As Congress returns from its August break, a top priority for engineering and construction industry officials will be the spending levels lawmakers will set for infrastructure programs for fiscal year 2020.

Due to its easement agreement with a mining company, the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation had to relocate 3.2 miles of U.S. Highway 53 in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota to allow mining operations to continue. 

Ambitious proposal would boost infrastructure resilience, upgrade buildings for energy efficiency.