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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New or Existing Program | Type | Latest Actions / Upcoming Milestones | Tribes Eligible? | Workforce Funding Eligible Use? | Cybersecurity An Eligible Use? | ||
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| TBD | Broadband | Private Activity Bonds for Qualified Broadband Projects | New | Tax exemptions | ||||||
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Description: Assists private sector providers for projects to provide broadband service to one or more census block groups where at least 50% of residential households do not have access to fixed terrestial broadband service Eligible Recipients: Private sector partners Federal Cost Share: N/A |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Other | Prioritization Process Pilot Program | New | Competitive | TBD | |||||
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Description: Pilot program to support data-driven approaches to planning that can be evaluated for public benefit. Eligible Recipients: States, certain MPOs Federal Cost Share: Default (see sec 233 U.S.C. 120) |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Preventing Outages and Enhancing Resilience of the Electric Grid (section 40101) | New | Competitive | September 2022 - RFI expected | Yes | ||||
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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: |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Preventing Outages and Enhancing Resilience of the Electric Grid (section 40101(d)) | New | Formula | September 30, 2022 – Application materials due | Yes | ||||
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Description: To make grants to eligible entities to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electricity grid Eligible Recipients: States, Territories, D.C. and Tribes (can subgrant to electric grid operators, electricity storage operators, electricity generators, transmission owners or operators, distribution providers, fuel suppliers). Federal Cost Share: Federal 85%/States, Territories and Tribes 15% (Federal share is 50% to subgrantees or 66% if a small utility) |
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| USDA | Resilience | Preplanning Fire Response Workshops And Workforce Training | Yes | Direct Federal Spending | Yes | |||||
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Description: The Forest Service will conduct pre-planning fire response workshops that develop Potential Operational Delineations and select potential control locations and workforce training for staff, non-Federal firefighters, and Native village fire crews. Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding 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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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | Power Marketing Administration Transmission Borrowing Authority | Existing | Loans | September 30, 2022 - The Administrator must issue an updated financial plan by the end of FY 2022 | |||||
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Description: Borrowing authority for the Bonneville Power Authority (BPA) to assist in the financing of the construction, acquisition and replacement of the federal Columbia River Power System. Eligible Recipients: Entities that assist in implementing the Construction, Acquisition, And Replacement of The Federal Columbia River Power System Federal Cost Share: N/A |
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| USDA | Resilience | Post-Fire Restoration | No | Direct Federal Spending | ||||||
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Description: The Burned Area Recovery program will provide restoration activities on wildfire affected areas within three years after the date that a wildland fire is contained. Eligible Recipients: Forest Service Funding Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required |
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| USDOT-Maritime | Ports and Waterways | Port Infrastructure Development Program | Existing | Competitive | May 16, 2022 - NOFO for FY2022 closed | Yes | Yes | |||
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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. |
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| EPA | Resilience | Pollution Prevention Grants | Existing | Yes | ||||||
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Description: Grantees deliver technical assistance to businesses to identify and adopt source reduction practices and technologies. Eligible Recipients: States, Tribes, State-Sponsored Institutions, Tribal Institutions Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required |
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| EPA | Resilience | Pollution Prevention Grants | Existing | Competitive | April 11, 2022 Applications close for FY2022 NOFO | Yes | ||||
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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 |
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| USACE | Resilience | Planning Assistance To States | Existing | Direct Federal | Yes | |||||
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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 |
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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 | Pilot Program for Enhanced Mobility | Existing | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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Description: Competitive program to improve coordinated access and mobility Eligible Recipients: States, counties, cities/townships, special districts, nonprofits, Tribal governments (other than federally-recognized) Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available. |
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| DHS | Resilience | Physical Security | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Provides a layered and integrated capability to safely screen for potential threat items in unstructured crowds within soft-target venues and crowded spaces without impact to the speed of travel while maintaining individual privacy. Eligible Recipients: Academia, Industry, National lands, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers Federal Cost Share: |
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| DOC - NOAA | Other | Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund | Existing | Competitive | March 2022 - Funding for FY22 closed | Yes | ||||
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Description: Continues existing program to reverse the declines of Pacific salmon and steelhead. Eligible Recipients: States and Tribes Federal Cost Share: 68% per cent federal/33% non-federal. Waivers are available. |
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| 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 | ||||
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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 |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | On-the-Job Training Program | Existing | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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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 |
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| DOC | Resilience | Ocean And Coastal Observing Systems | Existing | Yes | ||||||
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Description: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support and enhance two critical ocean observing systems. Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized and non Federally Recognized), nonprofits, higher ed. Federal Cost Share: |
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| DOC-NOAA | Resilience | Ocean And Coastal Observing Systems | Existing | Yes | ||||||
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Description: To support and enhance various critical observing systems in the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. Eligible Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized and non Federally Recognized), nonprofits, higher ed. Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required |
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| Northern Border Regional Commission | Other | Northern Border Regional Commission | Existing | Yes | ||||||
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Description: The Northern Border Regional Commission catalyzes regional, collaborative, and transformative community economic development approaches that alleviate economic distress and position the region for economic growth. Eligible Recipients: States, Tribal governments (federally recognized and non-federally recognized), counties, cities / townships, public higher edu, non profits etc. Federal Cost Share: Maximum Northern Border Regional Commission share is 50 percent or 80 percent, depending on the community’s level of economic distress. Waivers are available in some circumstances. |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | New Solar Research & Development (s. 41007 (c)) | New | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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Description: To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to advance new solar energy manufacturing technologies and techniques. Eligible Recipients: Federal, state, and local government, higher education. National Lab, related research agency in territory, Tribal energy development organization, a Tribe, a Tribal organization, Native Hawaiian community-based organization, non profit, industry, etc. Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| DHS | Resilience | Network & System Security & Investment | Existing | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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Description: This program produces the technologies needed to secure information and software that resides on the networks and systems that make up the Internet. It provides analytic tools for the law enforcement community to investigate crimes committed in cyberspace. Eligible Recipients: Academia, Industry, National lands, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers Federal Cost Share: |
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| USDOT-PHMSA | Safety | Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grants | New | Competitive | August 8, 2022 - applications close for FY22 funding | |||||
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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 |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (INFRA) | Existing | Competitive | May 3, 2022, Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity NOFO (INFRA, MEGA and RURAL programs) closed for FY22 | Yes | ||||
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Description: Competitive grants for multi-modal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance. Eligible Recipients: States, local governments, tribes, certain MPOs, certain SPDs or public authorities etc. Federal Cost Share: 60% federal/40% non federal except for certain small projects where federal share will be 80% and a grant under the state incentive pilot program (50 federal/50 non-federal) |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects | Existing | Competitive | Yes | |||||
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Description: Provides funding for construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of nationally-significant federal lands transportation projects and Tribal transportation projects Eligible Recipients: Any 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 lands mana genet agency or Tribe. Federal Cost Share: 90% federal/10% non-federal. Waivers are available for Tribes. |
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| USDA | Resilience | National Seed Strategy | New | Yes | ||||||
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Description: Under development Eligible Recipients: State, Tribe, Local Units Of Government, Non-Government Organizations Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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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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| USDOT-NHTSA | Safety | National Priority Safety Programs | Existing | Formula | January 2022, Interim State Formula Grant Funding Table Released | |||||
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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. |
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| DOC - NOAA | Resilience | National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund | Existing | Competitive | April 21, 2022 - Notice of Funding Opportunity for FY 2022 closed | Yes | ||||
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Description: Supports the National Coastal Resilience Fund which restores, increases and strengthens natural infrastructure to protect coastal communities while also enhancing habitats for fish and wildlife. Invests in conservation projects that restore or expand natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs, forests, coastal rivers and floodplains, and barrier islands that minimize the impacts of storms and other naturally occurring events on nearby communities. Eligible Recipients: States, territories, tribes, local, non profits Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Roads, bridges and major projects | National Motor Vehicle Per-Mile User Fee Pilot (set-aside) | New | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: Pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Eligible Recipients: States Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/ 20% non-federal |
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| DOE | Clean Energy and Power | National Marine Energy Centers | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: To provide financial assistance to establish new National Marine Energy Centers and continuation and expansion of the research, development, demonstration, testing and commercial application activities at existing Centers. Eligible Recipients: Institutions of Higher Education or consortia Federal Cost Share: TBD |
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| USDOT-Secretary | Roads, bridges and major projects | National Infrastructure Project Assistance (MEGA) projects | New | Competitive | May 3, 2022, Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity NOFO (INFRA, MEGA and RURAL programs) closed for FY22 | Yes | ||||
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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. |
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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 | 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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| DOI | Resilience | National Geological And Geophysical Data Preservation Program | No | Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal Spending | First Round of Funding Allocated / Selections Announced in May 2022 | |||||
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Description: Provides competitive grants to State Geological Surveys and funds projects executed by U.S. Geological Survey and other Department of the Interior bureaus to preserve, modernize, and make publicly available geological and geophysical data and assets. Eligible Recipients: State Geological Surveys, State Universities Housing State Geological Surveys, Private Contractors, U.S. Geological Survey Science Centers And Other Department of Interior Bureaus Federal Cost Share: No non-Federal cost share required |
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| EPA | Water | National Estuary Program Grants | No | Grant | July 2022 - FY2022 - FY2026 Guidance released | |||||
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Description: To protect and restore the water quality and resources of estuaries and associated watersheds designated by the EPA Administrator as estuaries of national significance. Eligible Recipients: 28 Federally Recognized Local National Estuary Programs Federal Cost Share: Yes. Waivers are available. |
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| DOC - NOAA | Other | National Estuarine Research Reserve System | Existing | Competitive | ||||||
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Description: The National Estuarine Research Reserve System consists of estuarine areas of the United States and its territories designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Eligible Recipients: States, Territories Federal Cost Share: No non-federal cost share required |
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| USDOT-FHWA | Electric Vehicles, Buses and Ferries | National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program | New | Formula | August 1, 2022 - states must submit EV Infrastructure Deployment Plan to receive FY22 funds | No | Yes - provided they are directly related to the charging of an electric vehicle. | Cybersecurity must be addressed in NEVI plans | ||
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Description: Funds the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure along corridors and interstates to establish an interconnected network. 10% of funding is for discretionary grants to states and local governments that require additional assistance. Eligible Recipients: States, D.C., P.R. Federal Cost Share: 80% federal/20% non-federal. Waivers are not available. |
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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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