The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3 billion to help every state and territory identify and replace lead service lines, preventing exposure to lead in drinking water. Lead can cause a range of serious health impacts, including irreversible harm to brain development in children. It is funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and available through EPA's successful Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF).

West Virginia has secured $1.2 billion in Broadband Enhancement Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding, which will be used to improve reliable high-speed internet for residents statewide. The Office of Broadband, which is part of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development, helped obtain these funds, and West Virginia is among the first states in the nation to secure this National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approval. 

Decades after a historically Black neighborhood in Portland, OR was separated by the installation of Interstate 5, national and local leaders are working to rejuvenate the area thanks in part to new federal funding. The U.S. Department of Transportation's $485 million award will help reverse the damage that was done near the Rose Quarter and the Albina Neighborhood. As part of this effort, the Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland, OR, and Albina Vision Trust are all working together to make it happen. 

The White House announced key actions to deliver clean electricity to more homes and businesses, helping lower energy costs for American families and power the U.S. manufacturing renaissance, while providing cleaner air and water to communities long overburdened by pollution from fossil fuel power plants.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced partnerships with rural cooperatives, local organizations, and tribes to support high-speed internet deployment in 11 states. USDA is awarding $5.2 million in cooperative agreements through the Broadband Technical Assistance Program, which is funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This funding will extend the reach of other high-speed internet programs to meet the Administration's goal to connect every community in America with affordable, reliable, high-speed internet. 

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding another $76.1 million from the previously allocated $9 billion, for 45 airport-related infrastructure projects in 22 states. The projects are funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program, part of the $25 billion total included in the law for airport improvements, including front-of-house projects such as terminal expansions and baggage system upgrades. 

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Highway Administration is announcing $148 million in grants to 11 states and Puerto Rico under the first round of a new $400 million program to improve air quality and reduce pollution for truck drivers, port workers, and families that live in communities surrounding ports. The Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities Grant Program, which was created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), invests in port electrification and efficiency improvements. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is funding more than 700 clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to domestic biofuels, and create jobs and new market opportunities for U.S. farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers. Many of the projects are funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. In all, USDA is providing $238 million in funding through the Rural Energy for America Program and the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 60 selectees that will receive $7 billion in awards through the Solar for All grant competition. The grant competition is funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which created EPA's $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). The 60 selections will provide funds to states, territories, tribal governments, municipalities, and nonprofits across the country to develop long-lasting solar programs.

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service announced more than $232 million to support public schools, roads, and other municipal services through the agency's Secure Rural Schools program. The program was reauthorized for fiscal years 2021 through 2023 through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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The Phoenix, AZ City Council has approved the use of more than $9 million in federal grant funding to create more affordable housing options. The money is an annual allocation the city gets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development called HOME funds. It will go toward six different properties across the city to create or preserve 432 units of affordable housing in the area.

Under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced approximately $1 million in round two funding under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Through this agreement, USDA and Montana are working together to offer approximately $1 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to build resilience across the middle of the supply chain. 

The U.S. Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to Ascension Parish Government in Gonzales, LA, for roadway infrastructure improvements at the RiverPlex MegaPark. This grant will support clean energy business growth in the region. This EDA investment will be matched with $587,000 in local funds and is expected to create more than 450 jobs and generate $9.5 billion in private investment, according to grantee estimates.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.1 million grant to the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors in Clarksdale, Mississippi, for roadway and water infrastructure improvements to support manufacturing and job growth. This grant will support the local boat manufacturing sector and will be matched with $2.5 million in state and local funds and is expected to create 56 jobs and generate $8.3 million in private investment, according to grantee estimates.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering with the Reinvestment Fund to help organizations strengthen local food financing programs and improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities across the country. The Reinvestment Fund has selected 16 public-private partnerships to receive $40.3 million in grants under the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Local & Regional Healthy Food Financing Partnerships Program in 20 states and Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded the city of Peru, IL with a $2 million grant. The money will be used for water infrastructure improvements, which will increase water and sewer access to 50 businesses through the new North Trunk Line Deep Sewer Project. The project is expected to create 80 jobs and generate $2 million in local investments.

The city of Thomasville, GA was awarded an Economic Development Administration grant of $2 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce to improve the city's wastewater treatment plant and to support current and future business needs. The grant is expected to spur $28.8 million in private investment while supporting approximately 260 jobs.

The lack of affordable housing in the United States is well-documented in the nation's urban markets. That same dire need for affordable housing for the least prosperous among us, however, also is a serious problem in rural America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers one of the main programs providing housing for low-income households in rural America. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble and faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Baltimore County, MD signed a revised grant agreement to enable Tradepoint Atlantic (TPA), a facility in the county, to use a previously awarded $8.3 million DOT grant to accommodate more cargo at TPA's terminal on Sparrows Point at the Port of Baltimore. This revision was undertaken to tackle supply chain disruptions caused by collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.