Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program
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Eligible Recipients:
- Native/Tribal Entity
- State Government
Program Purpose:
- Efficiency and Weatherization
- Transportation Infrastructure
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Upcoming Milestones:
Informational Webinar on PROTECT May 25, 2-4 PM ET register here.
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Overview
The vision of the PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program is to fund projects that address the climate crisis by improving the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail. Projects selected under this program should be grounded in the best available scientific understanding of climate change risks, impacts, and vulnerabilities. They should support the continued operation or rapid recovery of crucial local, regional, or national surface transportation facilities. Furthermore, selected projects should utilize innovative and collaborative approaches to risk reduction, including the use of natural infrastructure, which is explicitly eligible under the program. Also called nature-based solutions, these strategies include conservation, restoration, or construction of riparian and streambed treatments, marshes, wetlands, native vegetation, stormwater bioswales, breakwaters, reefs, dunes, and shade trees. They reduce flood risks, erosion, wave damage, and heat impacts while also creating habitat, filtering pollutants, and providing recreational benefits. Projects in the PROTECT Discretionary Grant Program have the potential to demonstrate innovation and best practices that State and local governments in other parts of the country can consider replicating.
Related Resources
Additional information is available on the Resources page.Funding Details
Funding Source:
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)