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693JJ325NF00010: Competitive Highway Bridge Program

Closed Closed August 4, 2025 Opportunity 693JJ325NF00010 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$75.0 million
• Award floor$1.0 million
• Total funding$500 million
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligibility: State departments of transportation (State DOT) for Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. State DOTs eligible to receive no less than $32.5 million from Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 funding and no less than $32.5 million from Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funding include Iowa, Maine, South Dakota, and West Virginia. An eligible State DOT may submit an application in partnership with a non-State DOT non-eligible applicant. If such application is selected to receive an award, the State DOT must be the recipient of grant funds. A State DOT may submit no more than five (5) applications including applications submitted in partnership with a non-State DOT. If a State DOT submits multiple applications the State shall clearly identify their order of ranking in each application narrative and in the project title, i.e., State DOT rank #1 application and State DOT rank #2 application.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Highway Planning and Construction awards averaged $1.5 million; this notice allows up to $75.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (99% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for the FY 2024 and FY 2025 Competitive Highway Bridge Program (CHBP). This is a competitive grant program that provides funding towards highway bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads that demonstrate cost savings by bundling multiple highway bridge projects. Eligible phases of work must include construction however an application may also include environmental clearance, preliminary engineering, and/or final design. The CHBP provides grant opportunities to States that have a population density of less than 115 individuals per square mile and less than 26 percent of total bridges classified as in good condition or greater than or equal to 5.2 percent of total bridges classified in poor condition, based on the National Bridge Inventory as of June 2023. States meeting the population criteria and that have greater than 14 percent of total bridges classified as in poor condition are eligible to receive no less than $32.5 million from FY 2024 funding and no less than $32.5 million from FY 2025 funding, pursuant to a determination that projects are eligible and sufficient to fund such amount. This grant program is not associated with the previous FY 2018 CHBP grant programs eligibility and award criteria, or application requirements. The eligibility and award criteria and application requirements provided under this NOFO are unique to the FY 2024 CHBP. This Amendment No. 1 amends the NOFO announcement first published on January 13, 2025. This amended NOFO among other things aligns the NOFO with current Administration and Department policies and priorities, includes FY 2025 CHBP funding for consideration of selection, and updates the application evaluation criteria. A redline version of the NOFO that identifies the changes is provided in addition to the clean version. Applications that were submitted in response to the January 13, 2025, announcement will not be reviewed. Eligible applicants shall submit applications that are responsive to this NOFO. See the Related Documents section for a copy of the amended NOFO.

Category: Transportation.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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