The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is accepting applications for its Transportation Alternative Program (TAP) to preserve, upgrade or create new roads, bridges, and trails outside the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Anchorage & Fairbanks) boundaries.
Donor Name: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
State: Alaska
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2022
Grant Size: $5,000,000
Details:
The Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program provides funding for a variety of generally smaller-scale transportation projects such as pedestrian and bicycle facilities; construction of turnouts, overlooks, and viewing areas; community improvements such as historic preservation and vegetation management; environmental mitigation related to stormwater and habitat connectivity; recreational trails; safe routes to school projects; and vulnerable road user safety assessments.
Funding Information
TAP projects are limited to two project submittals per community with a not-to-exceed federal share amount of $5,000,000.
Eligible Projects
- Example TAP projects may include:
- On-road and off-road facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists; safe routes for non-drivers (formerly Safe Routes to School); convert abandoned railroad corridors for trails for non-motorized transportation users; create turnouts, scenic overlooks and viewing areas; support historic preservation and rehabilitation; support environmental mitigation related to storm water and habitat connectivity; and, vulnerable road user safety assessments.
Eligibility Criteria
Under 23 U.S.C. 133(h)(4)(A), as amended by the BIL, the entities eligible to receive TA Set-Aside funds are:
- A local government. Local government entities include any unit of local government below a State government agency, except for an MPO representing an urbanized area with a population over 200,000. Examples include city, town, township, village, borough, parish, or county agencies.
- A regional transportation authority. Regional transportation authorities are considered the same as the Regional Transportation Planning Organizations defined in the statewide planning section (23 U.S.C. 135(m)).
- A transit agency. Transit agencies include any agency responsible for public transportation that is eligible for funds as determined by the Federal Transit Administration.
- A natural resource or public land agency. Natural resource or public land agencies include any Federal, Tribal, State, or local agency responsible for natural resources or public land administration. Examples include:
- State or local park or forest agencies.
- State or local fish and game or wildlife agencies.
- Department of the Interior land management agencies.
- U.S. Forest Service.
- A school district, local education agency, or school. School districts, local education agencies, or schools may include any public or nonprofit private school. Projects should benefit the general public and not only a private entity.
- A Tribal government.
- A metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area with a population of 200,000 or fewer. MPOs representing urbanized areas over 200,000 population are not eligible entities.
- A nonprofit entity. The BIL removed the requirement that the nonprofit entity be responsible for the administration of local transportation safety programs.
- Any other local or regional governmental entity with responsibility for or oversight of transportation or recreational trails (other than a metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area with a population of over 200,000 or a State agency) that the State determines to be eligible, consistent with the goals of 23 U.S.C. 133(h).
- A State, at the request of an eligible entity listed above.
For more information, visit Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.
