This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for Federal Highway Administration’s Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Program Grants.
Donor Name: Federal Highway Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/18/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Details:
The purpose of the PROTECT Formula and Discretionary Grant programs is to plan for and strengthen surface transportation to be more resilient to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters through formula and competitive discretionary grants.
The vision of the PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program is to fund projects that address the climate crisis by improving the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Projects selected under this program should be grounded in the best available scientific understanding of climate change risks, impacts, and vulnerabilities. They should support the continued operation or rapid recovery of crucial local, regional, or national surface transportation facilities.
By funding projects that improve resilience to natural hazards and climate change impacts, the PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program aims to reduce damage and disruption to the transportation system, improve the safety of the traveling public, and improve equity by addressing the needs of disadvantaged communities that are often the most vulnerable to hazards. FHWA will seek to award projects to communities that demonstrate a strong need for the funding; the program includes set asides for rural communities and Indian Tribes.
There are four categories of funding under the PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program.
- Planning Grants: Up to $45 million
- Resilience Improvement Grants: Up to $638 million
- Community Resilience and Evacuation Route Grants: Up to $45 million
- At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure Grants: Up to $120 million
Funding Information
- For FY 2022 and FY 2023, up to $848 million is available for PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program awards under this notice.
- For FY 2022 and FY 2023 PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program Planning Grants, FHWA requests applications for a minimum award size of $100,000 and no maximum award size. For FY 2022 and FY 2023 PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program Resilience Improvement, Community Resilience and Evacuation Routes, and At-Risk Coast Infrastructure grants FHWA requests applications for a minimum award size of $500,000 and no maximum award size.
Eligibility Criteria
Planning Grants, Resilience Improvement Grants, and Community Resilience and Evacuation Route Grants have the same statutory rules for all applicants eligible to apply. At-Risk Coastal Grants have different statutory rules for applicant eligibility.
Planning Grants, Resilience Improvement Grants, and Community Resilience and Evacuation Route Grants
- A State or political subdivision of a State. (State includes the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)
- An MPO.
- A unit of local government.
- A special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority.
- An Indian Tribe (as defined in 23 U.S.C. § 207(m)(1)).
- A Federal land management agency that applies jointly with a State or group of States.
- A multi-State or multijurisdictional group of entities described in (1) through (6).
At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure Grants
- A State (including the U.S. Territories Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) in, or bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes.
- A political subdivision of a State described in (1.) above.
- An MPO in a State described in (1.) above.
- A unit of local government in a State described in (1.) above.
- A special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority, in a State described in (1.) above.
- An Indian Tribe in a State described in (1.) above.
- A Federal land management agency that applies jointly with a State or group of States described in (1.) above.
- A multi-State or multijurisdictional group of entities described in (1.) through (7.) above.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
