Project Grant 97164301

The Maine Department of Transportation received a $150,000 project grant award on November 14, 2022 from the Federal Highway Administration. The funding supports the development of a groundwater quality management system under the Highway Research and Development Program. Specifically, the Department will conduct field investigations, studies and research to build a database management system with geo-referencing capabilities. This system will house the Department's groundwater data to support...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) awarded the Emergency Management Agency Maine $270,660 under the Interagency Hazardous Materials Public Sector Training and Planning Grants program (CFDA 20.703) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This formula grant funds hazardous materials emergency preparedness and training initiatives to enhance Maine's capacity to safely and efficiently respond to hazardous materials...

The Maine Department of Transportation was awarded a $562,588.57 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration on April 12, 2023 under the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205). The grant funding will support the procurement of school zone signage as part of a statewide safety improvement project. The Highway Planning and Construction program aims to assist states in providing for construction, preservation, and improvement of highways....

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 awarded $298,000 to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services under the Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program (CFDA 66.444) for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. The grant funds a comprehensive lead remediation assistance program designed to reduce children's exposure to lead in drinking water at Maine schools and child care facilities. The Maine DHHS will establish and administer a...

This Project Grant award, valued at $650,579, is provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Clean Vessel Act (CFDA 15.616) grant program. The funding will be used by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) from July 1, 2024 through December 31, 2027 to improve the availability and reliability of boat pumpout stations along Maine's coast. Key activities include adding self-serve pumpout floats in remote anchorages, upgrading systems to...

The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) received a $1.3M Project Grant award from the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation under the Transportation Planning, Research and Education program (CFDA 20.931) on November 21, 2025. This congressionally directed spending award supports planning studies aimed at evaluating concepts to create workforce transportation improvements and facilities/services enhancements designed to support worker recruitment and retention in the Bath,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $9,908,555 Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program (CFDA 66.049) grant to the Springfield Public School District in Massachusetts. The grant, awarded in December 2024 with a completion date of November 2027, will fund the replacement of 25 in-use, non-zero-emission diesel school buses with new zero-emission vehicles, as well as the installation of 13 Level 3 vehicle charging stations. The project also includes workforce development and...

The Maine Department of Transportation received a $254,964 Project Grant award on August 10, 2022 from the Federal Highway Administration under the Highway Training and Education federal grant program (CFDA 20.215). The grant funds the Maine Local Roads Center to provide training and technical assistance to local road and bridge managers in the state's 502 municipalities. As one of over 50 Local Technical Assistance Programs established nationwide by FHWA, the Center delivers services that...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Ports Program (CFDA 66.051) will fund the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) to conduct emissions inventory and planning activities across four major Maine ports. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing new mobile source emissions inventories for the Ports of Portland, Searsport, Eastport, and Rockland Identifying needed electrical grid updates to enable...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $9,875,000 Project Grant under the Clean School Bus Program (CFDA 66.045) to the Little Rock School Board (doing business as the Little Rock School District) to replace 25 existing diesel school buses with 25 electric buses and acquire 14 Autel MaxiCharger DC fast 80 kW dual port dispensers. This project will transition the district's bus fleet that transports students with special needs to clean, zero-emission electric buses, reducing...