Organization:
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)

Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Planning Grants

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Last Updated:
May 21, 2025
Type:
Federal
State
Private
Other
Status:
Closed; Last cycle Fall 2024-Spring 2025
Years Funded:
2022
-
2026
Annual Program Amount:
1,500,000,000.00
Minimum Project Cost:
$5,000,000 (urban) $1,000,000 (Rural)
Annual Award Amount (min):
$1,000,000
Annual Award Amount (max):
$25,000,000
Eligible Activities:
Planning
Design
Construction
Match:
Varies; Minimum 20% or less for rural areas, historically disadvantaged communities and areas of persistent poverty
Eligible Applicants:
State Government
Federally Recognized Tribes & Affiliated Groups
Local Government
Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Transit Agencies
Private,
Other

Description

Formerly known as the RAISE program, the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant program provides grants for surface transportation infrastructure projects with significant local or regional impact. The eligibility requirements of BUILD allow project sponsors, including state and local governments, counties, Tribal governments, transit agencies, and port authorities to pursue multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional projects that are more difficult to fund through other grant programs.

Eligible Projects

Activities eligible for funding under RAISE planning grants are related to the planning, preparation, or design — for example environmental analysis, equity analysis, community engagement, feasibility studies, benefit-cost analysis, and other pre-construction activities — of eligible surface transportation capital projects that will not result in construction with RAISE FY 2025 funding.

In addition, activities eligible for RAISE planning grants include those related to multidisciplinary projects or regional planning, such as:

  1. Development of master plans, comprehensive plans, transportation corridor plans, and integrated economic development, land use, housing, and transportation plans
  2. Zero emissions plan for transit fleet
  3. Planning activities related to the development of a multimodal freight corridor, including those that seek to reduce conflicts with residential areas and with passenger and non-motorized traffic
  4. Planning activities related to zero emissions goods movement
  5. Development of port and regional port planning, including State-wide or multi-port planning within a single jurisdiction or region
  6. Risk assessments and planning to identify vulnerabilities and address the transportation system’s ability to withstand probable occurrence or recurrence of an emergency or major disaster.

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