Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP)

“ATIIP will award two types of grants: Planning and Design grants and Construction grants. FHWA will award Planning and Design grants for eligible applicants to develop plans for active transportation networks and active transportation spines (BIL § 11529(d)(2)). Projects seeking Planning and Design grants must have planning and design costs of at least $100,000 to be eligible (BIL § 11529(l)(6)(B)(ii)).

FHWA will award Construction grants to eligible applicants to construct projects to provide safe and connected active transportation facilities in an active transportation network or active transportation spine. Projects seeking Construction grants must have total costs of at least $15 million to be eligible (BIL § 11529(l)(6)(B)(i)).

Both types of grants can go towards planning, designing, and constructing active transportation networks and active transportation spines. Active transportation networks are active transportation facilities that connect between destinations within a community or metropolitan region, including schools, workplaces, residences, businesses, recreation areas, medical facilities, and other community areas (BIL § 11529(l)(2)). Active transportation spines are active transportation facilities that connect between communities, metropolitan regions, or States (BIL § 11529(l)(3)).

A goal of both types of ATIIP grants is to integrate active transportation facilities with transit services, where available, to improve access to public transportation (BIL § 11529(c)(1)(A)).”

All required credentials and documentation will be specified in the notice(s) of funding opportunit(y/ies) as made available on Grants.gov.

The funds resulting from prior apportionments under this program were available to States that contain one or more counties (including any political subdivision located within the area) in the Appalachian region, as defined in Section 14102(a) of Title 40, U.S.C. After reserving the applicable administrative takedown described in paragraph (2), and in consultation with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the funds are apportioned to Appalachian States according to the percentages derived from the 2021 Appalachian Development Highway System Cost-to-Complete Estimate, dated March 2021, and confirmed as each Appalachian State’s relative share of the estimated remaining need to complete the ADHS, adjusted to exclude those corridors that such States have no current plans to complete, as reported in the 2013 Appalachian Development Highway System Completion Report, unless those States have modified and assigned a higher priority for completion of an ADHS corridor, as reported in the 2020 Appalachian Development Highway System Future Outlook. The apportionments shall be adjusted so that (1) no Appalachian State is apportioned an amount in excess of 30 percent of the amount made available; (2) each Appalachian State receives at least $10,000,000; and (3) notwithstanding item (2), an Appalachian State does not receive an apportionment that exceeds the remaining funds needed to complete the ADHS corridor(s) in the State, as identified in the latest available cost to complete estimate for the ADHS prepared by the Appalachian Regional Commission. For a project carried out with funds made available for construction of the ADHS, such funds shall be made available for obligation in the same manner as if apportioned under Chapter 1 of Title 23, U.S.C., except that: (1) the Federal share of the cost of any project carried out with those amounts shall be determined in accordance with Section 14501 of Title 40, U.S.C.; and (2) the amounts shall be available to construct highways and access roads under Section 14501 of Title 40, U.S.C. The Federal share of the cost of a project carried out with funds made available for construction of the ADHS under the BIL shall be up to 100 percent, as determined by the State. The funds are not transferable under Section 126 of Title 23, U.S.C