Exciting News from the US Department of Transportation! On Feb. 26, the Department released the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the next round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant Program, which is also known as “TIGER VI.” A total of $600 million is available for grants in this round of TIGER, which is a $50 million increase over the TIGER V round. The NOFA is very similar to the last round, except that there is a set-aside this time of up to $35 million for planning grants. These grants should be especially attractive for smaller communities and projects that are not far enough along in the environmental process to qualify for a TIGER construction grant. Another important change is the far longer length of time this round in which TIGER awardees will have to obligate their federal money (the shortness of which in the last round was something the Department wished to rectify).
The deadline for TIGER VI applications is April 28, 2014, at 5:00 p.m. EDT and you can download the NOFA on the TIGER website at: www.dot.gov/TIGER.
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