Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD)

Overview

Discretionary multimodal capital/planning grants; broad eligibility including ports, rail, and local governments; heavily used by economic development agencies and municipalities. Renamed from RAISE (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) to BUILD, effective FY2025.

Uses

• Bridge
• Planning Study

Funding

Match Rules

What can count toward the non-federal share, by source. Full matrix across every program →

• State, local, or private cashConfirmed (NOFO)

  Citation is the FY2023 RAISE NOFO. FY2026 BUILD NOFO not read in full.

  Source →
• RRIF loanConfirmed (statute)

  Repaid from non-federal sources.

  49 USC 6702(e)(3)(D) →
• TIFIA loanConfirmed (statute)

  Repaid from non-federal sources.

  49 USC 6702(e)(3)(C) →
• Other federal grant funds (general)Default no

  Statute names only four specific programs as countable (Tribal Transportation Program, Federal Lands Transportation Program, TIFIA, RRIF) — TIFIA and RRIF are tracked as their own rows in this table; general other-federal beyond those four is default no.

  Source →
• CDBGSource-side authority

  BUILD's own statute (49 USC 6702) lists only TTP/FLTP/TIFIA/RRIF as countable other-federal sources — CDBG's source-side authority doesn't clearly reach BUILD specifically.

  24 CFR 570.201(g) →
• Title 23 formula fundsUnconfirmed

  Read directly (2026-09-21): subsection (e)(3), "Treatment of other federal funds," names exactly four countable programs — Tribal Transportation Program (23 USC 202), Federal Lands Transportation Program (23 USC 203), TIFIA (23 USC 601(a)), and RRIF (chapter 224). No Title 23 formula program is on that list.

• Regional commission fundsSource-side authority

  Whichever regional commission covers the project area (Appalachian Regional Commission, Delta Regional Authority, or Northern Border Regional Commission) may have its own statutory authority to pay part of the non-federal share on another federal grant program — see notes for the specific citation per commission.

  Researched and verified directly (2026-09-21). Three separate regional-commission statutes each grant source-side authority, none naming any rail/port program specifically: ARC — 40 USC 14321(a)(4), "Notwithstanding any law limiting the federal share in any other federal or federal grant program, amounts appropriated to carry out this section may be used to increase that federal share, as the Commission decides is appropriate." DRA — 7 USC 2009aa-3, may raise a project's federal share up to 90% using DRA funds, conditioned on the administering federal agency certifying the project meets that program's own requirements. NBRC (and Subtitle V regional commissions generally) — 40 USC 15507 ("available for the payment of the non-Federal share for any project carried out under another Federal grant program") plus 40 USC 15506(b). Same caveat as the CDBG rows: this is generic source-side authority — none of these three statutes confirms this program's own NOFO or statute actually accepts it.

  40 USC 15507 →
• In-kind contributionsUnconfirmed

  No program-specific NOFO/statute language found (checked 2026-09-21; transportation.gov/highways.dot.gov blocked automated fetches on several attempts). Falls back to the general federal default: 2 CFR 200.306(b) allows in-kind (third-party) contributions toward cost sharing when verifiable, not used for another federal award, and necessary/reasonable/allowable — the same regulation CRISI's and RCE's own NOFOs cite by name for their confirmed in-kind rows, but there is no confirmation this program's own NOFO does the same. A lead for a future pass: a secondary summary points to the FY2026 BUILD NOFO's "eligible sources of non-Federal Funds" section on pages 7–8 specifically — not yet read directly (transportation.gov blocked automated fetches).

Eligibility

• Port Authority
• Tribal Government
• State Agency

Terms

• Mechanism: Competitive Grant
• SAM.gov registration: required

How to Apply

Most recent deadline: February 24, 2026