Infrastructure Law Grants
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program ($195M)
Oct 13 2022
- Description: The Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program will restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development.
- Eligible Applicants: State; local government; tribal government; metropolitan planning organization; nonprofit organizations are eligible for “Planning Grants” under the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program. Any of the above listed entity may partner with the owner of the eligible transportation facility to apply for capital construction grant funding.
- Application Deadline: October 13, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Middle Mile Grant Program ($980M)
Sep 30 2022
- Description: NTIA will make grants through this five year funding (FY2022 – 2026) on a technology-neutral, competitive basis to 7 eligible entities for the construction, improvement, or acquisition of middle mile infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: A State, political subdivision of a State, Tribal government, technology company, electric utility, utility cooperative, public utility district, telecommunications company, telecommunications cooperative, nonprofit foundation, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit institution, nonprofit association, regional planning council, Native entity, or economic development authority; or a partnership of any two or more of these.
- Application Deadline: September 30, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
All Stations Accessibility Program (343M)
Sep 20 2022
- Description: he Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for $343 million in competitive grants under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP). As required by Federal public transportation law, funds will be awarded competitively to eligible designated recipients that operate or allocate funds to inaccessible pre-ADA—or “legacy” — rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, and States (including territories and Washington, D.C.) and local governmental entities that operate or financially support legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems and corresponding legacy stations/facilities for capital projects to repair, improve, modify, retrofit, or relocate infrastructure of stations or facilities for passenger use, including load-bearing members that are an essential part of the structural frame; or (2) for planning projects to develop or modify a plan for pursuing public transportation accessibility projects, assessments of accessibility, or assessments of planned modifications to stations or facilities for passenger use projects; or programs of projects in an eligible area.
- Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients that operate or allocate funds to inaccessible pre-ADA rail fixed guideway transportation systems, state and local governments
- Application Deadline: September 20, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Safe Streets and Roads for All ($1B)
Sep 15 2022
- Description: This program will provide funding directly to local and tribal governments to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets, especially for cyclists and pedestrians, commonly referred to as “Vision Zero” or “Towards Zero Deaths” initiatives.
- Eligible Applicants: Metropolitan planning organization; political subdivision of a state; tribal government; multijurisdictional group of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: September 15, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This new competitive grant program will assist state, local, federal, and tribal entities in rehabilitating or replacing bridges, including culverts. Large projects and bundling of smaller bridge projects will be eligible for funding. This funding is in addition to $27.5 billion directed to states for bridge repair and construction provided through the Bridge Formula Program, of which Virginia will receive approximately $537 million.
- Eligible Applicants: State or group of states; 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; unit of local government or group of local governments; political subdivision of a state or local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities.
- Application Deadline: August 9, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: Local government, tribal governments, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Application Deadline: August 8, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or learn more about the opportunity, CLICK HERE
Rural Energy Pilot Program (10M)
Jul 19 2022
- Description: The Rural Energy Pilot Program (REPP) grant offers financial assistance for rural communities to further develop renewable energy.
- Eligible Applicants: State and Local Entities, Tribes
- Application Deadline: July 18, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program
Jul 18 2022
- Description: NTIA issues this NOFO to describe the requirements under which it will award grants for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program (Program), authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, The BEAD Program provides new federal funding for NTIA to grant to all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (States), as well as American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands (Territories), and in certain circumstances political subdivisions of these States and Territories, for broadband planning, deployment, mapping, equity, and adoption activities. Funding is distributed primarily based on the relative number of “unserved” locations (i.e., broadband-serviceable locations that lack access to Reliable Broadband Service at speeds of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream and latency levels low enough to support real-time, interactive applications) in each State and Territory. Each State is eligible to receive a minimum of $100,000,000 and each Territory is eligible to receive a minimum of $25,000,000. See Section I of this NOFO for the full Program Description.
- Eligible Applicants: TBDApplication Deadline: July 18, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
State Digital Equity Planning Grants ($53.4M)
Jul 12 2022
- Description: Under the State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information (Assistant Secretary) will award grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (the States) for the purpose of developing State Digital Equity Plans. Through these Plans, each State will, among other things, identify barriers to digital equity in the State and strategies for overcoming those barriers. Further, U.S. territories and possessions (other than Puerto Rico), Indian Tribes, Alaska Native entities, and Native Hawaiian organizations may also seek grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to develop their own digital equity plans and, in the case of Tribal entities, to provide input into the digital equity plans of the States in which they are located.
- Eligible Applicants: State Entities
- Application Deadline: July 12, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Funding Opportunity Announcement ($3.1B)
Jul 01 2022
- Description: The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) are issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Funding Opportunity Announcement. The FOA supports the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL) goals of delivering more clean energy, create new, good-paying jobs and lowering costs for American families and workers by guiding the Nation towards a one hundred percent carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero economy by 2050.
- Eligible Applicants: Unrestricted
- Application Deadline: July 1, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the opportunity to apply for approximately $1.5 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 discretionary grants under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). FAA will award these annually appropriated discretionary funds through the FAA's long-standing iterative, competitive grant process. Prior to the publication of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the FAA identified eligible applicants in its National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) and compiled potentially eligible projects through the 3-year Airports Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP). Both of these processes are described in FAA Order 5090.5, Formulation of NPIAS and ACIP that authorizes discretionary funds. The AIP funds airport capital improvements and rehabilitation projects. All discretionary grant funding is subject to appropriations, statutory requirements, and related program funding availability.
- Eligible Applicants: State and local government entities.
- Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: Unrestricted Eligablity
- Application Deadline: June 16, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or learn more about the opportunity, CLICK HERE
- Description: This program provides competitive funding to states and direct recipients to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, including technological changes or innovations to modify low- or no-emission vehicles or facilities.
- Eligible Applicants: Designated recipients that allocate funds to fixed route bus operators, states or local governmental entities that operate fixed route bus service, and Indian tribes. Eligible subrecipients include all otherwise eligible applicants and private nonprofit organizations engaged in public transportation.
- Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: IIJA expands this competitive program which provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low- emission transit buses as well as acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
- Eligible Applicants: State; Local government; Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function; tribal government.
- Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: The National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program will support large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.
- Eligible Applicants: a State or group of States; metropolitan planning organization; local government; political subdivision of a State; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function including a port authority; tribal government; a partnership between Amtrak and another entity listed above; and any group of entities listed above.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply or funding or learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: The Nationally Significant Freight & Highway Projects program, also known as “INFRA”, awards competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas.
- Eligible Applicants: State or group of states; 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; unit of local government or group of local governments; political subdivision of a state or local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program ($2B)
May 23 2022
- Description: This new competitive grant program will improve and expand surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas, increasing connectivity, improving safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generating regional economic growth.
- Eligible Applicants: State; regional transportation planning organization; a unit of local government; tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments; multijurisdictional group of entities.
- Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply or funding or learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Port Infrastructure Development Program ($2.25B)
May 16 2022
- Description: IIJA increases investment in America’s coastal ports and inland waterways, helping to improve the supply chain and enhancing the resilience of our shipping industry. IIJA overall doubles the level of investment in port infrastructure and waterways, helping strengthen our supply chain and reduce pollution. The Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) is a discretionary grant program administered by the U.S. Maritime Administration. Funds for the PIDP are awarded on a competitive basis to projects that improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port.
- Eligible Applicants: State, political subdivision of a State or a local government; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more states; special purpose district with a transportation function; Federally recognized Indian Tribes or a consortium of Indian Tribes; a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities that are separately eligible; One of the aforementioned entities jointly with a private entity or group of private entities, including the owners or operators of a facility, or collection of facilities at a port.
- Application Deadline: May 16, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
Marine Highway Program ($25M)
Apr 29 2022
- Description: Grants through the program are distributed for projects that mitigate landside congestion, expand transportation options, and realize public benefit and external cost savings by awarding Marine Highway grants to qualified applicants to implement designated Marine Highway projects.
- Eligible Applicants: State governments (including State departments of transportation), metropolitan planning organizations, port authorities, and tribal governments, or private sector operators of marine highway services within designated Marine Highway Projects.
- Application Deadline: April 29, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grants ($7.5B)
Apr 14 2022
- Description: RAISE grants support surface transportation projects of local and/or regional significance.
- Eligible Applicants: States and the District of Columbia; any territory or possession of the United States; a unit of local government; a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States; a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; a federally recognized Indian Tribe or a consortium of such Indian Tribes; a transit agency; and a multi-State or multijurisdictional group of entities that are separately eligible. Federal agencies are not eligible applicants for the RAISE FY 2022 program.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on April 14, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Cooperative Watershed Management Program ($100M)
Mar 31 2022
- Description: Provides grant funding for collaborative watershed planning and management projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Grant recipients include a watershed group that the Secretary of the Interior has selected to receive a grant in accordance with subtitle A of Title VI of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 USC 1015 et seq.)
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
High Priority Activities ($432.5 M)
Mar 31 2022
- Description: The High Priority Activities grant program is a discretionary (competitive) grant program designed to provide Federal financial assistance to enhance states’ commercial vehicle safety plan activities, including commercial vehicle inspections, traffic enforcement, and outreach while supporting innovative technology development and/or new project(s) not included in the commercial vehicle safety plan that will have a positive impact on commercial vehicle safety. Other applicants, such as academia and safety associations are also eligible for these grants that improve safety. Overall this grant supports safety programs and innovative technology deployment with a goal of increasing efficiency improvements in exchanging commercial vehicle safety data.
- Eligible Applicants: States, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, other political jurisdictions as necessary, small businesses, institutions of higher education, and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: The Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training grant program awards grants to a variety of educational institutions that provide commercial truck and bus driving training. The purpose of this discretionary grant program is to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and prioritize grant applications for programs to train former members of the armed forces and eligible family members.
- Eligible Applicants: An entity that can train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. Such entities include accredited public or private colleges, universities, vocational-technical schools, post-secondary educational institutions, truck driver training schools, associations, and state and local governments, including federally recognized Native American Tribal governments.
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program CLICK HERE
- Description: This discretionary grant program will provide funding for airport terminal development and other landside projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Public agency; Private entity; state and Tribal Government owning a public use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems airport; Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island Airport; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau.
- Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: PCSRF competitive grants fund habitat restoration projects for Endangered Species Act listed salmon stocks in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, as well as federally recognized Tribes of the Columbia River and the Pacific Coast (including Alaska).
- Eligible Applicants: non-profit 501(c) organizations, state and territorial government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal governments and organizations, educational institutions, or commercial (for-profit) organizations. Tribal governments include all Native American tribal governments (both federally recognized tribes and those tribes that are not federally recognized).
- Application Deadline: March 21, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Desalination project ($250M)
Mar 15 2022
- Description: Provides grant funding for desalination projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Eligibility shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior for water desalination projects and related activities in accordance with the Water Desalination Act of 1996.
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: Provides grant funding for water recycling and reuse projects, including $450 million for large water recycling projects; and establishes a competitive grant program for large water recycling projects.
- Eligible Applicants: For the Title XVI grant program, eligibility shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior if the project reclaims and reuses municipal, industrial, domestic or agricultural wastewater, or impaired ground or surface waters. For the large water recycling program, eligible applicants include a State, Indian Tribe, municipality, irrigation district, water district, wastewater district, other organization with water or power delivery authority, or an agency established under State law for the joint exercise of powers.
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: Provides grant funding for projects to improve water and energy efficiency, including a $100M set aside for natural infrastructure projects. Eligible applicants: Any State, Indian tribe, irrigation district, water district, any organization or entity with water or power delivery authority, or any nonprofit conservation organization acting in partnership with and with the agreement of an entity described above, or nonprofit conservation organizations that use grant funding for projects to improve the condition of a natural feature or nature-based feature on Federal land.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: March 15 – March 31, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: IIJA provides planning and construction funds for states, local governments, tribes, and Amtrak to expand the intercity passenger rail system in the United States through improvements to existing routes and the creation of new ones.
- Eligible Applicants: States (including the District of Columbia); group of states; interstate compact; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states; political subdivision of a state; Amtrak, acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with one or more states; any combination of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on March 7, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This discretionary grant seeks to improve highway safety by supporting Commercial Driver's License Programs on a State and National level. The funding assists grant partners in achieving compliance with the commercial driver's license regulations in 49 CFR Parts 383 and 384 by providing funding directly to States and other entities capable of executing National projects to aid States in their compliance efforts.
- Eligible Applicants: Eligible Applicants include agencies in each State, including the District of Columbia, responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of all or part of the CDL program or that have a direct impact on a State’s compliance with the provisions of 49 CFR Parts 383 and 384. For High Priority and Emerging Issues funding, eligible Applicants include State (including the District of Columbia) agencies, local governments, tribes, For-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
- Application Deadline: 5pm EST on February 28, 2022
- Apply or Learn More:To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
ReConnect Program ($1.291B)
Feb 22 2022
- Description: The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations to help construct or improve facilities required to provide broadband access to rural areas. The program can also fund the acquisition or upgrade of an existing system not currently providing sufficient broadband access.
- Eligible Applicants: Corporations, cooperatives, public entities, U.S. territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes.
- Application Deadline: February 22, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: Provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, tribal colleges or universities
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Transmission Facilitation Program ($2.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: A $2.5B revolving fund to facilitate the construction of high capacity new, replacement, or upgraded transmission lines.12 This program will prioritize projects that improve resilience and reliability of the grid, facilitate inter-regional transfer of electricity, lower electric sector greenhouse gas emissions, and use advanced technology. DOE is authorized to do so through three separate tools
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: To ensure the US has viable battery manufacturing and recycling capabilities by providing funding for demonstration projects and the construction and/or retooling of advanced battery manufacturing and recycling facilities
- Eligible Applicants: Institution of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Clean School Bus Program ($5B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: EPA will offer a total of $5 billion between fiscal years 2022 and 2026 to fund the replacement of dirtier school buses with low- or no-carbon school buses. Each year, $500 million will be available exclusively for electric school buses and $500 million will be available for electric buses and multiple types of cleaner alternative fuel school buses. EPA can offer grants and rebates to assist fleets in purchasing new, cleaner school buses and the associated charging and fueling infrastructure. EPA will ensure a broad geographic distribution of awards
- Eligible Applicants: State and local governments, eligible contractors and nonprofit school transportation associations.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
NOAA Regional Ocean Partnerships (ROPs) ($56M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: The ROPs coordinate the interstate and intertribal management of ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal resources. This funding would allow the ROPs to implement their priority actions via financial assistance.
- Eligible Applicants: All state, local, territory and tribal governments, institutions of higher learning, non-profit and for-profit organizations that may receive and expend Federal funds as legal entities are eligible to apply.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Hydropower Capital Improvements ($553.6M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides payments to qualified non-federal hydropower operators for capital improvements to enhance a facility’s grid resiliency assets, improve dam safety, and make environmental upgrades.
- Eligible Applicants: Non-federal hydropower operators.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Solar Energy Demonstration Projects ($80M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to demonstrate solar energy technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Scientists, institutions of higher education, nongovernmental organizations, National Laboratories, private entities, partnerships or consortia thereof.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Provides funding to the eligible entities to develop crosscutting industrial emissions reduction technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Scientists, institutions of higher education, nongovernmental organizations, National Laboratories, private entities, partnerships or consortia thereof.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This Federal Transit Administration discretionary grant program funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. Federal transit law requires transit agencies seeking Capital Investment Grants funding to complete a series of steps over several years.
- Eligible Applicants: Public entities (transit authorities and other state and local public bodies and agencies thereof) including states, municipalities, other political subdivisions of states; public agencies and instrumentalities of one or more states; and certain public corporations, boards, and commissions established under state law.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: This competitive grant program provides funding for passenger ferry capital projects in urbanized areas.
- Eligible Applicants: State; Local government; Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function; tribal government.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: Provides funding for institutions of higher education-based industrial research and assessment centers to identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance at manufacturing and other industrial facilities, and provides grants to small- and medium-sized manufacturers to make energy efficiency and clean energy improvements at their facilities.
- Eligible Applicants: Small- or medium-sized manufacturers having received an energy assessment.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Ferry Service for Rural Communities ($2B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will ensure that basic essential ferry service continues to be provided to rural areas by providing funds to States to support this service.
- Eligible Applicants: States
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Carbon Storage Validation and Testing ($2.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Expands DOE’s Carbon Storage Validation and Testing program to include large-scale commercialization of new or expanded carbon sequestration projects and associated carbon dioxide transport infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of carbon sequestration projects, including those developing projects with substantial carbon dioxide storage capacity and those that will store carbon dioxide from multiple carbon capture facilities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Carbon capture utilization and storage (or sequestration) refers to the process of capturing carbon dioxide from sources of emissions and either reusing the carbon dioxide or storing it permanently underground. Congress appropriated $937 million for the Department of Energy to fund carbon capture large-scale pilot projects over FY22-FY25.
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities program will study and award competitive grants to reduce truck idling and emissions at ports, including through the advancement of port electrification.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides grants and technical assistance for utilities to detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats.
- Eligible Applicants: Rural electric cooperatives, public utilities, or small utilities
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Pollution Prevention Program ($100M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Grants provide technical assistance to businesses in order to help them develop and adopt source reduction practices (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”). P2 means reducing or eliminating pollutants from entering any waste stream or otherwise released into the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
- Eligible Applicants: State governments, colleges and universities (recognized as instrumentalities of the state), federally-recognized tribes and intertribal consortia.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Battery Material Processing Grant Program ($3B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: To ensure the US has a viable battery materials processing industry by providing funding for demonstration projects and the construction and/or retooling of battery material processing facilities.
- Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Direct Air Capture Hubs ($3.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Supports projects that contribute to the development of four regional direct air capture hubs.
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of Direct Air Capture projects that can develop regional Direct Air Capture hubs, including carbon dioxide off-takers, connective carbon dioxide transport infrastructure, subsurface resources and sequestration infrastructure.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The purpose of this new discretionary grant is to train non-Feds who conduct commercial motor vehicle enforcement activities and to develop related training materials.
- Eligible Applicants:Non-profit organization with expertise in conducting training for non-Federal stakeholders and the ability to reach and involve a target population of commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement employees.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Career Skills Training ($10M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit partnerships
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program ($2.1B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provide flexible, low-interest loans for CO2 transport infrastructure projects and grants for initial excess capacity on new infrastructure to facilitate future growth. CIFIA will help facilitate private sector investment in CO2 infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: "Common carrier," transportation infrastructure operator or owner that provides public transportation services for a fee.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: In addition to formula grants to States, PROTECT will provide $1.4 billion in competitive grants to eligible entities to increase the resilience of our transportation system. PROTECT Grants will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: State or political subdivision of a state; metropolitan planning organization; unit of local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; federal land management agency that applies jointly with a state or group of states; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities. In order to receive an “At-risk Coastal Infrastructure Grant” within the PROTECT program, the applicant must also border the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Grant Program for Processing of Critical Minerals and Development of Critical Mineral and Metals ($400M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Establishes a critical mineral mining, recycling, and reclamation research and development grant program within the Department of Energy; establishes a Critical Minerals Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council to coordinate science and technology efforts on critical minerals including recycling and substitute materials; and establishes a Department of Energy grant program for pilot projects that process, recycle, or develop critical minerals
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit entities, consortia of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: To provide federal financial assistance to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden resilience and reliability and to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience, implemented through States by public and publicly regulated entities on a cost-shared basis.
- Eligible Applicants: States, Tribes, local governments, or a public utility commission.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This new grant program will provide states, tribes, and local governments planning and construction funds for highway-rail grade crossing separation projects that will improve safety and mobility.
- Eligible Applicants: State, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions; political subdivision of a state; federally recognized Indian tribe; unit of local government or a group of local governments; public port authority; metropolitan planning organization; group of eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Expands an existing program at the Department of Energy for research, development, and demonstration of electric vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications for vehicle batteries.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Allows the Secretary to continue the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize and convene a task force on battery producer requirements.
- Eligible Applicants: Institution of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
FTA All Station Accessibility Program ($1.75B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will provide funding to legacy transit and commuter rail authorities to upgrade existing stations to meet or exceed accessibility standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Eligible Applicants: State or local government authority.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement (CRISI) grants will fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expands eligibility for applicants and uses of funds.
- Eligible Applicants: State; group of states; interstate compact; public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states; political subdivision of a state; Federally recognizde Indian Tribes; Amtrak or another rail carrier that provides intercity rail passenger transportation; Class II railroad or Class III railroad; rail carrier or rail equipment manufacturer in partnership with at least one of these earlier entities; Transportation Research Board and any entity with which it contracts in the development of rail-related research, including cooperative research programs; university transportation center engaged in rail-related research; non-profit labor organization representing a class or craft of employees of rail carriers or rail carrier contractors.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Geothermal Energy Demonstration Projects ($84M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to demonstrate advanced geothermal energy technologies, including at least one demonstration project east of the Mississippi River.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, Federal research agencies, state research agencies, industrial entities, nonprofit research organizations, or consortia thereof.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Affordable Connectivity Fund ($14.2B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more. The benefit provides a discount of up to $30 per month toward internet service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price. The Affordable Connectivity Program is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household.
- Eligible Applicants: A household is eligible if a member of the household meets at least one of the criteria below:
- Has an income that is at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines; or
- Participates in certain assistance programs, such as SNAP, Medicaid, Federal Public Housing Assistance, SSI, WIC, or Lifeline;
- Participates in Tribal specific programs, such as Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance, Tribal TANF, or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations;
- Is approved to receive benefits under the free and reduced-price school lunch program or the school breakfast program, including through the USDA Community Eligibility Provision in the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, or 2021-2022 school year;
- Received a Federal Pell Grant during the current award year; or
- Meets the eligibility criteria for a participating provider's existing low-income program.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- To Apply or Learn More: CLICK HERE
Crash Data Modernization Grants ($750M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This program provides funding to modernize state and federal crash databases to enable better data sharing and research into motor vehicle crashes. Crash data funding will also be utilized to update the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria, collect additional data elements related to vulnerable road users, expand the Crash Investigation Sampling System, and coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a national database of pedestrian injuries and fatalities.
- Eligible Applicants: States (including the District of Columbia); territories; and the Secretary of the Interior (acting on behalf of Federally-recognized tribes).
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: IIJA creates a new program at the EPA to award competitive grants to states, local and tribal governments, nonprofits, and public-private partnerships to improve the effectiveness of recycling programs. Grant money can be used to help educate households and consumers about residential and community recycling programs, provide information about recyclable materials, and increase collection rates and decrease contamination.
- Eligible Applicants: State, local, and tribal government entities as well as nonprofit organizations and public-private partnerships.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Provides grants to provide flexibility and help quickly rebalance the electrical system, facilitate the aggregation or integration of distributed energy resources, provide energy storage to meet fluctuating, provide voltage support, integrate intermittent generation sources, increase the network’s operational transfer capacity, and anticipate and mitigate impacts of extreme weather events or natural disasters on grid resilience.
- Eligible Applicants: Utilities and other power sector entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: CLICK HERE.
Hydroelectric Production Incentives ($125M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides additional funding for section 242 incentives for non-federal hydropower electricity production, including from hydropower facilities that have come online between 2005 and the passage of the IIJA.
- Eligible Applicants: Non-federal hydropower operators with less than 20MW capacity.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This new grant program will fund states, tribes, and local governments for culvert replacement and removal projects. Priority would be given to projects aimed to improve fish passage for anadromous fish.
- Eligible Applicants: State; unit of local government; tribes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The competitive grant funds are available to entities working on 29 coastal sites designated to protect and study estuarine systems. NOAA provides funding and national guidance, and each site is managed daily by a lead state agency or university with input from local partners.
- Eligible Applicants: NERRs lead state agencies or universities designed to receive NERRs operations funding through a Memorandum of Understanding with NOAA in the coastal states and territories including the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The competitive grants distributed by the NOAA Marine Debris Program fund projects that remove trash and other ocean, habitat restoration as well as emergency response and research.
- Eligible Applicants: State, local, tribal, and territory governments whose activities affect research or regulation of marine debris. Equally eligible are any institution of higher education, nonprofit organization, or commercial (for-profit) organization with expertise in a field related to marine debris.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: State or local government, a transit agency, metropolitan planning organization, or a multi-jurisdictional group or a consortia of research institutions or academic institutions. The term ‘‘multi-jurisdictional group’’ means any combination of State governments, local governments, metropolitan planning agencies, or transit agencies that has signed a written agreement to implement the advanced transportation technologies deployment initiative across jurisdictional boundaries.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Multi-benefit watershed projects ($100M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Establishes a competitive grant program to provide grants for multi-benefit projects that improve watershed health in a river basin that is adversely impacted by a Bureau of Reclamation water project.
- Eligible Applicants: A State, Tribal or local government, an organization with power or water delivery authority, a regional authority or a nonprofit conservation organization.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Competitive grants administered through this program will support projects that restore fish passage through the removal of in-stream barriers such as culverts, small dams, dikes and other infrastructure. Funding also supports communities by providing technical assistance for project planning and permitting needs.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, non-profits, commercial (for profit) organizations, U.S. territories, and state, local, and tribal governments.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE.
- Description: TBD
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Provide grants for battery recycling research, development and demonstration, states and units of local government to assist in the establishment or enhancement of State battery collection, recycling, and reprocessing programs and retailers that sell batteries for the implementation or establishment of a system to collect used batteries.
- Eligible Applicants: Battery producers, battery retailers, institution of higher education, National Laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Brownfields Competitive Grant Program ($1.2B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: The IIJA provides significant investment into the Brownfields program to help communities, States, Tribes and others to assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse contaminated properties.
- Eligible Applicants: State, local, and tribal government entities as well as nonprofit organizations.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
National Marine Energy Centers ($40M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: For hydropower and marine energy and National Marine Energy Centers.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof)
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Wind Energy Demonstration Projects ($100M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to demonstrate wind energy technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education including minority- serving institutions, National Laboratories, Federal research agencies, state research agencies, a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state, a tribal energy development organization, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, a Native Hawaiian community-based organization, industrial entities, nonprofit research organizations, or consortia thereof.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Grant Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to the Secretary to issue grants to other federal agencies and organizations to improve their energy efficiency and invest in renewable energy technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: Federal agencies
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This funding will allow NOAA to increase technical assistance and grants to advance projects that address wetlands, coastal hazards, public access, marine debris, cumulative and secondary impacts, special area management plans, ocean and Great Lakes resources, energy and government facility siting, and aquaculture.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot Program ($50M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Award grants to provide nonprofit buildings with materials to improve their energy efficiency.
- Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organizations
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: TBD
- Eligible Applicants: Battery producers: manufacturers and sellers
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: The new Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant program provides grants to rural, midsized, and large communities to conduct demonstration projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems in a variety of communities to improve transportation efficiency and safety.
- Eligible Applicants: State; political subdivision of a state; tribal government; public transit agency or authority; public toll authority; metropolitan planning organization; two or more eligible entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land in a compatible manner with any existing operations.
- Eligible Applicants: Technology on current/former mine land site with reasonable expectation of commercial viability.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: These grants will help community owned utilities to replace outdated gas pipelines in order to reduce injuries and fatalities and prepare our pipeline infrastructure for cleaner fuels.
- Eligible Applicants: Municipality or community-owned utility (not including for-profit entities).
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program CLICK HERE.
- Description: Provides support for supplemental hardening activities to reduce risks of power lines causing wildfires, and the likelihood and consequence of impacts to the electric grid due to extreme weather, wildfires, and natural disasters.
- Eligible Applicants: An electric grid operator, electricity storage operator, electricity generator, transmission owner or operator, distribution provider, fuel supplier, and other relevant entities as determined by DOE.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: The Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program will accelerate the adoption of broadband through digital literacy training, workforce development, devices access programs, and other digital inclusion measures.
- Eligible Applicants: Political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of a state, including an agency of a state that is responsible for administering or supervising adult education and literacy activities, or for providing public housing; an Indian Tribe, an Alaska Native entity, or a Native Hawaiian organization; a foundation, corporation, institution, or association that is a not-for-profit entity and not a school; a community anchor institution; a local educational agency; an entity that carries out a workforce development program; and partnership between any of the above entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Allows the Secretary to award competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools.
- Eligible Applicants: Consortia of: education agencies, schools, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, community partners.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Rural Broadband Program ($74M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Rural Broadband Program offers loans to help construct, improve, or acquire facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband access to rural areas. Congress has also authorized the Rural Broadband Program to issue grants and loan guarantees (in recent years, Congress has appropriated funding only for direct loans).
- Eligible Applicants: Corporations, cooperatives, public entities, U.S. territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: Provides grants to States to enable cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes.
- Eligible Applicants: Relevant state agencies; partnerships between state agencies and: local building code agencies, codes and standards developers, associations of builders and design and construction professionals, local and utility energy efficiency programs, consumer/efficiency/environmental advocates, and others
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Establishes and provides funding for a competitive grant program for small water storage and groundwater projects (this $100M is a set-aside within the larger $1.15B water storage pot).
- Eligible Applicants: Eligibility shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Clean Hydrogen Hubs ($8B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding for projects that contribute to the development of at least four clean hydrogen hubs.
- Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of clean hydrogen projects that can demonstrate the production, transport and end-use of clean hydrogen across all relevant sectors.
- Application Deadline: March 8, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding, or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: Provides federal financial assistance to improve resilience, safety, and reliability and environmental protection in rural or remote areas.
- Eligible Applicants: Cities, towns, or unincorporated areas of 10,000 inhabitants or less.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Provides funding for research, development and demonstration projects to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage and end-use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of clean hydrogen manufacturing technologies including those that operate in partnership with tribal energy development organizations, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Native Hawaiian community-based organizations, or territories or freely associated states.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Congestion Relief Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This new competitive grant program will provide grants in large urban areas (population of more than 1 million people) for projects to advance innovative, multimodal solutions to relieve congestion and improve transportation operations and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: A state, for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000; a metropolitan planning organization, city, or municipality, for the purpose of carrying out a project in an urbanized area with a population of more than 1,000,000.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This discretionary program provides funding for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally-significant projects within, adjacent to, or accessing Federal and tribal lands. IIJA amends this program to allow smaller projects to qualify for funding and allows 100% federal share for tribal projects.
- Eligible Applicants: Any entity eligible to receive funding under the Tribal Transportation Program; Federal Lands Transportation Program; or Federal Lands Access Program. In addition, a State; county; or local government may apply if sponsored by an eligible Federal land management agency or Indian tribe.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This discretionary grant program will provide $2.5 billion in for electric vehicle charging and alternative fueling infrastructure. Half of the funds will be devoted for charging infrastructure along designated alternative fueling corridors, and the other half will go directly towards communities, with preference given to rural and low-income areas. This funding is in addition to $5 billion which will be distributed to states to invest in EV charging infrastructure.
- Eligible Applicants: State or political subdivision of a state; metropolitan planning organization; unit of local government; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; a territory of the United States; multi-state or multijurisdictional group of public entities
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program ($1B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding for research, development and demonstration projects to reduce the cost of hydrogen produced using electrolyzers.
- Eligible Applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of projects that will support the program goals of reducing the cost of hydrogen produced using electrolyzers.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program ($350M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This new competitive grant program will provide grants for projects designed to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and improve habitat connectivity.
- Eligible Applicants: State highway agency, or an equivalent of that agency; a metropolitan planning organization; local government; regional transportation authority; special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority; Indian tribe; federal land management agency; groups of these entities.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Energy Auditor Training Grant Program ($40M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides grants to States to train individuals to conduct energy audits or surveys of commercial and residential buildings.
- Eligible Applicants: States
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: NOAA National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF) is a competitive grant program administered through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation that prioritizes awards based on matching fund. This program funds natural infrastructure needed to protect coastal communities while also enhancing habitat for fish and wildlife.
- Eligible Applicants: non-profit 501(c) organizations, state and territorial government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal governments and organizations, educational institutions, or commercial 8 (for-profit) organizations. Tribal governments include all Native American tribal governments (both federally recognized tribes and those tribes that are not federally recognized).
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This funding will support competitive grants for coastal restoration projects across multiple NOAA programs. Funds will be used to enable communities, Tribes and states to respond and adapt to climate change impacts.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education, non-profits, commercial (for profit) organizations, U.S. territories, and state, local, and Native American tribal governments.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This funding would provide critical upgrades to the nation’s buoy and ocean observation network. These upgrades include support a number of priorities including funds for installation and implementation of high-frequency radar systems to close key gaps in the surface current mapping system (oil spill response, harmful algal blooms, and climate research), underwater gliders to ensure safe navigation, and innovation in ocean technology and modeling.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
State Manufacturing Leadership ($50M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to states to invest in smart manufacturing technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: States
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program ($500M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: This competitive grant program will support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: This will fund a new grant program, established in Save our Seas 2.0 (Pub. L. 16-224), that allows the agency to award grants to states for projects that will improve local post-consumer materials management, including municipal recycling programs.
- Eligible Applicants: States and tribes.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD