The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is seeking applications for its Municipal Harbor Facility Grants Program.
Donor Name: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
State: Alaska
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $5 million
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The State of Alaska is blessed with one of the finest public harbors systems in the country. The magnificent coastline and bountiful marine resources make the harbors vitally important to Alaskans and their communities.
To provide financial assistance to municipal or regional housing authority owned harbor facilities, the Alaska Legislature passed landmark legislation in 2006 establishing a new 50/50 matching grant program called the Harbor Facility Grants Program. This grant program will go a long way towards recapitalizing local government’s harbor infrastructure and furthering the sustainability of Alaska’s public harbor system.
The Harbor Facility Grant Program provides financial assistance in the form of a 50/50 matching grant to municipally or regional housing authority owned small boat harbor facilities in the State of Alaska. The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities administers the Harbor Facility Grant Program. Port or barge facilities are not eligible for the grant program.
This grant program is funded on an annual basis at the discretion of the Alaska Legislature and consists of two tiers, Tier I and II.
- The first tier has priority and consists of “Major Maintenance and Repair” of a harbor facility that was previously owned by the state and now is municipally or regional housing authority owned. A harbor facility may only receive one Tier I grant regardless of if it is for all or only a portion of that harbor facility. The boundaries of a Tier I harbor facility will be based on the Department’s 1995 Alaska Harbor Directory or as determined by the Department. Once a Tier I eligible harbor facility receives a Tier I grant, the status of that harbor facility changes from Tier I to Tier II henceforth. After all eligible Tier I projects have been selected, the Department will consider Tier II projects
- The second tier consists of all other municipally or regional housing authority owned harbor facilities, including construction of a new harbor facility. Harbor facilities which have already received a Tier I grant can only compete for Tier II grants. Tier II grants may comprise “New Construction, Expansion, or Major Maintenance and Repair” of a harbor facility. A harbor facility is eligible for multiple Tier II grants.
Funding Information
- Minimum Award per Grant: $50,000
- Maximum Award per Grant: $5,000,000
- Grant Period: 18 months.
Eligible Items
Eligible harbor facility items of work are:
- Approach structures
- Pilings and anchors
- Access ramps and gangways
- Float systems for permanent and transient moorage
- Floating breakwaters
- Utility systems integral to the float systems (specifically power, lights, fresh water, sewage pump out, and fire protection)
- Launch ramps
- Seaplane floats
- Portable or trailer mounted equipment for firefighting, sewage pump out, oily bilge water, etc
- Other appurtenances necessary for the basic operation of the harbor facility
- Third party contracts for construction management and inspection services.
For more information, visit ADTPF.
