Opportunity Information: Apply for DOT RCP FY23 01
The Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program is a U.S. Department of Transportation discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number: DOT RCP FY23 01; CFDA 20.940) focused on repairing the harm caused when major transportation infrastructure, such as highways and large roadways, cuts through neighborhoods and separates people from essential destinations and from each other. For FY 2023, DOT rolled the RCP program together with the Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) program into a single Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Under this combined NOFO, the umbrella program name is the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods (RCN) Program, and RCP is one of the key components within that combined competitive funding process.
The central purpose of the RCP Program is to help communities restore connectivity where past transportation decisions created physical barriers that limited mobility, access, and local economic opportunity. A major emphasis is placed on disadvantaged communities, with the program prioritizing projects that improve practical, everyday access to jobs, schools, healthcare, grocery stores, and recreation. In other words, the program is not just about transportation performance in the abstract; it is about whether residents can safely and efficiently reach the places they need for daily life and whether neighborhoods can function as connected, thriving places rather than being fragmented by large infrastructure.
FY 2023 RCP funding is awarded through a competitive selection process and is intended to support two broad project types: planning activities and capital construction activities. Planning grants generally support the early-stage work needed to define a community reconnection strategy, evaluate alternatives, engage the public, assess impacts, and prepare a project for implementation. Capital construction grants support the physical changes needed to restore connections, including the removal, retrofit, mitigation, or replacement of infrastructure facilities that currently act as barriers. Examples of the types of barriers the program targets include highways, arterial roadways, or other major infrastructure elements that divide communities, restrict safe movement, or suppress adjacent economic development. The goal is to fund work that measurably improves connectivity and access, whether through redesign, right-sizing, capping, rerouting, adding multimodal crossings, or other solutions that reduce the dividing effect of the facility.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities: state governments; county governments; city or township governments; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (excluding institutions of higher education). The NOFO also indicates that additional applicant types may be eligible depending on clarifications provided in the eligibility section referenced in the opportunity text. The awarding agency is the Department of Transportation, Office of the Under Secretary for Policy (Agency code 69A345). The opportunity was posted July 5, 2023, and DOT anticipated making roughly 50 awards, with an award ceiling listed at $100,000,000.
Applications must be submitted through the Valid Eval platform rather than Grants.gov, and DOT provides separate submission links depending on the grant category. Community Planning Grant applications must be submitted via https://usg.valideval.com/teams/rcnplanning/signup, while Capital Construction Grant applications must be submitted via https://usg.valideval.com/teams/rcncaptialconstruction/signup (as listed in the notice). The deadline is firm: applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, September 28, 2023, and late applications will not be accepted.Apply for DOT RCP FY23 01
- The Department of Transportation, 69A345 Office of the Under Secretary for Policy in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.940.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 05, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 28, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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