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Rural and Tribal Assistance (RTA) Pilot Program for Transportation Planning and Design Grants

The Rural and Tribal Assistance (RTA) Pilot Program provides funding to help rural and tribal communities with planning and design for eligible transportation infrastructure projects. Recipients can use grant funds to hire staff or contract expert firms to develop projects expected to qualify for certain DOT credit and grant programs. Grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis as a…

The Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, administered by the Build America Bureau (the Bureau), was created under Public Law 117-58 to advance transportation infrastructure projects in rural and tribal communities by supporting planning and development-phase activities for projects reasona…

Funding Source

Agency: 69A345 Office of the Under Secretary for Policy

Awards & funding

Total Funding: $54.2M
Award Ceiling: $2.5M
Award Floor: $250,000

Eligibility

Applicants for the program must be one of the following:1. A unit of local government or political subdivision that is located outside of an urbanized area that has a population of more than 150,000 residents, as determined by the Bureau of the Census. Examples of local governments and politic…

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