The Federal Highway Administration has released $574 million in emergency funds to help 39 states and Puerto Rico—as well as tribal governments and some other federal agencies—repair roads and bridges in the wakes of major storms and other natural disasters.
The funding, which FHWA announced on Sept. 29, covers disasters dating as far back as the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, and as recent as a bush fire in Arizona in June 20. The federal funds reimburse states and other agencies.