Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL/IIJA) Grants

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL/IIJA) Grants is sponsored by Various Federal Agencies (e.g., DOT, FHWA). The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) provides funding for a plethora of infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges, and public transit.

With implementation underway, the Biden Administration also released a guidebook to provide information outlining resources in the infrastructure package. Further, it serves as a roadmap to the funding available under the law, explaining direct federal spending at the program level.

Click Here for the White House IIJA Guidebook ## IIJA Guidebook Rural Playbook In April 2022, the Biden Administration released a rural supplement to the IIJA Guidebook to provide information focused on resources to support rural communities' ability to access funds in the infrastructure package.

Click here for the White House IIJA Rural Playbook The U.S. Department of Transportation developed this new resources to help communities understand the best ways to apply for grants, and to plan for and deliver transformative infrastructure projects and services.

Click here for the DOT Navigator ## Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Launchpad The BIL Launchpad provides customized information on available funding, interactive technical support, data on successful awards, and essential resources.

## Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) he**Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool** is a geospatial mapping tool to identify disadvantaged communities across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution. This tool can help promote the Justice40 program as it can help identify disadvantaged communities.

Click Here to Access the Tool ## Equitable Transportation Community Explorer (ETC) The U.S. DOT Equitable Transportation Community (ETC) Explorer is an interactive web application that uses 2020 Census Tracts and data, to explore the cumulative burden communities experience, as a result of underinvestment in transportation, in the following five components: Transportation Insecurity, Climate and Disaster Risk Burden, Environmental Burden, Health Vulnerability, and Social Vulnerability.

It is designed to complement the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) by providing users deeper insight into the Transportation disadvantage component of CEJST, and the ETC Explorer's Transportation Insecurity component, which will help ensure the benefits of DOT’s investments are addressing the transportation related causes of disadvantage.

Click Here to Access the Explorer ### National Highway Performance Program The **National Highway Performance Program** provides support for conditions and performance on highways and constructs new facilities. It also provides support for activities to increase the resiliency of the National Highway System to mitigate the cost of damages from sea level rise, extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires, or other natural disasters.

Lastly, the program will also ensure that investments of federal-aid funds in highway construction are directed to support progress toward the achievement of performance targets established in a state's asset management plan for the National Highway System.

### Surface Transportation Block Grant Program The **Surface Transportation Block Grant Program** promotes flexibility in state and local transportation decisions and provides flexible funding to best address state and local transportation needs. It can be used on federal-aid highways, bridges for public roads, and transit capital projects.

### Capital Investment Grants Program The **Capital Investment Grants Program** funds transit capital investments, including heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus rapid transit. Federal transit law requires transit agencies seeking Capital Investment Grants funding to complete a series of steps over several years.

The law also requires projects to be rated by Federal Transit Administration at various points in the process according to statutory criteria evaluating project justification and local financial commitment. IIJA guarantees**$8 billion**, and authorizes **$15 billion** more in future appropriations.

### Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Discretionary Grant program IIJA increases funding for the **Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Discretionary Grant program**by **$15 billion** with half of that in guaranteed appropriations.

Eligible recipients include states, the District of Columbia, any territories or possession of the United States, a unit of local government, public agencies, special purpose districts, or other related organizations. It is a competitive grant program which provides funding for road, rail, transit, and other surface transportation of local and/or regional significance.

Selection criteria includes safety, sustainability, equity, economic competitiveness, mobility, and community connectivity. ### Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program IIJA provides **$10.

9 billion**over 5 years for the **Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program**which provides competitive grants including highway or bridge projects to add capacity or improve mobility, intermodal or freight projects, and rail-highway grade crossing separation. Approximately $1. 55 billion will be given out for FY 2022.

Maximum of 85% of the funding will go towards projects larger than $100 million and a minimum of 15% of the funding will go towards projects smaller than $100 million (12 states have a different, lower threshold for large vs. small between $56 million and $95 million instead of the $100 million threshold for the other states).

Eligible applicants include but are not limited to: A state, or group of states; A metropolitan planning organization that serves more than 200,000 individuals (as stated by the Bureau of the Census); and A unit of local government or a group or local governments.

### National Infrastructure Project Assistance (also known as "Megaprojects" or "MEGA") For the**National Infrastructure Project Assistance (also known as "Megaprojects" or "MEGA"),**IIJA provides $5 billion in competitive grants for states, local governments, tribes, a unit of local government, a political subdivision of a state, a special purpose district, and other related organizations.

This programs provides funding for megaprojects that will likely generate national, regional, economic, mobility, or safety benefits. Eligible projects include a highway or bridge project, a freight intermodal or freight project that provides a public benefit, a railway-highway grade separation or elimination project, or an intercity passenger rail project.

### Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (Rural) For the **Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (Rural),** IIJA provides $1 billion in competitive grants to states, local governments, tribes, and regional transportation planning organizations.

The program will provide funds to improve and expand the surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas to increase connectivity, improve the safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generate regional economic growth and improve quality of life. $300 million will be given out in FY 2022. A minimum of 90% of all projects have a minimum $25 million rural grant award.

There is no award minimum for the other 10%. ### Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant Program The**Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant Program**provides**$5 billion** in competitive grants 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.

An eligible project for funding from this program includes projects to develop a comprehensive safety action plan; to conduct planning, design, and development activities for projects and strategies identified in a comprehensive safety action plan; or to carry out projects and strategies identified in a comprehensive safety action plan.

Eligible recipients include metropolitan planning organizations, political subdivisions of a state, federally recognized tribal governments, or a multi-jurisdictional group of entities described here. There are two types of grants: * An Action Plan Grant is given to recipients who have yet to create and develop an action plan for preventing death and serious injuries on roads.

* An Implementation Grant is given to recipients who have already developed an action plan and are ready to implement their action plan. ### Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program For the **Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program**, IIJA provides $3 billion ($600 million annually) in competitive grants for the mitigation or elimination of hazards at railway-highway crossings. An additional $2.

5 billion may be appropriated ($500 million annually). Eligible recipients include, but are not limited to: States, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions; A political subdivision of a State; Federally recognized Indian Tribes; and A unit of local government or a group of local governments.

### Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Grants For the**Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Grants**,IIJA provides **$1.

4 billion** in competitive grants to states (or a political subdivision of a state), metropolitan organizations, local governments, special purpose districts, tribes, and federal land management agency (applying jointly with states). PROTECT Grants will support planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.

States may use PROTECT Formula Program funds to conduct resilience planning, strengthen and protect evacuation routes, and increase the resilience of surface transportation infrastructure from the impacts of sea level rise. Highway, transit, and certain port projects are eligible. ### Bridge Formula Program For the **Bridge Formula Program**, IIJA provides approximately $26.

68 billion in formula grants to states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This program provides funding for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, protection, or construction projects on public roads. This program includes three set-asides: 15 percent will be set-aside for use on off-system bridges, 3 percent will be set-aside for use on Tribal Transportation Facility bridges, and 0.

5 percent will be set-aside for administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration.

### Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program For the **Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program**, IIJA provides **$500 million** over 5 years for: * Planning grants to carry out feasibility studies on the impact of removing or mitigating physical infrastructure barriers, including within communities, to improve accessibility and facilitate economic development at an 80 percent federal share ($150 million); and * Capital construction grants to owners of eligible facilities including at-grade crossings, limited access highways, and other principal arterial facilities acting as a barrier.

Facility owners may partner with a local government to carry out eligible projects. * Grants greater than or equal to $5 million are for capital construction projects, including the removal and replacement of eligible facilities. Planning grants will be given out at less than or equal to $2 million.

### Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Improvement Program For the **Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Improvement Program**, IIJA provides approximately $13. 2 billion in formula grants to states and the District of Columbia. The program provides flexible funding to state and local governments for transportation projects and programs to help meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act.

It also provides funding to reduce congestion and improve air quality for areas that do not meet the National Ambient Air Quality for ozone, carbon monoxide, or particulate matter.

Eligible uses include transportation projects that reduce congestion and reduce the mobile source emissions for which an area has been designated non-attainment or maintenance for ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter by the Environmental Protection Agency. ### National Highway Freight Program For the **National Highway Freight Program**, IIJA provides $7. 15 billion in formula grants for states and the District of Columbia.

The program provides funds to improve the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network. Projects that contribute to the efficient movement of freight on the National Highway Freight Network and are identified in a freight investment plan included in the State's freight plan are eligible for funding.

A State may not use more than 30 percent of its total National Highway Freight Program funds each year for freight intermodal or freight rail projects, subject to certain restrictions. ### Metropolitan Planning Program For the **Metropolitan Planning Program**, IIJA provides $2. 28 billion in formula grants to metropolitan planning organizations.

The IIJA continues this program, which provides funds for a cooperative, continuous, and comprehensive framework for making transportation investment decisions in metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan planning activities include the collection and analysis of data on demographics, trends, and system performance; travel demand and system performance forecasting; identification and prioritization of transportation system improvement needs; and coordination of the planning process and decision-making with the public, elected officials, and stakeholder groups.

### Highway Safety Improvement Program For the **Highway Safety Improvement Program**, IIJA provides approximately $15. 6 billion in formula grants to states and the District of Columbia. The program provides states with critical safety funding that is used to save lives and prevent serious injuries on all public roads.

It is also based on a performance-driven process that identifies and analyzes highway safety programs and advances highway safety improvement projects that have the greatest potential to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. ### Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program For the **Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program**, IIJA provides $1.

25 billion in loans to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, localities, or other public authorities. The act will have a total of $75 billion in lending capacity under the IIJA. The program will provide Federal credit assistance to eligible surface transportation projects.

Eligible projects include highways, transit, intercity passenger rail, some type of freight rail, intermodal freight transfer facilities, and some modifications including a port terminal, and electrification of buses, ferries, trains, and associated infrastructure. ### Disadvantaged Business Enterprise For the **Disadvantaged Business Enterprise**, IIJA provides $50 million of competitive grants, contracts, and allocations to states.

This program will provide funds to assist small and disadvantaged firms with building capacity and improving their ability to compete for Federal-aid highway contracts. ### Bridge Investment Program For the **Bridge Investment Program**, IIJA provides $12. 2 billion in competitive grants to states, metropolitan planning organizations with more than 20,000 members, local governments, special purpose districts, and tribal governments.

The program will support projects to improve bridge and culvert condition, safety, efficiency, and reliability. * Projects to replace, rehabilitate, preserve or protect one or more bridges on the National Bridge Inventory. * Projects to replace or rehabilitate culverts to improve flood control and improve habitat connectivity for aquatic species.

Large Bridge Projects that receive a BIP award of not less than $100 million are eligible for multi-year grants, in which DOT can award available funds to a project over the course of several years in accordance with an agreement and in alignment with its schedule.

In selecting Bridge Projects and Large Bridge Projects, FHWA will consider the extent to which BIP funds leverage non-Federal contributions from sponsors and stakeholders involved in the planning, design, and construction of eligible projects.

### National Culvert Removal, Replacement, & Removal Grant For the **National Culvert Removal, Replacement, & Removal Grant**, IIJA provides $1 billion in competitive grants to states, units of local governments, or tribes. The program provides supplemental funding for projects that replace, remove, and/or repair culverts or weirs.

**Eligible projects include projects that would meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish, improve or restore infrastructure to facilitate fish passage around or over the weir, and weir improvements.

** ### Advanced Transportation Technologies & Innovative Mobility Development For the **Advanced Transportation Technologies & Innovative Mobility Development**, IIJA provides $900 million in competitive grants, cooperative agreements, and other contracts to state or local governments, transit agencies, metropolitan planing organizations or a multi-jurisdictional group or academic institutions.

This program will make funds available to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies. **Eligible uses are for projects that improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment.

** ### Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects For the **Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects**, IIJA provides $275 million in competitive grants to any entity 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 land management agency or Indian tribe. The program provides funding for the construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of nationally-significant of Federal lands transportation projects and Tribal transportation projects.

**Eligible projects are projects that are on a Federal lands transportation facility, a Federal lands access facility, or a Tribal transportation facility. ** ### Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants For the **Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grants**, IIJA provides $36 billion in competitive grants ($7.

2 billion annually) 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. An additional $7. 5 billion may be appropriated ($1.

5 billion annually). Potential recipients include, among others: States, including the District of Columbia; A group of States; An Interstate Compact; A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more States; or. A political subdivision of a State.

### Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Grants For the **Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Grants**, IIJA provides $5 billion ($1 billion annually) in competitive grants to fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. An additional $5 billion may be appropriated ($1 billion annually).

Potential recipients include: •States, including the District of Columbia. •A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more States. •A political subdivision of a State.

•Amtrak and other rail carriers providing intercity rail passenger transportation. •Class II/III Railroads and associations that represent Class II/III Railroads. •Rail carriers & equipment manufacturers, in partnership with at least 1 of the •Federally recognized Indian Tribes.

•Transportation Research Board. •University Transportation Centers engaged in rail-related research. •Non-profit labor organizations representing rail employees.

**Eligible projects include a wide range of freight and passenger rail capital, safety technology deployment, planning, environmental analyses, research, workforce development, and training projects. ** ### Rail Vehicle Replacement Grants For **Rail Vehicle Replacement Grants,**IIJA provides $1. 5 billion in competitive grants to state and local government authorities.

$300 million will be provided for FY2022. This program provides funding for capital projects for the replacement of rail rolling stock. Not more than three new competitive awards to eligible projects may be announced each fiscal year.

FTA may select projects for multi-year awards. ### Low or No Emission Bus Grants Through**Low or No Emission Bus Grants,**the IIJA provides approximately $5. 62 billion of competitive grants.

$1. 1 billion is available for FY of 2022. Funding is available for states, counties, cities/townships to help transit agencies purchase or lease low or no-emission buses.

### Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grants For **Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grants,** the IIJA provides approximately $1. 97 billion of competitive grants for bus and bus facilities. $372 million is available for FY of 2022.

Funding is available for states, counties, and cities/townships to replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses, bus-related equipment, and bus-related facilities. ### Urbanized Area Formula Grants The **Urbanized Area Formula Grants**provides approximately $33. 4 billion in formula grants to states, counties, cities/townships, special districts, and tribes.

This program makes federal resources available to urbanized areas and to governors for transit capital and operating assistance in urbanized areas and for transportation-related planning. * Approximately $3. 3 billion will also be provided from the Growing States and High-Density states formula factors.

(total funding). * Approximately $6. 9 billion was made available for FY 2022.

### Metropolitan Transportation Planning Program The **Metropolitan Transportation Planning Program**provides approximately $799. 4 million in formula grants to states and metropolitan planning organizations. This program will provide funding for work elements that result in a balance and comprehensive intermodal transportation planning for the movement of people and goods in the metropolitan area.

### Statewide Transportation Planning Program The **Statewide Transportation Planning Program** provides approximately $167 million in formula grants to states and metropolitan planning organizations.

The funding for this program can be used for comprehensive planning, engineering, design, and evaluation of public transportation projects and studies involving modes other than transit when performed as part of the metropolitan transportation planning process. ### Pilot Program for Transit Oriented Development The **Pilot Program for Transit Oriented Development**provides approximately $68.

9 million in competitive grants to state or local government authorities that are Federal Transit Administration grant recipients. This program will help support the FTA's mission of improving public transportation for America's communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit capital investment.

Grants ma be used for site specific and comprehensive planning funded through the program. But, it must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations.

### Passenger Ferry Grant Program The **Passenger Ferry Grant Program** provides $150 million in competitive grants to states, counties, cities, townships, special districts and tribal governments. This program will provide funds for projects that support passenger ferry systems in urbanized areas.

### Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program The **Ferry Service for Rural Communities Program** makes federal resources available to states to ensure basic essential ferry service is provided to rural areas. These funds are limited to ferry services that operated a regular service at any time during the five-year period ending Marching 1, 2020 and that served no less than two rural areas located more than 50 nautical miles apart.

### Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities The**Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities**provides approximately $2. 2 billion in formula grants to states, counties, cities/townships, special districts, tribes and nonprofits.

These grants will provide financial assistance in meeting the transportation needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities where public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. ### Formula Grants for Rural Areas **Formula Grants for Rural Areas** provides approximately $4.

1 billion in formula grants to states, counties, cities, townships, special districts, tribal governments, and other organizations. This program will provide funds to improve, initiate, or continue public transportation service in non-urbanized areas (rural areas and small cities under 50,000 in population) and to provide technical assistance for rural transportation providers.

### Rural Transportation Assistance Program The **Rural Transportation Assistance Program** provides approximately $91. 6 million in formula grants to states. This program provides funding to states for transportation research, technical assistance, training, and related support services in rural areas.

### Appalachian Development Public Transportation Assistance Program The**Appalachian Development Public Transportation Assistance Program**provides approximately $137. 4 million in formula grants to states, counties, cities, townships, special districts, tribal governments and other nonprofit organizations.

This program provides funding for states in the Appalachian region to support the provision of public transit services in rural areas. ### State of Good Repair Grants **State of Good Repair Grants** provides approximately $21. 6 billion in formula grants to states, counties, cities, townships, special districts, and tribal governments.

This program provides funding to assist in capital projects for existing fixed guideway systems (including rail, bus rapid transit, and passenger ferries) and high intensity motorbus systems (buses operating in high-occupancy vehicle lanes) to maintain public transportation systems in a state of good repair and to ensure public transportation operate safely, efficiently, reliably, and sustainably so that communities can offer balanced transportation choices that helps to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and encourage economic development.

### Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Project **Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Project**provides approximately $132. 2 million in competitive grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to states, cities, townships, special districts, tribes, and other institutions.

This program provides funding to assist innovative projects and activities that advance and sustain, safe, efficient, equitable, climate-friendly public transportation.

Eligible research and demonstration under this program explore novel approaches to improve public transportation service - especially for transit-dependent individuals; advance vehicle and system technologies for safety, energy efficiency, and operational performance; use date for enhanced insights; and undertake other activities that help transit agencies meet equity, safety, climate change and transformation goals for a safer, environmentally cleaner, socially just and connected public transportation system.

### Congestion Relief Program **Congestion Relief Program**provides $250 million in competitive grants to states, metropolitan planning organizations, cities, or municipalities. This program will advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to reduce congestion and the related economic and environmental costs in the most congested metropolitan areas with an urbanized area population of 1 million+.

* Deployment and operation of integrated congestion management systems, systems that implement or enforce high occupancy vehicle toll lanes or pricing strategies, or mobility services * Incentive programs that encourage carpooling, non-highway travel during peak periods, or travel during non-peak periods.

* Subject to certain requirements and approval by the Secretary, provides for tolling on the Interstate System as part of a project carried out with a grant under the program.

### Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants **Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants**provides $500 million in competitive grants to states, political subdivisions of a state, tribal governments, public transit agencies or authorities, public toll authorities, metropolitan planning organizations, or a group of 2 or more eligible entities described before.

The program provides supplemental funding grants to rural, mid-sized, 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 safety and efficiency.

In general, a Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation grant may be used to carry out a project that demonstrates at least one of the following: * Intelligent, sensor-based infrastructure * Commerce delivery and logistics * Leveraging use of innovative aviation technology * Smart technology traffic signals. ### All Stations Accessibility Program The**All Stations Accessibility Program**provides $1.

75 billion in grants to state and local government authorities. This program provides capital funding to upgrade the accessibility of legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems for people with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs.

### Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program The**Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program** provides $350 million in grants (over five years) to state highway agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, regional transportation authority, special purpose districts or public authorities with a transportation function, tribes, and Federal land management agencies.

The Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program will support projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity. ### Airport Terminals Program The Federal Aviation Administration's **Airport Terminals Program**provides competitive grants for airport terminal development projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation’s airports.

These grants will fund safe, sustainable and accessible airport terminals, on-airport rail access projects and airport-owned airport traffic control towers. Projects may also include multimodal development. ### Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants The **Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants** provides $2.

25 billion for this program through competitive grants. $450 million is available for the FY of 2022. It provides grants for addressing sea-level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, earthquakes, and tsunami inundation.

It also funds projects that reduce or eliminate pollutants and greenhouse gases in ports. ### Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities **Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities**provides $912 million in formula grants to states and eligible ferry operations. * The Federal Highway Administration requests $80 million for FY2022.

* This program provides funding for ferry services that are important links in the network of Federal-aid highways, and in many cases, are the only reasonable form of transportation. ### Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities **Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities**will study and award competitive grants to reduce truck idling and emissions at ports, including through the advancement of port electrification.

Competitive grants are intended to test, evaluate, and deploy projects that reduce port-related emissions. ### Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program The **Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program** provides $250 million in competitive grants to a variety of recipients. An additional $250 million is subject to appropriation and can be made available in Division C of the IIJA for a total of $500 million over 5 years.

This program establishes an electric or low-emitting ferry pilot program that makes federal funding available to support the transition of passenger ferries to low or zero emission technologies. ### Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants **Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants**provides $2.

5 billion in competitive grants to states, political subdivision of states, metropolitan planning organizations, local governments, special purpose districts, public authorities with a transportation function, tribes, or territories.

Program funds will be made available each fiscal year for Community Grants, to install electric vehicle charging and alternative fuel in locations on public roads, schools, parks, and in publicly accessible parking facilities. It also uses funds to deploy electric vehicle charging and hydrogen/propane/natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors and in communities.

These grants will be prioritized for rural areas, low-and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with low ratios of private parking, or high ratios of multi-unit dwellings.

Eligible uses of funds include the acquisition and installation of publicly accessible electric vehicle charging or alternative fueling infrastructure, operating assistance (for the first 5 years after installation), acquisition and installation of traffic control devices.

### Clean School Bus Program The**Clean School Bus Program** provides $5 billion in grants and rebates to state or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations. * Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses and fifty percent of the funds are authorized for alternative fuels and zero-emission school buses.

* Funds may be prioritized for rural or low-income communities and entities that have matching funds available. * The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator is authorized to provide funds to cover up to 100 percent of the costs for the replacement of the bus. ### Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program **Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program**IIJA Appropriates**$42.

45 billion** for states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to utilize for broadband deployment, mapping, and adoption projects. * This is a program to get all Americans online by funding partnerships between states or territories, communities, and stakeholders, to build infrastructure where we need it to and increase adoption of high-speed internet.

* While funding goes directly to states, it is intended to support planning efforts including building capacity in state broadband offices and outreach and coordination with local communities.

* Each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico will receive an allocation of at least$100 million and the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will each receive $25 million.

* Example eligible uses of funds include: o Planning for deployment of internet o Deploying or upgrading internet o Installing internet in multi-tenant buildings o Implementing adoption and digital equity problems o Workforce and job training ### Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program **Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program**establishes and