National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega Projects)

Program information

Popular name

Mega Projects, 49 USC Sec. 6701

Assistance listing number

20.937

Agency

Department of Transportation

Sub-agency

Office of the Secretary

Categories & sub-categories

Transportation - Air Transportation
Transportation - Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges
Transportation - Rail Transportation
Transportation - Urban Mass Transit
Transportation - Water Navigation

Assistance types

Project Grants

Eligible applicants

Federally Recognized lndian Tribal Governments
Government - General
Local (includes State-designated lndian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals
State

Eligible beneficiaries

Program objective

The goal of the National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega Projects) program is to identify and award grant funding to transportation projects that will generate national or regional economic, mobility, and or safety benefits.

Program obligations, by FY (2022 - 2024)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov or USASpending.gov.

“SAM.gov actual” displays actual obligations for the fiscal year, as reported by the agency to SAM.gov after the fiscal year concludes.

“SAM.gov estimate” displays estimated obligations for the fiscal year, as reported by the agency to SAM.gov before the fiscal year concludes.

“USAspending.gov obligations” displays the total obligations submitted by the agency to USAspending, linked to the assistance listing through its assistance listing number. USAspending.gov is the official source of Federal spending information, displaying actual obligations made by agencies as they are committed. Annual obligations reported to SAM.gov may be inconsistent with annual obligations reported to USASpending.gov. More information can be found on the “About the data” page.

Please note that SAM.gov does not provide agencies with detailed guidance on how to report loan, loan guarentee, or insurance obligations. These figures may not be comparable arocess programs or consistent with USASpending.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the “About the data” page.

Authorizing statutes

Pub. L. 117, 58.

Program results

2022

In 2022, the Department selected Nine Mega applications to receive approximately $1.2 billion in discretionary grant funding from a pool of approximately 140 applications.