The Senate completed work late on Dec. 9 on a continuing funding resolution that would keep most federal programs operating at fiscal 2016 levels through April 28, passing it 63- 60 36. That sent the measure to President Obama just in time to avoid a shutdown…
Associations’ Panel Urges Congress to Act Fast on 2017 Funds, End Rescission Threat
AASHTO Journal - Associations’ Panel Urges Congress to Act Fast on 2017 Funds, End Rescission Threat A panel representing three major infrastructure…
DOT Announces New Hazardous Materials Safety Grant
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced $1 million in grant…
Federal Financing to Capitalize State Infrastructure Banks (SIBs)
The Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC) in conjunction with the Transportation Investment Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program, invite you to join the Federal Financing to Capitalize State Infrastructure Banks webinar onTuesday,…
New Fact Sheet from HNTB Highlights FAST Act’s Section 6004
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 25, 2016—HNTB Corporation issued a new fact sheet highlighting the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act – Section 6004, which allocates $300 million in federal funds, with a 50 percent non-federal matching requirement to…
AASHTO’s Trombino Urges US Appropriators to Honor FAST Act Funding Levels
The president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials urged leaders of U.S. House and Senate Appropriations committees to follow through on the five-year surface transportation law Congress passed in December by fully funding…
Transportation Credit Program Releases Funds for Infrastructure Projects
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the availability of credit assistance for critical infrastructure projects across the country through the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program. …
January – February 2016 TRENDS
The Facts of the FAST Act The five-year transportation bill known as “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation” (FAST Act) provides more than $305 billion to surface-transportation programs. This marks the first long-term transportation bill since 2009…
The FAST Act Impact on Cement and Concrete
Known as the FAST Act – short for Fixing America’s Surface Transportation – the bill provides more than $305 billion to surface transportation programs. Of this, $207.4 billion will be targeted at the federal-aid highway system. According to a PCA analysis, the…
New Federal Transportation Funding Bill Designates Interstate-11 Route in Nevada
LAS VEGAS, NEV. –The future Interstate-11 received a formal designation in the new federal surface transportation funding bill signed into law by President Obama on December 4. The 5-year, $305 billion Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act…
