The Office of the Secretary of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation is currently accepting applications for Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Program.
Donor Name: Office of the Under Secretary for Policy
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/21/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $3.1 billion
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) program is an existing competitive program that will see a more than 50 percent increase in this year’s funding due to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These grants advance the Administration’s priorities of rebuilding America’s infrastructure and creating jobs by funding highway, multimodal freight and rail projects that position America to win the 21st century. Projects will improve safety, generate economic benefits, reduce congestion, enhance resiliency, and hold the greatest promise to eliminate supply chain bottlenecks and improve critical freight movements. Last year, DOT received over $27 billion in application requests, but could only fund around $1.5 billion of projects.
Objectives
Invest in surface transportation infrastructure projects of national or regional significance and improve/expand infrastructure in rural areas; Support projects that are consistent with the Department’s strategic goals: improve safety, economic strength and global competitiveness, equity, and climate and sustainability.
Funding Information
- The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides approximately $8 billion for INFRA over 5 years, of which approximately $3.1 billion will be made available through this NOFO
- The project is reasonably expected to begin construction not later than 18 months after the date of obligation of funds for the project.
Eligible Project Types
- A highway freight project on the National Highway Freight Network
- A highway or bridge project on the National Highway System
- A freight intermodal, freight rail, or freight project within the boundaries of a public or private freight rail, water (including ports), or intermodal facility and that is a surface transportation infrastructure project necessary to facilitate direct intermodal interchange, transfer, or access into or out of the facility
- A highway-railway grade crossing or grade separation project
- A wildlife crossing project
- A surface transportation project within the boundaries or functionally connected to an international border crossing that improves a facility owned by Fed/State/local government and increases throughput efficiency
- A project for a marine highway corridor that is functionally connected to the NHFN and is likely to reduce road mobile source emissions
- A highway, bridge, or freight project on the National Multimodal Freight Network.
Eligible Project Costs
- Development phase activities, including planning, feasibility analysis, revenue forecasting, environmental review, preliminary engineering, design, and other preconstruction activities, provided the project meets statutory requirements
- Construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or acquisition of property (including land related to the project and improvements to the land), environmental mitigation (including a project to replace or rehabilitate a culvert, or to reduce stormwater runoff for the purpose of improving habitat for aquatic species), construction contingencies, equipment acquisition, and operational improvements directly related to system performance
- INFRA grant recipients may use INFRA funds to pay for the subsidy and administrative costs necessary to receive TIFIA credit assistance.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants for INFRA grants are:
- a State or group of States;
- 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;
- a unit of local government or group of local governments;
- a political subdivision of a State or local government;
- a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority;
- a Federal land management agency that applies jointly with a State or group of States;
- a Tribal government or a consortium of Tribal governments;
- a multistate corridor organization; or
- a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities described in this paragraph. With regards to INFRA grants, “State” includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico (Otherwise eligible entities located in or serving U.S. Territories are eligible.)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
