2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program

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

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

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

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

11 disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by
pollution.

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

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