2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program

<p>The goal of PIDP is to assist in funding eligible projects for the purpose of improving the safety,<br />efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to<br />ports and that advance the Departmental priorities of safety, equity, Justice40, climate and<br />sustainability, workforce development, job quality, and wealth creation, as described in the<br />Department’s Strategic Plan3 and executive orders. Projects selected under this Notice are<br />intended to further the program’s goals and objectives.</p>

<p><br />The Department seeks to fund projects under the PIDP that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in<br />the transportation sector; incorporate evidence-based climate resilience measures and features;<br />avoid adverse environmental impacts to air or water quality, wetlands, and endangered species;<br />and address the disproportionate negative environmental impacts of transportation on<br />disadvantaged communities, consistent with Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis<br />at Home and Abroad.</p>

<p><br />In addition, the Department seeks to award projects under the PIDP that proactively evaluate<br />whether a project will create proportional impacts to all populations in a project area and<br />increase equitable access to project benefits, consistent with Executive Order 14091, Further<br />Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal<br />Government.</p>

<p><br />The Department also seeks to award projects that address environmental justice, particularly for<br />communities that have experienced decades of underinvestment and are most impacted by<br />climate change, pollution, and environmental hazards, consistent with Executive Order 14008,<br />Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.<br />PIDP advances President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which set the goal that 40 percent of the<br />overall benefits of certain climate, clean energy, and other covered Federal investments flow to<br />3 See U.S. Department of Transportation Strategic Plan FY 2022–2026 at<br />https://www.transportation.gov/dotstrategic-plan.</p>

<p>11 disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by<br />pollution.</p>

<p><br />In addition, the Department intends to use the PIDP to support the creation of good-paying jobs<br />with the free and fair choice to join a union and the incorporation of strong labor standards and<br />training and placement programs, especially registered apprenticeships, in project planning<br />stages, consistent with Executive Order 14025, Worker Organizing and Empowerment, and<br />Executive Order 14052, Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The<br />Department also intends to use the PIDP to support wealth creation, consistent with the<br />Department&#8217;s Equity Action Plan, through the inclusion of local inclusive economic development<br />and entrepreneurship such as the utilization of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises or 8(a) firms.</p>

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