Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program: Future Growth Grants (Section 40304)

Background
The carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation (CIFIA) program was appropriated $2.1 billion to provide federal government financing to large-scale common-carrier carbon dioxide (“CO2”) transportation infrastructure projects. The program aims to support the availability of CCS and CDR to reach climate goals and build upon existing research to test, mature, and validate CCS technologies at commercial scale.

Grant Details
The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Future Growth Grants (FGG) to pay a portion of the cost differential, with respect to any projected future increase in demand for carbon dioxide transportation by an infrastructure project between the cost of constructing the infrastructure based on capacity for an existing project (base project) and the cost of constructing the infrastructure with a larger capacity to support future use by projected projects (expanded project). The FOA will fund projects that support and accelerate the development of CO2 transport by a variety of modes, such as through pipelines, rail, trucks, and ships or barges. The CO2 must be derived only from anthropogenic sources and must ultimately be delivered to CO2 conversion sites or geologic storage facilities. Applicants must propose to develop a common carrier CO2 transport system that is capable of transporting anthropogenic CO2 from two or more carbon capture sources to one or more CO2 conversion sites or geologic storage facilities. Projects may include large-capacity trunk pipelines, rail spurs, intermodal transfer facilities, marine vessels for offshore delivery, and infrastructure at seaports. The FOA emphasizes projects with geographic diversity and a probable future increase in demand.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include domestic entities and foreign entities. Cost sharing is required with a federal share of up to 80% of the total value of the grant. Projects must demonstrate that the proposed infrastructure can reasonably be expected to be used during a 20-year period beginning on the date of substantial completion of the Expanded Project.

Grant Value
$2.1 billion was authorized for the CIFIA program, with approximately $500 million allocated for Future Growth Grants (FGG). The federal share of FGG will be a maximum of 80% of the total value.