The Congestion Relief Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) has been published, it announces the availability of up to $50 million per Fiscal Year (FY). This is the program’s first NOFO covering three years (FY 2022 through FY 2024), totaling $150 million. The program is established in Section 129(d) of Title 23. The NOFO is published in Grants.gov, https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/352531, or search using “693JJ324NF00009.” The application deadline is April 22, 2024.
The Congestion Relief Program will provide discretionary grant opportunities to States, metropolitan planning organizations, cities, and municipalities. The purpose of the program is to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions for congestion relief in the most heavily congested metropolitan areas of the United States, specifically for urbanized areas surpassing a population of 1 million people. The primary goal of the program is to reduce highway congestion and reduce the economic and environmental costs associated with that congestion. This would be achieved through several means, which include improving intermodal integration with highways; improving overall highway performance; reducing or shifting highway users to off-peak travel times or to non-highway travel modes during peak travel times; and pricing mechanisms. The minimum required amount for an award is $10 million with a minimum 20 percent non-Federal match.
An upcoming external webinar dedicated to providing details of the program and its NOFO is being scheduled.
If you have any questions on the Congestion Relief Program, please contact program manager, Frank Corrado, at frank.corrado@dot.gov, 689-262-0211.