Cooperative Agreement S20AC20018

This Formula Grant award of $1,599,150.00 from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) provides funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) for the SR 3007 Slide Repair project. This project aims to mitigate and correct existing roadway slides along State Route 3007 in Butler County, Pennsylvania, with a focus on protecting the roadway from future hazards. The project includes realigning and shifting the roadway alignment into...

This $460,047 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 supports the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's (PFBC) work on the State Wildlife Grants program. Specifically, the PFBC will lead the comprehensive review and revision of Pennsylvania's 2015-2025 Wildlife Action Plan by June 2026 as required by Congress every 10 years. This includes identifying Species of Greatest Conservation Need and data deficient species that will benefit...

This 5-year, $378,947 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.634 - State Wildlife Grants) will support a Western Pennsylvania Conservancy aquatic invertebrate zoologist position within the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's (PFBC) Non-Game Section. The funded work will focus on surveying, monitoring, and researching state and federally listed endangered, threatened, and candidate aquatic invertebrate species identified in...

This $2,839,201.01 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) is for a transportation infrastructure project on State Route 19, Section A60, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The project involves milling and resurfacing the existing pavement, scour protection for four culverts, installing curbs, guide rails, drainage systems, traffic signals, and signing updates. Additionally, the project includes the...

This federal Project Grant award of $272,364.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program (CFDA 84.042). The grant will fund a student support services project at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA over the period of September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. The goal of the SSS Program is to increase retention, graduation, and transfer rates for low-income, first-generation, and students with...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation received a $2.8 million Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration on May 27, 2021 under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205). The funding will support microsurfacing, guiderail installation, minor drainage work and pavement marking along 7.51 miles of Business Route 376 in Moon Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Work will include microsurfacing, base repair, guiderail, drainage, signing, pavement...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded Pennsylvania State University $148,847.78 under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) on April 28, 2023 to complete the project by April 27, 2027. The funding will support a feasibility study and preliminary engineering for determining bridge-type and terminal improvement requirements to install new passenger loading bridges at University Park Airport in State College, Pennsylvania. The project aims...

This $919,776 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) will fund the construction of various state routes in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The project involves approximately 2.16 miles of flexible base replacement, superpave asphalt paving, high friction surface treatment, and pavement markings across multiple state routes, including SR 0198, SR 0322, SR 0618, and SR 1001. The Pennsylvania Department...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission received a $256,307.69 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.634) for the period of April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2028. The funding supports regional coordination and implementation of conservation actions for species of greatest conservation need across multiple Northeast states. Specifically, the Commission is undertaking standardized survey protocol...

The federal Project Grant award of $688,000.00 was provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) under the Appalachian Area Development program (CFDA 23.002) to the Pennsylvania's State System Of Higher Education Foundation. The award will fund a 3-year project starting on October 1, 2024 and ending on September 30, 2027. The project aims to strengthen economic development, infrastructure, and community capacity across the Appalachian region through activities supporting...