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.
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| Agency | Category | Name of Program | New or Existing Program | Type | Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones |
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| USDA - Forest Service | Other | Landscape Scale Restoration Water Quality and Fish Passage | Existing | Direct Federal | ||||||
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Description: This program improves fish and wildlife habitat connectivity and helps to recover Endangered Species Act-listed or Endangered Species Act candidate species that depend on National Forest System lands. Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available. |
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| USDA - Office of the Secretary | Other | Bioproduct Pilot Program | New | Competitive | August 31, 2022 - Applications close | |||||
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Description: Determine the economic, social, and environmental benefits of using materials derived from agricultural commodities (bioproducts) in the development and manufacturing of construction or consumer products. Eligible Recipients: Bioproduct Research Facilities funded in part by a state with other restrictions Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Extended Product System Rebates | New | Competitive | 27 May, 2022 – Public comments were due on guidance document for implementing the Extended Product System Rebate Program and the Energy Efficient Transformer Rebate Program | |||||
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Description: Provides rebates for qualified extended product systems (i.e. electric motor, electronic control, and driven load) Eligible Recipients: Purchaser of the qualified extended product system or manufacturer of commercial or industrial machinery or equipment that incorporates the qualified extended product system Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Pre-Commercial Direct Air Capture Prize Competitions | New | Competitive | February 2022 - Comment period in response to Request for Information closed | |||||
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Description: Reauthorization of program to advance research, development, demonstration and commercial application of carbon capture technologies Eligible Recipients: Industry Partner Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| USDOT | Roads, bridges and major projects | Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) | Existing | Formula | 21/12 FY22 Funding Announced (set aside from the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program) | |||||
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Description: Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: |
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| USDOT-Build America Bureau | Roads, bridges and major projects | Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) | Existing | Loans | open for applications | |||||
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Description: Federal credit assistance to eligible surface transportation projects. Eligible Recipients: State (including D.C. and PR), Local, public authority, certain private entities Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal |
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| USDOT-Build America Bureau | Roads, bridges and major projects | Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RIFF) loans | Existing | Competitive | Open for applications | |||||
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Description: Federal loans to eligible entities to finance development of railroad infrastructure, including to acquire, improve, or rehabilitate intermodal or rail equipment of facilities, develop or establish new intermodal or railway facilities, reimburse planning and design expenses and to finance transit oriented development Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, railroads, etc... Federal Cost Share: Up to 100% |
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| USDOT-FAA | Airports and Federal Aviation Administration Facilities | Air Traffic Facilities and Equipment | New | Formula | Each program has its own planning cycle and individual milestones | |||||
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Description: FAA sustainment work and facilities replacements for replacing FAA-owned terminal and route air traffic control faculties, improvements of air route and terminal facilities etc. Eligible Recipients: Federal Aviation Authority towers and commercial vendors. Federal Cost Share: 100% federal funding |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Bridge Formula Program | New | Formula | April 2022, Revised apportionment table for FY22 released | |||||
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Description: Funds for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, protection, or construction projects on public roads. 15% set-aside for off-system bridges, 3% set-aside for Tribal transportation program and 0.5% set-aside for administrative expenses. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non federal (For interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances |
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| USCBP | Ports and Waterways | Land Port of Entry Modernization | Existing | Direct federal | ||||||
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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 |
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| USDOT-FAA | Airports and Federal Aviation Administration Facilities | Contract Tower Competitive Grant Program | Existing | Competitive | April 2022, FY2022 NOFO closed | |||||
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Description: Annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation's airports. Set aside from Airport Infrastructure Grants. Eligible Recipients: Federal Aviation Authority towers and commercial vendors Federal Cost Share: 100% federal funding |
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| DOE | Environmental Remediation | Funding to Support Orphan Well Plugging | New | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Funding to support the Department of the Interior’s effort to establish a program to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells located on Federal land. Eligible Recipients: Industry Partner Federal Cost Share: |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | National Highway Performance Program | Existing | Formula | December, 2021 - FY22 funding released | Yes | ||||
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Description: To provide support for the condition and performance of the National Highway System, to provide support for construction of new facilities etc. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non federal (For interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Safety | Railway-Highway Grade Crossings Program | Existing | Formula | December, 2021 - FY22 funding released | |||||
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Description: Supports projects with the goal of reducing the number of fatalities, injuries and crashes and public railway-highway crossings Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (STBGP) | Existing | Formula | December, 2021 - FY22 funding released | Yes | ||||
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Description: Promotes flexibility in state and local transportation decisions and provide flexible funding to best address state and local transportation needs. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non federal (For interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Safety | Highway Safety Improvement Program | Existing | Formula | Yes | |||||
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Description: Provides States with critical safety funding that is used to save lives and prevent serious injuries on all public roads Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: 90% federal/10% non-federal. Waivers are available in some circumstances. |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | National Highway Freight Program | Existing | Formula | December, 2021 - FY22 funding released | |||||
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Description: Funding to improve the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non-federal (for interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances. |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program | Existing | Formula | December 2021, FY22 funding released | Yes | ||||
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Description: Flexible funding source for transportation projects and programs to meet requirements of the Clean Air Act. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non-federal (for interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Territorial Highway Program | Existing | Formula | FY22 funding apportionments advised | |||||
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Description: Supports the construction and improvement of a system of arterial and collector highways and necessary inter-island connectors Eligible Recipients: Territories (except P.R.) Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Carbon Reduction Program | New | Formula | 21 April, 2022, Implementation Guidance released | |||||
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Description: Formula grants to States to reduce transportation emissions or the development of carbon reduction strategies. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C. Federal Cost Share: Typically 80% federal/20% non-federal (for interstate projects, 90% federal/10% non-federal). Waivers are available in some circumstances |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (Set-aside) | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Promotes, implements, deploys, demonstrates, showcases, supports and documents the application of advanced digital construction management systems, practices, performance and benefits. Set-aside from Intelligent Transportation Systems Program. Eligible Recipients: FHWA Research, Technology, and Education Program Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers available if substantial public interest/benefit. |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Other | Bureau of Transportation Statistics | Existing | Grant | ||||||
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Description: Funding for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to provide statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics, and provides context to decision makers and the public for understanding statistics on transportation. Eligible Recipients: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Federal Cost Share: Not specified |
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| USDOT-NHTSA | Safety | National Driver Register | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Maintains the Problem Driver Pointer System database Eligible Recipients: Businesses, nonprofits Federal Cost Share: No non-federal share required |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, And Alternatives | New | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: A program of research, development, demonstration and commercialization to develop alternatives to critical materials, to promote their efficient production and use and ensure a long-term secure and sustainable supply system Eligible Recipients: Industry Partner Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| DOI | Electric Vehicles, Buses and Ferries | Energy and Minerals Research Facility | Existing | |||||||
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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 |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | Pilot program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning | Existing | Competitive | July 25, 2022 - FY2022 NOFO closed | |||||
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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. |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | Public Transportation Innovation | Existing | Competitive | _ | |||||
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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. |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Industrial Emission Demonstration Projects | New | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: To fund demonstration projects that test and validate technologies that reduce industrial emissions, including for iron, steel, aluminum, cement, concrete, glass pulp paper, industrial ceramics and chemical production processes Eligible Recipients: State and local governments Tribes, technology developers, industry, utilities, universities etc. Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Grants for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements at Public School Facilities | New | Competitive | May 18, 2022 - Comments closed on Request for Information | |||||
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Description: To provide competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools Eligible Recipients: Consortium of One Local Education Agency and one or more Schools, non-Profits, For-Profits, and Community Partners Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | Capital Investment Grants Program (Fixed Guideway) | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Discretionary grant program funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, streetcars and bus rapid transit. Includes a pilot program for Expedited Project Delivery for new high-capacity transit projects. Eligible Recipients: States, local governments Federal Cost Share: Max allowed 80% federal/20% non-federal OR 60% federal/40% non-federal depending on project type. Waivers are not available. |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | All Stations Accessibility Program | New | Competitive | September 30, 2022 - Proposals in response to FY22 NOFO close | |||||
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Description: Provides capital funding to upgrade the accessibility of legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems for people with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs. Eligible Recipients: States, local government authorities Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are not available. |
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| USACE | Resilience | Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies | Existing | Direct federal | ||||||
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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 |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | Ferry Service for Rural Communities | New | Competitive | September 6, 2022 - Applications close for FY2022 Passenger Ferry Grant Program, Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program and Ferry Service for Rural Communities NOFO | |||||
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Description: The Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program makes Federal resources available to States to ensure basic essential ferry service is provided to rural areas. Eligible Recipients: States Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available. |
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| USACE | Resilience | Continuing Authorities Program (Under Flood Control Act And River And Harbor Act) | Existing | Direct federal | ||||||
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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. |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity Incentives (also known as section 247) | New | Competitive | September 6, 2022 – Request for Information closes on section 243 and 247 hydroelectric programs | |||||
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Description: To make incentive payments to the owners or operators of qualified hydroelectric facilities for capital improvements Eligible Recipients: Non-Federal owners of qualified hydroelectric facilities Federal Cost Share: N/A |
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| USACE | Ports and Waterways | Mississippi River and Tributaries | Existing | Direct federal | The Army Corps will be issuing multiple contract awards during FY22 | |||||
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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. |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Industrial Research and Assessment Center Implementation Grants | New | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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Description: To fund upgrades for eligible small and medium sized manufacturers to improve energy efficiency, material efficacy, cybersecurity, or productivity, or reduce waste production, greenhouse gas emissions or non-greenhouse gas pollution Eligible Recipients: Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Federal Cost Share: 50% |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | Statewide Transportation Planning | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Financial assistance to the States to meet the planning requirements of the joint Federal Transit Administration and Federal Highway Administration planning regulations for Statewide transportation planning. Eligible Recipients: States, MPOs Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are not available. |
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| USACE | Ports and Waterways | Major Rehabilitation for Rivers and Harbors | Existing | Direct federal | ||||||
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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. |
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| USDOT-FTA | Public Transportation | National Rural Transportation Assistance Program | Existing | Technical Assistance | N/A | |||||
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Description: Eligible Recipients: Nonprofits, Higher Ed., other public entities Federal Cost Share: |
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