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Official title: Authorize the Land Port of Entry Community Infrastructure Program to address deficiencies in community infrastructure supportive of land ports of entry, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 16, 2025 by Ruben Gallego · Last progress December 16, 2025
The bill channels federal support to state, tribal, and local governments to modernize and maintain land port–adjacent infrastructure—lowering local costs and improving resilience—while leaving funding amounts uncertain and creating eligibility, matching, and administrative limits that may exclude some communities, private owners, and shift priorities toward security-focused projects.
State, Tribal, and local governments (including border communities) can receive federal grants, reimbursements, and other support to build, repair, or modernize infrastructure that serves land ports of entry (roads, water, utilities, telecom, and port facilities).
Smaller and rural jurisdictions face lower local funding barriers because the bill allows reduced or waived 30% matching for rural or homeland‑security‑critical projects and permits reimbursement of eligible projects (since Nov 15, 2021) up to 70%.
Programs explicitly include utilities and telecommunications providers serving areas within 25 miles of land ports, enabling modernization or new construction to support port operations and surrounding communities.
No specified overall funding level creates planning uncertainty for communities and can delay or scale back projects if Congress provides limited appropriations.
The federal grants and reimbursements increase overall federal spending, which may raise taxpayer costs and could prompt scrutiny over long‑term fiscal impacts.
Complex eligibility criteria, interagency coordination, and centralized discretion for DHS to designate 'infrastructure disproportionately impacted' could slow grant approvals, increase administrative burden, and create uncertainty for applicants.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a DHS grant program to fund and reimburse community infrastructure projects that support land ports of entry, with matching rules and annual appropriations.
Creates a Department of Homeland Security grant program to fund and supplement community infrastructure projects that support land ports of entry. The program lets states, tribes, local governments, and certain nonprofit, member‑owned utilities get grants for transportation, utilities, resilience, quality‑of‑life, and local impact projects near land ports of entry, with a default 30% non‑Federal match (waivers for rural or security cases) and reimbursement authority for projects funded since Nov 15, 2021. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary each year to carry out the program, makes funds available until expended, and conditions awards on annual appropriations. The Secretary of Homeland Security must set eligibility criteria, consult other agencies, and consider existing CBP and State planning documents when selecting projects.