Assistance program
United States Marine Highway Grants
$79.3 Million committed in FY2020–FY2026
- Agency
- Maritime Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 20.816
- What it does
- Mitigate landside congestion, expand transportation options, and realize public benefit and external cost savings by awarding Marine Highway grants to qualified applicants to implement designated Marine Highway projects.
- Who benefits
- Eligible applicants include states, Political subdivision of a State or a local government, United States metropolitan planning organization, United States Port Authority, Tribal government, United States private sector operators of marine highway projects or private sector owners of facilities, including an Alaska Native Corporation. Private applicants require an endorsement letter from the current marine highway route. Eligible beneficiaries include those entities defined in OMB 2CFR 200.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include states, Political subdivision of a State or a local government, United States metropolitan planning organization, United States Port Authority, Tribal government, United States private sector operators of marine highway projects or private sector owners of facilities, including an Alaska Native Corporation. Private applicants require an endorsement letter from the current marine highway route sponsor.
- Authorized by
- 2016 National Defense Authorization Act
- 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 3515)
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.
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