Deadline: April 03, 2025
Award Amount: $200,000 to $750,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, and special districts. Projects are not eligible if they are in a Census Bureau 2020 designated urban area that has a population of more than 150,000 people.
Description: The BIL created the Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, which makes $10 million available over five years to provide states, local governments, and tribal governments with grants to support project development leading to future applications to DOT credit or grant programs. The grants can support legal, technical, and financial advisors to help advance infrastructure projects. The first notice of funding opportunity includes two fiscal years and makes $3.4 million available to eligible applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. Eligible project sponsors may receive grant funds to select advisors to assist with pre-development-phase activities, including: evaluation opportunities for private financing and project bundling, feasibility studies, project planning, revenue forecasting and funding and financing options analyses, preliminary engineering and design work, environmental review, economic assessments and cost-benefit analyses, public benefits studies, statutory and regulatory framework analyses, value-for-money (VFM) studies, and evaluations of costs to sustain the project.