Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Implementation Resources
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law by President Biden on November 15, 2021. The law authorizes $1.2 trillion for transportation and infrastructure spending with $550 billion of that figure going toward “new” investments and programs. Funding from the IIJA is expansive in its reach, addressing energy and power infrastructure, access to broadband internet, water infrastructure, and more. Some of the new programs funded by the bill could provide the resources needed to address a variety of infrastructure needs at the local level.
The GFOA Federal Liaison Center will monitor program implementation and update resources as needed in the sections below. PLEASE NOTE: The new programs are generally still at various stages of agency development; we will strive to post updates when available.
Resources from the White House
Federal Agency Resources
Requirements to Consider in Preparation of Funding/Program Rollout
Buy America, Build America Act (BABA)
The Buy America, Build America Act is part of the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA). The act aims to prioritize and incentivize the usage of goods, products, materials, and services made or provided for in the United States. Specifically for infrastructure, the Act will provide Federal financial assistance for any program that has infrastructure, even if infrastructure is not the primary purpose of the program. However, it must adhere to the following requirements:
- All iron and steel used in infrastructure projects must be made in the United States throughout the entirety of the manufacturing process.
- All manufactured products must be produced in the United States. All components of the manufactured product must be produced in the United States and be greater than 55 percent of the total cost of all components of the manufactured product.
- All construction materials must be made in the United States throughout the entirety of the manufacturing process.
Link to initial guidance on the implementation of Buy America, Build America Act (BABA). Click here for the Made in America Office, established under the IIJA to serve as a central hub to help coordinate the Federal Government’s efforts to implement Made in America laws. This is accomplished by increasing transparency and maximizing the use of domestic content when the Federal Government spends taxpayer dollars.
Justice40 Initiative
The Justice40 Initiative has made it a priority of the federal government t commit at least 40% of all federal funds from federal investments to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened with pollution. The categories of investment are: climate change, clean energy and energy efficiency, clean transit, affordable and sustainable housing, training and workforce development, remediation and reduction of legacy pollution, and the development of critical clean water and wastewater infrastructure. Covered federal investments include any grant or procurement spending, financing, staffing costs, direct spending, or benefits to individuals for a covered program in a Justice40 program.
For more information on the Justice40 Initiative, click on the link here.
The Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool is a geospatial mapping tool to identify disadvantaged communities across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution. This tool can help promote the Justice40 program as it can help identify disadvantaged communities. Click here to access the tool.
Funding Opportunities Under IIJA - Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Tracker
The page aims to provide a sampling of the various programs/funding available under the law that may be of interest to states and local governments of all sizes. Additionally, we have created a separate Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) tracker based on some of the programs highlighted below.
NOFOs are the formally issued announcement from a federal agency of the availability of federal or federal pass-through funding via one of its financial assistance programs.
Click HERE for GFOA's IIJA NOFO Tracker.
Funding Overviews
IIJA Funding for Roads, Bridges, and Railways
The Department of Transportation (USDOT) released state-by-state fact sheets to highlight how the funding could benefit based on the amount the state could expect to receive. You can click HERE to find your state's fact sheet.
Below are some of the transportation-related programs that may be of interest for local governments.
IIJA Funding for Public Transportation
The IIJA invests $91.2 billion to repair and modernize transit. The legislation supports expanded public transportation choices nationwide, replacing thousands of deficient transit vehicles, including buses, with clean, zero emission vehicles, and improving accessibility for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Link to Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan FAQs for New Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Requirements.
IIJA Funding for Airports and Federal Aviation Administration Facilities
The IIJA invests $25 billion to address repair and maintenance needs, reduce congestion and emissions, and modernize our National Aerospace System.
IIJA Funding for Ports and Waterways
The IIJA invests over $16.7 billion to improve infrastructure at coastal ports, inland ports and waterways, and land ports of entry along our border.
IIJA Funding for Electric Vehicles, Buses, and Ferries
The IIJA includes a $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle charging to help build out a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers. In addition, there are investments from the IIJA for specific vehicles to transition to electric school buses, transit buses, and even passenger ferries to reduce emissions for their riders, including children and low-income families that bear the greatest burdens of pollution while trying to meet their mobility needs.
IIJA Funding for Broadband Deployment and Access
The IIJA included a $65 billion investment to help close the digital divide and ensure access for all Americans to reliable, high speed, and affordable broadband. The additional funding builds off of investments in previous laws, including the American Rescue Plan (ARPA) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. As a result of the additional funding, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will implement several new programs. Click HERE for the Internet for All initiative that includes additional information on the new grant programs discussed below.
IIJA Funding for Water Infrastructure
The IIJA invests more than $50 billion through the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure programs.
IIJA Funding for Resiliency
The IIJA makes our communities safer and our infrastructure more resilient to the impacts of climate change and cyber-attacks, with an investment of more than $50 billion to protect against droughts, heat, floods and wildfires, in addition to major investments in weatherization. The legislation is the largest investment in the resilience of physical and natural systems in American history.
Program Name | IIJA Funding (Generally funding is over 5 years but portions may still be subject to future appropriations) | Resource(s) |
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State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program | IIJA provides $1 billion administered through the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for state and local governments to address cybersecurity risks and cybersecurity threats to information systems that they own or operate. |
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Pollution Prevention Grant | IIJA provides $100 million in grants to states, state-sponsored institutions, tribes, and tribal institutions. This program will guarantee the delivery of technical assistance to businesses - including those communities with environmental justice concerns - to identify and adopt source reduction practices and technologies that benefit businesses, communities, and local economies. |
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Carbon Reduction Program | IIJA provides approximately $6.42 billion in formula grants to states and the District of Columbia.
| More information on the Carbon Reduction Program on the Federal Highway Administration website. |
Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations | IIJA provides $500 million in technical and financial assistance to local sponsors or legal subdivisions of state or tribal governments.
| More information on the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operation program on the US Department of Agriculture website |
Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Grants | IIJA provides $5 billion in competitive grants to states, tribes, and entities that operate or are involved with electricity.
| Estimated application open date is the 4th quarter of 2022. |
Flood and Inundation Mapping and Forecasting, Water Modeling, and Precipitation Studies | IIJA provides $492 million through various funding mechanisms to states, counties, cities, townships, special districts, tribes, educational institutions, and nonprofits.
| Program details forthcoming |
Flood Mitigation Assistance Grants | IIJA provides $3.5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, territories, and local communities.
| Applications for Fiscal Year 2022 are expected to open no later than September 30th, 2022. |
Department of Interior Wildfire Management - Preparedness | IIJA provides $245 million in direct federal spending, interagency agreements, cooperative agreements, cooperative agreements and/or grants, and possibly contacts.
| Program details forthcoming |
Emergency Preparedness Grants | IIJA provides approximately $234.1 million in states, counties, territories, tribes, cities, townships, non-profit businesses, emergency response organizations, and hazardous materials enforcement organizations. The Hazardous Materials Grants Program is comprised of the following grants:
Eligible uses include developing, improving, and carrying out emergency plans including ascertaining flow patterns of hazardous materials; deciding on the need for regional hazardous material emergency response teams; training public sector employees to respond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials; and training hazardous materials safety employees to become instructors to extend the reach of hazardous materials training. | Program details forthcoming |
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program | IIJA provides $550 million of block and competitive grants to states, local governments, and tribes. This program provides funds to assist states, local governments, and tribes to reduce energy use, reduce fossil fuel emissions, and improve energy efficiency. | The first funding opportunity is expected for release in the Fall of 2022. |
Building Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience | IIJA provides $225 million in grants to states and state partnerships. This is a competitive grant program that will enable sustained, cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes to save customer's money on their energy bill. Eligible uses:
| Applications for funding are expected to be open by the end of 2022. |
Habitat Restoration | IIJA provides $491 million in grants to state and territorial governments agencies, local governments, municipal governments, tribes, or other organizations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Habitat Conservation will implement the habitat restoration funds through a competitive grants process with the purpose of restoring marine, estuarine, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystem habitat as well as constructing or protecting ecological features that protect coastal communities from flooding or coastal storms. | Program details forthcoming |
Coastal Zone Management | IIJA provides $207 million in grants to states (including the District of Columbia), territories, institutions of higher education, and hospitals. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Office for Coastal Management will implement these funds through Coastal Zone Management competitive and noncompetitive grants with the purpose of restoring and protecting coastal ecosystems through direct investment by coastal states and territories in ecologically significant habitats. | More information on the Coastal Zone Management Program |
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs | IIJA provides $8 billion in grants to state and local governments as well as a variety of other organizations and institutions that may utilize or develop clean hydrogen hubs. This program provides funding to support the development of at least 4 regional clean hydrogen hubs to improve clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage, and end use. Clean hydrogen hubs are networks of clean hydrogen producers, potential clean hydrogen consumers, and connective infrastructure located in close proximity. | Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs. Applications for funding will open September/October 2022. |
Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grants | IIJA provides $3 billion in grants to state and local governments, institutions of higher education, national laboratories, non-profit and for-profit private entities, or a combination of these entities.
| Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity for Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grants. Applications for funding will open September/October 2022. |
Rehabilitation of High Hazard Dams Program | IIJA provides $585 million in grants to states.
| More information on the Rehabilitation of High Hazard Dams Program can be found here. |
Energy Storage Demonstration Pilot Grant Program | IIJA provides $355 million in grants or cooperative agreements to state and local governments, tribal organizations, community based organizations, and higher ed institutions. This project provides funds to carry out 3 energy storage system demonstration projects. | More information about the Energy Storage Demonstration Pilot Grant Program Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. |
Carbon Utilization Program | IIJA provides approximately $310 million in grants to states, local governments, and utilities. This program provides funds to procure and use products derived from captured carbon oxides. An eligible entity shall use a grant received under this paragraph to procure and use commercial or industrial products that
| More information about the Carbon Utilization Program Estimated application opening date, 4th quarter 2022. |
Building Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience | IIJA provides $225 million in grants to states and state partnerships. This is a competitive program to enable sustained, cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes to save customers money on their energy bills. | More information about the Building Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience Applications for funding are expected to be open by the end of 2022 |
National Dam Safety Program | IIJA provides $148 million for states in the form of grants and direct federal spending. An extra $67 million is for program operations.
| More information on the National Dam Safety Program on the FEMA website |
Energy Auditor Training Grant Program | IIJA provides $40 million in grants to states. This program provides grants to eligible states to train individuals to conduct energy audits or surveys of commercial and residential buildings to build the clean energy workforce, save customers money on their energy bills, and reduce pollution from building energy use. Eligible uses:
| More information on the Energy Auditor Training Grant Program on the Department of Energy website |
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities | IIJA provides $1 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories. The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program makes federal funds available for hazard mitigation activities. Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide financial assistance to eligible Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities applicants for the following activities:
| More information on the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program on the EPA website. Applications for Fiscal Year 2022 are expected to open no later than September 30, 2022. |
Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For at-Risk Communities | IIJA provides $1 billion in grants to communities at risk from wildfire, state forestry agencies, tribal communities, private forest owners, and other nonprofit organizations. This program will provide grants to communities at risk from wildfire to develop or revise their community wildfire protection plans and carry out projects described within those plans. It will include a mix of formula and competitive grants. | Applications are expected to open early 2023. |
Hazard Mitigation Revolving Loan Funds/Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation | IIJA provides $500 million in grants to a state or Indian tribal government that has received a major disaster declaration during the 5-year period ending on the date of enactment of the STORM Act. This program provides capitalization grants for the establishment revolving loan funds to provide hazard mitigation assistance to local governments. | Program details forthcoming |
National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund | IIJA provides $492 million in grants to state and territorial government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, tribal government and organizations, educational institutions, and other organizations.
| Program details forthcoming |
Grants for States and Tribes for Voluntary Restoration | IIJA provides $400 million in grants to states and tribes. These funds provide grant programs to states, territories of the United States, and Indian Tribes for implementing voluntary restoration projects on private or public lands. | Funding Guidance for State and Tribal Response Programs Fiscal Year 2022 (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funds) |
Financial Assistance to Facilities That Purchase and Process Byproducts for Ecosystem Restoration Projects | IIJA provides $400 million in grants to states and tribes.
| Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. |
Direct Federal Spending for Invasives | IIJA provides $100 million in grants and direct federal spending to states and tribes.
| Program details forthcoming |
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund | IIJA provides approximately $11.29 billion in grants to states and tribes.
| More information on the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. Estimated application opening date, 3rd quarter 2022. |