§178 Environmental Review Implementation Funds

Summary

Provides $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, paid to the Federal Highway Administration and available until September 30, 2026, to help make and review environmental documents for proposed surface transportation projects. The money can pay for guidance, tools, training, templates, and the FHWA’s own related costs. It can also be given to eligible groups to build their ability to run environmental reviews and to help with steps like setting study scope, finding impacts and fixes and reasonable alternatives, preparing studies and documents before and during the review under the law, doing public outreach, handling permits or other tasks the Administrator thinks are needed, and paying the eligible group’s administrative costs. The federal share of any funded activity can be no more than 80 percent. The non‑federal share can come from other federal, state, or local grant programs. Administrator = the FHWA Administrator. Eligible entity = a State, local government, political subdivision, U.S. territory, the entity in section 207(m)(1)(E), a recipient under section 203, or a metropolitan planning organization. Environmental review process = the meaning given in section 139(a)(5). Proposed project = a surface transportation project that needs an environmental review.