2022 Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants

Background
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized and appropriated $450 million for the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) to make grants to improve facilities within, or outside of and directly related to operations of, or an intermodal connection to, coastal seaports, inland river ports, and Great Lakes ports.

Grant Details
The PIDP was amended under Section 3513 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Pub. L. 117-81, December 27, 2021) and is now codified at 46 U.S.C. 54301. The statute authorizes DOT to establish a port and intermodal improvement program to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-358, November 15, 2021) appropriated $450 million to the PIDP for FY 2022 to make discretionary grants for eligible PIDP projects. The program will fund capital projects that will be used to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of loading and unloading of goods at the port, movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port, operational improvements including projects to improve port resilience, or environmental and emissions mitigation measures such as port electrification or electrification master planning.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include port authorities, commissions or their subdivisions or agents under existing authority, states or political subdivisions of a state or local government, Indian Tribes, public agencies or publicly chartered authorities established by one or more states.
Special purpose districts with a transportation function, multistate or multijurisdictional groups of entities, lead entities jointly with private entities including owners or operators of a facility at a port. Federal agencies are not eligible applicants for the FY 2022 PIDP.
The Federal share of costs may not exceed 80 percent; however, it may be increased for projects located in rural areas or small projects at small ports.

Period of Performance
The Department seeks to obligate FY 2022 PIDP funds by September 30, 2025.
Obligation occurs when a selected applicant and DOT enter into a written grant agreement after the applicant has satisfied applicable administrative requirements.

Grant Value
$450 million will be awarded on a competitive basis for projects that improve facilities within coastal seaports, inland river ports, and Great Lakes ports.

Place of Performance
Projects must be located either within the boundary of a port or outside the boundary of a port and directly related to port operations or an intermodal connection to a port.