater than or equal to 5.2 percent of total bridges classified in poor condition for highway bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads that demonstrate cost savings by bundling multiple highway bridge projects.
Eligible phases of work must include construction however an application may also include environmental clearance, preliminary engineering, and/or final design.
The goals of the CHBP are:
- State of Good Repair: To minimize public agency costs that are needed to keep the bridges in service over their lifecycle while maintaining the bridges in Good and Fair condition.
- Mobility: To minimize highway user impacts, including pedestrian and bicyclist, over the lifecycle of the bridges, from substandard geometry, inadequate accommodation, or service interruptions from extreme weather, geologic events, or other hazards.
- Safety: To maintain or improve highway user safety, including pedestrian and bicyclist.
- Innovation: To reduce costs and achieve other efficiencies in project delivery, including construction, through bundling.
- Climate Change and Environment: To mitigate environmental impacts, including climate change and environmental justice impacts, caused by the existing bridges and/or avoid and minimize environmental impacts associated with construction and the final constructed project over the lifecycle of the bridges.
- Equity and Workforce: To support or address equity, barriers to opportunity, and job creation, during project delivery including construction, and from the final constructed project.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $250,000,000
- Award Floor: $32,500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are the States of Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. States that are eligible to receive no less than $32.5 million include Iowa, Maine, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
