PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide access to industrial, commercial, educational, recreational, residential, and related transportation facilities which directly or indirectly relate to the improvement of the areas determined by the States to have significant development potential, and to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled Appalachian Regional Development (23.001).

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;
- Transportation;
2. TRANSPORTATION;
- Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Local;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- Interstate;
- Intrastate;
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;
- Other private institutions/organizations;