Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) today announced the awards for the SFY24 Municipal Roads Grants-in-Aid Program, which provides funding for municipalities to implement best management practices in accordance with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Municipal Roads General Permit. This year, 233 municipalities are participating.
A total of approximately $4 million in awards will be granted in this cycle. Municipalities will submit reimbursement requests directly to AOT for work completed, and AOT will reimburse up to 80% of each municipality’s documented construction expenses, including in-kind support, for best management practices on hydrologically connected roads.
Eligible best management practices according to the program standards include the following:
- 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 non-perennial streams within right of way and installation of culvert headwalls and outlet stabilization
- Stabilizing conveyance zones
- Addressing gully erosion on Class 4 roads
- Stabilizing catch basin outlets.
Details, documents, and the municipal award totals are available on the AOT website.
Source: 5.24.2023. Vermont Agency of Transportation, Barre, vtrans.vermont.gov
