FY 2020 Notice of Funding Opportunity for Small Shipyard Grants

The Maritime Administration is providing grants to small shipyards under the Small Shipyard Grant Program. The program aims to provide assistance in the form of grants to make capital and related improvements in small shipyards and to provide training for workers in shipbuilding, ship repair, and associated industries. The grants can be used for maritime training programs to foster employee skills and enhanced productivity related to shipbuilding, ship repair, and associated industries. • Eligible applicants must be shipyards with no more than 1,200 production employees and must construct, repair, or reconfigure vessels 40 feet in length or greater for commercial or government use. • The grants can be used for capital and related improvements to qualified shipyard facilities, as well as training projects that will be effective in fostering employee skills and enhanced productivity related to shipbuilding, ship repair, and associated industries. • The Federal funds for any eligible project will not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of such project, and the remaining portion of the cost shall be paid in funds from or on behalf of the recipient. • Applications must be submitted in hard copy, along with two compact discs each containing a complete electronic version of the application in PDF format, to the Associate Administrator for Business and Finance Development, Room W21-318, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20590.