The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has launched a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) making accessible greater than $662 million in Federal FY2023 funding for MARAD’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).
“America’s ports play a central role in our supply chains,” stated U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “With today’s announcement, we are helping make our ports safer, more efficient, and more reliable — strengthening supply chains, reducing costs for the American people, and positioning us for economic success.”
MARAD’s Port Infrastructure Development Program discretionary grants assist eligible candidates — together with port authorities, states, native governments, indigenous tribal nations, counties, and different eligible entities — full essential port and port-related infrastructure tasks.
Grants are awarded on a aggressive foundation to help tasks that enhance the protection, effectivity, or reliability of the motion of products by ports and intermodal connections to ports.
MARAD will even take into account how tasks deal with local weather change and sustainability, fairness, and workforce growth aims.
“This funding will support efforts by ports and industry stakeholders to improve port and related freight infrastructure to meet the nation’s freight transportation needs and ensure our port infrastructure can support future growth,” stated Maritime Administrator Ann Phillips. “The program also includes a statutory set-aside for small ports to continue to improve and expand their capacity to move freight reliably and efficiently, support local and regional economies, and support supply chain improvement.”
Recent tasks which were funded embrace set up of quick charging stations and different port electrification parts and the event of a scalable plan for transitioning the port and native maritime business to zero-emission applied sciences in Jacksonville, Fla.; the creation of an intermodal rail yard close to an current port terminal in Kaskaskia, Ill.; and the modernization of electrical and stormwater infrastructure and warehouse capability for the Port of Cleveland by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority in Cleveland, Ohio.
A full checklist of 2022 awarded tasks may be discovered HERE.
In the approaching weeks, the Federal Highway Administration will open FY 2022-20223 grant functions for the Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities program, which can make $160 million accessible to check, consider, and deploy tasks that cut back port-related emissions from idling vans, together with by the development of port electrification and enhancements in effectivity.
MARAD will host a sequence of webinars that describe PIDP NOFO necessities and the PIDP utility course of. The webinars will likely be introduced within the close to future on the PIDP webpage. Recordings of the webinars will likely be posted on the web site for people who can not take part within the dwell webinars.
MARAD has additionally developed a listing of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) which might be accessible right here.
The NOFO is on the market on Grants.gov HERE. The deadline for functions is 11:59 PM Eastern Time on April 28, 2023.
For further questions concerning PIDP grants electronic mail PIDPGrants@dot.gov.
