The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) recently opened the application period for the Municipal Roads Grants-in-Aid Program for state fiscal year 2027.
The program provides funding to municipalities for the implementation of best management practices (BMPs) in accordance with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation Municipal Roads General Permit.
Municipalities submit reimbursement requests to AOT for work completed. AOT will reimburse up to 80 percent of the municipality’s documented construction expenses for BMPs on hydrologically connected roads. Administrative support of the BMPs also is an eligible expense, up to 10 percent of the total award up to $1,500.
Eligible BMPs are grass and stone-lined drainage ditches and stone check-dams; turnouts, cross culverts, and other disconnection and infiltration practices; lowering of high road shoulders, installation or replacement of drainage culverts and driveway culverts on nonperennial streams within right-of-way and installation of culvert headwalls and outlet stabilization; stabilizing conveyance zones; addressing gully erosion on class 4 roads; and stabilizing catch basin outlets.
Awardees must agree to seven stipulations including executing a grant agreement with AOT within 60 days of the award notification, and completing the project by Sept. 30, 2027.
Municipalities must return letters of intent by May 1to be eligible.