Articles Tagged with ''federal funding''

Can project sponsors still trust awarded federal grants as Congress writes the next transportation bill?

USDOT opened applications for $626.7 million in INFRA grants, including a new $200-million truck-parking set-aside and preferences for large freight projects.

What does Congress's new border security funding bill mean for contractors as CBP expands inspection systems requiring civil works at ports of entry? 

But will added taxpayer funds for new, reopened and upgraded coal power plants be enough to meet growing energy demand, attract private investors and users and reinvigorate a long ailing segment?

The move is intended to support deployment of transformers, pipelines and LNG systems, but Energy Dept. has yet to identify specific projects or funding levels.

Illinois project, part of $1.15B effort to protect Lake Michigan, is among Corps and Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command contracts, also awarded in California, Ohio and Europe.

About $1 billion in federal funding distributed through the Interior Dept. will go toward rehabilitating canals, tunnels and storage systems across six Western states, but America's water infrastructure deficit continues widening faster than investment can close it.

Chicago transit projects could halt within days as a $2.1-B federal funding freeze forces contractors toward demobilization. Compliance with department of transportation policy guidance on MWBE programs triggered the dispute.

MTA files lawsuit over Second Avenue Subway funding freeze.