Assistance program
Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program
$783.7 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 20.708
- What it does
- Grant funds will be made available to municipality or community owned utilities (not including for-profit entities) seeking assistance in repairing, rehabilitating, or replacing high-risk, actively leaking, or leak-prone natural gas distribution infrastructure or portions thereof or acquiring equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities and to avoid economic loss. This grant program also strives to create jobs; benefit both rural and urban communities with safe provision of natural gas; and remediate aged and failing natural gas distribution pipelines and distribution pipe prone to leakage.
- Who benefits
- N/A
- Who applies
- Municipality-owned utilities, community-owned utilities, or Federally recognized Native American tribal governments owning and operating a natural gas distribution system. Not Eligible: For-profit entities or any pipeline asset(s) owned by a for-profit entity.
- Authorized by
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration – Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant Program
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.
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