Description: Supports surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, tribes, regional transportation planning organizations

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal except 100% federal for Appalachian Development Highway System, Denali Access System Program projects. Waives are available for ADHS and Denali Access System Program.

Description: Funding to carry out intergovernmental enforcement, along with training and research, to reduce evasion of payment of motor fuel and other highway use taxes.

Eligible Recipients: States, IRS

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

Description: To reduce deaths or serious injuries in transportation-related crashes in Tribal Areas

Eligible Recipients: Federally recognized Tribe

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

Description: Helps develop capacity of the Nation's current and future highway construction industry workforce by providing the development and diversity of skilled labor

Eligible Recipients: States

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers available in some circumstances

Description: Supports large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely generate national ,or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.

Eligible Recipients: States or group of states, local governments, Tribal government or consortium of Tribal governments, MPOs, certain SPDs or public authorities, Amtrak if in partnership with the above.

Federal Cost Share: 75% Federal/25% non-federal for new compacts; 50% federal/50% non-federal for existing compacts. Waivers not available.

Description: Competitive program for passenger ferry capital projects in urbanized areas.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, SPD, Tribal governments (Federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Grants to invest in the modernization and expansion of US ports to remove bottlenecks, ensure long-term competitiveness, resilience, cybersecurity, and sustainability while reducing impacts to the environment and neighboring communities.

Eligible Recipients: Ports, Port Authorities

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non federal. Waivers are available for small projects or projects in rural areas.

Description: Grants to develop and expand marine highway service options and facilitate their further integration into the U.S. surface transportation system.

Eligible Recipients: Designated marine highway projects

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

Description: Supplemental funding to accelerate vehicle and behavioral safety research

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally-recognized and non-federally recognized), counties, cities / townships, SPDs, Higher Ed etc.

Federal Cost Share: Up to 100% federal contribution

Description: To fund national traffic safety campaigns to reduce alcohol-impaired or drug-impaired driving and to increase the use of seatbelts.

Eligible Recipients: Businesses, nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal share required

Description: Maintains the Problem Driver Pointer System database

Eligible Recipients: Businesses, nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal share required

Description: The Hazardous Materials and Emergency Preparedness Grants Programs consist of the following grants: Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness; Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training; Hazardous Materials Instructor Training; and Supplemental Public Sector Training.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, tribes, counties, cities/townships, etc.

Federal Cost Share: Some grants have a cost share requirement of 20 percent. Waivers are available.

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

Description: Restores communities by removing, retrofitting or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity.

Eligible Recipients: State, locality, Tribal government, MPO, non-profit, owner of eligible facility

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers available.

Description: Supplemental funding for projects that will have a significant local/regional impact. Includes highways, bridges, public transportation, passenger rail or freight rail, port infrastructure etc.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, D.C., local governments, multi-state entities, certain SPDs or public authorities, Tribal government, Amtrak in partnership with the above.

Federal Cost Share: Grant can provide up to 60% of total project cost. Total Federal funding up to 80% of total project cost. Waivers are not available.

Description: Provides funding to assist innovative projects and activities that advance and sustain safe, efficient, equitable, climate-friendly public transportation. Eligible research and demonstrations under this program explore novel approaches to improve public transportation.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, SPD, Public Transportation provider, Tribal governments (federally recognized) etc.

Federal Cost Share: 80 percent Federal / 20 percent non-Federal. Waivers are available.

Description: Provides supplemental funding 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 Recipients: State; Tribal government, Local, public transit agency or authority, public toll authority, MPO, 2 or more of the above.

Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required

Description: Funds for projects that replace, remove, and/or repair culverts or weirs.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, tribes

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal cost share for urban projects and up to 100% Federal funding for projects located in rural areas or historically disadvantaged communities

Description: "Provides supplemental funding to support local initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets, commonly referred to as ""Vision Zero"" or ""Toward Zero Deaths"" initiatives"

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, federally recognized Tribal governments, MPOs, multi-jurisdictional entities

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

Description: New program to facilitate access to expert services for and to provide grants to eligible entities to enhance the technical capacity to facilitate and evaluate public-private partnerships to allow the private sector to assume a greater role in project planning, development, financing, construction, maintenance and operation, including through assisting entities entering into asset concessions.

Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally and non-federally recognized), counties, cities/townships, special district, public housing authorities, Indian housing authorities etc.

Federal Cost Share: 100%

Description: The UTC Program advances the State-of-the-art in transportation research and technology, and develops the next generation of transportation professionals.

Eligible Recipients: Higher Ed.

Federal Cost Share: In general, 50 percent Federal share/50 percent non-Federal (100 percent non-Federal matching requirement); 66.7 percent Federal/33.3 percent non-Federal (50 percent non-Federal matching requirement) for Tier 1 UTCs

Description: Funding for interstate rail compacts' administrative costs and to conduct railroad system planning, promotion of intercity passenger rail operations, and the preparation of grant applications

Eligible Recipients: An existing entity (e.g., a commission) established by member states to implement an interstate rail compact. 

Federal Cost Share:

Description: Research and development activities with respect to (1) highway and traffic safety systems and conditions, (2) human behavioral factors and their effect on highway and traffic safety, (3) evaluation of the effectiveness of countermeasures to increase highway and traffic safety, (4) development of technologies to detect drug impaired drivers, (5) driver education programs, State laws on highway and traffic safety; Cooperative research and evaluation to research and evaluate priority highway safety countermeasures; Collaborative research on in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving; Education campaign to reduce incidence of vehicular heatstroke of children; Grant program to develop and implement State processes for informing consumers of recalls; and Evaluation of innovative highway safety countermeasures.

Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally recognized), Tribal Governments (other than Federally recognized), Independent School Districts, Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Private Higher-Ed Institutions, Nonprofits, Small Businesses, Businesses (other than small businesses), and / or Individuals

Federal Cost Share: Up to 100% federal contribution

Description: To make grants to eligible entities to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electricity grid

Eligible Recipients: Electric grid operators, electricity storage operators, electricity generators, transmission owners and operators, distribution providers, fuel suppliers.

Federal Cost Share:

Description: To restore marine, estuarine, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystem habitat as well as construct or protect ecological features that protect coastal communities from flooding or coastal storms.

Eligible Recipients: Non-Profits, State And Territorial Government Agencies, Local Governments, Municipal Governments, Tribal Governments And Organizations, Educational Institutions, Or Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations.

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required

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.

Description: Provides capital funding to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses and bus related equipment and to rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. Provides capital funding for low or no emissions bus projects.

Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

Federal Cost Share: Varies. Waivers are not available.

Description: Set-aside pilot program as part of the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects Program

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, Tribal government, MPOs, certain SPDs or Port Authorities

Federal Cost Share: 50% federal/50% non-federal. May not use federal assistance to satisfy non-federal share, except for fund from a secured loan if it is repayable from non-federal funds. Waivers not available.

Description: To provide operating assistance to initiate, restore, or enhance intercity passenger rail service.

Eligible Recipients: States, federally-recognized Tribes, D.C., local governments, multi-state entities, Amtrak & Other IPR Carriers

Federal Cost Share: Year 1: 90% federal; Year 2: 80% federal; Year 3: 70% federal; Year 4: 60% federal; Year 5: 50% federal; Year 6: 30% federal. Waivers are not available.

Description: Set-aside from the competitive Bridge Investment Program

Eligible Recipients: Tribes

Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share requirement

Description: Supports Commercial Driver's License programs at a state and federal level.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, any person

Federal Cost Share: At least 85% federal

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.

Description: Awards grants to a variety of education institutions that provide commercial truck and bus driving training.

Eligible Recipients: Accredited public or private colleges, universities, vocational-technical schools, post-secondary educational institutions, truck driver training schools, associations, and state and local governments, federally recognized Tribal governments.

Federal Cost Share: Federal share is at least 85%

Description: A discretionary 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.

Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, Federally recognized Tribes etc.

Federal Cost Share: Federal share at least 85%

Description: New program to train non-federal government employees who conduct Commercial Motor Vehicle enforcement activities and to develop related training materials.

Eligible Recipients: Nonprofits

Federal Cost Share: Federal share is 100%

Description: To fund capital projects that reduce the State of good repair backlog, improve performance, or expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service ,including privately operated intercity passenger rail service if an eligible applicant is involved.

Eligible Recipients: States/group of states, local governments, Federally recognized tribe, D.C., public agencies, Amtrak.

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

Description: To fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. Eligible uses include workforce development and training projects.

Eligible Recipients: States/group of states, local governments, federally-recognized Tribes, D.C., public agencies, Amtrak.

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal with statutory preference for 50/50. Waivers are not available.

Description: To fund highway-rail or pathway-rail grade crossing improvement projects that focus on improving the safety and mobility of people and goods.

Eligible Recipients: States, territories, D.C., local authorities, federally-recognized Tribes, Port Authorities, MPOs

Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal.

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

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.