Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant Program
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ReconnectingCommunities@dot.gov
Andrew Emanuele
andrew.emanuele@dot.gov
202.948.3466
The Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods (RCN) Program will provide funding for projects that reconnect communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity. The program will support economically disadvantaged communities to increase affordable, accessible, and multimodal access to destinations like jobs, healthcare, grocery stores, schools, places of worship, recreation, and park space. The program seeks to award funding to rural and tribal communities that face unique challenges related to mobility and economic development, including isolation, transportation cost burden, and traffic safety.
Program priorities include:
- Rural and tribal communities
- Housing supply
- Safety
- Climate and sustainability
- Equity and justice
- Workforce development, job quality, and wealth creation
- Innovative solutions to reconnecting communities
Project types include:
- Community Planning Grants - Planning activities for future construction projects and allow for innovative community planning to address localized transportation challenges
- Capital Construction Grants - Projects to remove, retrofit, mitigate, or replace an existing eligible dividing transportation facility with a new facility that reconnects communities; mitigates a burdening transportation facility that is a source of air pollution, noise, stormwater, heat, or other burdens; or implements a strategy to reduce environmental harm and/or improve access through transportation improvements
Eligible applicants include:
- States
- Units of local government
- Tribal governments
- Metropolitan planning organizations
- Nonprofit organizations
- Partnership between a facility owner and any other eligible applicant
Award ceiling: $2,000,000 for community
planning grants and $100,000,000 for capital construction
grants
Project period: Funds must be obligated
by September 30, 2027.
Estimated number of awards: 100
Estimated total program funding:
$607,000,000
Planning grants have a 20% match requirement, and capital construction grants have a 50% match requirement.
Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov and the Department of Transportation website.
Online applications:
Rural Road Safety Funding at the US Department of Transportation: Example Projects from 2022
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