FYs 2024 through 2026 - Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Competitive Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity
- Award ceiling
- up to $60,000,000
- Closes
- Oct 9, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Awards up to $60,000,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), special district governments, state governments, closing Oct 9, 2026.
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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 awards up to $60,000,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american…
- Program pool (total)
- $787,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $60,000,000For Planning Grants, the anticipated award range is $100,000 to $10,000,000
- Award floor
- $1
- Typical award
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Oct 9, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Aug 27, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Special district governments · State governments
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- improve the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail · protecting surface transportation assets by making them more resilient · resilience improvements and strategies for continued operation or rapid recovery of surface transportation systems · protecting coastal infrastructure · protecting and enhancing surface transportation assets through natural infrastructure
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “For Planning Grants, the anticipated award range is $100,000 to $10,000,000”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitEligible 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…
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What can the money be used for?
5 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
What comparable notices state
2 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Sample too small. 2 open records stored under Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act state an award ceiling, and no figures are shown below 10. Three records do not have a middle, and a median drawn from them would be read as a benchmark.
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $60,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “For Planning Grants, the anticipated award range is $100,000 to $10,000,000”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $787,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Oct 9, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Special district governments, State governments.
- What can the funding be used for?
- improve the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail, protecting surface transportation assets by making them more resilient, resilience improvements and strategies for continued operation or rapid recovery of surface transportation systems, protecting coastal infrastructure, protecting and enhancing surface transportation assets through natural infrastructure, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
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