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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.

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Agency Category Name of Program New or Existing Program Type Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones Tribes Eligible? Workforce Funding Eligible Use?sort descending Cybersecurity An Eligible Use?
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

USACE Resilience Section 118 Of Water Resources Development Act of 2020 New Direct Federal Yes

Description: Pilot program to carry out feasibility studies for flood risk management and hurricane and storm damage risk reduction projects that incorporate natural features or nature-based features for rural communities and economically disadvantaged communities.

Eligible Recipients: In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps would use funding to carry out feasibility studies

Federal Cost Share: In general, studies are 100% Federally funded.

USACE Resilience Planning Assistance To States Existing Direct Federal Yes

Description: The Army Corps provides planning and technical assistance to States, Tribes, and local communities to address water resource issues and related work.

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

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 50% Federal, 50% non-Federal with a cost-share waiver for Tribes and Territories

USDA-RUS Broadband Distance Learning, Telemedicine, And Broadband Program: Broadband Loans Existing Loans Yes

Description: The Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Program) makes loans and loan guarantees to finance construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide high speed broadband service in eligible rural areas.

Eligible Recipients: Corporation; Limited Liability Company; Cooperative or Mutual Organization; A State or Local Unit of Government; Tribe or Tribal Organization.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USDA-RUS Broadband Distance Learning, Telemedicine, And Broadband Program: Reconnect Program Existing Competitive Yes

Description: The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants, and loan-grant combinations to build infrastructure and install equipment that provides modern, reliable, high-speed Internet service in rural America.

Eligible Recipients: Corporations; Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships; Cooperatives or Mutual Organizations; States or Local governments, including any agency, subdivision, instrumentality of political subdivision thereof; Territories or Possessions of The United States; and Tribes, as defined in Section 4 Of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. §450B)

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

USACE Resilience To Complete Or Initiate And Complete Studies That Were Authorized Prior To The Date Of This Act Existing Direct Federal Yes

Description: Funds studies to determine the engineering, economic feasibility of potential solutions to water and related land resources problems as well as preconstruction engineering and design

Eligible Recipients: In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps would use funding to carry out feasibility studies

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 50% Federal, 50% non-Federal

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.

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 Water-Related Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Existing Direct Federal Yes

Description: The program funds engineering and construction of authorized environmental infrastructure projects which provides safe water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control to cities and towns to protect human health and safeguard the environment.

Eligible Recipients: In partnership with State, local, and Tribal governments, the Army Corps would use funding to construct Federally authorized environmental infrastructure projects.

Federal Cost Share: In general, projects are cost shared 50% Federal, 50% non-Federal.

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

EPA Environmental Remediation Brownfield Projects Existing Competitive Yes

Description: Provides funds to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities/Townships, Tribal (Federally Recognized), Indian Housing Authorities, Nonprofits, Public Housing Authorities

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Environmental Remediation Brownfield State and Tribal Response Programs Existing June 3, 2022 – Requests for FY22 EPA State and Tribal Brownfield Response Program closed Yes

Description: This funding is intended for States and Tribes that have the required management and administrative capacity within their government to administer a Federal grant.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

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.

EPA Environmental Remediation Superfund Remedial Existing Contract, Cooperative Agreement, Interagency Agreements Ongoing Yes

Description: Responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land.

Eligible Recipients: States, Local, tribal, Federal, industry partners, Special Districts

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

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.

DOI Water Rural Water Projects Existing Yes

Description: Funding for Rural Water will support the seven rural water projects that have been authorized by Congress.

Eligible Recipients: For existing authorized projects only - Tribal and local

Federal Cost Share: Cost share applies to E. New Mex project, but matching is not required. Waivers are not available.

USDOT-FHWA Roads, bridges and major projects Tribal Transportation Program Existing Formula Yes

Description: Supports projects to provide multimodal transportation and public road access to and within Indian reservations, Tribal lands, and Alaska Native Village Communities.

Eligible Recipients: Sovereign federally-recognized Tribal governments

Federal Cost Share: 100% federal funding

DOI Water Water Recycling (Large scale water recycling) Existing Competitive 03/15/22 funding closed March 15, 2022. Additional program criteria for large projects to follow during 2022.

Description: Projects that reclaim and/or reuse municipal, industrial, and agricultural wastewater; or impaired ground and surface waters. Large Scale Water Recycling Program is defined in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as projects that reclaim and reuse municipal, industrial, domestic, or agricultural wastewater; or impaired groundwater or surface water with a total project cost of $500 million or more and located in a Reclamation State.

Eligible Recipients: Open

Federal Cost Share: 75% non-Federal, up to 25 %from Federal. 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 Safety Railway-Highway Grade Crossings Program Existing Formula December, 2021 - FY22 funding released

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

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.

USDOT-FAA Airports and Federal Aviation Administration Facilities Contract Tower Competitive Grant Program Existing Competitive April 2022, FY2022 NOFO closed

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

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 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 Water WaterSMART Grants Existing Competitive July 28, 2022 – Applications closed for WaterSmart Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for FY23 Yes

Description: This funding will be used for competitive grants through WaterSMART for water management improvements that contribute to water supply sustainability, increase drought resilience, and that have environmental benefits.

Eligible Recipients: Open - meet criteria for Grant Opportunity

Federal Cost Share: Varies, 50 percent, 25 percent, up to 65 percent for some projects.

DOI Water Watershed Management Projects New Competitive Yes

Description: Watershed management includes water conservation and efficiency projects that increase reliability for ecological value, improvements to mitigate drought-related impacts to ecological values, and projects that improve the condition of a natural feature or nature-based feature.

Eligible Recipients: Open - must meet funding opportunity criteria

Federal Cost Share: 50 percent for some projects. Waivers are not available.

DOI Environmental Remediation Orphaned Well Site Plugging, Remediation and Restoration program New Formula, competitive, technical assistance May 13, 2022 – Funding opportunity closed for Large Scale Initial Planning Grants Yes

Description: Funding to administer a program for plugging wells on Federal land, and for issuing grants to States and Tribes on State, private, and Tribal land. Grants to States are available through three separate programs. Initial Grants: Either $5 million or up to $25 million to each qualifying State that applies before May 14, 2022. Funding unobligated after 1 year must be returned. Formula Grants: $2 billion in total funding available to States that submitted a Notice of Intent to the Department of the Interior by December 30, 2021. The amount each State is eligible for under this program is determined by formula. Funding unobligated after 5 years must be returned. Performance Grants: $1.5 billion in discretionary grants to States that increase their own spending on well plugging, remediation, and reclamation, or improve the regulation of oil and gas wells within the State.

Eligible Recipients: Federal, states, tribes

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

DOI Environmental Remediation Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund Existing Formula July 21, 2022 - Final Guidance released Yes

Description: Funding to administer a program to provide grants to eligible States and Tribes to clean up abandoned coal mine sites and related problems.

Eligible Recipients: Eligible states and tribes

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

DOE Clean Energy and Power Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grants New Competitive September 16, 2022 - Comments due in response to Request for Information

Description: Offers grants to small and medium-sized manufacturers to enable them to build or retrofit existing manufacturing and industrial facilities to produce or recycle advanced energy products in communities where coal mines or coal power plants have closed

Eligible Recipients: Manufacturing firm—subject to size limitations

Federal Cost Share: Not specified

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

DOI Water Safety of Dams, Water Sanitation, And Other Facilities Existing Yes

Description: Aims to reduce the potential loss of human life and property damage caused by dam failure by making Bureau of Indian Affairs dams as safe as practically possible.

Eligible Recipients: Tribal Governments (recognized)

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

DOI Resilience Tribal Climate Resilience - Community Relocation New July 6, 2022 - Applications closed for Tribal Climate Resilience and Ocean and Coastal Management Planning program for FY22 Yes

Description: Implementation of Community Relocation, Managed Retreat, or Protect-in-Place Actions to increase climate resilience.

Eligible Recipients: Tribal Governments - recognized

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

EPA Resilience Pollution Prevention Grants Existing Competitive April 11, 2022 Applications close for FY2022 NOFO Yes

Description: Grantees deliver technical assistance to businesses – including those communities with environmental justice concerns – to identify and adopt source reduction practices and technologies that benefit businesses, communities, and local economies.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribes, state-sponsored institutions, Tribal Institutions

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

EPA Resilience Front-End and Design Program Out Activities Under Carbon Capture Tech program 962 of Environmental Protection Agency New Competitive

Description: Expands the Department of Energy’s Carbon Capture Technology program to include a program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure necessary to deploy Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage technologies.

Eligible Recipients: Industry partner

Federal Cost Share: TBD

EPA Water Clean Water State Revolving Fund - Emerging Contaminants Existing Loan Yes

Description: Eligible projects limited to those that address emerging contaminants, such as PFAS.

Eligible Recipients: States initially receive funding, then provide funds to Water Utilities and/or Municipal and Other Eligible Entities. Tribes and Territories are also eligible to receive a portion of State Revolving Fund funds.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

USDOT-Build America Bureau Roads, bridges and major projects Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RIFF) loans Existing Competitive Open for applications

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%

EPA Water Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Emerging Contaminants Existing Loan Yes

Description: Eligible projects limited to those that address emerging contaminants, such as PFAS.

Eligible Recipients: States initially receive funding, then provide funds to Water Utilities and/or Municipal and Other Eligible Entities. Tribes and Territories are also eligible to receive a portion of State Revolving Fund funds.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

USDOT-FAA Airports and Federal Aviation Administration Facilities Airport Infrastructure Grants New Formula Yes

Description: For investment in runways, taxiways, safety and sustainability projects, as well as terminal, airport-transit connections and roadway projects.

Eligible Recipients: Public agencies, private entities, state and Tribal government owning a public use National Plan of Integration Airport Systems airport.

Federal Cost Share: 5-25% non-federal match for allocations, no match for contract tower grants. Waivers are not available.

EPA Water Clean Water State Revolving Fund Existing Loan Yes

Description: Provides communities low-cost financing for a wide range of water quality infrastructure projects. Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 49 percent of Clean Water State Revolving Fund funds shall be eligible to be grants or 100 percent principal forgiveness loans.

Eligible Recipients: States initially receive funding, then provide funds to Water Utilities and/or Municipal and Other Eligible Entities. Tribes and Territories are also eligible to receive a portion of State Revolving Fund funds.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share

EPA Water Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Existing Loans and grants Yes

Description: Financial assistance program to help water systems and States to achieve health protection objectives. States are required to give priority for the use of Drinking Water State Revolving Fund project funds to: Address the most serious risks to human health and assist systems most in need on a per household basis according to State affordability criteria. Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 49 percent of funds shall be eligible to be grants or 100 percent principal forgiveness loans.

Eligible Recipients: States initially receive funding, then provide funds to Water Utilities and/or Municipal and Other Eligible Entities. Tribes and Territories are also eligible to receive a portion of State Revolving Fund funds.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required