美国运输部授予$1.5 billion for 26 freight and highway infrastructure projects in the latest round of its seven-year-old Infrastructure for Rebuilding America grants program. Funding for the INFRA grants, which U.S. DOT announced on Sept. 15, come from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The IIJA increased INFRA funding by more than 50% from earlier levels, DOT says.

The INFRA program was created in the 2015 Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. In all, the IIJA is providing $8 billion for INFRA over five years.

The projects selected to receive grants are located in 23 states and Puerto Rico. State DOTs received 13 of the grants, with others going to cities, counties and other entities.

白宫基础设施实施协调员米奇·兰德里乌（Mitch Landrieu）在9月14日的记者简报中说，所选项目“在该国的每个角落”。18luck官网

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新奥尔良前市长兰德里乌（Landrieu）补充说：“他们将推动变化，挽救生命并促进经济增长。”

Landrieu说，大约有43％的新红外奖项将用于农村地区的项目。18luck官网这超过了25％的资金的法定农村定居。

激烈的竞争点的可自由支配的资金

Competition is strong for DOT's discretionary grants and the latest INFRA round is no exception. "We received over 250 applications requesting over $26.5 billion in funding," said Christopher Coes, DOT assistant secretary for transportation policy.

除了增加红外资金外，IIJA还扩大了有资格获得该计划赠款的项目的类型。18luck官网现在，可能的项目包18luck官网括用于基础设施资产的野生动植物交叉和与国际边境过境点或连接的地面运输项目。

The largest single INFRA grant this year, $150 million, is going to a border-crossing project—anew toll road and facility at the Otay Mesa East Land Port of Entry in San Diego County, Calif.

Other large grants in the 2022 round include $127.1 million to Cincinnati to build a new Western Hills Viaduct; and $110 million to New York City for a new 1-million-sq-ft intermodal facility at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx.

The Michigan DOT is receiving $104.7 million for a community reconnection project in Detroit. The plan calls for converting Interstate-375 to a “slower-speed boulevard.” It also includes realigning ramps and removing bridges and stormwater runoff pump stations.

Two projects will each receive $100 million: improvements to about eight miles of the Interstate-70 Mountain Corridor in Clear Creek County, Colo.; and widening and other improvements to I-85 in North Carolina’s Cleveland and Gaston counties.

Seeking to simplify its discretionary grant programs, U.S. DOT this year initiated a “common application,” through which states, cities and other entities can apply to any or all of three types of grants, INFRA and two new programs, Rural Surface Transportation Grants and National Infrastructure Project Assistance, which DOT has dubbed the “Mega” program.

DOT says it will announce the winners of the rural and Mega competitions “in the coming months."