HIP Factsheet

*Funds Expiring* FFY 20-21 HIP Funds Must Be Obligated by September 30, 2024!

Background

The Highway Infrastructure Program (HIP) has had four cycles of funding announced by FHWA: FFY 2017-2018 Notice, FFY 2018-2019 Notice, FFY 2019-2020 Notice, and FFY 2020-2021 Notice.

HIP was created in Section 122 in Division A of the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which authorized $650 million with the intent to specifically fund the “restoration, repair, construction, of federal aid eligible roads, bridges, and tunnels.” The unobligated HIP funds allocated in 2010 were available until September 30, 2012, after which they lapsed without the option of reobligation. HIP funds that were authorized to projects, from the 2010 apportionment, were available for reimbursement of HIP eligible expenses until September 30, 2017, which is when all the remaining authorized HIP funds expired.

On March 23, 2018 Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, which was subsequently signed into law. This omnibus 2018 FFY spending bill to fund the US federal government included the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, which again funded the HIP to construct highways, bridges, and tunnels apportioned $98 Million in HIP funds for local roads in California. In 2019, with the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019, $138 Million was apportioned for local roads in California. The additional HIP funding was added and the eligible expenses were expanded to allow for the “elimination of hazards and the installation of protective devices at railway-highway crossings.”  In 2020, with the passage of the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act of 2020, $40 Million was apportioned for local roads in California, HIP funding also expanded to projects providing, “necessary charging infrastructure along corridor-ready or corridor-pending alternative fuel corridors.” Then in 2021, with the passage of the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act of 2021, $33 Million was apportioned for local roads in California, HIP funding also expanded to projects providing activities eligible under section 133(b) of title 23, U.S.C, and to provide necessary charging infrastructure along corridor-ready or corridor-pending alternative fuel corridors.

HIP funding is distributed by FHWA and further divided by states, which are required to coordinate with the relevant Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and/or rural planning organizations as required by the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act [23 U.S.C. 1101(b)].

Apportionment Distributions

Monthly Balance Reports