The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has awarded $1 billion to 70 projects in 44 states in the latest round of its Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grants for improvements to highways, bridges, transit systems and other types of infrastructure.
The winning submissions, which DOT announced on Sept. 16, leaned strongly toward highways, roads and bridges, which accounted for more than 75% of the projects selected.
[View DOT project-by-project summaries of winning entries这里.]
与前几轮的格兰特计划was launched in 2009, competition was intense for the funds. A DOT spokesman told ENR that the department received 656 applications, which requested nearly $9.2 billion. Only $1 billion was available.
Of the 70 winning entries, 58 were for capital projects, receiving a total of about $980 million.
其他12名获奖者进行了计划，并占了2000万美元的总和。
Maximum grants
As specified by Congress, the maximum grant amount was $25 million. Six projects were awarded that amount: two in Texas and one each in Florida, Iowa, Maine and Pennsylvania.
例如，缅因州的建筑赠款将帮助资助肯纳贝克河上的Ticonic Bridge 4050万美元的替代品，连接沃特维尔和温斯洛。
According to the Maine Dept. of Transportation's application, the bridge "has deteriorated to the point that the end of its useful life is near and further attempts to repair or rehabilitate it will not restore the full integrity of the bridge to meet today's safety needs, load requirements or geometric standards for regional rural residents."
Congress also capped the total grant amount for an individual state at $100 million.
通过E新利18备用nr的计算，得克萨斯州在本轮比赛中获得了最多的建造美元，其中两个项目总计5000万美元。新利18备用网址接下来是佛罗里达州，两个项目总计4,900万美元。新利18备用网址
Highways' leading share
A range of types of projects was eligible for the BUILD grants, but the winners were overwhelmingly highway and bridge projects. That category accounted 54 awards or 77% of the total selected, the DOT spokesman said.
在遥远的第二名中是运输，有八个获奖项目，占总数的11％。新利18备用网址接下来是海上项目，有五个受赠人，或7％新利18备用网址。
Two rail projects and one aviation project accounted for the rest of the winners.
根据国会研究服务中的数据，该细分与特朗普政府下的2017-2018奖项一致，与奥巴马政府的2009-2016期间有很大不同。报告on the TIGER-BUILD program.
CRS报告显示，在2009 - 2016年，道路项目获得了赠款的33％，运输量为27％新利18备用网址，以2019年的恒定美元获得。[请参阅表，p。10报告。
多年来，一个不变的是，赠款通常仅提供项目总成本的一部分。新利18备用官网登录各州，地方和其他受赠人将建造美元补充了其他类型的联邦或非联邦资金。
In DOT’s 2020 appropriations measure, Congress also directed that no more than half of the total grant amount should go for projects in rural areas or for projects in urban areas.
In announcing the awards, DOT Secretary Elaine Chao noted that the large share of dollars going to rural projects also is in line with the administration’s Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success (ROUTES) rural transportation initiative. [See ENR 10/8/2020 story这里.]
Congress created the program in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Obama administration later renamed the awards TIGER grants, for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery.
在2018财年，特朗普政府点更改了为建造的名称。
