Port Infrastructure Development Program

Overview

FY2025 round NOFO originally Dec 23, 2025, amended to ~$488.6M available with priorities for innovative technology, national multimodal freight goals, and Qualified Opportunity Zones. Funds port and intermodal/on-dock rail. Obligation target Sept 30, 2029, expenditure by Sept 30, 2034. Small Project at a Small Port set-aside applies. No FY2026-27 cycle stated.

Uses

Not yet recorded.

Funding

Match Rules

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

• State, local, or private cashConfirmed (NOFO)

  State funds must originate from programs funded by State revenue — federal pass-through money through a state agency doesn't count.

  Source →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• RRIF loanConfirmed (NOFO)

  Repaid from non-federal sources (FY2026 NOFO, section B.4).

  Section B.4 →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• TIFIA loanConfirmed (NOFO)
  Source →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• Other federal grant funds (general)Default no

  Other federal funds sit on the federal side of PIDP's own federal-share formula — counted as federal request, not as non-federal match.

  Source →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• CDBGSource-side authority

  NOFO itself wasn't checked for CDBG-specific language.

  24 CFR 570.201(g) →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• Title 23 formula fundsDefault no

  Counts as other federal, not match.

  Source →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• 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 →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

• 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.

  46 USC 54301 →

  Source changed — pending re-verification

Eligibility

• State Agency
• County
• Municipality
• Tribal Government

Terms

• Mechanism: Competitive Grant
• Authorized under 46 U.S.C. §54301
• SAM.gov registration: required

How to Apply