The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $385,402.30 Formula Grant to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission under the Sport Fish Restoration federal grant program (CFDA 15.605) to support facilities providing ageing of finfish catches in Virginia and application of stock assessment analyses including ADAPT-VPA and SCA models. These analyses will provide management advice from May 20, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The funding will support activities at Virginia...
This $354,731 Formula Grant award was provided by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction Program (CFDA 20.205) to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for intersection improvements at the intersection of Route 3 and Route 605 in Lancaster County, Virginia. The project involves right-of-way acquisition and construction of additional turning lanes on Route 3 to facilitate turning movements onto Route 605. This infrastructure improvement...
This federal Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) provides $145,000.00 to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to perform preliminary engineering work for converting 11 traffic signal locations in Fredericksburg, Virginia from 5-section "doghouse" signals to 4-section flashing yellow arrow (FYA) signals. The project involves re-drafting original signal plans using computer-aided design (CADD) software....
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $131,945 Project Grant to Universite Concordia under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards federal grant program (CFDA 11.609). The grant will support development of a new web-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool called FATIMA-CFD to model the fate and transport of indoor microbiological aerosols, with a focus on modeling SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission. The tool will be developed...
This $245,437.56 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) provides funding to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to assist with the development of the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (FAMPO) 2050 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The grant will support consultant services to help FAMPO meet the schedule for creating this constrained long-range transportation plan for the...
The Frontier Community Coalition (FCC) received a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276). This 5-year grant, with an award date of September 30, 2024, aims to diminish substance misuse prevalence among youth populations aged 12-18 in the rural Nevada counties of Humboldt, Lander, Mineral, and Pershing. The initiative focuses on evidence-based interventions, community collaboration,...
This $115,033.23 Formula Grant award was provided by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Planning and Construction Program (CFDA 20.205) to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) on March 7, 2025. The funding will support preliminary engineering for a project to widen the trench and add 2-foot paved shoulders along Route 3 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, from the Orange County line (milepoint 19.44) to Route 620 (milepoint 28.89). This project aims to...
This $350,000 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) will fund multimodal transportation improvements along Park Avenue in the City of Falls Church, Virginia. The project will install a mid-block crossing, improve intersection geometry, narrow travel lanes, add curb extensions, and remove sidewalk obstructions. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the primary grantee, and the City of Falls Church (CTY Falls...
This $17,149,550 Federal Transit Formula Grant award from the Federal Transit Administration (CFDA 20.507) will support the Victor Valley Transit Authority (VVTA) in California over a one-year period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The funding will be used to upgrade onboard modems, cover capital lease payments, and provide operating assistance for VVTA's fixed-route operations. This will allow VVTA to continue providing public transportation services and maintain its vehicle fleet in a...
This $30,837,256 federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (CFDA 20.507 - Federal Transit Formula Grants) to the Victor Valley Transit Authority (VVTA) will fund the purchase of 13 replacement hydrogen fuel cell buses for VVTA's fixed-route operations. The project aims to increase ridership and system reliability by improving safety, comfort, and reducing maintenance costs through the replacement of older vehicles with new ones,...