Assistance program
Federal Lands Access Program
$413.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Highway Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.224
- What it does
- The goal of the Federal Lands Access Program is to improve transportation facilities that provide access to, are adjacent to, or are located within Federal lands. The Access Program supplements State and local resources for public roads, transit systems, and other transportation facilities, with an emphasis on high-use recreation sites and economic generators. The program is designed to provide flexibility for a wide range of transportation projects in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. A Programming Decisions Committee (PDC) within each State will make programming decisions and should develop a multi-year program of projects.
- Who benefits
- State transportation departments, other State agencies, local agencies, and Federal agencies.
- Who applies
- Only the owner of the affected transportation asset or assets may submit an application.
- Authorized by
- Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST)
- Section 1119 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Program site
- https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/flap ↗
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.
Grants
$411.5M
100%
Other
$1.6M
<1%
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
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments