Rubber-Modified Asphalt Grant Program (Kentucky)

The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking grant applications from the county or metro-government entities for local road projects that utilize rubber-modified asphalt, which uses rubber from finely ground waste tires

Donor Name: Commonwealth of Kentucky

State: Kentucky

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/01/2022

Details:

The cabinet is accepting grant proposals for projects that will promote and assess the benefits of using recycled Kentucky waste tires in rubber-modified asphalt for chip seal and thin asphalt overlay projects. Rubber-modified asphalt involves amending standard asphalt with crumb rubber derived from recycled waste tires. Chip-seal is a pavement surface treatment that combines one or more layers of liquid asphalt with one or more layers of fine aggregate, while a thin asphalt overlay consists of a new layer of asphalt applied over an existing asphalt surface. The thickness of an overlay for the purposes of this project should not exceed 1.5 inches.

Grant Conditions

Project documentation will include a Construction Completion Report, a Progress Report, and a Final Progress Report documenting the condition of the road over five years. Reports will include a narrative description of road conditions, photographs, and any other relevant information.
Grantees will conduct no additional maintenance or repairs on either section during the five-year monitoring period. If at any point repairs are deemed necessary for public safety, the county will contact the cabinet to receive written approval for maintenance over any unsafe sections.
The cabinet will fund only the costs associated with the installation of rubber-modified asphalt section of road, plus any associated testing and documentation performed by the cabinet or a third-party contractor.
The cabinet reserves the right to modify the scope of any project or otherwise add conditions to the awarded project grant.
The cabinet must approve the rubber-modified asphalt materials, contractor, and pavement specifications prior to the grantee entering into purchase agreements.
The applicant must follow state or federal chip seal or thin asphalt overlay specifications in a manner agreed upon with the cabinet.
The applicant must submit an itemized cost estimate with the application.
The County will allow access to the finished project for inspection, testing, and placement of signage by the cabinet.
The cabinet reserves the right to alter or suspend the grant program to accommodate other programmatic needs or initiatives.
Failure to comply with reporting requirements may result in the grantee being required to reimburse the cabinet for all funds received, and ineligibility for future EEC grants.
Any change to the proposed project, after the grant is awarded, must be approved by the cabinet in writing before the change is made.
If a county or urban county government is out of compliance with its Solid Waste Management Plan, that county or urban county government is ineligible to receive this grant.
No contractor, subcontractor, consultant, vendor, or supplier, or any employee or representative thereof, shall be an employee of the applicant.
Funding for this grant is dependent upon the availability of funding, not otherwise obligated, in the waste tire trust fund established in KRS 224.50-880. This is a competitive grant and the cabinet expects to receive applications for many more projects than it is able to fund.