Scout IIJA Competitive Grants Tracker
Municipalities and counties across the country have the opportunity to make transformative investments in their communities. To amplify those investments, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) has created competitive grant opportunities for local communities to seek additional funding. A searchable database of available IIJA grants is available below. To find out more about Scout's work to support and track innovative investments in our community and beyond, see our ARPA tracker, or visit us at our website.
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Category Name
Pilot Programs
This new IIJA program provides grants for projects that seek to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and improve habitat connectivity. It requires at least 60% of grant funds to be set aside for rural area projects, and requires an update and expansion of studies, workforce development and technical training courses, data collection methodology, and guidance.
Estimate Budget
$
350000000
$101M-$500M
350000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Emerging Technology Research Pilot Program
This new IIJA pilot program provides funds to research emerging technologies (including 3-D printing technologies) and activities to reduce the impact of automated driving systems and advanced driver automation systems technologies on pavement and infrastructure performance, and to improve transportation infrastructure design.
Estimate Budget
$
30000000
$0-$50M
30000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
FHWA Administrative Expenses
Of the funds allocated for FHWA administrative expenses under the FAST Act, a proportion is designated for this program, which seeks to remedy ongoing discrimination and effects of past discrimination by ensuring that small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals have fair opportunities to compete for federally-funded highway, transit, airport, and highway safety financial assistance programs.
Estimate Budget
$
50000000
$0-$50M
50000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants
These competitive grants set aside 50% of Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant program funds to install EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure on designated public roads, schools, parks, and publicly accessible parking facilities. The grants prioritize rural areas, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with low ratios of private parking or high ratios of multi-unit dwellings.
Estimate Budget
$
1250000000
$1B+
1250000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Stopping Threats on Pedestrians
This new IIJA grant program funds state DOTs and local governments for bollard installation projects aimed to prevent pedestrian injuries and acts of terrorism in areas used by large numbers of pedestrians.
Estimate Budget
$
30000000
$0-$50M
30000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Pilot Programs
This new IIJA pilot program supports data-driven approaches to transportation planning that can be for public benefit, by awarding grants to states and MPOs to develop and implement publicly accessible, transparent prioritization processes for selecting projects to include in state or metropolitan transportation plans.
Estimate Budget
$
50000000
$0-$50M
50000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program
This is a provision in the Rural Surface Transportation Grant which requires at least 25% of funds to be for designated routes of the Appalachian Development Highway System.
Estimate Budget
$
500000000
$101M-$500M
500000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Research
Formerly the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment program, IIJA modifies and expands the program beyond congestion to include intermodal connectivity and a rural set-aside of at least 20% and to allow for retrofitting of DSRC technology under certain conditions. This program uses funds set aside from the Highway Research and Development Program, Technology and Innovation Deployment Program, and Intelligent Transportation Systems Program.
Estimate Budget
$
300000000
$101M-$500M
300000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Pollinator-Friendly Practices on Roadsides and Highway Rights of Way
This new IIJA grant program funds activities along roadsides and highway rights-of-way that benefit pollinators, including the planting and seeding of grasses, wildflowers, and milkweed.
Estimate Budget
$
10000000
$0-$50M
10000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility
Research
This program uses set-aside funds from the Technology and Innovation Deployment Program to deploy advanced digital construction management systems that enable digital technology usage on construction sites and reduce the environmental footprint of construction projects.
Estimate Budget
$
100000000
$51M-$100M
100000000
Department of Transportation
Sector
Transportation
Sub-sector
Highways, Roads, and Bridges
Eligibility