ARDOT is prioritizing several categories of potential applicants, including utilities, businesses registered in Arkansas, non-profit organizations and tribal organizations.
The funding will support projects developing solutions for recycling hard-to-process materials like fiber-reinforced composites and rare earth element magnets.
The initiative targets a section of highway where the crash rate is more than 2.5 times the state average, with nearly half of all incidents being rear-end collisions at lower speeds.