Assistance program
Road Maintenance Indian Roads
$273.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 15.033
- What it does
- To provide limited routine and preventive maintenance on BIA transportation facilities as described below: (1) BIA road systems and related road appurtenances such as surfaces, signs, pavement striping, trail markers, guardrails, etc.; (2) Highway bridges and drainage structures; (3) Airport runways and heliport pads; (4) Boardwalks; (5) Adjacent parking areas; (6) Maintenance yards; (7) Transit facilities; (8) System public pedestrian walkways, paths, bike and other trails; (9) Motorized vehicle trails; (10) Public access roads to heliports and airports; (11) BIA school roads and parking lots built with Tribal Transportation Program funds; and (12) Public ferry boats and boat ramps.
- Who benefits
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments; individual tribal members and the public that use the BIA transportation system on tribal lands.
- Who applies
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments with BIA transportation facilities only qualifying for this program.
- Authorized by
- Federal Highway Act of 1921, as amended, Public Law 70-520, 45 Stat. 750, 25 U.S.C. 318(a); Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, Public Law 93-638, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 450; 23 U.S.C. Chapter 2, as amended.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$254.4M
93%
Grants
$13.3M
5%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments