Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding for
Local Governments and Communities

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

Funding amount: $2,477,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: No

Recipients: Domestic Nuclear Industry Partners, National Laboratories, and Engineering and Construction firms.

Description: To fund two large demonstrations of advanced nuclear reactors for electricity generation.

Eligible Uses: Funding for the existing advanced reactor demonstration program (DE–FOA–0002271).

Next Milestone: Agreements went into effect on 2/21 and 5/21; NRC licensing of reactors TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner, Project Developers

Description: To establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land.

Eligible Uses: Solar; Micro-grids; Geothermal; Direct air capture; Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and compressed air storage; Advanced nuclear technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2023.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Formula Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States (including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)

Description: Strategically deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure and establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability. Sets aside 10 percent of funding for discretionary grants to State and local governments that require additional assistance to strategically deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure

Eligible Uses: The acquisition and installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure to serve as a catalyst for the deployment of such infrastructure and to connect it to a network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability; proper operation and maintenance of electric vehicle charging infrastructure; data sharing about electric vehicle charging infrastructure to ensure the long-term success of investments.

Next Milestone: Federal Highway Administration will publish program guidance within 90 days of enactment (February 13, 2022). Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $1,250,000,000

Period of Availability: 4 years

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory

Description: 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. 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 multiunit dwellings.

Eligible Uses: 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

Next Milestone: Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $1,250,000,000

Period of Availability: 4 years

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory

Description: Deploy electric vehicle charging and hydrogen/propane/natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors and in communities.

Eligible Uses: 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

Next Milestone: Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $5,624,550,890

Period of Availability: Year of Allocation plus three years

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: No

Recipients: States, Counties, Cities / Townships, Special Districts, Tribal Governments (federally recognized)

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 Uses: Capital

Next Milestone: Notice of Funding Opportunity expected the first quarter of 2022

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency

Account: State and Tribal Assistance Grants

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended Funding Mechanism: Grant, Rebate and Contract

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Local or State Governmental Entities; An Eligible Contractor; A Nonprofit School Transportation Association; Or an Indian Tribe

Description: State or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations are authorized to receive grant funds. Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses, and 50 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.

Eligible Uses: State or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations are authorized to receive grant funds. Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses, and 50 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.

Next Milestone: Applications for funding will be made available here later this spring.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $250,000,000

Period of Availability: To be determined Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: TBD

Description: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 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.

Eligible Uses: Capital

Next Milestone: A Notice of Funding Opportunity is expected in the spring of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $200,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, Nonprofit and for-profit private entities, State and local governments, Consortia of entities.

Description: To expand an existing program at Department of Energy for research, development, and demonstration of electric vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications for vehicle batteries.

Eligible Uses: (i) To conduct research, development, testing, evaluation of solutions to increase the rate and productivity of electric drive vehicle battery recycling; and (ii) for research, development, and demonstration projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the recycling and second-use of electric drive vehicle batteries.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening in the first quarter of 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $26,169,974

Period of Availability: To be determined.

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative agreement, contract, grant

New Program: No

Recipients: Qualified "institutions of higher education”

Description: The Federal Transit Administration will provide funds to two qualified institutions of higher education to conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission components intended for use in low- and zero emission buses used to provide public transportation. The Low and No-Emission Component Assessment Program is intended to test items that are separately installed in and removable from a low or no emission transit bus.

Eligible Uses: To conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission vehicle and to conduct testing, evaluation, and analysis of low or no emission. Vehicle components, and new and emerging technology components, intended for use in low or no emission vehicles; and to conduct directed technology research, as well as operations, maintenance, testing, and evaluation.

Next Milestone: Funding allocations to be announced in Spring 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $40,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: No

Recipients: (A) An Institution of Higher Education; (B) A National Laboratory; (C) A Federal Research Agency; (D) A State Research Agency; (E) A Research Agency Associated with A Territory or Freely Associated State; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To fund research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities to improve solar energy technologies.

Eligible Uses: Research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities, including (i) awarding grants and awards, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis; (ii) performing precompetitive research and development; (iii) establishing or maintaining demonstration facilities and projects, including through stewardship of existing facilities (iv) providing technical assistance; (v) entering into contracts and cooperative agreements; (vi) providing small business vouchers; (vii) establishing prize competitions; (viii) conducting education and outreach activities; (ix) conducting workforce development activities; and (x) conducting analyses, studies, and reports.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $20,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (A) An institution of higher education; (B) a National Laboratory; (C) a Federal research agency; (D) a State research agency; (E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to advance new solar energy manufacturing technologies and techniques.

Eligible Uses: Solar energy manufacturing projects that— (i) increase efficiency and cost effectiveness in (I) the manufacturing process; and (II) the use of resources, such as energy, water, and critical materials;

(ii) support domestic supply chains for materials and components;

(iii) identify and incorporate nonhazardous alternative materials for components and devices;

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2023

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $20,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (A) An institution of higher education; (B) a National Laboratory; (C) a Federal research agency; (D) a State research agency; (E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies.

Eligible Uses: Eligible uses include -- (i) increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from solar energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters; (ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of solar energy devices; (iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of solar energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, solar energy technologies; and (v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of photovoltaic devices.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Electric utilities, State Energy Offices, Tribes, Institutes of Higher Education, or consortium thereof

Description: To provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity.

Eligible Uses: To be eligible for financial assistance, a project shall (i) be designed to provide not less than 1,000 megawatts of storage capacity; (ii) be able to provide energy and capacity for use in more than 1 organized electricity market; (iii) be able to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable electricity projects located on Tribal land; and (iv) have received a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $3,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (1) Institutions of higher education; (2)National Laboratories; (3) Nonprofit and for-profit private entities; (4) State and local governments; (5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through (4).

Description: To provide grants to ensure that the United States has a viable domestic manufacturing and recycling capability to support a North American battery supply chain.

Eligible Uses: Demonstration projects, construction of commercial-scale facilities, and retrofit or retooling of existing facilities for battery component manufacturing, advanced battery manufacturing, and recycling.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $3,000,000,000

Period of Availability: $600,000,000 appropriated annually for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended)

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (1) Institutions of higher education; (2)National Laboratories; (3) Nonprofit and for-profit private entities; (4) State and local governments; (5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through (4).

Description: To provide grants for battery materials processing to ensure that the United States has a viable battery materials processing industry. Funds can also be used to expand our domestic capabilities in battery manufacturing and enhance processing capacity.

Eligible Uses: Demonstration projects, construction of commercial-scale facilities, and retrofit or retooling of existing battery material processing facilities.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $125,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grants

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (i) An institution of higher education; (ii) a National Laboratory; (iii) a Federal research agency; (iv) a State research agency; (v) a nonprofit organization; (vi) an industrial entity; (vii) a manufacturing entity; (viii) a private battery-collection entity; (ix) an entity operating 1 or more battery recycling activities; (x) a State or municipal government entity; (xi) a battery producer; (xii) a battery retailer; or (xiii) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in clauses (i) through (xii).

Description: To award grants for research, development, and demonstration projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of batteries.

Eligible Uses: Research, development, and demonstration to address (i) recycling activities; (ii) the development of methods to promote the design and production of batteries that take into full account and facilitate the dismantling, reuse, recovery, and recycling of battery components and materials; (iii) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of batteries; (iv) the extraction or recovery of critical minerals from batteries that are recycled; (v) the integration of increased quantities of recycled critical minerals in batteries and other products to develop markets for recycled battery materials and critical minerals; (vi) safe disposal of waste materials and components recovered during the recycling process; (vii) the protection of the health and safety of all persons involved in, or in proximity to, recycling and reprocessing activities, including communities located near recycling and materials reprocessing facilities; (viii) mitigation of environmental impacts that arise from recycling batteries, including disposal of toxic reagents and byproducts related to recycling processes; (ix) protection of data privacy associated with collected covered battery-containing products; (x) the optimization of the value of material derived from recycling batteries; and (xi) the cost-effectiveness and benefits of the reuse and recycling of batteries and critical minerals.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $8,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Year of Allocation to Project plus three years

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: No

Recipients: State and local government agencies, including transit agencies

Description: This Federal Transit Administration discretionary grant 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.

Eligible Uses: Grants may be made under this program to State and local governmental authorities to assist in financing (1) new fixed guideway capital projects or small start projects, including the acquisition of real property, the initial acquisition of rolling stock for the system, the acquisition of rights-of-way, and relocation, for fixed guideway corridor development for projects in the advanced stages of project development or engineering; and (2) core capacity improvement projects, including the acquisition of real property, the acquisition of rights-of-way, double tracking, signalization improvements, electrification, expanding system platforms, acquisition of rolling stock associated with corridor improvements increasing capacity, construction of infill stations, and such other capacity improvement projects to increase the capacity of an existing fixed guideway system corridor by at least 10 percent. Core capacity improvement projects do not include elements to improve general station facilities or parking, or acquisition of rolling stock alone.

Next Milestone: TBD, pending full year Congressional appropriations.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Railroad Administration

Funding amount: $36,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: No but has been substantially revised.

Recipients: 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; A political subdivision of a State; Amtrak, acting on its own behalf or under a cooperative agreement with 1 or more States; Federally recognized Indian Tribe; Any combination of the entities above.

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 Uses: (1) projects to replace, rehabilitate, or repair infrastructure, equipment, or a facility used for providing intercity passenger rail service to bring such assets into a state of good repair; (2) projects to improve intercity passenger rail service performance, including reduced trip times, increased train frequencies, higher operating speeds, improved reliability, expanded capacity, reduced congestion, electrification, and other improvements, as determined by the Secretary; (3) projects to expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service; and (4) a group of related projects described previously.

The planning, environmental review, and final design of an eligible project or group of projects is also eligible. Preference to eligible projects: (1) for which Amtrak is not the sole applicant; (2) the improve the financial performance, reliability, service frequency, or address the state of good repair of an Amtrak route; and (3) that are identified in, and consistent with, a corridor inventory prepared under the Corridor Identification and Development Program pursuant to section 25101.

Next Milestone: Evaluate applications and make selections under Fiscal Year 2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity, targeting summer for announcements. Conduct stakeholder outreach regarding expanding Fed-State program, as well as development of Northeast Corridor inventory, which must be established by November 14, 2022. Estimated released date of Fiscal Year 2022 funds is TBD.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Railroad Administration

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000*

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: No

Recipients: 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; 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 first 5 entities above; Federally recognized Indian Tribes; Transportation Research Board; University Transportation Centers engaged in rail-related research; Non-profit labor organizations representing rail employees.

Description: To fund projects that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail.

Eligible Uses: Eligible projects include a wide range of freight and passenger rail capital, safety technology deployment, planning, environmental analyses, research, workforce development, and training projects. New eligibilities include: (1) measures to prevent trespassing on railroad property; (2) preparation of emergency plans for communities through which hazardous materials are transported by rail; (3) research, development, and testing to advance innovative rail projects; and (4) rehabilitating, remanufacturing, procuring, or overhauling locomotives to reduce emissions.

Next Milestone: Finalize selections from Fiscal Year 2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity, targeting spring 2022 for announcement. Estimated released date of Fiscal Year 2022 funds is TBD.

* 5.0 billion is provided through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in advance appropriations, and an additional $5.0 billion is authorized, subject to appropriation, in Division B for a total program level of $10.0 billion over five years.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Railroad Administration

Funding amount: $3,000,000,000*

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: 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; A unit of local government or a group of local governments; A public port authority; A metropolitan planning organization; A group of the entities described above.

Description: To provide funds for the mitigation or elimination of hazards at railway-highway crossings.

Eligible Uses: (1) grade separation or closure, including through the use of a bridge, embankment, tunnel, or combination thereof; (2) track relocation; (3) improvement or installation of protective devices, signals, signs, or other measures to improve safety related to a separation, closure, or track relocation project; (4) other means to improve the safety if related to the mobility of people and goods at highway-rail grade crossings (including technological solutions); (5) the planning, environmental review, and design of an eligible project type.

Next Milestone: Estimated released date of Fiscal Year 2022 funds is TBD.

* $3.0 billion is provided through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in advance appropriations, and an additional $2.5 billion is authorized, subject to appropriation, in Division B for a total program level of $5.5 billion over five years.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Railroad Administration

Funding amount: $250,000,000*

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: No

Recipients: States, including the District of Columbia; An entity implementing an interstate compact. A public agency/publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more States; A political subdivision of a State; Federally recognized Indian Tribes; Amtrak & Other Intercity Passenger Rail Carriers; Rail Carriers in partnership with at least 1 of the entities described above.

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

Eligible Uses: (1) establishing new services; (2) additional frequencies; (3) service extensions; (4) offering new on-board services.

Examples of eligible expenses can include: train engineer staffing, fuel, train dispatching, station management, and overhead.

Key Changes: New priority to applications for routes selected under the Corridor Identification and Development Program and operated by Amtrak. Grants may provide operating assistance for up to six years, and may not exceed: 90 percent of the projected net operating costs for the first year of service; 80 percent of the projected net operating costs for the second year of service; 70 percent of the projected net operating costs for the third year of service; 60 percent of the projected net operating costs for the fourth year of service; 50 percent of the projected net operating costs for the fifth year of service; and 30 percent of the projected net operating costs for the sixth year of service.

Next Milestone: Estimated released date of Fiscal Year 2022 funds remains TBD.

* Advance Appropriated Restoration and Enhancement funding is not authorized individually, and exists as a $250 million set-aside from the $16 billion National Network advance appropriation. $250 million is provided through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as a set-aside from the National Network advance appropriation, and an additional $250 million is authorized, subject to appropriation, in Division B for a total program level of $500 million over five years.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Aviation Administration

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Contract

New Program: No

Recipients: Commercial Vendors

Description: Federal Aviation Administration sustainment work and facilities replacements are for replacing Federal Aviation Administration-owned terminal and route air traffic control facilities; improvement of air route and terminal facilities; workplace safety and environmental standards compliance; Federal Aviation Administration-owned fuel storage tank replacement and management; unstaffed infrastructure sustainment; real property disposition; electrical power system sustain and support; energy maintenance and compliance; hazardous materials management and environmental cleanup; facility security risk management; mobile asset management program; and administrative expenses, including salaries and expenses, administration, and oversight.

Eligible Uses: Capital improvements for Federal Aviation Administration-owned and maintained facilities. The work will be awarded to commercial vendors on contract vehicles as well as with Federal Aviation Administration internal resources. Can be used for Terminal and En Route Staffed facilities that are directly manage air traffic control operations. Can also be used for sustainment activities at Federal Aviation Administration-owned unstaffed facilities and supporting infrastructure such as power systems, fuel storage tanks, facilities security risk management, environmental activities at Federal Aviation Administration-owned facilities, sustainment of Long-Range Radar facilities, and sustainment of mobile air traffic control facilities. Replacement of Federal Aviation Administration-owned Terminal and En Route facilities are eligible.

Next Milestone: Each project has its own planning cycle and individual milestones. The overarching program millstones are the annual funding allocations and required spending plans as defined by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Aviation Administration

Funding amount: $15,000,000,000

Period of Availability: 5 year

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Public agency, Private entity, state and Tribal Government owning a public use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems airport. Airports eligible for Airport Infrastructure Grants include Primary airports, certain cargo airports, and most general aviation/commercial service airports that are not primary airports but in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. This amounts to approximately 3,100 airports.

Description: The funds are allocated in the 3 buckets: Primary Allocation, Non‐Primary Allocation, Contract Towers

Eligible Uses: Project eligibility tracks Passenger Facility Charge eligibility. With the exception of Debt Service. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law specifically states the funds cannot be used for Debt Service.

Next Milestone: May 2022 – Federal Aviation Administration will issue the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the competitive $20 million (annual) airport owned airport traffic contract tower program.

May 2022 – Federal Aviation Administration will issue guidance and begin issuing grants for specific projects based on the Fiscal Year 2022 airport allocations announced on December 16, 2021.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Aviation Administration

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: 5 year

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Public agency, Private entity, state and Tribal Government owning a public use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems airport. Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island Airport, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau.

Description: Provide grants to eligible airports for capital improvements for airport terminal development generally defined as development of an airport passenger terminal building, including terminal gates; access roads servicing exclusively airport traffic that leads directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; walkways that lead directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; multimodal terminal development; and projects for on-airport rail access projects. As well as projects for relocating, reconstructing, repairing or improving an airport-owned airport traffic control tower.

Eligible Uses: Capital improvements for airport terminal development generally defined as development of an airport passenger terminal building, including terminal gates; access roads servicing exclusively airport traffic that leads directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; walkways that lead directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; multimodal terminal development; and projects for on- airport rail access projects. As well as projects for relocating, reconstructing, repairing or improving an airport-owned air traffic control tower.

Next Milestone: February 2022 – Issue Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Fiscal Year 2022 competitive program.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Consortium of One Local Education Agency and one or more Schools, Non-Profits, For-Profits, and Community Partners

Description: To provide competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools.

Eligible Uses: Energy efficiency (envelope, HVAC, lighting, controls, etc.), ventilation, renewable energy, alternative vehicles, and alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure improvements.

Next Milestone: An official Request for Information is expected to be published in March 2022. The opportunity to apply for funding is expected to be open in the Fall of 2022.

Agency: Department of Agriculture

Sub-agency: Forest Service

Funding amount: $585,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant/Financial Assistance

New Program: No

Recipients: States and Counties

Description: The Secure Rural Schools program provides critical funding for schools, roads, and other municipal services to more than 700 counties across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Eligible Uses: Payments to States

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $553,600,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Incentive payments

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Non-Federal owners of qualified hydroelectric facilities

Description: To make incentive payments to the owners or operators of qualified hydroelectric facilities for capital improvements.

Eligible Uses: (1) Improving grid resiliency;(2) improving dam safety to ensure acceptable performance under all loading conditions (including static, hydrologic, and seismic conditions); and (3) environmental improvements.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $125,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Direct Subsidy

New Program: No

Recipients: Non-Federal Owners of Qualified Hydroelectric Facilities

Description: To provide incentives for the operation of hydroelectric facilities.

Eligible Uses: Incentives for hydroelectric facilities added to an existing dam or conduit which Department of Energy determines is eligible.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $75,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Direct Subsidy

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Owners or operators of hydroelectric facilities at existing dams

Description: To incentivize upgrades to hydroelectric facilities to increase their efficiency.

Eligible Uses: Capital improvements to hydroelectric facilities at existing dams to improve the efficiency of such facilities by at least 3 percent.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $36,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: No

Recipients: Industry partners and National Labs

Description: To fund research, development, and demonstration activities to improve hydropower technologies.

Eligible Uses: Technologies that improve the capacity, efficiency, resilience, security, reliability, affordability, and environmental impact, including potential cumulative environmental impacts, of hydropower systems

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date in 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Electric utilities, State Energy Offices, Tribes, Institutes of Higher Education, or consortium thereof

Description: To provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity.

Eligible Uses: To be eligible for financial assistance, a project shall (i) be designed to provide not less than 1,000 megawatts of storage capacity; (ii) be able to provide energy and capacity for use in more than 1 organized electricity market; (iii) be able to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable electricity projects located on Tribal land; and (iv) have received a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner, Project Developers

Description: To establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land.

Eligible Uses: (A) Solar; (B) Micro-grids; (C) Geothermal; (D) Direct air capture; (E) Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; (F) Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and compressed air storage; (G) Advanced nuclear technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2023.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $30,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: TBD

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: Funding to support the Department of Interior’s effort to establish a program to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells located on Federal land.

Eligible Uses: The Department is working through a number of options to use these funds to conduct scientific research on methane emissions and other hazards associated with orphan oil and gas wells.

Next Milestone: More information will be released Spring of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $550,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Block and Competitive Grants

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State/Local Government/Tribes

Description: To assist states, local governments, and Tribes to reduce energy use, reduce fossil fuel emissions, and improve energy efficiency.

Eligible Uses:

(1) Development and implementation of an energy efficiency and conservation strategy

(2) retaining technical consultant services to assist the eligible entity in the development of such a strategy, including—

(3) conducting residential and commercial building energy audits;

(4) establishment of financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements;

(5) the provision of grants to nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies for the purpose of performing energy efficiency retrofits;

(6) development and implementation of energy efficiency and conservation programs for buildings and facilities within the jurisdiction of the eligible entity;

(7) development and implementation of programs to conserve energy used in transportation;

(8) development and implementation of building codes and inspection services to promote building energy efficiency;

(9) application and implementation of energy distribution technologies that significantly increase energy efficiency;

(10) activities to increase participation and efficiency rates for material conservation programs, including source reduction, recycling, and recycled content procurement programs that lead to increases in energy efficiency;

(11) the purchase and implementation of technologies to reduce, capture, and, to the maximum extent practicable, use methane and other greenhouse gases generated by landfills or similar sources;

(12) replacement of traffic signals and street lighting with energy efficient lighting technologies;

(13) development, implementation, and installation on or in any government building of the eligible entity of onsite renewable energy technology that generates electricity from renewable resources;

(14) programs for financing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and zero-emission transportation (and associated infrastructure), capital investments, projects, and programs, which may include loan programs and performance contracting programs, for leveraging of additional public and private sector funds, and programs that allow rebates, grants, or other incentives for the purchase and installation of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and zero-emission transportation (and associated infrastructure) measures.

Next Milestone: The first funding opportunity is expected for release in the Fall of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $8,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended Funding Mechanism: Grants

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations.

Description: To support the development of at least 4 regional clean hydrogen hubs to improve clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use.

Eligible Uses: Projects that demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of, clean hydrogen through regional clean hydrogen hubs, which are networks of clean hydrogen producers, potential clean hydrogen consumers, and connective infrastructure located in close proximity.

Next Milestone: Applications for funding will open in the Summer of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $1,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: To establish a research, development, demonstration, commercialization, and deployment program for purposes of commercialization to improve the efficiency, increase the durability, and reduce the cost of producing clean hydrogen using electrolyzers.

Eligible Uses: (1) To demonstrate technologies that produce clean hydrogen using electrolyzers; and (2) to validate information on the cost, efficiency, durability, and feasibility of commercial deployment.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and any other agreements authorized under this Act or other Federal law

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: To provide federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.

Eligible Uses: (A) Increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from clean hydrogen technology components and systems; (B) minimizing environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (C) addressing any barriers to the research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling; (D) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of clean hydrogen technologies; (E) developing alternative disassembly and resource recovery processes that enable efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, clean hydrogen technologies; and (F) developing strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of fuel cells.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $355,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant or Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, State and Local Governments, Tribal Organizations, Community Based Organizations, National Laboratories, Universities, and Utilities.

Description: To enter into agreements to carry out 3 energy storage system demonstration projects.

Eligible Uses: (i) To improve the security of critical infrastructure and emergency response systems; (ii) To improve the reliability of transmission and distribution systems, particularly in rural areas, including high-energy cost rural areas; (iii) To optimize transmission or distribution system operation and power quality to defer or avoid costs of replacing or upgrading electric grid infrastructure, including transformers and substations; (iv) To supply energy at peak periods of demand on the electric grid or during periods of significant variation of electric grid supply; (v) To reduce peak loads of homes and businesses; (vi) To improve and advance power conversion systems; (vii) To provide ancillary services for grid stability and management; (viii) To integrate renewable energy resource production; (ix) To increase the feasibility of microgrids (grid-connected or islanded mode); (x) To enable the use of stored energy in forms other than electricity to support the natural gas system and other industrial processes; (xi) To integrate fast charging of electric vehicles; (xii) To improve energy efficiency.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $150,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement or Other (TBD)

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, State and Local Governments, Tribal Organizations, Community Based Organizations, National Laboratories, Universities, and Utilities.

Description: To establish a demonstration initiative composed of demonstration projects focused on the development of long-duration energy storage technologies.

Eligible Uses: Projects that (i) demonstrate promising long-duration energy storage technologies at different scales; and (ii) help new, innovative long-duration energy storage technologies become commercially viable.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Electric utilities, State Energy Offices, Tribes, Institutes of Higher Education, or consortium thereof

Description: To provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out project design, transmission studies, power market assessments, and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project to facilitate the long-duration storage of intermittent renewable electricity.

Eligible Uses: To be eligible for financial assistance, a project shall (i) be designed to provide not less than 1,000 megawatts of storage capacity; (ii) be able to provide energy and capacity for use in more than 1 organized electricity market; (iii) be able to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable electricity projects located on Tribal land; and (iv) have received a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner, Project Developers

Description: To establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land.

Eligible Uses: (A) Solar; (B) Micro-grids; (C) Geothermal; (D) Direct air capture; (E) Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; (F) Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and compressed air storage; (G) Advanced nuclear technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2023.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $1,250,000,000

Period of Availability: 4 year

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory

Description: 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. 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 multiunit dwellings.

Eligible Uses: 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

Next Milestone: Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $1,250,000,000

Period of Availability: 4 year

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State or political subdivision of a State, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local government, Special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, Indian Tribe, Territory

Description: Deploy electric vehicle charging and hydrogen/propane/natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated alternative fuel corridors and in communities.

Eligible Uses: 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

Next Milestone: Federal Highway Administration will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in 2022.

Agency: Environmental Protection Agency

Account: State and Tribal Assistance Grants

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant, Rebate and Contract

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Local or State Governmental Entities; An Eligible Contractor; A Nonprofit School Transportation Association; Or an Indian Tribe

Description: State or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations are authorized to receive grant funds. Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses, and 50 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.

Eligible Uses: State or local governments, eligible contractors, and nonprofit school transportation associations are authorized to receive grant funds. Fifty percent of the funds are authorized for zero-emission school buses, and 50 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.

Next Milestone: Applications for funding will be made available here later this spring.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Consortium of One Local Education Agency and one or more Schools, Non-Profits, For-Profits, and Community Partners

Description: To provide competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools.

Eligible Uses: Energy efficiency (envelope, HVAC, lighting, controls, etc.), ventilation, renewable energy, alternative vehicles, and alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure improvements.

Next Milestone: An official Request for Information is expected to be published in March 2022. The opportunity to apply for funding is expected to be open in the Fall of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Formula Grant

New Program: No

Recipients: States

Description: To provide funding to states to support electric transmission and distribution planning as well as planning activities and programs that help reduce carbon emissions in all sectors of the economy, including the transportation sector and accelerate the use of alternative transportation fuels and vehicle electrification.

Eligible Uses: Energy conservation measures, renewable energy measures, and programs to increase deployment of clean energy technologies in buildings, industry and transportation, including programs to help reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector and accelerate the use of alternative transportation fuels for, and the electrification of, State government vehicles, fleet vehicles, taxis and ridesharing services, mass transit, school buses, ferries, and privately owned passenger and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles .

Next Milestone: Estimated first round of funds released date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $750,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Manufacturing firm (A) the gross annual sales of which are less than $100,000,000; (B) that has fewer than 500 employees at the plant site of the manufacturing firm; and (C) the annual energy bills of which total more than $100,000 but less than $2,500,000.

Description: To provide grants to small- and medium-sized manufacturers to enable them to build new 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 Uses: To re-equip, expand, or establish a manufacturing or recycling facility for the production or recycling of advanced energy technologies (including clean electricity, industrial decarbonization, clean transportation, clean fuels, etc.); or to re- equip an industrial of manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of that facility.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and any other agreements authorized under this Act or other Federal law

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: To provide federal financial assistance to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.

Eligible Uses:

(A) Increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from clean hydrogen technology components and systems;

(B) minimizing environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes;

(C) addressing any barriers to the research, development, demonstration, and commercialization of technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling;

(D) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of clean hydrogen technologies;

(E) developing alternative disassembly and resource recovery processes that enable efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, clean hydrogen technologies; and

(F) developing strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of fuel cells.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $125,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grants

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (i) An institution of higher education; (ii) a National Laboratory; (iii) a Federal research agency; (iv) a State research agency; (v) a nonprofit organization; (vi) an industrial entity; (vii) a manufacturing entity; (viii) a private battery-collection entity; (ix) an entity operating 1 or more battery recycling activities; (x) a State or municipal government entity; (xi) a battery producer; (xii) a battery retailer; or (xiii) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in clauses (i) through (xii).

Description: To award grants for research, development, and demonstration projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of batteries.

Eligible Uses: Research, development, and demonstration to address (i) recycling activities; (ii) the development of methods to promote the design and production of batteries that take into full account and facilitate the dismantling, reuse, recovery, and recycling of battery components and materials; (iii) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of batteries; (iv) the extraction or recovery of critical minerals from batteries that are recycled; (v) the integration of increased quantities of recycled critical minerals in batteries and other products to develop markets for recycled battery materials and critical minerals; (vi) safe disposal of waste materials and components recovered during the recycling process; (vii) the protection of the health and safety of all persons involved in, or in proximity to, recycling and reprocessing activities, including communities located near recycling and materials reprocessing facilities; (viii) mitigation of environmental impacts that arise from recycling batteries, including disposal of toxic reagents and byproducts related to recycling processes; (ix) protection of data privacy associated with collected covered battery-containing products; (x) the optimization of the value of material derived from recycling batteries; and (xi) the cost-effectiveness and benefits of the reuse and recycling of batteries and critical minerals.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $40,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (A) An institution of higher education, (B) a National Laboratory; (C) a Federal research agency; (D) a State research agency; (E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, and demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of wind energy technologies.

Eligible Uses: (i) Increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from wind energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters; (ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes; (iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of wind energy devices; (iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of wind energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, wind energy technologies; and (v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of wind energy technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $20,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: (A) An institution of higher education, (B) a National Laboratory; (C) a Federal research agency; (D) a State research agency; (E) a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To award financial assistance to eligible entities for research, development, demonstration, and commercialization projects to create innovative and practical approaches to increase the reuse and recycling of solar energy technologies.

Eligible Uses: Eligible uses include -- (i) increasing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the recovery of raw materials from solar energy technology components and systems, including enabling technologies such as inverters;

(ii) minimizing potential environmental impacts from the recovery and disposal processes;

(iii) advancing technologies and processes for the disassembly and recycling of solar energy devices;

(iv) developing alternative materials, designs, manufacturing processes, and other aspects of solar energy technologies and the disassembly and resource recovery process that enable efficient, cost effective, and environmentally responsible disassembly of, and resource recovery from, solar energy technologies; and

(v) strategies to increase consumer acceptance of, and participation in, the recycling of photovoltaic devices.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Prize

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Prize dependent

Description: To provide a prize for recycling of lithium ion batteries and convene a task force on battery producer requirements.

Eligible Uses: (i) To increase the number of winners of Phase III of the prize competition; (ii) to increase the amount awarded to each winner of Phase III of the competition; and (iii) to carry out any other activity that is consistent with the goals of Phase III of the competition, as determined by the Secretary.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $50,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Competitive Grant, Allocation

New Program: No

Recipients: States

Description: The On-the-Job Training program helps develop the capacity of the Nation’s current and future highway construction industry workforce by providing the development and diversity of skilled labor.

Eligible Uses: The On-the-Job Training Program directly supports the requirement that prime contractors participating on federally-assisted contracts to establish apprenticeship and training programs targeted to move minorities, women, and disadvantaged individuals into journey-level positions and provides funds for state departments of transportation to implement skills training programs to prepare individuals to participate in the highway construction workforce as trainees and apprentices on federally-assisted construction contracts. Additionally, funding is provided to states to partner with accredited academic institutions for the National Summer Transportation Institute program focused on science, technology, engineering, and math opportunities for high school and junior high/middle school students to learn about, and become familiar with, transportation-related career options. Funding also supports the Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups, which provides internship opportunities for college students to engage with Department of Transportation modes to work in a transportation-related career field.

Next Milestone: TBD

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $61,978,167

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement or Interagency Agreement

New Program: No

Recipients: National nonprofit organizations

Description: Provides funding to support workforce development and transition, including in relation to zero-emission fleet conversion, and other technical assistance to support transit providers in enhancing safe, efficient, equitable and climate-friendly public transportation. Additionally, the program supports the development of standards for the public transportation industry.

Eligible Uses: Workforce development, technical assistance and standards development

Next Milestone: TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $40,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: No

Recipients: (A) An Institution of Higher Education, (B) A National Laboratory; (C) A Federal Research Agency; (D) A State Research Agency; (E) A Research Agency Associated with A Territory or Freely Associated State; (F) a Tribal energy development organization; (G) an Indian Tribe; (H) a Tribal organization; (I) a Native Hawaiian community-based organization; (J) a nonprofit research organization; (K) an industrial entity; (L) any other entity, as determined by the Secretary; and (M) a consortium of 2 or more entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (L).

Description: To fund research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities to improve solar energy technologies.

Eligible Uses: Research, development, demonstration, and commercialization activities, including—(i) awarding grants and awards, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis; (ii) performing precompetitive research and development; (iii) establishing or maintaining demonstration facilities and projects, including through stewardship of existing facilities; (iv) providing technical assistance; (v) entering into contracts and cooperative agreements; (vi) providing small business vouchers; (vii) establishing prize competitions; (viii) conducting education and outreach activities; (ix)conducting workforce development activities; and (x) conducting analyses, studies, and reports.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $40,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States

Description: To provide grants to eligible States to train individuals to conduct energy audits or surveys of commercial and residential buildings to build the clean energy workforce, save customers money on their energy bills, and reduce pollution from building energy use.

Eligible Uses: (A) To cover any cost associated with individuals being trained or certified to conduct energy audits by— (i) the State; or (ii) a State-certified third-party training program; and (B) to pay the wages of a trainee during the period in which the trainee receives training and certification.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Institutions of Higher Education

Description: To provide grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies.

Eligible Uses: (1) To identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance in buildings; (2) to promote the application of emerging concepts and technologies in commercial and institutional buildings; (3) to train engineers, architects, building scientists, building energy permitting and enforcement officials, and building technicians in energy-efficient design and operation; (4) to assist institutions of higher education and Tribal Colleges or Universities in training building technicians; (5) to promote research and development for the use of alternative energy sources and distributed generation to supply heat and power for buildings, particularly energy-intensive buildings; and (6) to coordinate with and assist State-accredited technical training centers, community colleges, Tribal Colleges or Universities, and local offices of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and ensure appropriate services are provided under this section to each region of the United States.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Non-Profit Partnerships

Description: To provide grants to pay the Federal share of career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the- job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient building technologies.

Eligible Uses: To pay the Federal share of associated career skills training programs under which students concurrently receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training for the purpose of obtaining an industry-related certification to install energy efficient buildings technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 1st quarter 2023

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $127,500,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grants, Cooperative Agreements, other contracts

New Program: No

Recipients: Federal Highway Administration Research, Technology, and Education Program

Description: The Training and Education Program provides resources for the development and delivery of technical assistance, training, professional development, and education programs to improve the professional capacity of the workforce that manages, develops and maintains the Nation’s highway system.

Eligible Uses: Development and delivery of technical assistance, training, professional development, and education programs.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Transit Administration

Funding amount: $27,545,852

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant, cooperative agreement, contract

New Program: No

Recipients: National nonprofit organizations that have the appropriate demonstrated capacity to provide public transportation-related technical assistance; providers of public transportation; standards development organizations; workforce development entities, Tribal organizations.

Description: The goals and objectives for Technical Assistance and Workforce Development projects vary according to the type of project.

Eligible activities include: Technical assistance and Standards to more effectively and efficiently provide public transportation service; administer funds received under 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53 in compliance with federal law; and improve public transportation; address Human Resources needs, provide Training; support Innovative Public Transportation Frontline Workforce Development; and operate a National Transit Institute.

Technical Assistance can support compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; compliance with human services transportation coordination requirements; meeting the transportation needs of elderly individuals; increasing transit ridership with Metropolitan Planning Organizations; addressing transportation equity; facilitating best practices to promote bus driver safety; meeting the requirements 5323(j) (Buy America) and 5323(m) (Pre and Post-Award Audits); assisting with the development and deployment of low or no emission vehicles; and any other technical assistance activities the Secretary of Transportation determines is necessary to advance the interests of public transportation.

Standards programs and projects include developing voluntary and consensus-based standards and best practices by the public transportation industry, including standards and best practices for safety, fare collection, Intelligent Transportation Systems, accessibility, procurement, security, asset management to maintain a state of good repair, operations, maintenance, vehicle propulsion, communications, and vehicle electronics.

Human Resources and Training programs may include: 1) Employment training programs; (2) Outreach to specific under-represented populations in the workforce; (3) Research on public transportation personnel and training needs; (4) Training and assistance for veteran and minority business opportunities; and (5) Consensus-based national training standards and certifications in partnership with industry stakeholders.

The Innovative Public Transportation Frontline Workforce Development Program focuses on: (1) developing apprenticeships, on-the job training, and instructional training for public transportation maintenance and operations occupations; (2) building local, regional, and statewide public transportation training partnerships with local public transportation operators, labor union organizations, workforce development boards, and State workforce agencies to identify and address workforce skill gaps; (3) improving safety, security, and emergency preparedness in local public transportation systems through improved safety culture and workforce communication with first responders and the riding public; and (4) addressing current or projected workforce shortages by developing partnerships with high schools, community colleges, and other community organizations.

The National Transit Institute will develop and conduct training and educational programs for Federal, State, and local transportation employees, United States citizens and foreign nationals engaged or to be engaged in public transportation work.

Eligible Uses: Technical assistance, standards, workforce development, and training activities.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $3,500,000,000

Period of Availability: $700,000,000 annually for the period of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended)

Funding Mechanism: Grant or Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: To establish a program under which the Secretary shall provide funding for eligible projects that contribute to the development of 4 regional direct air capture hubs.

Eligible Uses: A regional direct air capture hub that-- (i) facilitates the deployment of direct air capture projects; (ii) has the capacity to capture and sequester, utilize, or sequester and utilize at least 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually from a single unit or multiple interconnected units; (iii) demonstrates the capture, processing, delivery, and sequestration or end-use of captured carbon; and (iv) could be developed into a regional or interregional carbon network to facilitate sequestration or carbon utilization.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $2,537,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations.

Description: To establish a carbon capture technology program for the development of 6 facilities to demonstrate transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use, including in manufacturing and industrial facilities.

Eligible Uses: Of the demonstration projects carried out —

(i) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from a natural gas electric generation facility;

(ii) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from a coal electric generation facility; and

(iii) 2 shall be designed to capture carbon dioxide from an industrial facility not purposed for electric generation.

Next Milestone: TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $937,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, Utilities, Universities, National Laboratories, Engineering and Construction firms, State and Local Governments, Tribal, Environmental Groups, and Community Based Organizations.

Description: To establish a carbon capture technology program for the development of transformational technologies that will significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness, costs, emissions reductions, and environmental performance of coal and natural gas use, including in manufacturing and industrial facilities.

Eligible Uses: Pilot projects that—

(A) represent the scale of technology development beyond laboratory development and bench scale testing, but not yet advanced to the point of being tested under real operational conditions at commercial scale;

(B) represent the scale of technology necessary to gain the operational data needed to understand the technical and performance risks of the technology before the application of that technology at commercial scale or in commercial-scale demonstration; and

(C) are large enough—(i) to validate scaling factors; and (ii) to demonstrate the interaction between major components so that control philosophies for a new process can be developed and enable the technology to advance from large-scale pilot project application to commercial-scale demonstration or application.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $100,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

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 Uses: (A) Research and development; (B) large-scale pilot projects; (C) demonstration projects; (D) a front-end engineering and design program; and (E) front-end engineering and design program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure necessary to enable deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $100,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended Funding Mechanism: Prize

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: Reauthorization of program to support large-scale pilot projects and demonstration projects and test carbon capture technologies.

Eligible Uses: Projects that demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions released from coal electric generation facilities and natural gas electric generation facilities for commercial deployment.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $15,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Prize

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: Reauthorization of program to advance research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of carbon capture technologies.

Eligible Uses: Projects that demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions released from coal electric generation facilities and natural gas electric generation facilities for commercial deployment.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner, Project Developers

Description: To establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land.

Eligible Uses: (A) Solar; (B) Micro-grids; (C) Geothermal; (D) Direct air capture; (E) Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; (F) Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and compressed air storage; (G) Advanced nuclear technologies.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2023.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Funding amount: $2,500,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant or Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partner

Description: To establish a program of research, development, and demonstration for carbon storage.

Eligible Uses: Development of new or expanded commercial large-scale carbon sequestration projects and associated carbon dioxide transport infrastructure, including funding for the feasibility, site characterization, permitting, and construction stages of project development.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement or Grants

New Program: Yes

Recipients: State, combination of 2 or more States; Indian Tribes; units of local government, and/or public utility commissions.

Description: To provide federal financial assistance to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience.

Eligible Uses: To coordinate and collaborate with electric sector owners and operators—(A) to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden and enhance resilience and reliability; and (B) to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience, implemented through States by public and rural electric cooperative entities on a cost-shared basis.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Electricity

Funding amount: $5,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Electric Grid Operators, Electricity Storage Operators, Electricity Generators, Transmission Owners and Operators, Distribution Providers, Fuel Suppliers, States, Tribes

Description: To make grants to eligible entities, States, and Tribes to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electric grid.

Eligible Uses: To carry out activities that are supplemental to existing hardening efforts and reduce the risk of power lines causing a wildfire; or reduce the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Electricity

Funding amount: $3,000,000,000

Period of Availability: $600,000,000 appropriated annually for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 (to remain available until expended)

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Utilities

Description: Funding and expansion of eligible activities under the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program established under section 1306 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Eligible Uses: Qualifying Smart Grid investments including for installation, that allow buildings to engage in demand flexibility or Smart Grid functions.

Next Milestone: Applications for the Smart Grid program are expected to be open by the end of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $1,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Industry Partners, Utilities, National Laboratories, Universities, State and Local Governments, Community Based Organizations, Tribal, and Environmental Groups.

Description: To provide financial assistance to increase environmental protection from the impacts of energy use and improve resilience, reliability, safety, and availability of energy in rural or remote areas of the United States.

Eligible Uses: (A) Overall cost-effectiveness of energy generation, transmission, or distribution systems; (B) siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines; (C) reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy generation by rural or remote areas; (D) providing or modernizing electric generation facilities; (E) developing microgrids; and (F) increasing energy efficiency.

Next Milestone: Applications for funding are expected to be open in the Fall of 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Office of Clean Energy Demonstration

Funding amount: $355,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant or Cooperative Agreement

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Technology Developers, Industry, State and Local Governments, Tribal Organizations, Community Based Organizations, National Laboratories, Universities, and Utilities.

Description: To enter into agreements to carry out 3 energy storage system demonstration projects.

Eligible Uses: (i) To improve the security of critical infrastructure and emergency response systems.

(ii) To improve the reliability of transmission and distribution systems, particularly in rural areas, including high-energy cost rural areas.

(iii) To optimize transmission or distribution system operation and power quality to defer or avoid costs of replacing or upgrading electric grid infrastructure, including transformers and substations.

(iv) To supply energy at peak periods of demand on the electric grid or during periods of significant variation of electric grid supply.

(v) To reduce peak loads of homes and businesses.

(vi) To improve and advance power conversion systems.

(vii) To provide ancillary services for grid stability and management.

(viii) To integrate renewable energy resource production.

(ix) To increase the feasibility of microgrids (grid-connected or islanded mode). (x) To enable the use of stored energy in forms other than electricity to support the natural gas system and other industrial processes.

(xi) To integrate fast charging of electric vehicles.

(xii) To improve energy efficiency.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Energy

Sub-agency: Electricity

Funding amount: $50,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Interagency Agreement with Commerce, National Laboratory funding

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Utilities, National Labs, Bulk Power System Vendors

Description: To increase the functional preservation of electric grid operations or natural gas and oil operations in the face of threats and hazards.

Eligible Uses:

(A) develop capabilities to identify vulnerabilities and critical components that pose major risks to grid security if destroyed or impaired;

(B) provide modeling at the national level to predict impacts from natural or human- made events;

(C) add physical security to the cybersecurity maturity model;

(D) conduct exercises and assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities to the electric grid, including providing mitigation recommendations;

(E) conduct research on hardening solutions for critical components of the electric grid;

(F) conduct research on mitigation and recovery solutions for critical components of the electric grid; and

(G) provide technical assistance to States and other entities for standards and risk analysis.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Transportation

Sub-agency: Federal Highway Administration

Funding amount: $1,731,187,250

Period of Availability: 4 year

Funding Mechanism: Federal Spending

New Program: No

Recipients: National Park Service

Description: The Federal Lands Transportation Program invests in the Nation’s infrastructure and supports critical transportation needs within the country’s transportation network by providing access within the national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, recreation areas, and other Federal public lands.

Eligible Uses: Projects that improve multimodal transportation on roads, bridges, trails, transit systems, and other transportation facilities within the Federal estate on infrastructure primarily owned (or maintained) by the Federal Government.

Next Milestone: Forthcoming.

Agency: Department of Commerce

Sub-agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Funding amount: $42,450,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States, Territories, District of Columbia

Description: Appropriates $42.45 billion for states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to use for broadband planning, deployment, and adoption projects. 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. Each state will receive initial funding of $5 million and each territory will receive initial funding of $1.25 million to support broadband planning efforts including building capacity in state broadband offices and outreach and coordination with local communities. Leveraging those initial planning funds each state and territory will submit a 5-year action plan, which shall be informed by collaboration with local and regional entities. The remaining funding will be distributed based on a formula that considers the number of unserved and high-cost locations in the state, based on the maps to be published by the Federal Communications Commission in 2022. The first priority for deployment is for providing broadband to projects that primarily reach unserved locations (those below 25/3 Mbps), followed by those that primarily reach underserved locations (those below 100/20 Mbps), and then serving community anchor institutions (1/1 Gbps).

Eligible Uses: Planning (e.g. broadband data collection and mapping); broadband infrastructure deployment (e.g. construction), to promote broadband adoption, including through the provision of affordable internet-connected devices; to provide Wi- Fi or reduced-cost internet access to multi-family housing units; and for other uses that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration determines are necessary to facilitate the goals of the program.

Agency: Federal Communications Commission

Sub-agency: Wireline Competition Bureau

Funding amount: $14,200,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Subsidies provided directly to internet service providers to apply to consumers' monthly internet bill New Program: No

Recipients: Internet Service Providers (Who Then Apply the Benefit to Consumers' Monthly Bills)

Description: The Affordable Connectivity Program is a Federal Communications Commission benefit program that helps ensure that low-income households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

Eligible Uses: The Affordable Connectivity Program helps low income households afford home broadband service by providing up to a $30 monthly benefit on a household's monthly internet bill. For low-income households on Tribal lands the benefit is up to $75. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if the household contributes more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price. The Affordable Connectivity Program is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household.

Next Milestone: The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on:

1) How best to structure a grant program focused on outreach to households eligible to participate in the Affordable Connectivity Plan;

2) Whether to launch a potential pilot program focused on increasing the awareness and enrollment in the Affordable Connectivity Program of eligible households participating in Federal Public Housing Assistance Programs; and

3) Establishment of a mechanism by which a participating provider in a high-cost area may receive an enhanced benefit of up to $75 per month for broadband service.

Agency: Department of Agriculture

Sub-agency: Rural Utilities Service

Funding amount: $1,926,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended Funding Mechanism: Direct Loan/Grant/Combo New Program: No

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 Indian Tribes, as defined in Section 4 Of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. §450B)

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 Uses: ReConnect Program funds can be used to fund the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service capable of delivering 100 Mbps symmetrical service and the acquisition of an existing system not currently providing sufficient access to broadband service, under certain circumstances, and with restrictions. Up to five percent of the award may be used for preapplication expenses.

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Commerce

Sub-agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Funding amount: $60,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States, Territories, District of Columbia

Description: As part of the Digital Equity Act programs, $2.75 billion was dedicated to establish three grant programs that promote digital inclusion and equity to ensure that all individuals and communities have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy. The goal of these programs is to promote the meaningful adoption and use of broadband services across the targeted populations in the Act, including low-income households, aging populations, incarcerated individuals, veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals with a language barrier, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural inhabitants. The State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program is a $60 million formula grant program for states and territories to develop digital equity plans.

Eligible Uses: Planning (e.g. feasibility).

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Commerce

Sub-agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Funding amount: $1,440,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States, Territories, District of Columbia

Description: As part of the Digital Equity Act programs, $2.75 billion was dedicated to establish three grant programs that promote digital inclusion and equity to ensure that all individuals and communities have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy. The goal of these programs is to promote the meaningful adoption and use of broadband services across the targeted populations in the Act, including low-income households, aging populations, incarcerated individuals, veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals with a language barrier, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural inhabitants. The State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program dedicates $1.44 billion formula grant program for States, Territories, Tribal governments, Alaska Native entities, Native Hawaiian organizations distributed via annual grant programs over five years to implement digital equity projects and support the implementation of digital equity plans.

Eligible Uses: Planning (e.g. feasibility), broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date; TBD

Agency: Department of Commerce

Sub-agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Funding amount: $1,250,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: Local Education Agency; State Governments, including any political subdivisions of the State; Tribal/Native American Governments; Alaska Native Entities; and Native Hawaiian Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations; Community Anchor Institutions; and Work Force Development Programs

Description: As part of the Digital Equity Act programs, $2.75 billion was dedicated to establish three grant programs that promote digital inclusion and equity to ensure that all individuals and communities have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy. The goal of these programs is to promote the meaningful adoption and use of broadband services across the targeted populations in the Act, including low-income households, aging populations, incarcerated individuals, veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals with a language barrier, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural inhabitants. The Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program is a $1.25 billion discretionary grant program distributed vial annual grant programs over five years to implement digital equity projects. Eligible applicants include specific types of political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of a state; Tribal governments; nonprofit entities; community anchor institutions; local educational agencies; and entities that carry out workforce development programs.

Eligible Uses: Broadband adoption/digital literacy/tech support, digital equity programs

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, TBD.

Agency: Department of Commerce

Sub-agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Funding amount: $1,000,000,000

Period of Availability: Fiscal Years 2022-2026

Funding Mechanism: Grant

New Program: Yes

Recipients: States, Counties, Cities/Townships and their subdivisions; Tribal governments; Native entities; Public Utility Districts; Economic Development Authorities, Regional Planning Councils; Technology and Telecommunications Companies; Electric Utilities; Electric Cooperatives; and Nonprofits.

Description: Establishes and funds a $1 billion program for the construction, improvement or acquisition of middle mile infrastructure. The purpose of the grant program is to expand and extend middle mile infrastructure to reduce the cost of connecting unserved and underserved areas to the internet backbone. Eligible applicants include States, political subdivisions of a State, Tribal governments, technology companies, electric utilities, utility cooperatives, public utility districts, telecommunications companies, telecommunications cooperatives, nonprofit foundations, nonprofit corporations, nonprofit institutions, nonprofit associations, regional planning councils, Native entities, or economic development authorities.

Eligible Uses: Broadband infrastructure deployment (e.g. construction)

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date, 2nd quarter 2022.

Agency: Department of Agriculture

Sub-agency: Rural Utilities Service

Funding amount: $74,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: Direct Loan

New Program: No

Recipients: Corporation; Limited Liability Company; Cooperative or Mutual Organization; A State or Local Unit of Government; Indian Tribe or Tribal Organization Individuals and Partnerships Are Not Eligible.

Description: The Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program (Broadband Program) make 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 Uses: Broadband infrastructure: broadband loans provide funding on a technology-neutral basis for financing: the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities required to provide broadband service, including facilities required for providing other services through the same facilities; the cost of leasing facilities required to provide service at the broadband Lending speed if such lease qualifies as a capital lease under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; and the acquisition of such facilities, under certain circumstances and with restrictions. For additional detail see 7 CFR 1738

Next Milestone: Estimated application opening date: TBD

Agency: Federal Communications Commission

Sub-agency: Wireline Competition Bureau

Funding amount: $10,000,000

Period of Availability: Available until expended

Funding Mechanism: N/A

New Program: Yes

Recipients: N/A

Description: The Federal Communications Commission shall consult with all relevant Federal agencies to establish an online mapping tool to provide a locations overview of the overall geographic footprint of each broadband infrastructure deployment project funded by the Infrastructure Act, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 or any other federal amounts appropriated or any Federal program authorized after the date of enactment of the Infrastructure Act to fund broadband infrastructure deployment.

Eligible Uses: Mapping