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BILJA Grant Program Tracker

The BILJA Grant Program Tracker has been created to assist Tribal Nations with BIIJA programs. Program information will be updated as new information becomes available. If you need assistance, please contact us.

Click the red box with the down arrow to view more details about the program including a description, eligibility and cost sharing information. To sort the table, click on a header (Agency, Category, etc...). When sorting the table, the default sort order is ascending (least) to descending (greatest) or A-Z, depending on the type of data. To sort the table in descending or Z-A order, click the header again.

Agency Category Name of Program New or Existing Program Type Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones Tribes Eligible?sort descending Workforce Funding Eligible Use? Cybersecurity An Eligible Use?
USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Transit Cooperative Research Program Existing

Description: Applied research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to problems facing public transportation, managed by the Transportation Research Board

Eligible Recipients: National Academy of Sciences

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required.

USACE Ports and Waterways Inland Waterways Projects Existing Direct Federal

Description: The Army Corps to use this funding to construct eligible improvements to commercial navigation projects on inland waterways, including locks and dams

Eligible Recipients: Army Corps

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Public Transportation Innovation Existing Competitive _

Description: Awards funding to advance innovative public transportation research and development

Eligible Recipients: State and local government entities, federal government etc.

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are available if there's substantial public benefit.

USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Pilot program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning Existing Competitive July 25, 2022 - FY2022 NOFO closed

Description: Provides funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit capital investment

Eligible Recipients: State or local governmental authorities that are FTA grant recipients

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

EPA Other Battery Recycling Best Practices New Report to Congress in November 2023

Description: The Environmental Protection Agency will develop best practices that may be implemented by State, Tribal, and local governments with respect to the collection of batteries to be recycled.

Eligible Recipients:

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

EPA Other Battery Labeling Guidelines New

Description: Establishes a program to promote battery recycling through the development of voluntary labeling guidelines for batteries and other forms of communication materials for battery producers and consumers about the reuse and recycling of critical materials from batteries.

Eligible Recipients:

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

FCC-WCB Broadband Affordable Connectivity Program - Outreach Grants New Additional details to be released at a later date

Description: To conduct and fund ACP outreach, including providing grants to outreach partners to ensure that eligible households can learn about the program and receive assistance with the application process.

Eligible Recipients: TBD, Pending Rulemaking

Federal Cost Share: N/A

FCC-WCB Broadband Broadband Deployment Locations Map New Direct federal spending

Description: To establish an online mapping tool to provide a locations overview of the overall geographic footprint of each broadband infrastructure deployment project funded by the Infrastructure Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 or any other Federal amounts appropriated or any Federal program authorized after the date of enactment of the Infrastructure Act to fund broadband infrastructure deployment.

Eligible Recipients: N/A

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

GSA Ports and Waterways Real Property Activities Existing Direct Federal

Description: Construction and acquisition, and repairs and alterations of land ports of entry.

Eligible Recipients: GSA, Public Buildings Service, Federal Buildings Fund which will contract out the design and construction services

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

Southeast Crescent Regional Commission Other Southeast Crescent Regional Commission Funding Existing

Description: Southeast Crescent Regional Commission States are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Eligible Recipients:

Federal Cost Share: Maximum Southeast Crescent Regional Commission share is 50 percent or 80 percent, depending on the community’s level of economic distress. Waivers are available in some circumstances.

USACE Ports and Waterways Corps of Engineers Operation and Maintenance Existing Direct Federal

Description: The Army Corps to use this funding for operation and maintenance of its projects, including coastal and inland navigation projects.

Eligible Recipients: Army Corps

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USACE Resilience Coastal Storm Risk Management, Hurricane, And Storm Damage Reduction Projects Existing Direct Federal

Description: This program will fund the construction of projects that help to reduce the risk of damage in a coastal storm, targeting States that have been impacted by Federally declared disasters over the past six years.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to construct authorized federal storm damage reduction projects.

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 65% Federal, 35% non-Federal.

USACE Resilience Inland Flood Risk Management Projects Existing Direct Federal

Description: Funds the replacement and expansion of inland waterways commercial navigation projects.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to construct eligible improvements to commercial navigation projects on the inland waterways, including locks and dams.

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Public Transportation Technical Assistance and Workforce Development Existing Technical Assistance Yes

Description: Funding to support workforce development and transition, including in relation to zero-emission fleet conversion and other technical assistance to support transit providers. Also supports the development of standards for the public transportation industry.

Eligible Recipients: National non-profit organizations

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available.

USACE Ports and Waterways Major Rehabilitation for Rivers and Harbors Existing Direct federal

Description: In partnership with port authorities, the Army Corps will use this funding to construct authorized coastal navigation projects such as deepening and widening of federal navigation channels.

Eligible Recipients: In partnership with port authorities, the Army Corps would use this funding to construct authorized coastal navigation projects such as deepening and widening of federal navigation channels.

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USACE Ports and Waterways Mississippi River and Tributaries Existing Direct federal The Army Corps will be issuing multiple contract awards during FY22

Description: Federal projects to help reduce the risk of flood damage in the lower Mississippi River valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Eligible Recipients: The Corps of Engineers will use this funding to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain certain federal flood damage reduction projects

Federal Cost Share: Unless otherwise specified in law, projects are 100% federal funded.

USACE Resilience Continuing Authorities Program (Under Flood Control Act And River And Harbor Act) Existing Direct federal

Description: Funds eligible for small Army Corps projects, including $115 million for restoring fish and wildlife passage.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to plan, design, and construct small water resources projects.

Federal Cost Share: Varies.

USACE Resilience Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies Existing Direct federal

Description: Funds Army Corps preparedness measures, certain Army Corps operations during a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, and the repair of certain projects following such a natural disaster.

Eligible Recipients: The Army Corps will use this funding to prepare for, respond to, and help in the recovery following a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster

Federal Cost Share: Varies

USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Rail Vehicle Replacement Grants New Competitive July 2022 - FY2022 NOFO expected

Description: Capital projects for the replacement of rail rolling stock.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governmental authorities

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal; however, these funds cannot exceed 50 percent of total cost. Waivers are not available.

USACE Resilience Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account New Loans

Description: Federal credit program to provide credit assistance to creditworthy borrowers for projects to maintain, upgrade, and repair dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams owned by non-Federal entities.

Eligible Recipients: State, local government, public utility, or private primary owners of dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams

Federal Cost Share:

USACE Resilience Flood Plain Management Services Existing Direct Federal

Description: The Army Corps provides site-specific flood and flood plain data and assistance to States, Tribes, and local communities.

Eligible Recipients: Funds certain technical assistance provided by the Army Corps

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are 100 percent Federally funded.

USDOT-PHMSA Safety Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grants New Competitive August 8, 2022 - applications close for FY22 funding

Description: Grant funds will be made available to municipalities or community owned utilities (not including for-profit entities) to repair, rehabilitate, or replace natural gas distribution pipeline systems or portions thereof or to acquire equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities, and to avoid economic loss.

Eligible Recipients: Utilities

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

USDOT-FTA Public Transportation Rural Transportation Assistance Program (RTAP) Existing Formula April 2022, Full year FY22 apportionment tables released Yes

Description: Provides funding to states for transportation research, technical assistance, training and related support services in rural areas

Eligible Recipients: States

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USCBP Ports and Waterways Land Port of Entry Modernization Existing Direct federal

Description: For furniture, fixtures and equipment for the land ports of entry modernized with funding provided to the General Service Administration in the Act.

Eligible Recipients: GSA, Public Buildings Service, Federal Buildings Fund which will contract out the design and construction services

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USCBP Ports and Waterways Land Port of Entry Modernization Existing Direct federal

Description: For land port of entry construction, modernization and sustainment

Eligible Recipients: GSA, Public Buildings Service, Federal Buildings Fund which will contract out the design and construction services

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Other Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan New Competitive June 2022 - funding allocation released

Description: In the short-term, aims to reduce nutrient-loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the basin by 20% by 2025 In the long-term, the goal is to limit the Gulf hypoxic zone to an average annual size of less than 5,000 square kilometers by 2035.

Eligible Recipients: 12 State Members of Gulf Hypoxia Task Force (Along Mississippi Corridor/Gulf of Mexico)

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USDOT-NHTSA Safety National Priority Safety Programs Existing Formula January 2022, Interim State Formula Grant Funding Table Released

Description: To encourage States to address national priorities for reducing highway deaths and injuries through occupant protection programs, State traffic safety information system improvements, impaired driving countermeasures, passage of effective laws to reduce distracted driving, implementation of motorcyclist safety programs, and non-motorist safety programs.

Eligible Recipients: States, D.C., territories

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are not available.

USDA Other Temporary Water Crossing Structures New Grants

Description: Under development

Eligible Recipients: States and Tribes

Federal Cost Share:

DOI Electric Vehicles, Buses and Ferries Energy and Minerals Research Facility Existing

Description: For design, construction, and tenant build out of a facility to support energy and minerals research and associated structures with an academic partner. This will establish a center of excellence in minerals and energy science.

Eligible Recipients: State Academic Institutions

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Gulf of Mexico No Grant

Description: Founded to facilitate collaborative actions to protect, maintain, and restore the health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico in ways consistent with the economic well-being of the Region.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

DOI Resilience Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration and Protection  Projects New Competitive April 2023 - First round of funding expected to be announced

Description: This funding will support design, study and construction of aquatic ecosystem restoration and protection projects.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: 35% for construction. Waivers are not available.

DOI Resilience Multi-Benefit Projects to Improve Watershed Health New April 2023 - First round of funding expected to be announced

Description: This funding will be allocated to projects that support habitat restoration and watershed health in basins impacted by a Reclamation project.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: 50%. Waivers are not available.

DOI Water Aging Infrastructure Account New Competitive 01/22 First Application period opened-  closed January 31, 2022. There will be multiple application periods.

Description: The Aging Infrastructure/Extraordinary Maintenance authority is used to fund extraordinary maintenance needs of outdated water and energy projects across the West.

Eligible Recipients: Transferred Works Operators and Reserved works Project beneficiaries (districts, power customers, cost share partners)

Federal Cost Share: Per project cost allocations. Waivers are not available.

DOI Water Water & Groundwater Storage, And Conveyance (including Small Water Storage Program) Existing Competitive and formula August 2022, Small Storage program expected to open

Description: Funds water storage, groundwater storage, and conveyance projects with existing feasibility study or construction authorization. Funding will be provided through a combination of internal formulation and competitive grant processes, and non-Federal project sponsors in Reclamation States, including Alaska and Hawaii are eligible.

Eligible Recipients: State, Local governments

Federal Cost Share: 50% for Federal owned, 75% for State. Waivers are not available.

DOI Water Water Desalination Projects Existing Competitive

Description: Water desalination projects support desalination of ocean or brackish water.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: 75% non-Federal, up to 25% from Federal. Waivers are not available.

USDOT-FHWA Electric Vehicles, Buses and Ferries Low or No Emission Vehicle Component Assessment Program Existing

Description: FTA to provide funds to two qualified institutions of higher education to conduct testing, evaluation and analysis of low or no emission components intended for use in low and zero emission buses used to provide public transportation.

Eligible Recipients: Qualified institutions of higher education

Federal Cost Share: 50% federal share/50% non-federal share

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Lake Pontchartrain Restoration Program No Cooperative Agreement (Discretionary Grants)

Description: This program carries out the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Comprehensive Management Plan.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

DOI Water Dam Safety Program Existing Direct Federal Funding

Description: Reclamation's Dam Safety Program is in place to ensure reclamation dams do not present unreasonable risk to people, property, and the environment.

Eligible Recipients: State and local

Federal Cost Share: 85% Federal, 15% non-Federal, in lieu of project specific statute. Waivers are not available.

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Puget Sound No Grant

Description: Goal to restore and maintain the Puget Sound Estuary's environment.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.

EPA Water Geographic Programs - Columbia River Basin Restoration Program No Grant August 10, 2022 - EPA announced initial awards for FY2022

Description: This program is intended to improve water quality in the Lower Columbia River Basin through specific actions to reduce toxics, increase monitoring, and/or increase public education and outreach.

Eligible Recipients: Broad Eligibilities

Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available.