Assistance program
Port Infrastructure Development Program
$1.7 Billion committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Maritime Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 20.823
- What it does
- The program makes discretionary grants to improve port facilities at coastal seaports, inland river ports, and Great Lakes ports for the purpose of improving the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports. The program also has a limited allowance for certain development phase activities.
- Who benefits
- An eligible applicant for a Port Infrastructure Development Program discretionary grants is a port authority, a commission or its subdivision or agent under existing authority, as well as a State or political subdivision of a State or local government, a Tribal government, a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States, a special purpose district with a transportation function, a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities, or a lead entity described above jointly with a private entity or group of private entities.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants for PIDP discretionary grant awards include: A State, a political subdivision of a State, or a local government, a public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States, a special purpose district with a transportation function, an Indian Tribe as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304), or a consortium of Indian Tribes, a multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities listed above, or a lead entity described above jointly with a private entity or group of private entities, including the owners or operators of a facility, or collection of facilities at a port.
- Authorized by
- Public Law Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021-116–260, December 27,2020
- Program site
- https://www.maritime.dot.gov/PIDPgrants ↗
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
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments