Other Funding Opportunities

The San Mateo County Transportation Authority is making every effort to share information on external funding opportunities. Check out available grants and funding, deadlines, and more details below.

FHWA Large Bridge Project Grant Funding (Federal Funding)

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The Bridge Investment Program (BIP) provides funding for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, and protection projects that reduce the number of bridges in poor condition, or in fair condition at risk of declining into poor condition.

The Bridge Investment Program was established by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes the single largest dedicated investment in bridges since the construction of the Interstate highway system: a total of $40 billion over 5 years to help ensure that some of the nation’s most important bridges remain safe and operational, meet current and future traveler needs, support local economies, strengthen our supply chains, and create good-paying jobs across the country.

The Bridge Investment Program (BIP) has three categories of awards, each requiring a separate application:

Planning Level Projects
Bridge Projects (<$100 million)
Large Bridge Projects (>$100 million)

The deadlines for applications to be submitted are:

August 1, 2025, for consideration of FY 2026 funds.

Eligible Applicants: State Governments; Local Governments; Federally Recognized Tribes and Affiliated Groups; Planning and Project Organizations; U.S. Territories

USDOT Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the availability of $1.5 billion for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) competitive grants under the Local and Regional Project Assistance Program. Eligible projects include surface transportation infrastructure projects that improve safety, environmental sustainability, quality of life, mobility and community connectivity, economic competitiveness and opportunity including tourism, state of good repair, partnership and collaboration, and innovation. Eligible applicants include states and the District of Columbia; a unit of local government; a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by 1 or more States; port authorities; federally recognized Tribal Governments; transit agencies; and a multi-State or multijurisdictional group of entities. The minimum award size is $5 million in urban areas ($1 million in rural areas) and the maximum award size is $25 million. Federal funding through RAISE may account for no more than 80% of total project costs, except in rural areas, historically disadvantaged communities, and areas of persistent poverty. This grant program supports projects that drive sustainability and equity while promoting innovative solutions to enhance transportation infrastructure across the U.S. Learn more by visiting the program website at
https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants. USDOT is offering a webinar series on the application process, more details can be found here: https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrants/outreach. Applications are due by 8:59 PM on January 30, 2025.

USDOT Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration has announced the availability of up to $876 million in competitive grant funds for FY 2024-2025 through the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation
(PROTECT) Program, with potential funding for FY 2026. The PROTECT Program funds projects that aim to make surface transportation systems more resilient to natural hazards, such as climate change, sea level rise, heat waves, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters. Eligible projects include planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. The program also seeks to showcase innovation and best practices that can be replicated across the nation. The program includes four funding categories:

•   Planning Grants: Eligible projects include resilience planning, predesign, design, technical capacity building, and evacuation planning and preparation.
•   Resilience Improvement Grants (up to $638 million available): Eligible projects involve construction activities to improve the ability of existing surface transportation assets to withstand natural disasters and extreme weather or to increase the resilience of infrastructure to changing conditions, such as sea level rise, flooding, and wildfires.
•   Community Resilience and Evacuation Route Grants: Eligible projects include strengthening and protecting evacuation routes, expanding capacity, installing intelligent transportation and communication systems, and ensuring access to critical destinations such as hospitals and intermodal facilities.
•   At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure Grants (up to $120 million available): Eligible projects address risks to highway and non-rail infrastructure from coastal flooding, erosion, wave action, storm surge, or sea level rise, with the goal of improving safety and reducing long-term costs by avoiding future maintenance or rebuilding expenses.

Eligible applicants include states, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), units of local government, political subdivisions of states, special purpose districts, or public authorities with a transportation function. Planning Grants have a minimum award of $100,000, with no local match required. For the other categories, the minimum grant award is $500,000, with a 20% local match requirement. There is no maximum grant award for any category. Learn more by visiting the program website at https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356840. Applications are due by 8:59 PM on February 24, 2025.

FHWA Bridge Investment Program: Bridge Investment Program

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced the availability of up to $9.62 billion in Large Bridge Project competitive grant funding for FYs 2023-2026 of the Bridge Investment Program (BIP). The program focuses on existing bridges to reduce the overall number of bridges in poor condition, or in fair condition at risk of falling into poor condition. Eligible projects must have already completed preliminary engineering. Eligible applicants include a state or a group of states; a metropolitan planning organization; a unit of local government or a group of local governments; a political subdivision of a state or local government; a special purpose district or a public authority with a transportation function. The minimum grant award is $50 million and the maximum award is 50 percent of the total eligible project costs up to $3 billion. Learn more by visiting the program website at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/bip/. Applications for FY 2026 funding are due by August 1, 2025.