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Find similar grantsPromoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Formula Program is sponsored by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). This program provides funding to help public agencies protect transportation infrastructure from natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters.
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Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Formula Program - National Wildlife Federation Nature-based Funding Database Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Formula Program The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act established both the PROTECT Formula and Competitive Grant Programs ( described separately ).
The PROTECT Program helps make surface transportation more resilient to current and future weather events, natural disasters, and changing conditions, such as severe storms, flooding, drought, levee and dam failures, wildfire, rockslides, mudslides, sea level rise, extreme weather, including extreme temperature, and earthquakes through support of planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.
Planning Activities , including vulnerability assessments, technical capacity building, evacuation planning, and development of a Resilience Improvement Plan.
Resilience Improvements to increase resilience of existing surface transportation infrastructure Community Resilience and Evacuation Route activities that strengthen and protect evacuation routes that are essential for providing and supporting evacuations caused by emergency events At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure activities to strengthen, stabilize, harden, elevate, relocate or otherwise enhance the resilience of highway and non-rail infrastructure, including: bridges, roads, pedestrian walkways, and bicycle lanes, and associated infrastructure.
Natural infrastructure that protects and enhances surface transportation assets while improving ecosystem conditions, including culverts that ensure adequate flows in rivers and estuarine systems. For the Formula Program, states (including D. C.)
are eligible. Approx Annual Funding Amount Roughly $1. 5 billion is annually available from FY2022-2026 through the Formula Program, totaling $7.
5 billion. Each State’s PROTECT Formula Program apportionment is calculated based on a predetermined percentage determined by law. An 80% federal / 20 % non-federal cost share is required.
Cost share requirements may be fulfilled through other Federal non-PROTECT Formula Program funds, though cost share requirements of those federal funds must still be met. Non-Federal cost share requirements may be reduced by up to 10 percentage points if states have a Resilience Improvement Plan in place and if that plan is incorporated into the statewide long-range transportation plan.
Each State’s PROTECT Formula Program apportionment is calculated based on a percentage specified in law. To find your local federal highway office, visit this site . For Tribal contact info visit this site .
Each state must use at least 2% of its PROTECT Formula Program funding each fiscal year for resilience-related planning activities.
Purpose: Business/Community Development , Climate Resilience/Adaptation , Erosion Control , Flood/Storm Risk Reduction , Habitat/Ecosystem Protection , Natural Hazard Mitigation Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Support Type: Project Funding (Grant/Other) Cost Share: Varies/Need-based Roadside Pollinator Program Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant Program Website Design by openbox9
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The current listing shows up to $576 million for applications by February 2025; up to $300 million for applications between October 2025 and February 2026. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Formula Program is funded by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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