Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook
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On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, marking the most significant action Congress has taken on clean energy and climate change in the nation’s history. With the stroke of his pen, the President redefined American leadership in confronting the existential threat of the climate crisis and set forth a new era of American innovation and ingenuity to lower consumer costs and drive the global clean energy economy forward.
This guidebook provides an overview of the clean energy, climate mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation-related investment programs in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, including who is eligible to apply for funding and for what activities.
Download the list of funding programs in the living guidebook below. Last updated November 28, 2023.
Download a data dictionary for the list of programs in the living guidebook below.
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| Program | Agency | Bureau | Funding Amount | Funding Mechanism | Program Description | Period of Availability | Eligible Recipients | Tribal Eligibility? | Eligible Uses | New or Existing Program | Justice40 | Formula Funding | Cost Share Requirement | Statutory Location | SAM.gov Assistance Listing | Recent Announcements |
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| Acquisition of Hurricane Forecasting Aircraft | Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $100,000,000 | Direct federal spending (acquisition) | To purchase new hurricane hunter aircraft. | To remain available until September 30, 2026 | Direct federal spending | No | Acquisition of hurricane hunter aircraft. | Existing | N/A | N/A | 40006 | N/A | ||
| Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program | Department of Energy | Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations | $5,812,000,000 | Grants, Rebates, and/or Cooperative Agreements | To provide competitive financial support to owners and operators of facilities engaged in energy intensive industrial processes to complete demonstration and deployment projects that reduce a facility’s greenhouse gas emissions through installation or implementation of advanced industrial technologies and early-stage engineering studies to prepare a facility to install or implement advanced industrial technologies. | To remain available through September 30, 2026. | Owners or operators of domestic, nonfederal, nonpower industrial or manufacturing facilities engaged in energy-intensive industrial processes. | Yes | To carry out projects for 1) purchase and installation or implementation of advanced industrial technologies at eligible facilities; 2) retrofits, upgrades, or operational improvements at eligible facilities to install or implement advanced industrial technologies; or 3) engineering studies and other work needed to prepare eligible facilities for activities described in (1) or (2). | New | Covered | No | At least 50% | 50161 | https://www.grants.gov/search-grants.html?cfda=81.255 | Biden-Harris Administration Announces $6 Billion To Drastically Reduce Industrial Emissions and Create Healthier Communities (3/8/2023): https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-6-billion-drastically-reduce-industrial-emissions |
| Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program | Department of Energy | Loan Programs Office | $3,000,000,000 | Loans | To provide loans to support the manufacture of eligible advanced technology vehicles and components under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM), including newly authorized uses from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Expanded uses include medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, locomotives, maritime vessels including offshore wind vessels, aviation, and hyperloop. IRA removed the $25 billion cap on ATVM loans and appropriates $3 billion in credit subsidy to support these loans. | To remain available through September 30, 2028. | A manufacturer of eligible vehicles or of components or materials that support eligible vehicles’ fuel economy performance. | Yes | Manufacturing a range of advanced technology vehicles and their components, including light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, locomotives, maritime vessels including offshore wind vessels, aviation, and hyperloop. The Inflation Reduction Act specifies that funds may be used for the costs of providing direct loans for reequipping, expanding, or establishing a manufacturing facility in the United States to produce advanced technology vehicles only if those vehicles emit, under any possible operational mode or condition, low or zero exhaust emissions of greenhouse gases. | Existing with Substantive Modifications | Covered | No | N/A. Loan amount cannot exceed 80% of eligible project costs. | 50142 | TBD | |
| Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) | Department of Agriculture | Natural Resources Conservation Service | $1,400,000,000 | Cooperative Agreements, Grants, Contracts, Easements | To support the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), which helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect working farms and ranches through conservation easements and long term contracts. | To remain available until September 30, 2031. | Conservation entities, agriculture producers, farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and Indian tribes. | Yes | Protection, restoration, and enhancement of wetlands or protection of working farms and ranches through conservation easements. This funding will support easements or interests in land that will most reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions. For ACEP Agricultural Land Easements (ACEP-ALE) or Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), applications for the first IRA funding cycle must be submitted by March 17, 2023, for the first funding round. NRCS will prioritize ACEP-ALE for grasslands in areas of highest risk for conversion to non-grassland uses to prevent the release of soil carbon stores. NRCS will prioritize ACEP-WRE for eligible lands that contain soils high in organic carbon. | Existing | Covered | No | Varies | 21001(a)(3) | https://sam.gov/fal/2b5519b919e2444d952ad15d265554cf/view | USDA Request for Public Comment on Natural Resources Conservation Service Funding (11/17/2022): https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/usda-requests-public-input-on-implementation-of-inflation-reduction-act-funding; Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Climate-Smart Agriculture Nationwide (2/13/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/02/13/biden-harris-administration-announces-availability-inflation; USDA Hiring Engineers, Natural Resource Specialists Nationwide to Strengthen Inflation Reduction Act Implementation, Enhance Agricultural Conservation (6/23/2023): https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/usda-hiring-engineers-natural-resource-specialists-nationwide-to-strengthen-inflation |
| Assistance and Support for Underserved Farmers, Ranchers, and Foresters | Department of Agriculture | Office of the Secretary | $2,200,000,000 | Financial assistance | To provide financial assistance to producers that have experienced discrimination in the Department of Agriculture’s farm lending programs prior to January 1, 2021. USDA recently solicited public input through a Request for Information (RFI) on how USDA should design and administer the program. The RFI is an important step in making sure farmers, advocates, academics, legislators, Tribal governments, and other experts can share their perspectives to assist USDA in implementing these provisions and fulfilling the intent of Congress. | To remain available until September 30, 2031. | Farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination by USDA in its farm loan programs prior to January 1, 2021 and/or are currently debtors with assigned or assumed USDA farm loan debt that was the subject of USDA discrimination that occurred prior to January 1, 2021. | Yes. Tribal governments as well as individual Tribal members or organizations. | Financial assistance. Visit 22007apply.gov. | New | No | No | 22007 | 22007apply.gov | USDA Request for Public Comment on Section 22007 (10/13/2022): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/10/13/usda-seeking-public-comment-new-provision-provide-assistance; USDA Announces Next Steps in Providing Financial Assistance to Borrowers Who Have Faced Discrimination (3/1/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/03/01/usda-announces-next-steps-providing-financial-assistance-borrowers; Next Steps in Providing Financial Assistance to Borrowers Who Have Faced Discrimination: Organizational Deadline (3/14/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2023/03/14/next-steps-providing-financial-assistance-borrowers-who-have-faced; Financial Assistance Application Process Opens for USDA Farm Loan Borrowers Who Have Faced Discrimination (7/7/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/07/07/financial-assistance-application-process-opens-usda-farm-loan | |
| Assistance for Distressed Borrowers | Department of Agriculture | Farm Service Agency | $3,100,000,000 | Direct Federal Spending | To expedite assistance to distressed borrowers of direct or guaranteed loans administered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) whose operations face financial risk. In October 2022, with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, USDA provided nearly $800 million in payments to distressed borrowers to help cure delinquencies and resolve uncollectable farm loan debts. | To remain available until September 30, 2031. | Direct Federal Spending | Yes. Tribal governments as well as individual Tribal members or organizations. | Direct federal spending | New | Covered | N/A | N/A | 22006 | N/A | USDA Announces $800 Million for Distressed Farm Loan Borrowers (10/18/2022): https://www.fsa.usda.gov/news-room/news-releases/2022/usda-provides-payments-of-nearly-800-million-in-assistance-to-help-keep-farmers-farming; USDA Announces Additional Assistance for Distressed Farmers Facing Financial Risk (3/27/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/03/27/usda-announces-additional-assistance-distressed-farmers-facing; USDA Is Providing $130 Million in Assistance to Help Farmers Facing Financial Risk (5/1/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/05/01/usda-providing-130-million-assistance-help-farmers-facing-financial |
| Assistance for Federal Buildings | General Services Administration | Real Property Activities | $250,000,000 | Direct Federal Spending | To convert GSA facilities to high-performance green buildings, as part of the Federal Buildings Fund. | Through September 30, 2031 | Direct Federal Spending | No | Measures that improve a building's environmental performance, including those that reduce energy, water, and material resource use; improve indoor environmental quality; reduce air and water pollution and waste generation; increase the use of environmentally preferable products; increase reuse and recycling opportunities; integrate systems in the building; and reduce the environmental and energy impacts of transportation to and from the building. | Existing | No | N/A | 60502 | N/A | GSA Administrator Visits Arizona to Announce First Inflation Reduction Act Projects at Federal Facilities (12/19/2022): https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-administrator-visits-arizona-to-announce-first-inflation-reduction-act-projects-at-federal-facilities-12192022; GSA Administrator announces $30 million to boost building efficiency, sustainable construction, and jobs in Ohio (4/19/2023); https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-administrator-announces-$30-million-to-boost-building-efficiency-sustainable-construction-and-jobs-in-ohio-04192023; GSA Administrator announces over $40 million to boost building efficiency and create jobs in Texas and Louisiana (5/10/2023); https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-administrator-announces-over-$40-million-to-boost-building-efficiency-and-create-jobs-in-texas-and-louisiana-05102023; GSA’s energy retrofit program issues largest ever call to accelerate progress toward net zero buildings through President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda (5/10/2023): https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsas-energy-retrofit-program-issues-largest-ever-call-to-accelerate-progress-toward-net-zero-buildings-through-president-bidens-investing-in-america-agenda-05102023 | |
| Assistance for Latest and Zero Building Energy Code Adoption | Department of Energy | Office of State and Community Energy Programs | $1,000,000,000 | Grants | To provide grants to states or units of local government to adopt updated building energy codes, including the zero energy code. | To remain available through September 30, 2029. | States and local government with authority to adopt building codes. | No | Grants to assist states and units of local government that have authority to adopt and implement building codes to (1) adopt codes for residential buildings that meet or exceed the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code; and/or (2) adopt a building energy code for commercial buildings that meet or exceed the ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1–2019. | New | Covered | No | No | 50131 | TBD | Request For Information (RFI) and Notice of Intent (NOI) released on March 31, 2023: https://infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov/Default.aspx#FoaId4218787d-9a11-4065-9c88-12334e86fe69 |
| Assistance to Forest Landowners with <2,500 Acres of Forestland - Emerging Private Markets for Climate Mitigation and Forest Resilience | Department of Agriculture | Forest Service | $100,000,000 | Grants | To support the participation of forest landowners who own less than 2,500 acres of forestland in emerging private markets for climate mitigation or forest resilience. | To remain available until September 30, 2031. | Tracks A & B: U.S. State Governments; U.S. Local Governments; Tribal Governments; Alaska Native Corporations/Villages; Other Tribal Entities; Education Institutions; Non-Profit Entities; and For-Profit Entities. Track C: Nonprofit organizations with a mission focused on sustainable forestry and/or forest conservation. Applicants must have demonstrated success in managing competitive subgrant programs that are regional or national in scope. | Yes | Proposals may incorporate some or all of the following elements: (1) Promoting equitable opportunities for participation in emerging markets for climate mitigation and forest resilience; (2) Establishing proof of concept for new climate-resilient forestry programs with potential for replicability; (3) Using partnerships and networks to leverage impact; (4) Emphasizing learning and informing future program development; and/or (5) Including appropriately-designed monitoring and evaluation plans to track learning and progress. | New | Covered | No | There is no match requirement for proposals to be funded through this funding opportunity. The Landscape Scale Restoration Program authority, authorized under the 2018 Farm Bill, requires a 1:1 non-federal match; however, the Inflation Reduction Act waives the statutory match requirement for the funding available through this funding opportunity. | 23002(a)(3) | https://sam.gov/fal/adef99f823654e2ba03c01fb0fc26620/view | Biden-Harris Administration Invests $150M to Connect Underserved and Small Acreage Forest Landowners to Emerging Climate Markets as part of Investing in America Agenda (8/22/2023): https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/08/22/biden-harris-administration-invests-150m-connect-underserved-and |
| Assistance to Underserved Forest Landowners - Climate Mitigation and Forest Resilience Practices | Department of Agriculture | Forest Service | $150,000,000 | Grants | To assist underserved forest landowners in carrying out climate mitigation or forest resilience practices. | To remain available until September 30, 2031. | Non-Federal Forests | Yes | Technical assistance to underserved forest landowners | New | Covered | No | 20% | 23002(a)(1) | TBD |
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