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Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT)

General Grant Program Information

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Grant program provides funding to ensure surface transportation resilience to natural hazards including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters through support of planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. 

The PROTECT discretionary program offers two types of awards: planning grants and Competitive Resilience Improvement Grants. 

A Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) is required for this grant program. For more information about BCA's, see What is a BCA? and the USDOT's Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance for Discretionary Grants.

Opportunity Status:
Closed
Posted Date:
Close Date:
Eligible Applicants:
State Governments; Local Governments; Federally Recognized Tribes and Affiliated Groups; Planning and Project Organizations; U.S. Territories
Eligible Activities:
Planning; Construction; Operations and Maintenance; Technology Demonstrations and Deployment; Climate and Sustainability; Accessibility; Security
Transportation Type:
Bike/Ped Maritime Roadway Transit
Most Recent Annual Program Funding Amount:
$848 Million
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Match Waiver:
Yes
Rural Set-Aside:
Yes
Tribal Set-Aside:
Yes
Grant Opportunity ID:
693JJ323NF00013
Grant Opportunity Link:
FY23 Grants.gov Opportunity: PROTECT Program
Links to Additional Information:
Agency:
USDOT / Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Eligibility Information

Eligible Uses

Eligible uses include highway, transit, and certain port projects that include resilience planning, strengthening and protecting evacuation routes, enabling communities to address vulnerabilities and increasing the resilience of surface transportation infrastructure from the impacts of sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters. 

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants include states (or a political subdivision of a state), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), local governments, special purpose districts or public authorities with a transportation function, Tribal governments, and federal land management agencies (FLMAs), when applying jointly with states. Different eligibilities apply for at-risk coastal infrastructure grants.

Funding Information

The PROTECT program provides $1.4 billion in funding over 5 years. Individual award amounts vary. Only 40 percent of award funds can be used for construction of new capacity.

Federal cost-sharing will be higher if the eligible entity develops a resilience improvement plan (or is in a state or area served by MPO that does) and the state or MPO incorporates it into its long-range transportation plan. 

Contact Information

Contact PROTECTdiscretionary@dot.gov for more information.

Disclaimer:
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