May 2, 2023
Transportation Grant Opportunity: Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT)
FHWA has released the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost- Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

This grant will be used to fund projects that address the climate crisis by improving the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Projects selected under this program should be grounded in the best available scientific understanding of climate change risks, impacts, and vulnerabilities. They should support the continued operation or rapid recovery of crucial local, regional, or national surface transportation facilities. Furthermore, selected projects should utilize innovative and collaborative approaches to risk reduction, including the use of natural infrastructure, which is explicitly eligible under the program. Also called nature-based solutions, these strategies include conservation, restoration, or construction of riparian and streambed treatments, marshes, wetlands, native vegetation, stormwater bioswales, breakwaters, reefs, dunes, and shade trees. They reduce flood risks, erosion, wave damage, and heat impacts while also creating habitat, filtering pollutants, and providing recreational benefits.

A Federal land management agency, such as USACE, may be eligible if the agency applies jointly with a State or group of States.

Applications are due via grants.gov by August 18, 2023.

More information on the grant is found here https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/e nvironment/protect/discretionary/ If you are interested in exploring the possibilities this grant program may offer, please participate in one of the webinars listed below.

Thanks,
Allison

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