10/2 - 10/4 | 2025 GEORGIA BIKE-WALK-LIVE SUMMIT | COLUMBUS
The RCP Program aims to advance and support reconnection of communities divided by transportation infrastructure – with a priority on helping disadvantaged communities improve access to daily needs (jobs, schools, healthcare, grocery stores, and recreation). Funds for the fiscal years (FY) 2024, 2025, and 2026 RCP grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning and capital construction activities that aim to restore community connectivity through the removal, retrofit, mitigation or replacement of highways, roadways, or other infrastructure facilities that create barriers to mobility, access or economic development.
Preliminary and detailed design activities and associated environmental studies; predevelopment / preconstruction; permitting activities including the completion of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for: - The removal, retrofit, or mitigation of an eligible dividing facility; - The replacement of an eligible dividing facility with a new facility that restores community connectivity; or - Delivering community benefits and environmental improvements or mitigation of impacts identified through the NEPA process or other planning and project development for the construction project.
1. Each applicant is required to be registered in SAM.gov before submitting an application and provide a valid UEI in their application. These processes can take several weeks to complete and must be done before the application deadline.
2. Review and selection of projects to receive grants includes consideration of:
3. An eligible facility is a highway, including a road, street, or parkway or other transportation facility, such as a rail line, that creates a barrier to community connectivity, including barriers to mobility, access, or economic development, due to high speeds, grade separations, or other design factors.
