FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
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FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity: The intent of the PROTECT Competitive Grant Program is to fund projects to improve the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Program goals include protecting: surface transportation assets by making them more resilient; communities through resilience improvements and strategies that allow for the continued operation or rapid recovery of surface transportation systems; coastal infrastructure; and natural infrastructure that protects and enhances surface transportation assets. This NOFO provides PROTECT Competitive Grant Program funding of up to $787 million from FYs 2024 through 2026, plus any remaining PROTECT Competitive Grant Program funding from prior years. Please refer to Grants.gov for the full NOFO.
| Federal Grant Title: | FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity |
| Federal Agency Name: | DOT Federal Highway Administration (DOT-FHWA) |
| Grant Categories: | Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Transportation |
| Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | FHWA-PROT-26-001 |
| Type of Funding: | Grant |
| CFDA Numbers: | 20.284 |
| CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
| Current Application Deadline: | October 9th, 2026 |
| Original Application Deadline: | October 9th, 2026 |
| Posted Date: | August 27th, 2026 |
| Creation Date: | August 27th, 2026 |
| Archive Date: | November 8th, 2026 |
| Total Program Funding: | $787,000,000 |
| Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $60,000,000 |
| Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $1 |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 80 |
| Cost Sharing or Matching: | Yes |
| Last Updated: | August 27th, 2026 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Eligible applicants for the PROTECT Competitive Grant Program funding are States, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), local governments, federally recognized Indian Tribes, public transportation agencies, port authorities, and Federal Land Managing Agencies (FLMA) when applying jointly with a State or group of States. Specific to At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure Grants, eligibility also includes U.S. territories, plus the same entities eligible for the broader program, but limited to coastal States and other specified entities within such States (see 23 U.S.C. § 176(d)(4)(C)(i)). Please refer to Section B.1 of the NOFO for more details. Eligibility varies by project type between "Planning, Resilience Improvement, and Community Resilience and Evacuation Route Grants" and "At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure Grants."
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- FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
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